WSQK

The British broadcaster Global has set up a temporary online station taken from the latest season of Netflix's popular series Stranger Things.  WSKQ "The Squawk" broadcasts from the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana and reminds me of the smaller market Top-40 stations I grew up listening to in rural western Ohio.  Local commercials, top of the hour news, real (voicetracked) DJs, authentic jingles and a "sound" created by going through a vintage Inovonics FM250 audio processor.  Stranger Things is set in the 1980s so obviously WSKQ plays music almost entirely from that decade.  I did hear a smattering of non-80s songs--Patsy Cline, CCR and Bobby Bare--otherwise it was all-80s: Tears For Fears, T'Pau, REO Speedwagon, INXS, Human League, Madonna, Go-Go's, Duran Duran, Wham! and, not surprisingly, Kate Bush, whose song "Running Up That Hill" was made a hit again after it was a plot point in the show.

This screenshot from the series shows a few radio stickers on the studio door:

--a Bruce Springsteen decal from WRIF in Detroit.  (See it here)

--KIRL in St. Louis, Missouri

--a vintage WPLJ sticker promoting The Who.  I have a similar WPLJ/Led Zeppelin decal.  See it here.

--an unidentified lip print sticker which could be from any number of "Kiss FM" stations.

--a WFBQ/Bob & Tom sticker which they acknowledged having seen on their official X account --   x.com/bobandtom

--an unidentified 93FM (or 95FM) sticker at the top of the door. 

--There's also a burnt orange sticker (underneath the Pollution Stinks decal) from a Country station that I can't identify.  It's driving me crazy because I know I have the sticker, I just can't figure out where it's from...yet.

Listen to WSKQ while you can.  They will only exist until January 1st when the final episode airs.  I used the Global Player app to listen but it is supposedly also available on TuneIn.