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According to Erika Engle in this morning’s Honolulu Star-Bulletin, KM Communications has received some interesting news from the Federal Communications Commission.

The commission assigns call letters for all radio and television stations in the United States, and has given KM’s new TV station on Maui the rather unfortunate call letters (I had to edit this because at least one ISP was blocking this post.)

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KM also received KWTF for a new station in Arizona.

The company’s management is shocked, absolutely shocked, about this development, and has asked the FCC to change the letters for both stations:

From Skokie, Ill., comes a sincere apology “to anyone that was offended,” said Kevin Bae, vice president of KM Communications Inc., who requested and received It is “extremely embarrassing for me and my company and we will file to change those call letters immediately.”

Back in 2005, an FM radio station in Aspen, Colorado got permission to use KCUF.

Read it backwards, people… the station claims it means “Keeping Colorado Uniquely Free”. Yeah, right!

UPDATED on 27 July 207 at 11 am HST. See also:

• TVsquad.com
• In Media Res
• MSN TV Blog
• The Sniper
• Technorati.com

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