College Radio Week - KUOI

KUOI (K University Of Idaho) began operating at 89.3 FM in 1969 although their history dates back to 1945 when students used war surplus materials to broadcast a few hours a week. KUOI carries a Freeform format and is licensed to Moscow, Idaho.

The front of a KUOI totebag.

College Radio Week - WVFS

A sticker and magnet from "V89" WVFS, the Voice of Florida State University in Tallahassee.

College Radio Week - WCNI

WCNI broadcasts from the campus of Connecticut College in New London, CT. They carry a block programmed Freeform format and is run by students as well as residents of the local community. WCNI began as an AM carrier current station before moving to 91.5 FM in 1974. A transmission power upgrade led them to move to 91.1 FM and eventually to their current home at 90.9 FM.

College Radio Week - WMUH

WMUH broadcasts from MUHlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The station began at 640 AM in 1950 before switching to 89.7 FM in 1964. In 1979 they moved to 91.7 FM while increasing their power to 440 watts. WMUH carries a block-programmed Freeform format.

Some WMUH program guides from 2002 and 2003.

Actual Sticker Sighting #7 - WDEO

I saw this sticker on a car heading north on Interstate 75 yesterday. WDEO is a Religious station licensed to Ypsilanti, Michigan. In 1998 Domino's Pizza owner Tom Monaghan sold his chain of restaurants and used part of the fortune to buy WWCM which was then a Contemporary Christian station. Monaghan flipped it to WDEO and changed the format to a Catholic-based teaching/talk station.

KDVV

"V100" KDVV is a Rock station from Topeka, Kansas.

CHUB

"Big 105.5 FM" CHUB is a Hot Adult Contemporary station licensed to Red Deer, Alberta. The station moved to the FM dial in 2000 after having been at 700 AM with the call letters CKRD. It's unclear if there's a connection between the CHUB call letters and the "Big" branding or if they just love their fat listeners. Two more obese stickers can be seen here.

Radio Minsk

Radio Minsk is part of the state-owned TeleRadioCompany of the Republic of Belarus which first broadcast in November, 1925. It consists of 4 television stations and 5 radio stations including Radio Station Belarus, 1st Channel, Radio Stolitsa, Channel Culture and Radius-FM.

WRKF

WRKF is a public radio station from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They carry large amounts of National Public Radio programming as well as Classical music and a few locally produced shows. Their call letters stand for Richard Kilbourne Family who let the station's founders erect an antenna on family land and later donated the land to the station. WRKF celebrated their 30th anniversary in January of this year.

WLKE

WLKE was an Oldies station from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. AM 690 is now one of about two dozen stations and translators in the VCY America network of religious broadcasters.

Rush and the Spirit of Radio

A buddy and I went to see Rush at Nationwide Arena in Columbus Sunday night. I saw them about 15 years ago at Riverbend in Cincinnati but was really looking forward to seeing them again because they'd be playing their best album in its entirety. Moving Pictures came out in 1981 right about the time I started paying attention to music (I was 10.) It contains their best known song, "Tom Sawyer," heavy use of synthesizer as well as Neil Peart's impeccable drumming. When it was released, Moving Pictures was all over the radio where I lived in western New York--probably because of its proximity to the band's hometown of Toronto. The show was fantastic and the band played for about three hours. No pictures because I forgot the camera in my car...what an idiot.

A Rush sticker from KSHE, a Rock station licensed to Crestwood, Missouri. This was to promote the band's 1996 Halloween-night show on the Test for Echo Tour in St. Louis. The piled rocks are the Inukshuk from the Test for Echo album cover but also features Sweet Meat, the pig which has been KSHE's mascot for decades.

The first song played Sunday night was "Spirit of Radio" which was written about Toronto's CFNY and uses their former slogan as the song's title. Here are the lyrics:

Begin the day
With a friendly voice,
A companion unobtrusive
Plays the song that's so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood.

Off on your way
Hit the open road,
There's magic at your fingers
For the Spirit ever lingers,
Undemanding contact
In your happy solitude.

Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antenna bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback
On a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price
Almost free

All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted,
It's really just a question
Of your honesty

One likes to believe
in the freedom of music,
But glittering prizes
And endless compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity.

For the words of the profits
Are written on the studio wall,
Concert hall --
Echoes with the sounds...
Of salesmen.

CFNY was a Progressive/Alternative/Freeform/New Wave station in Toronto starting in the late 1970s. The above "sticker" is actually a giant, three foot long car sunshield. I had to take a picture of it because it's too large to scan.



Today, CFNY is a much less adventurous Modern Rock station known as "102.1 The Edge."

Shirts and Stix - WDHA

105.5 FM WDHA (W Drexel Hill Associates-the original owners) is a Rock station licensed to Dover, New Jersey.

Shirts and Stix - CFOX

My son modelling a vintage early-80s(?) jersey shirt from 99.3 FM CFOX.

CFOX is an Active Rock station from Vancouver, British Columbia. They became Canada's first full-time FM Rock station in 1968 when their call letters were CKLG. They've been CFOX since 1979.  More CFOX decals can be seen here.