Friday, May 31, 2019

WHPY

WHPY 1590 AM is a Religious station licensed to Clayton, North Carolina.  "Fellowship Christian Radio" is on the air every day from sunup to sundown.

Thursday, May 30, 2019

WDIF

97.5 WDIF is a 75-watt, non-commercial, LPFM station in Marion, Ohio.  They are the only station in the state with a full-time Blues format.

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

WAMO


106.7 WAMO (W Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers) was an R&B/Urban station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  WAMO was a rare, independently-owned (and for much of its history black-owned) radio station but went off the air in 2009.  A magnet from a later incarnation of WAMO can be seen here.

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

KSDA


"Joy 92" KSDA (K Seventh-Day Adventist) is a Religious station licensed to Agat, Guam.

Monday, May 27, 2019

KOZZ


105.7 KOZZ plays Classic Rock in Reno, Nevada.

Thursday, May 23, 2019

My Countrys

 KGMY - Aurora, Missouri

 KAJE - Ingleside/Corpus Christi, Texas

KMRK - Odessa, Texas

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

KCFN

91.1 FM KCFN is a 100,000-watt Religious station in Wichita, Kansas.  They are part of the American Family Radio network of stations.

Saturday, May 18, 2019

CFMB

CFMB (Canada's First Multilingual Broadcaster) broadcast at 1410 AM to Montreal, Quebec from its inception in December 1962 until September 1997.  They are currently located at 1280 AM and airs ethnic programming in 16 different languages.

Friday, May 17, 2019

KRML


KRML is an Adult Album Alternative station in Carmel, California.  They are located at 1410 AM and simulcast on translator K271BP at 102.1 FM.  The station was the setting for the 1971 movie Play Misty For Me in which Clint Eastwood plays a DJ who is stalked by a female listener.




The "Radio Yummy" promo below was a publicity stunt that took place between a format flip from Jazz to AAA in 2012.  The 10 songs repeating over and over was the station owner's commentary on all that is bad with corporate radio.

Thursday, May 16, 2019

5 FM

5 FM is owned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), South Africa's public broadcaster.  They air a Contemporary Hit Radio format and broadcast nationwide via repeater stations.  5 FM went on the air in 1975 and are based in Johannesburg.

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Radio Golden Flash

Radio Golden Flash is a station based in Westerlo, Belgium.   The Dutch writing on the sticker Google translates to "The never annoying radio" which might just be the best station slogan of all time.  Their playlist is fantastically all over the place:  Roger Whitaker, Pat Benatar, Stevie Wonder, Snoop Dog, The O'Jays, T-Rex, Talk Talk, Blue Murder and plenty of Dutch-language artists made up part of the time I spent listening while writing this post.

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

WTTL

AM 1310 WTTL is a Classic Hits station licensed to Madisonville, Kentucky.  They are also heard on a translator at 103.5 FM.  The "Cats" refers to the Wildcats mascot of the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Monday, May 13, 2019

WOBL




WOBL has been a Country station since going on the air in (W) OBerLin, Ohio in 1971.  They were originally located at 1570 AM before moving to their current position at 1320 AM in 1976.  They currently air a Classic Country format and are also heard on a translator at 107.7 FM.

Sunday, May 12, 2019

WKWM



1140 AM WKWM in Grand Rapids, Michigan began as a Disco station in the fall of 1978 and later transitioned to an Urban Contemporary format.  The call letters existed until 1998 when they switched to Talk as WXBV and then returned again from 1999 until 2003.  WKWM was licensed to (W) KentWood, Michigan.

Saturday, May 11, 2019

WGLU

WGLU 106.1 LPFM's Facebook page says they play "a variety of Adult Contemporary & Country Christian music."  It's unclear if they are still on the air.  As of this posting their website and live stream were down and radiolocator.com shows no results when searching for their call letters.  WGLU is/was licensed to Newport, New York.

Friday, May 10, 2019

WBZQ

1550 AM WBZQ was a Religious station licensed to Greenville, North Carolina from 1962 until 1995.

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Radio Unica

Miami-based Radio Unica operated Spanish-language News/Talk stations in about a dozen markets before declaring bancruptcy in 2003.  The slogan on each sticker translates to "The station that is most heard every day!"

KXYZ - Houston, Texas

KIDR - Phoenix, Arizona

KFRE - Fresno, California

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

KREH

900 AM KREH is a Vietnamese-language station licensed to Pecan Grove, Texas with studios in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Houston.  "Radio Saigon Houston" is credited with bringing many Vietnamese from the West coast to Texas after stories about business successes and a lower cost-of-living were simulcast on stations in Orange County and San Jose, California. 
KREH is a daytime-only station and went on the air in 1999.

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

The Lakes

 "92.9 The Lake" KHLA - Jennings, Louisiana

 "Lake 93" KLDN - (K) ELDoN, Missouri

 "Lake 98.1" WLKN - Cleveland, Wisconsin


"96.1 The Lake" WLKG - (W) LaKe Geneva, Wisconsin

Monday, May 6, 2019

Que Buenas

Stations branded as "Que Buena" ("That's good") typically carry a Regional Mexican format.

KEQB - Coburg/Eugene, Oregon

KCHX - Midland, Texas



KBNA - El Paso, Texas

Sunday, May 5, 2019

KATR

1320 AM KATR was on the air in Eugene, Oregon from the frequency's sign-on in 1962 until 1985.

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Hank FMs

Hank FM is the branding of a handful of stations in the US and Canada that typically carry a Country or Classic Country format (or a mix of both.)  The owner of the brand is Kroeger Media who also created the "Bob FM" Variety Hits format.  Other Hank FM stickers can be seen here.  And here.

K283BU - Walla Walla, Washington

KNHK - Newport, Washington.  Same frequency as the above sticker although this one is a regular strip decal while the other is shaped around the "104.5"--different stations within the state of Washington.

K233CJ - College Place, Washington

KHNK - Columbia Falls, Montana

WCLI - Enon/Dayton, Ohio

Friday, May 3, 2019

WCCQ




98.3 WCCQ plays Country music in Crest Hill/Chicago, Illinois.  They've carried this format since 1984.