A daily look into one of the world's largest collections of radio station bumper stickers and memorabilia.
Saturday, December 14, 2024
Friday, December 13, 2024
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
KSJD
91.5 FM KSJD is a community radio station and NPR affiliate licensed to Cortez, Colorado. Two relay stations and one translator help put KSJD's programming into parts of the Four Corners states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.
Monday, December 9, 2024
KNMX
540 AM KNMX has been a Spanish-language station in Las Vegas, (K) New MeXico since October 1980. The Station of the Year awards were given by the New Mexico Broadcasters Association. KNMX has now won seven times.
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Friday, December 6, 2024
R.I.P. Stephen King's Radio Stations
Word came out earlier this week that Stephen King's Zone Radio Corporation will shut down all three of its radio stations in Bangor, Maine at the end of this month. The best-selling author bought his first station in 1983 and changed the call letters to WZON after his science fiction thriller novel The Dead Zone. King said that his decision to sell was prompted by his desire to get his business affairs in order. Apparently the stations were never profitable and King personally made up for any monetary losses himself. It's truly sad to see three locally owned, independent radio stations being shuttered forever. If K-Love didn't already exist in Bangor, I'm sure they'd be swooping in to buy one or all of them.
This plastic listener card is possibly from the late 1970s/early 1980s when it was a Top-40 station with call letters WLBZ. Stephen King eventually bought them in 1983 and changed the call letters to WZON. Various formats followed including Rock, Talk, Sports, Progressive Talk and currently Oldies. They were even a non-commercial, listener-supported station for a time. A sticker from their Sports format days can be seen here. Another from their time as "The Pulse" can be seen here.
100.3 FM WKIT is a Rock station that King bought in 1995. The black and yellow, frequency-only sticker above has always bothered me because it's so generic (and why bother trademarking it?) The top sticker featuring "Dougie Graves" is a perfect radio decal and as unique as the station's owner.
103.1 FM WZLO is an Adult Album Alternative station the King acquired in 2001.
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
WYMJ
"Oldies 104" was on the air in Dayton, Ohio from around 1989 to 1992. They would eventually become Alternative Rock WXEG and are currently Country-formatted WZDA. WYMJ was licensed to Beavercreek, OH. I found this magnet on the side of an ancient cabinet at work. I love it when I find random radio items in the wild.
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
KLBS & KSQQ
1330 AM KLBS and 96.1 FM KSQQ both broadcast in Portuguese and cover much of California's San Joaquin Valley. KLBS is licensed to Los Banos and KSQQ is licensed to Morgan Hill near San Jose. A similar looking sticker from a former sister station KRVE can be seen here.
Monday, December 2, 2024
KCRF
96.7 FM KCRF is/was(?) a Rock station licensed to Lincoln City, Oregon. As of this posting the station is still licensed but the owner ceased operations almost a year ago according to this article.