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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Call signs in North America, Cartoon Network, AXN Asia, Al Jazeera Sports, Nickelodeon, Early television stations, TV3 Slovenia, Tooncast, Nyota Radio Television, Kanal 2, Disney XD, Kohavision, Setanta Sports Asia, Apna Channel, Retro, RTE Plus, MadaniChannel, Bahry TV, Otaniemi Underground Broadcasting System, Suroyo TV, TV3 Latvia, SET One, Palestinian Satellite Channel, XHI-TV, TV1000 HD, Tallinna TV, Eri-TV, Documentary channel, TV3 Lithuania, Canal 3 Colonia, EUX.TV, KTV2, Myawaddy TV, Sanabel TV, 1TV, Holy God TV, Ashur TV, ShqipTV, LAP TV, Arab Motors TV, Los Hechos y el Derecho TV, Magazine, STAR Pravah, Republican Television Network, Palestine Radio and TV Corporation, Offener Kanal Essen. Excerpt: Call signs in North America are frequently still used by North American broadcast stations in addition to amateur radio and other international radio stations that continue to identify by call signs around the world. Each country has a different set of patterns for its own call signs. Many countries have specific conventions for classifying call signs by transmitter characteristics and location. The call sign format for radio and television call signs follows a number of conventions. All call signs begin with a "prefix" assigned by the International Telecommunications Union. For example, the United States has been assigned the following prefixes: AAA-ALZ, K, N, W. For a complete list, see international call sign allocations. Pertaining to their status as former or current colonies, all of the British West Indies islands shared the VS, ZB-ZJ, ZN-ZO, and ZQ prefixes. The current, largely post-independence, allocation list is as follows: Cuba uses the prefixes CL-CM, CO, and T4, with district numbers from 0 to 9 to amateur operations. The Dominican Republic uses the prefixes HI-HJ. All of the French possessions sha...