1450 AM WREL has been on the air in Lexington, Virginia since 1948. They currently air a Sports format affiliated with the Fox Sports Radio network. Their call letters were named for Virginia native and Confederate War general (W) Robert E Lee who is buried at Washington & Lee University in Lexington.
UPDATE: WREL dropped Sports for Classic Country a few weeks ago. See comments.
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Sunday, April 30, 2023
Saturday, April 29, 2023
WEEM
91.7 FM WEEM is the student-run station at Pendleton Heights High School in Pendleton, Indiana. They've been on the air since 1971 and airs a CHR format on a 1,200-watt signal.
Friday, April 28, 2023
WHBQ AM & FM
WHBQ-AM went on the air in March 1925 in Memphis, Tennessee. They were a Top-40 station from the 1950s until the early 1980s and were the first radio station to broadcast an Elvis Presley song. Later formats included Oldies, Talk, Country and currently Sports. Sister station WHBQ "Q107.5" airs an Adult Top-40 format.
Thursday, April 27, 2023
KHUM
104.7 FM KHUM airs a wide-ranging Adult Album Alternative format in Eureka, California. They are also heard on a translator station at 104.3 FM. KHUM went on the air in January 1996.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Radio Lauragais
Radio Lauragais was on the air from 1984 until 1997 in Revel, France. Leo Lagrange was a Socialist and Minister for Sports in the French government circa the 1930s who later died in World War II. It's unclear what the connection, if any, there was between him and Radio Lauragais.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
4EL
846 AM broadcasts from Cairns, Queensland, Australia. The database for the Australian Communications and Media Authority still lists them as having the call sign 4EL but their website carries the logo 4CA along with a Classic Hits format. I'm too lazy to figure out which call sign is accurate. Leave a comment if you know.
Monday, April 24, 2023
WLLL
930 AM WLLL has been on the air in Lynchburg, Virginia since 1963. They were a Top-40 station in the 1960s and 70s and currently carries an Urban Gospel format.
Sunday, April 23, 2023
WRGW
Radio broadcasting on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, DC dates back to the late 1950s. WRGW began as a carrier current station and appeared on different frequencies including 660 AM and 540 AM. Today WRGW is an online-only station airing more than 100 distinct music, news, talk and sports programs.
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Friday, April 21, 2023
Thursday, April 20, 2023
WMCA
570 AM WMCA is a Religious station in New York, New York. They are best remembered as a Top-40 outlet starting in the late 1950s which later garnered huge ratings success with the MCA Good Guys lineup of DJs as well as the stations relationship with The Beatles. A Talk format took over for most of the 1970s and 80s before they flipped to Christian Talk and Teaching in 1989. They became "The Mission" in 2015. WMCA's call letters refer to the location of their first studios the Hotel (W) MCAlpin
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
WDRK
99.9 FM WDRK was an Indie/Alternative Rock station in Eau Claire, Wisconsin from 2018 until 2020. "Converge Radio" is now heard on low-power station 101.9 FM WRFP.
Monday, April 17, 2023
WASU
90.5 FM WASU is the student-run campus radio station of (W) Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. They primarily air an Alternative Rock format along with a few specialty shows. WASU went on the air in 1972.
Sunday, April 16, 2023
KTOO
104.3 FM KTOO is a non-commercial, public radio station in Juneau, Alaska. KTOO Public Media also operates 100.7 KXLL, 102.7 KRNN as well as PBS member KTOO-TV.
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Friday, April 14, 2023
Thursday, April 13, 2023
KDRT
101.5 KDRT is a low-power, non-profit, community radio station in Davis, California. They went on the air in 2004 and moved to 95.7 FM around 2013.
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
KQLA
"Q103.5" was a Hot AC station licensed to Ogden, Kansas. KQLA is now a Country outlet branded as "Q Country 103.5"
Monday, April 10, 2023
The Word
99.7 FM WZXV
is a non-commercial Religious station licensed to Palmyra, New York
near Rochester. They went on the air in 1993. WZXV programming is also
heard on about a dozen translator stations in western and central New
York.
W235BC - Bowmansville, NY
W248AT and/or W248BC - Corfu/Dansville, NY
W227BW - Cheektowaga, NY
W275BL - Batavia, NY
Sunday, April 9, 2023
WMFR
1230 AM WMFR has been on the air in High Point, North Carolina since 1935. Their call letters stand for We Make Furniture Right, a nod to the long history of furniture manufacturing in the High Point area.
WMGZ
1470 AM and 95.9 FM WMGZ were on the air from 1982 until 1989 and licensed to Sharpsville, Pennsylvania (part of the Youngstown/Warren, Ohio radio market. They broadcast an Adult Contemporary format before shifting to Top-40 in the second half of the 1980s.
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