KAFY

A nice piece of psychedelia from KAFY in Bakersfield, California. They were a top rated Rock station in the 1960s that would later be bought by musician Buck Owens, flipped to Country, and moved up the dial to 800 AM.

WRUW

WRUW is the student-run radio station from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Sunday Sticker - KGSG

KGSG was a Southern Gospel station licensed to Pasco, Washington.

CFTR

Toronto's CHFI 1540 AM was a Beautiful Music station beginning in the early 1960s. By 1971 they had moved down the dial to 680 AM and changed their call letters to CFTR--a tribute to Ted Rogers, Sr., a Canadian radio pioneer. CFTR was a legendary Top 40 station throughout most of the 70s and 80s before switching to all News in 1993.

KQNG

KQNG is a combo CHR on FM and News/Talk on AM. Both are licensed to Lihue on the island of Kauai in Hawaii which is also where the 1976 version of King Kong was filmed. Any idea what the phrase at the top of the sticker translates to?

WKZO

WKZO is a News/Talk station from Kalamazoo, Michigan. It is one of 35 stations in the Detroit Tigers Radio Network. This particular Tigers logo was in use from 1961 to 1993 and gets weirder the more you look at it.....something about those crazy eyes. Click on the sticker for a closer look. WKZO-TV changed calls to WWMT in 1985.

Radio Corax

Radio Corax is a non-commercial, volunteer-run station broadcasting in 11 different languages from Halle, Germany. Ich unterstutze translates to "I support." The mascot is a corax which is the Latin species name of the common raven as well as the name of a mythical human/bird hybrid or wereraven.

WOBM

WHLW came on the air in 1970 at 1170 AM. In 1981 they became WOBM-AM and in 1989 they moved to 1160 AM. WOBM is licensed to Lakewood Township, New Jersey.

WQBE

WQBE was located at 950 AM in Charleston, West Virginia. In 2001 the News/Talk station switched call letters to WVTS although there is still a co-owned WQBE FM running a Country format. The Charleston Rockets were a semi-pro team that played in the Continental Football League starting in the mid 1960s.

WWWW

The country format represented by these WWWW stickers lasted from 1980 until 1999.


Prior to 1980 "W4" was an album rock station most remembered for employing Howard Stern. He hated country music but stayed on briefly after the format change and was known on the air as Hopalong Howie. Stern then bolted back to the rock format at WWDC "DC-101" in Washington, DC. WWWW was licensed to Detroit, Michigan. 106.7 FM is now WDTW "106.7 The Beat."

WLOK

WLOK is a Black Gospel station licensed to Memphis, Tennessee. In 1977 it became the first African-American owned radio station in Memphis. WLOK is a short walk away from the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.

Sunday Sticker - KLRD

K-LORD is a Christian music station which began broadcasting in 1986. In the mid-90s they became the first of many insidious “Air 1” radio stations of which there are now over one billion 100 spread across the country mostly via broadcast translators. KLRD is licensed to Yucaipa, California.

KCSN

88.5 KCSN broadcasts an Adult Album Alternative format from California State University, Northridge.

R.I.P. Indie 103.1

KDLD/KDLE flipped from Modern Rock to Spanish "El Gato 103.1" yesterday. They'll continue the format as an online station. Here's part of the statement from their website:
"Indie 103.1 will cease broadcasting over this frequency effective immediately. Because of changes in the radio industry and the way radio audiences are measured, stations in this market are being forced to play too much Britney, Puffy and alternative music that is neither new nor cutting edge. Due to these challenges, Indie 103.1 was recently faced with only one option --- to play the corporate radio game."
Indie 103.1 was like a better-run college station with a bigger budget and name DJs including Henry Rollins from Black Flag, Dave Navarro of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols. The station logo was designed by Shepard Fairey, the guy who also did the iconic Obama CHANGE poster. KDLD is licensed to Santa Monica, California and KDLE is licensed to Huntington Beach.

Cool FM

Cool FM broadcasts from the former island of Walcheren in the Netherlands. It has since been connected to the mainland by a series of dikes. Visit them here.

Cash & Carry

KASH is licensed to Anchorage, Alaska.

KARY is licensed to Grandview, Washington.

NFC Championship Game

The Eagles take on the Cardinals this Sunday in Glendale, Arizona for the NFC Championship. WYSP ("Your Station in Philadelphia") is the flagship station of the Eagles Radio Network. KTAR ("Keep Taking the Arizona Republic") is the radio flagship of the Cardinals as well as the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks.

AFC Championship Game

It's the Ravens vs the Steelers this Sunday in the AFC Championship Game at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. 98 Rock WIYY is the flagship station of the Baltimore Ravens Radio Network. WDVE is the flagship station for the Steelers.

WRIF

One of the first stickers I ever got was a black & white WRIF decal. I went to the library and found a book that listed radio station formats and mailing addresses. Unfortunately it was 1986 and the book was from 1976 so many of the self-addressed stamped envelopes I mailed out came back Return to Sender because the stations moved or no longer existed for whatever reason. WRIF sent about a dozen of their classic racetrack-shaped stickers which I promptly used to decorate the inside of my high school locker and book covers. After one of the covers got worn out I chucked it in the trash. I guess somebody else liked it because a few days later I saw it covering someone else’s book. I wanted to ask the kid if he enjoyed picking through trash cans for his book covers but never did.
The album rock station’s overall logo hasn’t changed in more than 25 years although somewhere along the way they went crazy and switched from “WRIF 101” to “101 WRIF.” The Riff is licensed to Detroit, Michigan.

Attack of the Killer B93.7s

WMGB (Macon Georgia's B93.7) - Jeffersonville, Georgia

WBCT (World's Biggest Country Transmitter - 320,000 watts!!) - Grand Rapids, Michigan.

WFBC (We Foster Better Citizenship) - Greenville, South Carolina