European Call Letters

Since no radio stations in Europe uses call letters, if they did, what would their call letters will be like?

Based on ITU.

United Kingdom, maybe they be using G,M, V, or ZB-ZJ, ZN-ZO, ZQ. GBBC1 - For BBC Radio 1
Monaco - 3A - 3ARMC - RMC
Portugal - CQ- CU - CRMO - M80 Radio
France: F - FNRJ for NRJ fm
Spain - EA-EH - EASUR - Cadena SUR
Ireland - EI-EJ - EITDY - Today FM
Germany - DA-DR - DRRTL - RTL-FM
Italy - I - IKIS - Radio KISS KISS
LA-LN - Norway - LNRK-1 NRK radio 1
LX - Luxembourg - LXRTL - RTL
OF-OJ Findland - OFYMR - Metro FM
OK-OL - Czech Republic - OKISS - Radio Kiss 98 FM
ON-OT - Belguim - ONARC - Radio Contact
OU-OZ - Denmark - OUNVA - Nova FM
PA-PI - The Netherlands - PBNRQ - Q-Music
SA-SM - Sweden - SANRJ - NRJ-FM
HF, SN-SR - Poland - SRPLN - Radio Planeta
HV - Vatican City - HVRVC - Radio Vatican
HB, BZ - Switzerland - HBREM - Espace Musique

What do you think?

e-dawg said:

Since no radio stations in Europe uses call letters, if they did, what would their call letters will be like?

Based on ITU.

United Kingdom, maybe they be using G,M, V, or ZB-ZJ, ZN-ZO, ZQ. GBBC1 - For BBC Radio 1

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As of 1934, both BBC London medium-wave transmitters (National Programme and Regional Programme) had the call sign G2LO, according to the Broadcasting Yearbook. Obviously, this was derived from the original 2LO.

Cadena Ser had the callsigns EAJ-1 in Barcelona and EAJ-7 in Madrid, when they broadcast on medium wave.

The original call sign for NRK in Oslo was LKO.

Some European countries had call letters for medium-wave and longwave transmitters at one time. It's hard to say whether any of them have survived internally as FM transmitter call signs, but with the amount of transmitter outsourcing nowadays in Europe, that's unlikely.

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In the Netherlands the first radiostation was PCGG from the Hague, 1919-1924. From 1926 until may 1940 Philips Electronics from Eindhoven operated the stations PCJJ en PHOHI on shortwave.So call letters were used indeed before WW2

Spain used call signs until the early 1990s. This page from the 1982 WRTH shows them: http://transit.freeshell.org/radio/spain_call_signs.jpg

These call signs were no longer used by the early 1990s (the 1992 WRTH does not show them at all).

Unregistered said:

In the Netherlands the first radiostation was PCGG from the Hague, 1919-1924. From 1926 until may 1940 Philips Electronics from Eindhoven operated the stations PCJJ en PHOHI on shortwave.So call letters were used indeed before WW2

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Some QSL cards from Radio Nederland in the '60s and '70s had the call letters PCJ on them, but they were never spoken on air.