AFC Championship Game

It's the Ravens vs the Steelers this Sunday in the AFC Championship Game at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. 98 Rock WIYY is the flagship station of the Baltimore Ravens Radio Network. WDVE is the flagship station for the Steelers.

WRIF

One of the first stickers I ever got was a black & white WRIF decal. I went to the library and found a book that listed radio station formats and mailing addresses. Unfortunately it was 1986 and the book was from 1976 so many of the self-addressed stamped envelopes I mailed out came back Return to Sender because the stations moved or no longer existed for whatever reason. WRIF sent about a dozen of their classic racetrack-shaped stickers which I promptly used to decorate the inside of my high school locker and book covers. After one of the covers got worn out I chucked it in the trash. I guess somebody else liked it because a few days later I saw it covering someone else’s book. I wanted to ask the kid if he enjoyed picking through trash cans for his book covers but never did.
The album rock station’s overall logo hasn’t changed in more than 25 years although somewhere along the way they went crazy and switched from “WRIF 101” to “101 WRIF.” The Riff is licensed to Detroit, Michigan.

Attack of the Killer B93.7s

WMGB (Macon Georgia's B93.7) - Jeffersonville, Georgia

WBCT (World's Biggest Country Transmitter - 320,000 watts!!) - Grand Rapids, Michigan.

WFBC (We Foster Better Citizenship) - Greenville, South Carolina

KFAT/CHUB

This lard-ass is about to break the dreaded 200 pound barrier. Too much pie and not enough veggies during the holidays. Eat less, move more, blah blah blah.......
KFAT was a freeform, Country/Americana station that lasted from 1975 to 1983 and was licensed to Gilroy, California. CHUB broadcast from Nanaimo, British Columbia starting in 1949. Supposedly, the city's nickname is The Hub City hence the call letters. The station moved from 1570 AM to 102.3 FM in 1994 and a year later changed calls to the much less amusing CKWV.

WGGY/WGGI

This Froggy 101 sticker can be seen on Dwight Schrute's filing cabinet every week on NBC's "The Office." It's an actual country station licensed to Scranton, Pennsylvania at 101.3 and simulcast at 95.9 licensed to Benton, PA. There are quite a few Froggy stations across the country with the same grinning frog logo. Many of them are guilty of making their DJs use absurd frog-related names like David Hopperfield, Anne Phibian and Lilly Pad. Ridiculous!

My own workplace Froggy 101 sticker.

WSNW

This 1956 sticker from Seneca, South Carolina is probably the oldest in my collection. As you can tell from the quote at the top, it wasn't meant to be stuck to a car bumper but rather to a shop owners door (I'm guessing.) Notice the old-timey use of the KC (kilocycles) abbreviation instead of AM. The back of the sticker says it was printed by the National Decalcomania Corp. in Philadelphia. Decalcomania is also the name of a club for people who collect radio stickers, airchecks and memorabilia.