The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum » Licence plates matching call letters

RadioActive · August 6, 2023 11:23 am

I just got back from a quick outing and saw a CKFH license plate in the parking lot. I can only hope it's their second car, because everyone else's is number one!

laffin · August 6, 2023 11:24 am

It was all announce-op during my AM drive time in the 60's.

Dale Patterson · August 6, 2023 12:16 pm

I saw a CETR 680 plate on the 401 the other day. At first glance it looked like CFTR 680.

Dale Patterson · August 6, 2023 12:18 pm

RadioActive wrote:
I just got back from a quick outing and saw a CKFH license plate in the parking lot. I can only hope it's their second car, because everyone else's is number one!

My plate is CKFH accompanied by a Blue Jay logo. Of course 'FH carried the Jays games in the '70s (and before that the Expos).

MJ Vancouver · August 6, 2023 7:03 pm

I’m in London right now and I saw a plate with CFSK today - the call letters for Global Saskatoon. Later I saw CKNY, which is the call sign for CTV North Bay.

I’ve seen CFPL, CKNX, and CKVR on plates in Toronto in the past.

MJ Vancouver · August 7, 2023 2:49 pm

Found another one in London, today - CJBK. Number wasn’t 129 though.

RadioActive · August 7, 2023 3:00 pm

MJ Vancouver wrote:
Found another one in London, today - CJBK. Number wasn’t 129 though.

Sadly, thanks to Bell, that's about the only place you'll see CJBK in London now.

tvguy · August 7, 2023 3:00 pm

There is a Tesla Model 3 in mid-town Toronto (Christie St & Davenport Road area), With the letters "CJCL". The number is not 590 - which is the Rogers A.M. Frequency.
Two things that are interesting. First, in Ontario Electric Vehicles are assigned a special "Green" licence plate with the Letters "GV##-###". The CJCL plate on the Tesla, is not a Green Vehicle plate. It is a "blue lettering" plate, that would be associated with an Internal Combustion Engine vehicle, secondly, the blue lettering is normally on a so-called "Vanity Plate" where the car owner pays an additional fee to personalize the plate.

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Jody Thornton · May 21, 2024 9:30 am

Hey! I think we only need to scramble a couple of digits and ... Boom! You'll have it

RonaldS · May 21, 2024 4:08 pm

Spotted a "CKTB" plate in Kitchener today, number was 840, not 610.

Tangential to this thread, back around 1986-87, the PD (Eric Samuels) for HTZ-FM in St. Catharines lived in the same townhouse/condo complex as my family. His white Mazda RX7 had the vanity plate "HTZ <crown symbol> FM".

I wondered (as a dumb teenager) if he had a collection of such plates from all the stations he worked at.

mic'em · May 22, 2024 7:17 am

I saw a CFNY in Sudbury yesterday, unusual for up here, as that plate was likely issued in the GTA, where I have seen many over the years. I recall seeing CFNY 102 in Collingwood once in the Loblaws parking lot.

zed · May 22, 2024 7:37 am

Soooo close... I saw a CKLW 797 plate in London over the weekend.
3 More and it would have been BINGO

Dale Patterson · January 5, 2025 4:42 pm

Still haven't seen a plate where the call letters match the frequency, but the other day I saw this...

CKEY 950

Close, but no cigar!

TheWiz · January 5, 2025 6:56 pm

There are a lot of CFTR plates here in Kitchener. A few months ago I finally saw CFTR 680.

tvguy · January 5, 2025 7:43 pm

There's a fellow who owns a small gift shop/coffee/croissant place in Hillcrest Village who has a black Tesla with licence plates that start with CJCL. I asked him why he didn't have the "GV" (green vehicle plate) and he gave me a vague answer. But I don't think he was connected with CJCL.

Radiowiz · January 5, 2025 8:49 pm

TheWiz wrote:
There are a lot of CFTR plates here in Kitchener. A few months ago I finally saw CFTR 680.

Interesting because I thought the plates that match exactly are company vehicles of those particular stations.

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Dave The OTA guy · January 5, 2025 11:46 pm

Lots of CHBM plates in St. Catharines/Niagara Region. I haven't seen CHBM 973 yet, though.

RadioActive · January 6, 2025 7:56 am

I've seen a lot of CJRT calls, but no matching frequencies (and all that jazz...)

ERP 0W · January 6, 2025 5:23 pm

Here's radio legend David Marsden's car, parked in front of his lakeside home:

ok, just kidding, it really belongs to an nythespirit.com listener and the pic is from David's FB page

MJ Vancouver · January 6, 2025 6:06 pm

I was actually on the 401 in the London area yesterday and thought of this thread; I saw a plate that included CKNW. Also saw one with CFFB, which is the CBC station in Iqaluit, and CJMX, which is Kiss 105.3 in Sudbury.

RadioActive · January 27, 2025 12:20 pm

This isn't Canadian, but you can tell someone loved a certain now defunct NYC radio station. Interesting that it was on a Pennsylvania car.

Dale Patterson · October 23, 2025 3:32 pm

RadioActive wrote:
I've seen a lot of CJRT calls, but no matching frequencies (and all that jazz...)

I came close to seeing one today. The plate number I saw was CJRT 919.

turkeytop · October 25, 2025 8:49 pm

In London today, I spotted CXRF, just a slight variation from CFRX. The real CFRX is on 6070 KHZ. Couldn't get that many digits on a Ontario plate.

Dial Twister · October 26, 2025 5:59 pm

turkeytop wrote:
In London today, I spotted CXRF, just a slight variation from CFRX. The real CFRX is on 6070 KHZ. Couldn't get that many digits on a Ontario plate.

Actually, assuming no one already has it, you can order CFRX6070 in Ontario. I, and many others, already have an eight digit plate.