KKRQ

KKRQ "100.7 The Fox" is a Classic Hits station from Iowa City, Iowa.

KBSN

AM 1470 KBSN is a News/Talk station licensed to Moses Lake, Washington. "Working together for a beautiful body?" That's almost as weird/creepy as this sticker slogan.

Controradio

Controradio was founded in 1975 and broadcasts from Florence, Italy.

Crap From the Past and KFAI

KFAI (K Fresh Air, Inc.--the nonprofit organization that owns the station) is a community broadcaster from Minneapolis, Minnesota which is staffed mostly by volunteers. They employ a block formatted schedule with a wide variety of eclectic programming. My favorite show on KFAI by far is Crap From the Past which can be heard Friday nights at 10:30 local time. Hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber, CFTP is "a pop music radio show for people who already know plenty about pop music." As taken from the introduction to each show, this would include such things as "funk, rock, Peter Gabriel singing in German, soul, old-school rap, ABBA singing in Spanish, glam, hair metal, Milli Vanilli singing in English, and, of course, disco." Themed shows have included songs with especially good bridges, songs that spent exactly one week on the Billboard Top 40 and songs that involve telephones (a two-parter!) It's weird, wonderful stuff and the best part is that every show has been archived all the way back to 1999 (with some internet-only and pre-KFAI shows dating back to 1992.) As a child of the eighties who used to listen to Casey Kasem religiously but was far more interested in the songs that barely flirted with the charts, this show is right in my wheelhouse. Gerber and I both lived in western New York around the same time and had a healthy appreciation for CFNY and Toronto record stores so maybe there's some kind of cosmic musical connection....all I know is I LOVE THIS SHOW! It's a graduate level course in pop music. Start earning your degree now! 

EDIT:  In the late summer of 2020 I received a radio ratings diary.  I don't know what Nielsen does, if anything, when people record out-of-town stations but it's certainly not helping Dayton radio when I list a Minneapolis station.  I also wonder what they do with the comments.  Are they given to stations as part of the benefits of subscribing?  KFAI is non-commercial so I doubt that they were informed of my comment about one of their shows.

4AAA

4AAA plays a mixture of Country and Indigenous music in Brisbane, Australia. I like the clever use of boomerangs to form the call letters in the bottom sticker. Looking at their website, it appears they've dropped use of the calls in their imaging entirely.

Mystery Sticker #19

Anybody know what station this K-FOX sticker is from? Is it an earlier decal from these guys?

KRLC

Lewiston Idaho's KRLC plays Classic Country mixed with Bluegrass, Western and Gospel.

WXLO

WXLO is a Hot Adult Contemporary station licensed to Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The call letters were chosen as a tribute to New York City's WXLO which existed from 1972 to 1981.

WQKT

104.5 FM WQKT is a Country station licensed to Wooster, Ohio. They also broadcast all of Cleveland's professional sports teams, Ohio State and The College of Wooster football and basketball games and local high school sports.  They are now branded as "104.5 The River"

Alices

"Alice@100.5" WALC was a Modern Adult Contemporary station (later shifting to Hot AC) from Charleston, South Carolina. 100.5 FM is currently part of the Contemporary Christian "HIS FM" network.

"Alice @102.7" KALZ is a Hot Adult Contemporary station from Fresno, California. In 2006 they moved down the dial to 96.7 FM and are now licensed to Fowler, CA.

"Alice 105.9" KALC airs an Adult Top-40 format in Denver, Colorado. They were the first station to be dubbed as "Alice" in 1994, perhaps starting a semi-interesting trend of "people-named" radio stations like Jack, Joe, Bob, Ben, Bill, Doug and Hank.

WKQZ

"Z93" WKQZ is an Active Rock station licensed to Midland, Michigan.

Happy Mother's Day!

WMOM is a hybrid Top-40/Alternative station licensed to Pentwater, Michigan. Always listen to your mom!

WEFM

WEFM (W Eugene F. McDonald--an executive at the Zenith Radio Corporation) was a Top-40 station in Chicago, Illinois from 1978 to 1982. Prior to this they were a Classical station and the second station in the United States to broadcast in FM stereo. 99.5 FM is currently Country WUSN.

KXKX

"Kix 105" KXKX is a Country station licensed to the oddly named Knob Noster, Missouri. The town's name came from two local hills, or "knobs," that appear in an otherwise flat part of the state. Combined with "noster," which is Latin for "our," and the town's name is essentially "Our Hill."

KPYK

KPYK is a Big Band/Adult Standards station licensed to Terrell, Texas.

Pope John Paul II Beatified

Last Sunday, Pope John Paul II was beatified in a ceremony held at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. Beatification declares that a person be "blessed" and is the last step to becoming a full blown saint. For sainthood to take place, a miracle must have been performed and it is said that John Paul cured a nun of Parkinson's disease. I'm not a Catholic so I find all this beatification a bit baffling.

This sticker came out when the Pope visited St. Louis, Missouri in January, 1999. It was John Paul's last visit to the US before his death in 2005. Over 104,000 people attended Mass at the Trans World Dome which set a record for the largest indoor gathering ever in the United States. KSHE is a Rock station licensed to Crestwood, MO. Sweetmeat is the station's longtime pig mascot.

Radio Vaticana broadcasts in 47 languages on shortwave, mediumwave, FM, satellite and the internet. Their first broadcast was in February, 1931 and was attended by Guglielmo Marconi, who "invented" radio. In 2009, they began airing commercials for the first time in order to meet rising costs. Vatican Radio programming includes news, religious ceremonies and music.

KIKI-FM

KIKI was a Rhythmic Top-40 station from Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2010 they became KHJZ, a Rhythmic Adult Contemporary station known as "93.9 Jamz."

KABC

KABC (K American Broadcasting Company) is a News/Talk station from Los Angeles, California. Their history dates back to 1925 when they went on the air as KVFV. They switched calls to KABC in 1954 and became one of the first "all-talk" stations in the country in 1960. 790 AM is also the flagship station of the Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Network, whose games have been voiced by the incomparable Vin Scully since 1950.

Bonus! Guest Contributer Sticker - KWTX

Today marks the 65th anniversary of AM 1230 KWTX in Waco, Texas. Former KWTX DJ/announcer Mike Braun worked there from 1975-1979 and is the owner of what might be the only existing KWTX sticker from that time period. Here's Mike with a brief station history...

**** Radio station KWTX-AM celebrates 65 years of serving Waco and Central Texas ****

KWTX radio, Waco, Texas, was founded by Beauford Jester and a group of Waco businessmen. Jester would later become Texas governor.

An application for the station was made in 1941, but the start of World War II imposed equipment and construction restrictions across the United States, delaying the station's approval and completion for five years.

KWTX radio's inaugural broadcast was May 1, 1946, at "1-2-3 on your dial" (1230 kc) from a studio in downtown Waco. The station aired a mix of music, news, sports and drama, and was affiliated with the Mutual radio network.

The station moved to a new facility on Bosque Boulevard in the early '50s. The building would become known as Broadcast Center, sharing space with KWTX-TV (Channel 10) in 1955 and KWTX-FM (97.5) 1970.

Twenty-eight-year-old M.N. "Buddy" Bostick was the station manager when KWTX-AM first began broadcasting. Mr. Bostick would later become president of KWTX Broadcasting Company. The ownership group would put KWTX-TV (Channel 10) on the air in 1955, followed by KBTX-TV, Bryan-College Station (Channel 3) in 1957, along with the purchase of KXII-TV, Ardmore, Oklahoma (Channel 12). The company acquired KNAL radio, Victoria, Texas, in 1959 and KLFY-TV, Lafayette, Louisiana, in 1965. KWTX-FM, Waco (97.5) would go on the air in 1970.

KWTX-AM programmed an adult middle-of-the-road music format with a mix of news, weather and sports until it switched to news/talk in 1996.

KWTX-AM and FM were sold to GulfStar Communications in 1996, ending Mr. Bostick's 50-year relationship with KWTX radio. The stations are now owned by Clear Channel Communications. The radio stations are located at 314 West State Hwy. 6., Waco. KWTX-TV was sold to Gray Communications in 1999. The TV station is located at 6700 American Plaza, Waco.

Today FM

A sheet of mini-stickers from Today FM based in Dublin, Ireland. Today FM plays contemporary music mixed with news and current affairs and broadcasts throughout the country. They first went on the air on Saint Patrick's Day 1997.