WJOB

I had never heard of Jan C. Gabriel until yesterday but his trademark "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" exclamation in radio and TV commercials for drag strips and speedways are almost an American institution.

        The "echoing Sunday" bit is still used all the time, often in parodies but mostly in Monster Truck Rally voiceovers (along with another favorite, "You'll pay for the entire seat...but you'll only need the edge!") Gabriel died this past Sunday (Sunday! Sunday!....sorry) of kidney disease at the age of 69. His credits include a long list of Chicago-area media work as well as the president of an advertising agency. In the early 1960s, Gabriel was a DJ at WJOB in northwestern Indiana.

 
Here's a miniature Weatherline sticker from WJOB:
WJOB is a News/Talk/Sports station licensed to Hammond, Indiana.

Dart on Map - WNBI & WCQM

As regular RSotD readers (all six of you) know, I occasionally throw a virtual dart at a map and find the radio station closest to the landing spot that I have a sticker from. The dart this time landed in northern Wisconsin between the Flambeau River State Forest and the Chequamegon National Forest near the town of Draper (population 171.)



WNBI in nearby Park Falls is currently a Sports station affiliated with ESPN Radio. Not sure what the format was when this 1970s-era sticker came out. WNBI FM became WCQM in 1991.

WCQM is a Country music station also licensed to Park Falls, Wisconsin.

KAAY

KAAY began in the early 1960s as a clear-channel Top-40 station in Little Rock, Arkansas. The night signal of "The Mighty Ten Ninety" reached from Manitoba in the north to Cuba in the south.
In the late 1960s, at 11 PM each night, KAAY dropped the Top-40 format and aired three hours of "underground" rock music on the show Beaker Street hosted by Clyde Clifford. This show pre-dated the 1970s rise of FM album-oriented and progressive rock stations. Clifford did his program at the transmitter site rather than KAAY's downtown studios as he was also the overnight broadcast engineer. He played sound effects and instrumental music between songs to mask the noise of the transmitter. Beaker Street lived on with various hosts at various stations and continues to this day--Sunday nights at 7 on Classic Rock KKPT "The Point 94.1"
In 1985 KAAY became a Southern Gospel station and later transitioned to Contemporary Christian. Today they're the most powerful Religious station in the United States pumping out Christian Talk with 50,000 watts 24 hours a day.

Sunday Sticker - KIHM

KIHM a Religious station licensed to Reno, Nevada. They're one of a couple dozen stations in the Immaculate Heart Radio network mostly located in California and New Mexico.

Blanchard's Balloon

On this date in 1793, Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard made the first balloon ascent in North America. He took off in his hydrogen-filled craft from a prison yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which, at the time, was the capital of the United States. George Washington witnessed the launch and gave the non-English speaking Blanchard a letter that would introduce him wherever he landed (which ended up being Deptford Township, New Jersey.) This effectively was the first American airmail delivery. In 1809 Blanchard had a heart attack while up in a balloon in the Netherlands. He fell out and died a few weeks later from the severe injuries. His wife Sophie died 10 years later while ballooning in Paris, the victim of a combination of highly-flamable hydrogen and fireworks. Tampa, Florida’s WRBQ used this balloon sticker in the mid-1980s. Q105 had been a longtime CHR station in the Tampa Bay area and still uses the same logo to this day, although they now carry a Classic Hits format. Here's a couple more WRBQ stickers: 

circa 2017

circa 1990This looks like it might date from the early 1980s or even late 1970s, perhaps when they were still a Rock station.

WEJM

WEJM was an R&B Oldies station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1999 to 2001. "Jammin' Gold 95.7" then became "Mix 95.7" WMWX and is currently an Adult Hits outlet "Ben FM" WBEN.

BCS National Championship Game - Alabama vs Texas

Tonight is the championship game of college football's horribly flawed Bowl Championship Series. The University of Alabama Crimson Tide take on the Longhorns of the University of Texas at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. I couldn't care less who wins but I'll root for Alabama because they haven't won it all since 1992 and UT last won in 2006.

KUT is a public radio station owned and operated by the University of Texas at Austin.


WVUA is the Voice of the University of Alabama. They carry an Alternative Rock format and are now known as "90.7 The Capstone."

WNCL

WNCL "Cool 101.3" is a Classic Hits station licensed to Milford, Delaware.

