WRKL

WRKL was a News/Talk/MOR station licensed to New City, New York in (W) RocKLand County.



In 1999 they switched to all-Polish programming "Polskie Radio."

WLLI

WLLI began as WJOL-FM, simulcasting the Beautiful Music of sister-station WJOL-AM in Joliet, Illinois. The call letter switch to WLLI (an anagram for WILL County, Illinois) came in the late 1970s. Music changes over the years included Country, Rock and probably some kind of Contemporary Hit format given the "Listen To Win" sticker above. At one time WLLI was owned by a millionaire who made his fortune from the card game UNO. 96.7 FM is currently a Hot Adult Contemporary outlet "Star 96.7" WSSR.

Market #1s - Houston - KODA

KODA "Sunny 99.1" is an Adult Contemporary station licensed to Houston, Texas. They were the #1-rated radio station in that market according to the latest Arbitron results. 

The front and back of a KODA keychain. 

WFUR

AM 1570 WFUR (W FURniture City Radio) has been a Religious station in Grand Rapids, Michigan since 1950. Here's a similar sticker from what was probably a co-owned station.

WABK

"Oldies 104" is WABK from Gardiner, Maine. They have shifted away from traditional oldies and are now a Classic Hits station.

KRVE

KRVE was a Portuguese-language radio station licensed to Los Gatos, California. 95.3 FM currently plays Country music as KRTY.

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!...again

Last August I wrote about a fool who spent a bunch of money on bus ads proclaiming the end of the world as May 21, 2011. Well folks, this is it! Nice knowin' ya.

Licensed to Ukiah, California, KPRA is one of about 160 stations and translators in the Family Radio Christian Network based in Oakland. Family Radio was founded in 1959 by Harold Camping who also predicted that the world would end back in 1994.

UPDATE: After being "mystified" and "bewildered" that his prediction didn't come true, Camping now says that today's Judgment Day was spiritual not physical. The actual end of the world will now be October 21st.

WYSP

 

WYSP (W Your Station in Philadelphia) is a Classic Rock station from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "94 WYSP" became the very first Classic Rock station in the country when they flipped to the format from AOR in 1981.

The Boy modeling a vintage WYSP t-shirt.

KKRQ

KKRQ "100.7 The Fox" is a Classic Hits station from Iowa City, Iowa.

KBSN

AM 1470 KBSN is a News/Talk station licensed to Moses Lake, Washington. "Working together for a beautiful body?" That's almost as weird/creepy as this sticker slogan.

Controradio

Controradio was founded in 1975 and broadcasts from Florence, Italy.

Crap From the Past and KFAI

KFAI (K Fresh Air, Inc.--the nonprofit organization that owns the station) is a community broadcaster from Minneapolis, Minnesota which is staffed mostly by volunteers. They employ a block formatted schedule with a wide variety of eclectic programming. My favorite show on KFAI by far is Crap From the Past which can be heard Friday nights at 10:30 local time. Hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber, CFTP is "a pop music radio show for people who already know plenty about pop music." As taken from the introduction to each show, this would include such things as "funk, rock, Peter Gabriel singing in German, soul, old-school rap, ABBA singing in Spanish, glam, hair metal, Milli Vanilli singing in English, and, of course, disco." Themed shows have included songs with especially good bridges, songs that spent exactly one week on the Billboard Top 40 and songs that involve telephones (a two-parter!) It's weird, wonderful stuff and the best part is that every show has been archived all the way back to 1999 (with some internet-only and pre-KFAI shows dating back to 1992.) As a child of the eighties who used to listen to Casey Kasem religiously but was far more interested in the songs that barely flirted with the charts, this show is right in my wheelhouse. Gerber and I both lived in western New York around the same time and had a healthy appreciation for CFNY and Toronto record stores so maybe there's some kind of cosmic musical connection....all I know is I LOVE THIS SHOW! It's a graduate level course in pop music. Start earning your degree now! 

EDIT:  In the late summer of 2020 I received a radio ratings diary.  I don't know what Nielsen does, if anything, when people record out-of-town stations but it's certainly not helping Dayton radio when I list a Minneapolis station.  I also wonder what they do with the comments.  Are they given to stations as part of the benefits of subscribing?  KFAI is non-commercial so I doubt that they were informed of my comment about one of their shows.

4AAA

4AAA plays a mixture of Country and Indigenous music in Brisbane, Australia. I like the clever use of boomerangs to form the call letters in the bottom sticker. Looking at their website, it appears they've dropped use of the calls in their imaging entirely.

Mystery Sticker #19

Anybody know what station this K-FOX sticker is from? Is it an earlier decal from these guys?

KRLC

Lewiston Idaho's KRLC plays Classic Country mixed with Bluegrass, Western and Gospel.

WXLO

WXLO is a Hot Adult Contemporary station licensed to Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The call letters were chosen as a tribute to New York City's WXLO which existed from 1972 to 1981.

WQKT

104.5 FM WQKT is a Country station licensed to Wooster, Ohio. They also broadcast all of Cleveland's professional sports teams, Ohio State and The College of Wooster football and basketball games and local high school sports.  They are now branded as "104.5 The River"

Alices

"Alice@100.5" WALC was a Modern Adult Contemporary station (later shifting to Hot AC) from Charleston, South Carolina. 100.5 FM is currently part of the Contemporary Christian "HIS FM" network.

"Alice @102.7" KALZ is a Hot Adult Contemporary station from Fresno, California. In 2006 they moved down the dial to 96.7 FM and are now licensed to Fowler, CA.

"Alice 105.9" KALC airs an Adult Top-40 format in Denver, Colorado. They were the first station to be dubbed as "Alice" in 1994, perhaps starting a semi-interesting trend of "people-named" radio stations like Jack, Joe, Bob, Ben, Bill, Doug and Hank.

WKQZ

"Z93" WKQZ is an Active Rock station licensed to Midland, Michigan.

Happy Mother's Day!

WMOM is a hybrid Top-40/Alternative station licensed to Pentwater, Michigan. Always listen to your mom!

WEFM

WEFM (W Eugene F. McDonald--an executive at the Zenith Radio Corporation) was a Top-40 station in Chicago, Illinois from 1978 to 1982. Prior to this they were a Classical station and the second station in the United States to broadcast in FM stereo. 99.5 FM is currently Country WUSN.