Thursday, January 29, 2009

WUFM


WUFM is the home of the Radio U network of Alternative Christian stations based in Columbus, Ohio. Radio U has four translators in Ohio as well as two outlets in California. You have to listen pretty closely to the lyrics to even realize they're playing Christian rock....the song I'm listening to right now is a dead-on impersonation of the Killers. Specialty shows also delve into rap, electronica and hardcore/metal.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

WWTC

Minneapolis, Minnesota's WWTC (WW Twin Cities) was the flagship station of the Radio Aahs Network which lasted from 1990 to 1998. Radio Aahs programming was aimed at children under 12 and at it's peak had 29 stations running the format. Disney began working with WWTC as a marketing partner and then went off and launched their own childrens station in Minneapolis (KDIZ) as a direct competitor. This led to a multi-million dollar lawsuit which Radio Aahs won against Disney in 2002.

WWTC is now a Talk station "AM 1280 The Patriot."

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Wine Cork

WINE AM is licensed to Brookfield, Connecticut. WINE FM is now Rock station "i95" WRKI.

920 AM KORK was licensed to Las Vegas, Nevada and is now a Sports station KRLV.

KHOM

KHOM began in 1989 as an Oldies station until 1994 when it flipped to Top 40 as Mix 104.1. A slew of format and call letter changes occurred over the next decade including Classic Rock as KFXN "The Fox", adult-leaning Top 40 KSTE "KISS FM", Gospel KHEV "Hallelujah 104.1." and, for the next few minutes, KYRK "The Rock of New Orleans." KHOM was licensed to Houma, Louisiana.

Monday, January 26, 2009

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.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

WRUW




91.1 FM 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.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

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.

Friday, January 23, 2009

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.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

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.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

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.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

WWWW









WWWW was a Country station in Detroit, Michigan 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."

It's unclear to me what WWWW's format was on the above sticker.  It could be their Beautiful Music period in the late 1960s or Oldies in the early 1970s.

Monday, January 19, 2009

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, January 18, 2009

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.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

KCSN




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

Friday, January 16, 2009

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.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

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.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Cash & Carry

KASH is licensed to Anchorage, Alaska.

KARY is licensed to Grandview, Washington.