Radio in the Movies #3 - "Power 98"

"Power 98" is a laughably bad, not-so-thrilling thriller starring Eric Roberts, Jason Gedrick and Jennie Garth. Roberts plays Karlin Pickett, a Los Angeles talk radio shock jock who brings in big ratings with sub-Howard Stern antics like strip poker, Rate-The-Butt and lots of sex talk. Then women start dying and the alleged killer starts calling the station. The ratings shoot even higher as the police search for clues. All the while, his sidekick Jon Price (Gedrick) lets the success of the show go to his head and he neglects his girlfriend Sharon Penn (Garth.)
This movie is a real low-budget piece of crap. The guns-drawn showdown at the end even employs the old movie cliché where a character who thinks he's going to get away with his crime confesses to everything not knowing that he's being recorded on a wire taped to a guy's chest. If you're into bad movies, try to dig up this clunker on VHS (there's no way this ever made it to DVD.)

At the beginning of the movie Robert's character is working at KPHX in Phoenix who are also thanked in the credits (possibly for the tower shots at the beginning and end of the film.)


KPHX is a Liberal Talk station in PHoeniX, Arizona. They were a News station until 1974 at which point they flipped to Spanish and remained with that format for almost thirty years. Since then they've tried Comedy and Adult Standards before settling on Progressive Talk.

I only have one sticker from a station using the branding "Power 98."

KZGZ is a Rhythmic Contemporary (i.e. Hip Hop and R&B) station licensed to Agana, Guam.

KKRV

KKRV has been a Country music station in Wenatchee, Washington since 1994. I just now noticed the two different frequencies on these stickers. KKRV currently lives at 104.7 FM.

WBJB

WBJB (W Brookdale Jersey Blues-the nickname of the Revolutionary War-era 1st New Jersey Regiment as well as Brookdale Community College's athletic teams) is a member-supported public radio station licensed to Lincroft, New Jersey. Since going on the air in 1975, WBJB had been mostly a Jazz station along with NPR programming but in 2000 they switched to an Adult Album Alternative format known as "The Night."

WWBX

"Mix 97.1" was a Hot AC station in Bangor, Maine in the mid-1990s. WWBX flipped to Top-40 as "B97" in 1998 and is currently WAEI, a simulcast of Boston Sports Talk giant WEEI.

Happy (K)New Year!

KNEW is a Talk Radio station licensed to Oakland, California. This late-1990s sticker is from when they carried a satellite-fed Country format.  More KNEW stickers can be seen here.

WSPR

WSPR is a Spanish/Tropical station from Springfield, Massachusetts. They carried an MOR format when this 1970s-era sticker was printed. WSPR began in 1961 as a Top-40 station and later had a Sports Talk format.

KBIU

KBIU ("K-Bayou") seems to have had a few formats after switching from AOR as "Nova 104" KGRA in 1981. I've found aircheck websites listing them variously as Top-40, Rock 40, Classic Rock and Hot AC. KBIU was located at 103.7 FM and licensed to Lake Charles, Louisiana. KBIU is currently a Jack FM Adult Hits station at 103.3 FM with the same city of license.

CHBE

CHBE is a Hot AC station from Victoria, British Columbia. They dropped the "B107.3" branding in 2004 and are now known as "107.3 Kool FM."

States on Stickers #4

KWMT is a Country music station in Fort Dodge, Iowa. I'm not sure if they're still an affiliate of the satellite-fed Real Country network as their website is currently under construction.

Today is Iowa Admission Day. Iowa became the 29th U.S. state on this date in 1846.

Sunday Sticker - KHYM

KHYM is a Religious Teaching/Gospel station licensed to Copeland, Kansas. Their programming is also heard on 4 translators in Kansas and Oklahoma.

Boxing Day

The day after Christmas is Boxing Day which is a public holiday in many countries. Traditionally, it is a day to open the "Christmas Box" and share its contents with the poor and less fortunate. Sometimes workers such as mail carriers and paperboys will receive money from households or employees might get a Christmas bonus from their bosses. In some places Boxing Day has become a huge shopping day similar to the day after Thanksgiving in the United States. America doesn't celebrate Boxing Day because we hate poor people it's a British thing and we wouldn't understand.

"97.9 The Box" KBXX is a Mainstream Urban/Hip-Hop in Houston, Texas.

Hey! Radio Sticker of the Day turns one year old today! A different daily radio sticker without missing a single day (OK, that's a lie. Somehow I skipped December 21st...must have been delirious from working a crapload of overtime and forgot.) On we go to year number two!

Merry Christmas!!

This tough-to-see white-on-clear decal (click it to barely see it better) is from WAKW in Cincinnati, Ohio. "Star 93.3 FM" was the first station in the country to go to an all-Christmas format this year which they did way back on October 27th. WAKW is normally a Christian Contemporary station but they mixed secular tunes together with religious holiday songs in their two-month slog towards the Big Day. The 24/7 Xmas music is usually a ratings booster for stations across the country.

A few older WAKW stickers: