Radio Stephansdom is a Classical music station from Vienna, Austria. The city skyline can be seen on the sticker including the dome of St. Peter's Church and the spire of St. Stephen's Cathedral from which the station gets its name.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
WRKL
Friday, May 27, 2011
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.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
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.
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.
Friday, May 20, 2011
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.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
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.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
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.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Mystery Sticker #19
Anybody know what station this K-FOX sticker is from? Is it an earlier decal from these guys?
Friday, May 13, 2011
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.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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"
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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.
"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.