Last night my wife and I went to the Fraze Pavilion to watch the Led Zeppelin cover band Get The Led Out. After getting up at 3:30 AM that morning and working 13 hours, I wouldn't have been too bummed out if the earlier downpours had continued and we decided to skip this outdoor show. Thankfully, the weather cleared and we got to experience a fantastic concert. GTLO are a dead-on sounding Zeppelin tribute band. They don't set out to look like the band (the singer admitted to looking like Howard Stern...although one guitarist looked an awful lot like Robert Plant) but rather concentrate on re-creating the sound of Zeppelin's studio albums. They even pulled out a theremin and what I think was a bit of turntablism to produce the mid-song freakout from Whole Lotta Love. Great show all around.
The front and back of a late 1970s sticker from WPLJ in New York City. They carried an Album Rock format from 1971 until 1983 before flipping to CHR.
I found this listener card misfiled under KTXQ when I was pulling stickers for yesterday's post. Clearly, they share the same design but are one dial position off. Anyone know where this "Q101" card is from? The best known station with that branding is probably WKQX in Chicago but it's unknown if they ever had this logo.
"Q102" KTXQ was a Rock station in Dallas, Texas from 1978 until 1998. They were the main competitor of KZEW--the hatred between the two stations beginning after "Q102" beat "The Zoo" in the ratings after just two months on the air. Eventually the stations shared more than just similar playlists as various jocks and bosses ended up working at both outlets. By 1994 "Q102" had morphed into an Alternative Rock station.
In 1998 KTXQ flipped to R&B Oldies as "Magic 102".
102.1 FM is currently Alternative Rock KDGE "The Edge".
107.1 WSPY (W Sandwich Plano Yorkville) went on the air on January 19, 1974. They air a Full Service/Adult Contemporary format for Chicago's far western suburbs and are licensed to Plano, Illinois.
WIBW plays Country music in Topeka, Kansas. They broadcast at 97.3 FM from their first air date in 1961 until September, 2002 when they relocated to 94.5 FM.
KFMU is an Adult Album Alternative station in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. They went on the air in 1975 with a transmitter that was powered by a wooden windmill. Today they are at least partially powered by solar panels located at the transmitter site. KFMU is licensed to Oak Creek, CO.
WOVV was a Top-40 station licensed to Ft. Pierce, Florida. In 1993, the station, by then branded as "Star 95.5", moved an hour south to Juno Beach, FL. They later flipped to Country as WCLB and are currently once again Top-40 as "Wild 95.5" WLDI.
"The Breeze" is a network of Adult Contemporary stations in New Zealand. Currently there are 19 Breeze stations across the country airing a mix of local and network shows. Some of these stickers were sent to me by Aaron in Whakatane, New Zealand. Thanks Aaron!
WOSE (WOttawa Sandusky Erie) was a short-lived Country music station in Toledo, Ohio from 1981 until 1983. 94.5 FM is currently Classic Rock WXKR. WOSE was licensed to Port Clinton, OH.
1540 AM KKDI broadcast from Sheridan, Arkansas from 1982 until 1988. For the first year or so their Country music programming was duplicated on 102.3 KKDI FM.
92.3 KRST has been a Country outlet in Albuquerque, New Mexico since 1980. In May, 2014 the station re-branded itself to become one of many Cumulus-owned "Nash FM" stations. KRST's call letters refers to Sandia Crest which rises a whopping 10,678 feet above sea level and almost 5,000 feet above downtown Albuquerque. This makes for an ideal location for the KRST signal tower (along with more than a dozen other radio and television towers) and makes Sandia Crest the highest elevation tower farm in the country.
