Today is
Buzzard Day in Hinckley Township, Ohio just south of Cleveland. Every year on March 15th flocks of buzzards (aka turkey vultures) return from their winter hiatus to roost in the ledges of Cleveland Metropark’s Hinckley Reservation. Visitors have been witnessing the return of these birds since the first Buzzard Sunday in 1957.
In 1968, Cleveland's WHK-FM stopped simulcasting the Top-40 of their AM sister station, switched to Progressive Rock and changed calls to
WMMS (
W Metro
Media
Stereo--in reference to their owner at the time.) The next year saw brief flirtations with Adult Standards and another switch back to Top-40 but by the early 70s WMMS was once again a Rock station and has remained so to this day.
In 1974 the station started using a cartoon buzzard as its logo. During the glory years of WMMS, from the mid-70s to the mid-80s, they were at or near the top of the ratings and the buzzard became synonymous with rock and roll in Cleveland. According to former program director John Gorman (a co-creator of the logo) the choice of the buzzard as the WMMS mascot had nothing to do with the annual Buzzard Day in Hinckley and that they didn’t know there was such an event until a listener told them. They did however become a sponsor of the event in 1976 with disastrous results as thousands of long haired rockers descended on the park like a mini-Woodstock. The next year the station was asked not to mention Buzzard Day on the air and local elementary school children were not allowed to draw the WMMS logo for their annual assignment of drawing a buzzard.
Sadly, in 2007 the Clear Channel-owned WMMS dropped the buzzard mascot. Or, in the words of one of their programmers, “de-emphasized” the icon (their current logo still has orange wings on either side of the call letters and frequency.)
UPDATE: As of December, 2011 the WMMS website once again features the buzzard mascot (wearing a Cleveland Browns helmet.)
WMJI is a Classic Hits station from Cleveland, Ohio. They no longer identify themselves as an "Oldies" station but instead use the slogan "Cleveland's Greatest Hits" and play music from the 60s through the 80s. The traditional 50s and 60s oldies are relegated to their HD-Radio feed.
"Majic 105.7" magnets.
The Interstate Highway system (official name: The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways) consists of over 46,000 miles of roadway serving nearly every major U.S. city. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) developed a detailed highway numbering system in the 1950s. West-east highways are assigned even numbers and south-north highways are given odd numbers. Numbers generally increase from west to east and south to north. There are also rules about one, two and three digit highway numbers, business routes and shared roadway between two interstates. Interstate signage consists of red, white and blue shields which AASHTO has actually copyrighted but that didn't stop these three radio stations from using the design for their stickers.
WNYN was a Country music station in Canton, Ohio. They carried that format from the 1960s through the mid 1980s. Currently 900 AM is WCER, a Religious/Syndicated Talk station.
WLWI “I-92” is a Country music station from Montgomery, Alabama.
WUSY 
Today is Buzzard Day in Hinckley Township, Ohio just south of Cleveland. Every year on March 15th flocks of buzzards (aka turkey vultures) return from their winter hiatus to roost in the ledges of Cleveland Metropark’s Hinckley Reservation. Visitors have been witnessing the return of these birds since the first Buzzard Sunday in 1957.
