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August 6, 2023 11:23 am  #31


Re: Licence plates matching call letters

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!

 

August 6, 2023 11:24 am  #32


Re: Licence plates matching call letters

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


 

August 6, 2023 12:16 pm  #33


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


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August 6, 2023 12:18 pm  #34


Re: Licence plates matching call letters

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).
 


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August 6, 2023 7:03 pm  #35


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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.

 

August 6, 2023 8:33 pm  #36


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In the Ottawa Valley, a CJET plate will come along every so often, far from Smiths Falls, but haven't seen a CJET 630 plate. Any CJET alumni on Big Yella?

 

August 7, 2023 2:49 pm  #37


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

 

August 7, 2023 3:00 pm  #38


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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. 

 

August 7, 2023 3:00 pm  #39


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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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May 21, 2024 9:30 am  #40


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


Cheers,
Jody Thornton
 
 

May 21, 2024 4:08 pm  #41


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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.

 

May 22, 2024 7:17 am  #42


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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. 

 

May 22, 2024 7:37 am  #43


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

 

January 5, 2025 4:42 pm  #44


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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!


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January 5, 2025 6:56 pm  #45


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

 

January 5, 2025 7:43 pm  #46


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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.

 

January 5, 2025 8:49 pm  #47


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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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RadioWiz & RadioQuiz are NOT the same person. 
RadioWiz & THE Wiz are NOT the same person.

 
 

January 5, 2025 11:46 pm  #48


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

 

January 6, 2025 7:56 am  #49


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

 

January 6, 2025 12:44 pm  #50


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I happened upon a neat mashup of Corus properties: CFMJ 102.

 

January 6, 2025 5:23 pm  #51


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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  

 

 

January 6, 2025 6:06 pm  #52


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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.

 

January 27, 2025 12:20 pm  #53


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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.