History Main / WPUN

* ''Series/RememberWENN'': WENN is of course a pun on "when", which works in-universe, but even more so out-of-universe (as the series is unabashedly nostalgic about the "Golden Age" of radio in the 1930s-40s).

* The hip hop radio station in the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series is called [=KRhyme=].

** Also used in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E22AngelsRevenge Angels Revenge]]'' after [[CoincidentalBroadcast a radio broadcast]] recaps the previous scenes for the movie's villain:

The call letters of a television or radio station in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates can sometimes spell out funny names, often beginning with either "W" or "K" (assigned to stations east and west of the Mississippi River respectively[[note]]with a few exceptions {{grandfather|Clause}}ed in[[/note]]). This trope applies to stations in fictional media where call letters spell something humorous. If the name is a slight variation (or TakeThat) to a real station, it may overlap with WritingAroundTrademarks. May also overlap with MeaningfulName, if the call sign describes the content of the station.

The call letters of a television or radio station can sometimes spell out funny names, often beginning with either "W" or "K" (assigned to stations east and west of the Mississippi River respectively[[note]]with a few exceptions {{grandfather|Clause}}ed in[[/note]]). This trope applies to stations in fictional media where call letters spell something humorous. If the name is a slight variation (or TakeThat) to a real station, it may overlap with WritingAroundTrademarks. May also overlap with MeaningfulName, if the call sign describes the content of the station.

* The major radio station in ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' is KBAC, which stands for 'Kurt Busiek's Astro City'; the original full title of the book.

* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' has [=MSNBSea=] (instead of, naturally, Creator/{{MSNBC}}).

* In the music video for "The Vengeful One" by Music/{{Disturbed}}, the band's MetalBandMascot The Guy shuts down several parodies of real news networks, including [[Creator/{{CNN}} TNN]], [[Creator/FoxNews Kox News]] and [[Creator/{{NBC}} BSNBC]].

** "And now, back to KRUD with all of your personal YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH STEALING MY CAR hits!"

The call letters of a television or radio station can sometimes spell out funny names, often beginning with either "W" or "K" (assigned to stations east and west of the Mississippi River respectively[[note]]with a few exceptions {{grandfather|clause}}ed in[[/note]]). This trope applies to stations in fictional media where call letters spell something humorous. If the name is a slight variation (or TakeThat) to a real station, it may overlap with WritingAroundTrademarks. May also overlap with MeaningfulName, if the call sign describes the content of the station.

** KOMU, the NBC-affilliate owned by the University, has the acronym as it's last two letters.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Shazam}}'', Billy Batson is traditionally a kid reporter for WHIZ Radio, a reference to the character's first appearance in ''Whiz Comics''. His CaptainErsatz Willie Fawcett in the ''Comicbook/{{Superman}} story "Make Way for Captain Thunder!" works for WHAM-TV.

* In the United Kingdom, [[http://www.klfm967.co.uk 96.7 KLFM]] is ''not'' an American-themed or American-sounding radio station, [[NonIndicativeName despite the KLFM name]], but an abbreviation of ''K''ing's ''L''ynn ''FM''. It was chosen for brevity, rather than any American call-sign purposes. However, since the Bauer Media buyout of KLFM 96.7 in March 2019, the name may become an ArtifactTitle, as rumors abound that it may rebrand to Hits Radio Norfolk & Cambridgeshire, itself an OverlyLongName. (Although, legally speaking, it covers part of Norfolk and part of the English Midlands, so the station's abbreviation KLFM makes it a NonIndicativeName anyway!).