Sunday, February 15, 2009

KEFX


KEFX is the flagship station of the Effect Radio Network which plays Modern Christian Rock. Their programming is relayed by 53 broadcast translators mostly in the Pacific Northwest and California but also down into Texas and Oklahoma. KEFX is licensed to Twin Falls, Idaho.

K216DJ - Indian Springs, Nevada

K267AE - Jerome, Idaho

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Pitchers and Catchers Report

Another season of futility begins for my Baltimore Orioles. It's tough when you're in the same division as the Yankees and Red Sox and you haven't made the post-season since 1997. Eleven consecutive losing seasons doesn't make you optimistic but maybe we'll be the Rays of last season....yeah right.

WTOP (the TOP of the AM dial) was a News station licensed to Washington, DC. The WTOP calls still exist in DC at 103.5 FM while 1500 AM is now WFED.

Happy Corporate, Love-Themed, Merchandising Day

WWNH was a Contemporary Christian/Religious Teaching station licensed to Madbury, New Hampshire. Oh, and as so often happens, the operator was a convicted felon who occasionally ran the station while unlicensed.

Friday, February 13, 2009

Radio Melodie

Radio Melodie is a pop music station located in Sarreguemines, France. They broadcast in French and German as they're located on the border of both countries. Sarreguemines was transferred to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War but returned to France after World War I.
I listened to their variety of lightweight Euro-pop online until they played "Celebration" by Kool & the Gang. It's nice to know that this horrible, overplayed song knows no borders.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

States on Stickers

KOUL is a 100,000 watt Country music station licensed to Refugio, Texas.

WOMR (W OuterMost Radio) is a public, community-based station licensed to Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Attack of the Killer B94s

WONB is a CHR station owned by Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio.

WBZZ - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This sticker is from when they were a CHR station before flipping to "K-Rock" and adding Howard Stern. They then switched briefly to Talk as WTZN "The Zone" before coming full circle as B94 again with WBZW as their calls.

KBZT - San Diego, California. This is from their short-lived "All 80s" format circa 2001.

CHBW is a Hot AC station licensed to Rocky Mountain House, Alberta.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

KHMO


1070 AM KHMO is a News/Talk station licensed to Hannibal, Missouri. They began broadcasting in 1941.

Monday, February 9, 2009

KAMA

750 AM KAMA is a Regional Mexican station licensed to El Paso, Texas.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Mystery Sticker #4 SOLVED!

This looks to be from the mid-80s because of the obvious Eddie Van Halen-ish guitar and the Walkman headphones. No coupons or advertising on the back. Any idea where this goofy sticker is from?

UPDATE: This sticker is from WFYV (now known as "Rock 104.5") in Jacksonville, Florida and licensed to Atlantic Beach, FL. Thanks for the info Kevin!

WFSO


WFSO (W Five Seven O) started up in 1966 as an MOR station before giving way to Rock by the 1970s. In 1978 the station was sold and switched to Talk as WPLP. WFSO was licensed to Pinellas Park, Florida.

Sunday Sticker - WFSH


WFSH "104.7 The Fish" transmits from the tallest radio tower in Georgia. This allows them to better reach Atlanta from it's city of license in Athens which is about 60 miles away.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Swiss Radio International

SRI is the international arm of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. They started broadcasting via shortwave in 1935 but stopped in 2004 to focus exclusively on their multimedia platform at swissinfo.org, which is available in 9 languages.
Did you know that Switzerland didn't join the United Nations until 2002?!

Friday, February 6, 2009

CFNR



CFNR (Canada's First Nations Radio) is a Classic Rock station from Terrace, British Columbia. The CFNR Network distributes their programming in central and northern BC by way of more than 50 repeater stations. The sticker design reflects the highly stylized art form indigenous to that area of North America.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

WGBM

WGBM was a Classic Country station in Green Bay, Wisconsin. After the station was sold in 2000, the new owners did something that never, ever always happens and switched formats. Catalog album sales by classic country artists such as Ferlin Husky, Marty Robbins and Conway Twitty dropped precipitously in the immediate Green Bay area and nobody with a tattered cowboy hat toured there anymore. A guy from Oconto Falls called to complain but couldn't be heard over the din of Godsmack, Korn and System of a Down that was majestically blasting from the studios of "Razor 94.7" WZOR. WGBM was licensed to Mishicot, Wisconsin.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Market #1s - Atlanta - WVEE


WVEE has been an Urban Contemporary station in Atlanta since 1976 (including a Disco format at the end of the 70s.) In 2000, V-103 added rap music full time to their playlist in order to compete with younger skewing competitors WHTA and WALR. They've consistently been first or second in the overall ratings for years, often swapping back and forth with News/Talker WSB.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

WENS

My wife does the crossword puzzle from the newspaper every day. Because of this, she is an unbeatable Scrabble player and knows a lot of useless, semi-obscure words like plinth (a block on which a statue is placed), rasher (a thin slice of bacon) and wen. A wen is defined as "a cyst of the skin filled with fatty matter that has been secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked." The first time I wore my WENS t-shirt she let me know what a wen was and I'm grossed out to this day.



WSVL was a Country music station which was bought in 1979 by what would become Emmis Broadcasting. In 1981 the call letters were changed to WENS and they switched to an Adult Contemporary format. This lasted until 2005 when they flipped back to Country as Hank FM. WENS was licensed to Shelbyville, Indiana near Indianapolis.

Monday, February 2, 2009

WHOG

Happy Groundhog Day.

Happy Groundhog Day.

Happy Groundhog Day.

WHOG is a Classic Rock station licensed to Ormond-by-the-Sea, Florida.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

WGNS





Murfreesboro, Tennessee's 1450 AM WGNS (W Good Neighbor Station) began broadcasting in 1947. Today it's a typical News/Talker but they played popular music up until the early 1990s. They are one of the very few stations that is allowed to simulcast their primary AM signal onto an FM translator of which they have two--at 100.5 and 101.9 FM.

Amusing Call Letters #1 - WSUC

WSUC is a college station from the State University of New York at Cortland. In 1976 they were making the switch from an AM carrier-current station to FM and had to submit 5 sets of call letters to the FCC. Their choices were WCSU, WMLF, WCJL WRTC and, as a joke, WSUC. Thank you FCC. You chose wisely.

Sunday Sticker - KHCB




105.7 KHCB is the flagship of the 21-station KHCB Network located mostly in Texas but also with stations in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. The 100.9 sticker is from K265DH, one of their 6 translator stations in Texas.