WWWW

The country format represented by these WWWW stickers lasted from 1980 until 1999.


Prior to 1980 "W4" was an album rock station most remembered for employing Howard Stern. He hated country music but stayed on briefly after the format change and was known on the air as Hopalong Howie. Stern then bolted back to the rock format at WWDC "DC-101" in Washington, DC. WWWW was licensed to Detroit, Michigan. 106.7 FM is now WDTW "106.7 The Beat."

WLOK

WLOK is a Black Gospel station licensed to Memphis, Tennessee. In 1977 it became the first African-American owned radio station in Memphis. WLOK is a short walk away from the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.

Sunday Sticker - KLRD

K-LORD is a Christian music station which began broadcasting in 1986. In the mid-90s they became the first of many insidious “Air 1” radio stations of which there are now over one billion 100 spread across the country mostly via broadcast translators. KLRD is licensed to Yucaipa, California.

KCSN

88.5 KCSN broadcasts an Adult Album Alternative format from California State University, Northridge.

R.I.P. Indie 103.1

KDLD/KDLE flipped from Modern Rock to Spanish "El Gato 103.1" yesterday. They'll continue the format as an online station. Here's part of the statement from their website:
"Indie 103.1 will cease broadcasting over this frequency effective immediately. Because of changes in the radio industry and the way radio audiences are measured, stations in this market are being forced to play too much Britney, Puffy and alternative music that is neither new nor cutting edge. Due to these challenges, Indie 103.1 was recently faced with only one option --- to play the corporate radio game."
Indie 103.1 was like a better-run college station with a bigger budget and name DJs including Henry Rollins from Black Flag, Dave Navarro of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols. The station logo was designed by Shepard Fairey, the guy who also did the iconic Obama CHANGE poster. KDLD is licensed to Santa Monica, California and KDLE is licensed to Huntington Beach.

Cool FM

Cool FM broadcasts from the former island of Walcheren in the Netherlands. It has since been connected to the mainland by a series of dikes. Visit them here.

Cash & Carry

KASH is licensed to Anchorage, Alaska.

KARY is licensed to Grandview, Washington.

NFC Championship Game

The Eagles take on the Cardinals this Sunday in Glendale, Arizona for the NFC Championship. WYSP ("Your Station in Philadelphia") is the flagship station of the Eagles Radio Network. KTAR ("Keep Taking the Arizona Republic") is the radio flagship of the Cardinals as well as the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks.

AFC Championship Game

It's the Ravens vs the Steelers this Sunday in the AFC Championship Game at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. 98 Rock WIYY is the flagship station of the Baltimore Ravens Radio Network. WDVE is the flagship station for the Steelers.

WRIF

One of the first stickers I ever got was a black & white WRIF decal. I went to the library and found a book that listed radio station formats and mailing addresses. Unfortunately it was 1986 and the book was from 1976 so many of the self-addressed stamped envelopes I mailed out came back Return to Sender because the stations moved or no longer existed for whatever reason. WRIF sent about a dozen of their classic racetrack-shaped stickers which I promptly used to decorate the inside of my high school locker and book covers. After one of the covers got worn out I chucked it in the trash. I guess somebody else liked it because a few days later I saw it covering someone else’s book. I wanted to ask the kid if he enjoyed picking through trash cans for his book covers but never did.
The album rock station’s overall logo hasn’t changed in more than 25 years although somewhere along the way they went crazy and switched from “WRIF 101” to “101 WRIF.” The Riff is licensed to Detroit, Michigan.

Attack of the Killer B93.7s

WMGB (Macon Georgia's B93.7) - Jeffersonville, Georgia

WBCT (World's Biggest Country Transmitter - 320,000 watts!!) - Grand Rapids, Michigan.

WFBC (We Foster Better Citizenship) - Greenville, South Carolina

KFAT/CHUB

This lard-ass is about to break the dreaded 200 pound barrier. Too much pie and not enough veggies during the holidays. Eat less, move more, blah blah blah.......
KFAT was a freeform, Country/Americana station that lasted from 1975 to 1983 and was licensed to Gilroy, California. CHUB broadcast from Nanaimo, British Columbia starting in 1949. Supposedly, the city's nickname is The Hub City hence the call letters. The station moved from 1570 AM to 102.3 FM in 1994 and a year later changed calls to the much less amusing CKWV.

WGGY/WGGI

This Froggy 101 sticker can be seen on Dwight Schrute's filing cabinet every week on NBC's "The Office." It's an actual country station licensed to Scranton, Pennsylvania at 101.3 and simulcast at 95.9 licensed to Benton, PA. There are quite a few Froggy stations across the country with the same grinning frog logo. Many of them are guilty of making their DJs use absurd frog-related names like David Hopperfield, Anne Phibian and Lilly Pad. Ridiculous!

My own workplace Froggy 101 sticker.

WSNW

This 1956 sticker from Seneca, South Carolina is probably the oldest in my collection. As you can tell from the quote at the top, it wasn't meant to be stuck to a car bumper but rather to a shop owners door (I'm guessing.) Notice the old-timey use of the KC (kilocycles) abbreviation instead of AM. The back of the sticker says it was printed by the National Decalcomania Corp. in Philadelphia. Decalcomania is also the name of a club for people who collect radio stickers, airchecks and memorabilia.

Mystery Sticker

This may be from WLVG in Center Moriches, New York but I'm not sure. That station goes by "Love 96.1" and have a similar "scribbled" heart logo. http://www.love961.com
Any ideas?

KFAX

Construction on the Golden Gate Bridge was started on this day in 1933. It is painted an orange vermilion color called "international orange" which helps enhance the bridge's visibilty in fog. KFAX is a Christian station licensed to San Francisco.

WTRN

1340 AM WTRN is a full-service Adult Contemporary station in Tyrone, Pennsylvania.  They went on the air in 1955 and may or may not still love your children.

WNEW

Another "new" sticker, magnet and shirt for the new year. I think the Statue Of Liberty logo is a mid-90s-era one for the heritage New York City rock station. A string of format changes including Talk, CHR and Adult Contemporary followed and then the WNEW call letters were gone forever (at least in NYC.)

WPYO

WPYO was a Dance/Top 40 station licensed to Apopka, Florida.

KNEW

The KNEW call letters were used in the San Francisco Bay area from 1966 until 2012.  Formats over the years included News/Talk, Adult Contemporary, Oldies, Sports and Country.  910 AM KNEW was licensed to Oakland, California.