Actual Sticker Sighting #12 - KRMS

I saw this sticker in the parking lot at Grant's Farm in St. Louis. KRMS (K Robert M. Smith-the original owner) is a News/Talk station licensed to Osage Beach, Missouri.

Gateway Arch / WARH

Today we spent a few hours in and around the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. The Arch stands 630 feet tall (as well as wide) and is the tallest man-made monument in the United States. It was built as a structural expression of westward expansion of the US and was completed in 1965.

To get to the top you have to crawl inside this bizarre little "egg pod."

Here's the view looking west into downtown St. Louis. The Mississippi River and Illinois is directly behind. On the left you can see part of Busch Stadium where U2 had played a few nights before. They were in the process of replacing 110,000 square feet of grass which was removed for the concert. The new sod had to be replaced and in playable condition for the St. Louis Cardinals return from a road trip in one week. Earlier, we watched an excellent and dead-on U2 tribute band at a plaza downtown.


At the north base of the Arch.

"106.5 The Arch" WARH is an Adult Hits station licensed to Granite City, Illinois, just outside St. Louis.

Another Arch-related radio sticker can be seen here.

Actual Sticker Sighting #11 - WDRT

I saw the above bumper sticker while driving to St. Louis on I-70 in Effingham, Illinois. WDRT ( W DRifTless Community Radio) is a non-commercial, volunteer run station licensed to Viroqua, Wisconsin. The Driftless Area is located primarily in southwestern Wisconsin but also includes parts of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. The term driftless refers to a lack of glacial drift, the material left behind by retreating glaciers.

Mystery Sticker #20

There was a KSJM "Power FM 97.5" in Tucson, Arizona circa the mid-1990s but I can't prove that this sticker is from there. Anybody? Anybody?

UPDATE:  See comments.

Radio Arabella

Radio Arabella is a network of pop music stations in Austria and Germany. The 94,0 frequency broadcast in Salzburg, Austria from 1998 to 2004 but has since been taken over by KroneHit. Here's a commercial for their main station in Vienna:

R.I.P. WRXP

New York City airwaves will soon lose an Alternative Rock station as WRXP (W Rock eXPerience) will likely flip to News/Talk after a little more than three years on the air. Last month Emmis Communications announced that they'd be selling "101.9RXP" along with Chicago stations WLUP and WKQX. As I'm writing this, WRXP's website still has the station streaming jockless and with commercials.

Radio PAC

Radio PAC broadcasts from Pompadour, France.

KSAJ

KSAJ (K Salina Abilene Junction City) is an Oldies station from Abilene, Kansas.

WXLQ

WXLQ was a Country station licensed to Gorham, New Hampshire. In 2000, WXLQ was sold to New Hampshire Public Radio and now has the call letters WEVC.

WQLH

WQLH (W Quality Light Hits) was a Light Adult Contemporary station from Green Bay, Wisconsin. 98.5 FM currently airs a more upbeat Hot AC format known as "Star 98."

WKRC

550 AM WKRC (W Kodel Radio Company--the original owners) is a News/Talk station from Cincinnati, Ohio.  They are one of the oldest radio stations in the state having gone on the air in 1924.

WEFT

90.1 FM WEFT is a non-commercial, community radio station in Champaign, Illinois.

KXKZ

KXKZ is a Country station licensed to Ruston, Louisiana. They've dropped the "Kix" branding and now call themselves "Z 107.5"

KQAA

KQAA "Kool 95" was an Oldies station licensed to Aberdeen, South Dakota. 94.9 FM is currently KLRJ, one of a million or so stations in the Christian K-LOVE radio network.

Radio in the Movies #5 - "A Prairie Home Companion"

"A Prairie Home Companion" is a backstage look at the last performance of a long-running radio variety show. It stars Garrison Keillor as himself along with a large ensemble cast including Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen and Tommy Lee Jones. The fictional APHC has run on WLT radio (With Lettuce and Tomato) for 30 years but an oily businessman has bought the theatre with plans on shutting down the show. The security guard narrates the story and becomes attracted to a mysterious woman in a white trench coat.  There’s also music—lots and lots of music--all of it fitting into the standard APHC repertoire of folk, bluegrass, standards, country and gospel. Harrelson and Reilly play singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty while Streep and Tomlin play the duo the Johnson Sisters. All the actors sang their own songs and played their own instruments. I’m not a huge fan of this type of music but the characters and Keillor’s charm and impeccable voice made it worth watching….once. This was the last film directed by Robert Altman who died about 5 months after it was released.

The two sides of a Guy Noir t-shirt.  Guy Noir is a private detective regularly featured on A Prairie Home Companion and portrayed by Kevin Kline in the movie.


The actual A Prairie Home Companion radio show first aired on Minnesota Public Radio in 1974. It still broadcasts live Saturday nights from the Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul on almost 600 public radio stations.

KSJN is the flagship station of Minnesota Public Radio's classical music network. Before 1991, 99.5 FM was best known in Minneapolis for being the home of WLOL, a top-rated CHR station.  KSJN's previous home on the dial was at 91.1 FM.

KSJN had a sister station at 1330 AM from 1980 to 1989.

KIKI-AM

KIKI was a Top-40 station in Honolulu, Hawaii. 830 AM is now home to News/Talk KHVH.

KIKI carried a Country format circa 1997 and had also moved to 990 AM. KIKI now carries a News/Talk format.

Happy Independence Day!

WBZ is a News/Talk station from Boston, Massachusetts. CBSBoston.com claims that on September 15th, 1921, WBZ became "the first station licensed as a "commecial" radio station," when it was located in East Springfield, MA.

CKDO

CKDO (CK Durham and Ontario Counties) is an Oldies station licensed to Oshawa, Ontario.

Actual Sticker Sighting #10 - WRCM

I saw this magnet on a car with South Carolina plates while getting on I-70 today. "New Life 91.9" WRCM (W Robertson C. McQuiken) is a Contemporary Christian station licensed to Wingate, North Carolina near Charlotte. WRCM went on the air in 1993 and is owned by Columbia International University who McQuicken was the first president of (when it was known as Columbia Bible College.)

CKNX

AM 920 CKNX broadcasts Country music as well as News/Talk programming from Wingham, Ontario. They first went on the air in 1935 at 1200 AM.

CKNX FM went on the air 42 years later and airs a Hot Adult Contemporary format known as "101.7 The One."

Happy Canada Day everybody!