Re: [vox] [billjones@billjones.org: Burton and Riordan and Davis,

[Seth Nagao <dokujMAPSa@ece.ucdavis.edu>]

Shwaine wrote:

IIRC, a year or so ago, it was kcra.com.  According to WHOIS:

Registrant:
Kelley Broadcasting Inc. (KCRA-DOM)
   3 Television Circle
   Sacramento, CA 95814
   US

   Domain Name: KCRA.COM

Then suddenly they changed the ads to thekcrachannel.com  Doesn't make
much sense to me, either, especially since the kcra.com domain still
works.

> At Monday, 14 January 2002, you wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:07:50AM -0500, Shwaine wrote:
> >
> >> Every single time I go to the website.... It's actually the memory
> >> trick I used to remember their address since it isn't as easy as
> >> news10.net or fox40.com.
> >
> >I think just "kcra.com" works, too.  Why the hell they bothered
> >(1) buying and then (2) _advertising_ "the k c r a channel dot com"
> >is beyond me, though...
> >
>
> I didn't make the matter clear enough... it's easier for people to
> remember some attribute (like news10 or fox40) than the call letters.
> Perhaps they added "channel" on to the call letters intentionally
> to get the memory trick :)
>
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