A daily look into one of the world's largest collections of radio station bumper stickers and memorabilia.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
KEWU
89.5 FM KEWU is a 10,000-watt Jazz station in Spokane, Washington. They are owned by (K) Eastern Washington University and went on the air in 1964.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Friday, February 26, 2021
Thursday, February 25, 2021
KAOS
89.3 FM KOAS is a hybrid college/community station broadcasting from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. They went on the air in January 1973.
As mentioned on this program guide, KAOS plays music that is at least 80% from independent labels and artists. An on-air performance by Nirvana in 1987 was the second ever public appearance by the band.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Radio Maximum
Radio Maximum went on the air in Moscow, Russia on Christmas Day 1991--the same exact day that president Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, declared his office extinct and officially dissolved the Soviet Union. Their Rock music format is now heard on two dozen frequencies throughout many parts of the country. Maximum began as a joint venture between The Moscow News and three American companies including Westwood One and a now-defunct technology company specializing in surveillance and electronic warfare systems.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Hellweg Radio
Hellweg Radio broadcasts on four frequencies in the German district of Soest. They went on the air in July 1990.
Sunday, February 21, 2021
WBRU
Brown University's WBRU broadcast for over 50 years at 95.5 FM in Providence, Rhode Island. In 2017 the Indie/Modern Rock station was sold to a hideous radio station destroyer and moved online to wbru.com. Stickers from their days as a terrestrial station can be seen here.
Saturday, February 20, 2021
WYOT
Friday, February 19, 2021
WRQK
"Rock 107" WRQK has been on the air in Canton, Ohio since the mid-1980s. The "Goodrock" branding was a holdover from their days as WOOS and is an apparent reference to the nearby Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company headquarters.
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
R.I.P. Rush Limbaugh
My work day began at 3:30 AM today--an hour earlier than my not-much-better 4:30 AM start time. This meant that I left work a little after noon, hopped in my car and heard the familiar bass notes of The Pretenders' "My City Was Gone" which meant The Rush Limbaugh Show was about to start on my local affiliate 1290 AM WHIO. I've been listening to this station more often lately to get traffic updates and weather reports after some recent heavy snowfall. I was never really a Rush listener but would tune in occasionally to mentally disagree with almost everything he said. A voice introduced Kathryn Limbaugh and my first thought was "is his wife a talk show host too?" Then I remembered that Rush had had some recent health problems and soon realized that she was on there to announce his death. Rush Limbaugh said some abhorrent things over the past 30+ years of his show--AIDS victims, Native Americans, Michael J Fox, women's rights activists and African Americans were among the people caught up in his buffoonery. But it is hard to argue that Limbaugh was one of the most talented broadcasters in the history of radio even if his talent wasn't boastfully "on loan from God."
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