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Hot Adult Contemporary for Salt Lake City.   KJMY is licensed to Bountiful, Utah

Adult Contemporary for Greenville/Spartanburg, North Carolina. WMYI is licensed to Hendersonville, NC.

More Hot AC, this time from CFMY Medicine Hat, Alberta.

National Pig Day

March 1st is National Pig Day in the United States. There is a ridiculous "National fill-in-the-blank Day" almost every day of the year (it's also National Peanut Butter Lovers Day) but it gives me a good excuse to post a couple swine related stickers.

WPIG - Olean, New York. "Sizzlin?" Is that supposed to make me think of bacon?
WPIG was also the fictional rival of WKRP on the classic sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati."

KPIG grew out of the defunct KFAT which shared a similar Americana format and local, offbeat flavor. Their sticker designs are similar as well. KPIG is licensed to Freedom, California.

 

The back of a KPIG t-shirt.  The front has the same logo as their sticker. 

KPYG is KPIG's translator at 94.9 FM and is licensed to Cayucos, California near San Luis Obispo.

From 2005 until 2010 KPIG could be heard on 1510 AM licensed to Piedmont, California near San Francisco.

Sunday Sticker - KBSN

My sticker file has a big question mark next to the city of license for this station. There is a KBSN currently in Moses Lake, Washington at 1470 AM. There is also KTBI, a Religious station at 810 AM in nearby Ephrata. Is there a connection between the two? Dan? Anybody?

UPDATE:  See comments.  Geez, Dan does it again.  If you weren't retired I'd feel bad about all the time you must spend solving my sticker mysteries.  Thanks again!

Dart on Map - WORC

The dart this time landed just west of North Woodstock, Connecticut. Oldies WORC (WORCester, MA) is licensed to nearby Webster, Massachusetts.

Reggae 97.3

Reggae 97.3 was one of only 5 radio stations on the British Virgin Islands. The website URL on the sticker no longer works and I believe they're now broadcasting under the name Z-Wave although it's unclear what the format is. Most likely the only sticker from a full-time reggae station in my collection.

UPDATE:

The founder of this station contacted me (see comments) and emailed a photo of a slightly different Reggae 97.3 sticker.  Thanks John!

KUPY

I pulled this sticker randomly from the collection and realized I have no information about it in my records. A quick Google search shows that it may be from Puyallup, Washington but I don't have time to confirm it yet.

UPDATE:  See comments.  Thanks Dan!

WXCV

"Citrus 95.3" WXCV is a CHR station licensed to Homosassa Springs, Florida.

HeartBeats

CIHR - Woodstock, Ontario.

KBTB - Seattle, Washington

KRVV - Bastrop, Louisiana

WECB

Freeform student radio from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. The station was built using Army surplus radio gear and went on the air in 1947. They were the first commercial college radio station in the country but are now a more traditional non-commercial outlet.

WNOE

WNOE (named after its original owner, former Louisiana governor James A Noe) was New Orlean's first Top 40 station, lasting from the 50s through the late 60s. For a few years they went MOR and Oldies but found success with "Real Rock" in 1973 while simulcasting with their sister station WNOE-FM. 1981 brought a Country format which remained until 1995 when they were sold, found Religion, and changed calls to WLNO.

UPDATE:  See comments

XHEPR

99.1 The Bandit was a Classic Rock station serving El Paso, Texas and licensed to Presidio, Chihuahua Mexico. They changed their slogan to 99.1 The Eagle in 2006 but currently are Silent.

Dart on Map - WXHC

"X101" WXHC is a Classic Hits station licensed to Homer in the Finger Lakes region of New York.  They went on the air in 1991 and have carried Adult Contemporary and Oldies formats in the past.

KBRT

740 AM KBRT is a Christian Talk station in Los Angeles, California.  They operate only during daylight hours and sign off at sunset each day to comply with their Class D license. In May, 2007 contractors working on a KBRT antenna caused a 4,200 acre wildfire while cutting into steel cable with a gas-powered saw. "KBRITE" is licensed to Avalon, CA located on Santa Catalina Island about 22 miles off the coast of Los Angeles.

Mystery sticker #5

If you know what station this sticker is from, don't keep it to yourself.

National Public Radio

National Public Radio was created in 1970 after Congress passed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Their first broadcast was in April 1971, covering the Senate hearings on the Vietnam War. There were 90 public radio stations as charter members and currently there are 797 stations using their programming. Their funding is a mixture of private, government and philanthropic support.  NPR is based in Washington, DC.

Places I've Lived #1 - Milton, Florida

My dad was a Navy pilot stationed in Pensacola although I think he may have already left the service by the time I was born in nearby Milton in 1970.  I have no memory of the place as we moved away when I was about a year old.

WXBM has been a Country music station since they went on the air in 1964. It is licensed to Milton, Florida.

KLSX

CBS Radio has decided to blow up 97.1 FM Talk in favor of Top 40 "AMP Radio" starting tomorrow at 5 PM. I'll miss listening to the Adam Carolla Show podcast and hope he reappears at another station soon. Carolla had the unenviable task of taking over for Howard Stern in Los Angeles after he bolted for Sirius Satellite Radio. The above stickers are from when the station was using the "Free FM" branding. In 2007 the station added the dreadful Danny Bonaduce to the morning show which stunk it up for an entire year. In protest, Carolla was a no-show on his own program until Bonaduce was moved to another timeslot. KLSX (KLaSiX-in reference to an earlier Classic Rock format) is licensed to Los Angeles, California.

Voice of America

The Voice of America is the official broadcasting wing of the United States government. They are currently heard in 46 languages but this varies depending on government priorities and the world situation. VOA broadcasts by satellite TV, AM, FM and shortwave frequencies as well as voanews.com

 

Dart on Map - KFFM

I've decided to occasionally throw a dart at a map of North America and display the closest station that I have a sticker from. Three throws landed in the Pacific Ocean before one finally landed on the Saddle Mountains of south central Washington state.
107.3 FM KFFM is a CHR station licensed to Yakima, Washington.

KFRX

KFRX is a long-time CHR station from Lincoln, Nebraska. Around 2006 they moved up the dial to 106.3 where they currently reside.