KRVE

"96.1 The River" KRVE is an Adult Contemporary station licensed to Brusly, Louisiana near Baton Rouge.

KKRL

KKRL is a Hot Adult Contemporary station from Carroll, Iowa. This sticker is circa 1989.

OMG

"K-Wave" KWVV is an Adult Album Alternative station licensed to Homer, Alaska. 

 

107.9 KWVE is a Christian talk and music station licensed to San Clemente, California. 

"94.7 The Wave" KTWV is a hybrid Adult Contemporary/Smooth Jazz station from Los Angeles, California.

Johnny Appleseed Day

Today is Johnny Appleseed Day which celebrates the legendary nurseryman who walked around barefoot spreading apple seeds wherever he went. In 46 years John Chapman planted enough trees to cover over 100,000 square miles. His mission was to plant orchards so that pioneers would have something to sustain them as they moved west.

"Apple 96 FM" KKPL was a CHR station licensed to Opportunity, Washington circa 1986. 96.1 FM is currently Country "Kix 96" KIXZ.

KBSG

KBSG was an Oldies station licensed to Tacoma, Washington. They later became "B97.3" with a Classic Hits format but is currently News/Talk KIRO.

Mystery Sticker #18 SOLVED!

It's a mystery what station this sticker is from. I found three stations that are currently or formerly known as "Oldies 96.5" -- WOXL-Biltmore Forest, North Carolina ; WAZZ-Laurinburg, North Carolina and KJBL-Julesburg, Colorado. Any ideas?

UPDATE: It is, in fact, from WAZZ - Laurinburg, NC. Thanks Dan (and Phil)!

Radio L'Hospitalet

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat is a city near Barcelona in the Catalonian region of Spain. Beyond that, I know nothing about this station except that there appears to be current Radio L'Hospitalet at 96.3 FM.

Lakeland Radio

Lakeland Radio is a Hot Adult Contemporary/Adult Hits station broadcasting from Kendal in the North West region of England.

WASH

97.1 WASH-FM is an Adult Contemporary station from WASHington, DC.

WXLK

"K92" WXLK has been a Top-40 station in Roanoke, Virginia since New Year's Eve, 1979.

Market #1s - San Francisco - KCBS

KCBS (K Columbia Broadcasting System) is a News station licensed to San Francisco, California. KCBS first went on the air in 1921 but their history as an experimental radio station goes all the way back to 1909. They are the eighth oldest fully licensed station in the United States and the oldest in the Bay Area. In 1968 KCBS became one of the first all-news stations in the country. "All News 740" was the number one rated station in San Francisco in the latest radio ratings.

WQKC

WQKC was a Country station licensed to Seymour, Indiana.

WKQX

"Q101" WKQX is an Alternative station from Chicago, Illinois.

This sticker is circa 1986 when they morphed into a Hot Adult Contemporary format after having been an Album Rock station.

 

The logo on this "i101" decal dates to when WKQX had a Hot Adult Contemporary format circa 2012 to 2014.

Nebraska Public Radio

Today is Nebraska Admission Day. They became the 37th U.S. state on this date in 1867. 

Nebraska Educational Telecommunications is a network of public radio and television stations based in Lincoln. Nebraska Public Radio consists of 9 stations and 5 repeaters throughout the state. They carry National Public Radio programming along with News and Classical music.

National Tooth Fairy Day

Every February 28th is supposedly National Tooth Fairy Day.

The Secret Adventures of the Tooth Fairy was a two-minute comedic radio serial created by Dick Orkin in the early 1970s. 325 episodes were produced and eventually ran on over 2,500 radio stations worldwide.

This set of Tooth Fairy stickers was put out by 890 AM WLS (World's Largest Store-from when the station was owned by Sears) in Chicago, Illinois. Unfortunately, half of the stickers are missing but you can see the complete sheet here.

WEEZ

WEEZ was a Gospel station licensed to Laurel, Mississippi. 99.3 is currently the Classic Country station WHER.

Places I've Lived #6 - Dayton, Ohio

The final stop in the semi-regular Places I've Lived series finds me living in Dayton, Ohio. I moved here from Celina to attend Wright State University as a Geography major. After a couple of years figuring out that learning remote sensing and spatial analysis were going to be beyond my mental capabilities, I switched majors to Communications and started volunteering at the campus radio station. In 1993 my girlfriend at the time saw an ad in the paper looking for air talent at a new local radio station. I mailed in an audition tape, got an interview and somehow managed to land the night jock position at Dayton's first Alternative station "94-5 X-Rock" WZJX.

What had I gotten myself into?! I had no business working with actual radio professionals when my entire résumé consisted of doing a 3 hour weekly show on a 10-watt college station for a couple years. Oh well, too late to turn back now. I successfully faked my way through the nightly 7 pm-1 am time slot and did some minor production and promotions work all while going to school full time. Being the mid- 90s, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots were on heavy rotation as well as a little Aerosmith and Queen at the start to lure in listeners from the more mainstream WTUE.
After awhile word got out that the station was being sold. Already?! We had only been on the air a few months and barely had our first ratings book come out (which we did quite well in if I remember correctly.) They flipped to Oldies and predictably fired the staff. I spent one of my last shifts spinning about 40 different versions of "Louie Louie" which was their idea of a clever stunt to introduce "Dayton's Oldies" WDOL (W-Dull?)

A never game-used jersey for the X-rock Away Team.  I was told 76 was an odd choice--high numbers are apparently uncommon in baseball/softball.  I chose it in honor of this completely unrelated to anything guy.
My old business card. I took my middle name and added an S because my actual last name doesn't sound too good when said out loud. In fact it's often mistaken for someone coughing.

94.5 has since been gobbled up by Clear Channel Communications and later became CHR "Channel 94-5" WDKF. WZJX was licensed to Englewood, Ohio.

KXKT

"Kat 103.7" KXKT is a Country station serving Omaha, Nebraska and licensed to Glenwood, Iowa.

KPWR

"Power 106 FM" KPWR is a Hip Hop/Urban Contemporary station from Los Angeles, California.

KIJV

The 1980 Broadcasting Yearbook lists Huron, South Dakota's KIJV-AM as being an MOR station while the FM was Top-40. KIJV-AM is now an Oldies station but there no longer appears to be anything at 92.1 FM in the entire state.