{"id":42249,"date":"2020-03-10T09:05:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42249"},"modified":"2020-03-10T09:05:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:05:47","slug":"steves-crusade-to-obtain-kgaf-license-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/steves-crusade-to-obtain-kgaf-license-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve’s crusade to obtain KGAF license plate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMany thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Van Hoy, who shares the following item from WFAA<\/a>:<\/p>\n

GAINESVILLE, Texas \u2014 A North Texas radio station that the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles determined had call letters that were too “vulgar” to put on a personalized license plate finally has those formerly vulgar letters proudly affixed to its one station vehicle.<\/p>\n

It’s a victory thanks to a Gainesville-area lawmaker who decided a bit of common sense was in order.<\/p>\n

Late last year KGAF station manager Steve Eberhart started the process, applying to have KGAF on a personalized license plate for their company van. The station has been a fixture in Gainesville since 1947. But in a modern world that sometimes communicates in OMGs, LOLs, IDKs and IMHOs, the state told him that KGAF might mean something, too.<\/p>\n

“Well, I’ve been told that it’s an acronym or a slang for social media for ‘can’t give a (expletive),” Eberhart said. “But certainly we never intended that,” he told me several weeks ago. “I can assure you the people in 1947 did not intend for it to mean that!”[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n