Sunday, January 11, 2015

KAPS




KAPS 660 AM plays Country music in Mount Vernon, Washington.

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Georgia Public Broadcasting

Georgia Public Broadcasting is a network of PBS television stations and National Public Radio member stations based in Atlanta, GA.  Nineteen radio stations provide statewide coverage except, ironically, in the Atlanta metro area which gets its NPR programming from non-GPB stations WABE and WCLK.

Friday, January 9, 2015

Radio Miami International

WRMI is a shortwave broadcaster based in Miami, Florida.  They went on the air in 1994, primarily targeting Latin America and the Caribbean.  In 2013 they purchased the facilities of WYFR in Okeechobee, FL which included a dozen 100,000 watt transmitters allowing them to reach Africa and Europe.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

WQNS

WQNS (Waynesville's Quiet New Sound--from a previous Easy Listening format) is a Rock station licensed to Woodfin, North Carolina.  This sticker dates back to 2003 when they were located at 104.9 FM licensed to Waynesville, NC.  They are now branded as "Rock 105.1" after moving to that frequency in January, 2014.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

KMMT

106.5 KMMT plays Modern Rock in Mammoth Lakes, California.  They're a locally owned, "ma and pa" station for residents and visitors to Mammoth Mountain, the tallest skiable peak in the state.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

CKGN

French-language, community station CKGN signed on the air in October, 1993 from Kapuskasing, Ontario.  In 2000 they added a 94.7 FM transmitter licensed to Smooth Rock Falls, ON.

Monday, January 5, 2015

KWIQ


100.3 KWIQ is a Country station licensed to Moses Lake, Washington.  The bottom sticker is unsurprisingly similar to co-owned Country station KKRV in Wenatchee, WA.

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Voice of Free China








The Voice of Free China was the international broadcasting outlet of the Republic of China from 1949 until 1998.  VFC was then renamed Radio Taipei International and also used the name Voice of Asia for some broadcasts.  Today they are known as Radio Taiwan International.

Saturday, January 3, 2015

2EAR

2EAR (2 Eurobodalla Access Radio) is a volunteer-run, community radio station based in Moruya, New South Wales, Australia.  They went on the air in 1981 and serves the residents of Eurobodalla Shire on the southeastern coast of the country.

Friday, January 2, 2015

WXUS

The 1980 Broadcasting Yearbook says WXUS in Lafayette, Indiana carried a Top-40 format.  An October, 1982 copy of Billboard had a story about the station's tower and transmitter being firebombed by angry listeners after flipping from Album Oriented Rock to Adult Contemporary.  Whatever the format was, one thing is clear:  That is one stupid looking, Barbapapa-reject station mascot.


Thursday, January 1, 2015

WOW

A rendition of the "The Star Spangled Banner" ushered Omaha, Nebraska's WOAW on the air on April 2, 1923.  When the call letters became available a few years later, the then 500-watt station became WOW (Woodmen Of the World.)  This sticker dates to when they carried a Country music format along with sister station 94.1 WOW-FM.
590 AM is currently KXSP, an all-Sports ESPN affiliate while 94.1 FM is Top-40 "Channel 94.1" KQCH.

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

WLRW



"Mix 94.5" WLRW is a Hot Adult Contemporary station in Champaign, Illinois.

Monday, December 29, 2014

WHLH

"Hallelujah 95.5" WHLH plays Gospel music in Jackson, Mississippi.


Sunday, December 28, 2014

WDBO



Two stickers and a balsa wood plane from AM 580 WDBO in Orlando, Florida.  It's unclear whether WDBO's call letters were simply assigned in sequential alphabetical order (after WDBN in Bangor, Maine and before WDBP in Superior, Wisconsin) or if they were requested and stood for "Way Down By Orlando."  WDBO began broadcasting in 1924 from Rollins College in Winter Park.  By 1991 music had been phased out completely from their programming and an all-Talk format took over anchored by Rush Limbaugh.  WDBO is currently an all-Sports ESPN Radio affiliate.

Saturday, December 27, 2014

KXPC

KXPC was a Country formatted station licensed to Lebanon, Oregon.  For financial and technical reasons they went off the air in 2009.  (Watch the tower fall below!)  Four years later, new owners moved the KXPC call letters to 97.9 FM where it eventually became KLVP, one of approximately ten bazillion Contemporary Christian "K-LOVE" affiliates.

Friday, December 26, 2014

KRYD

KRYD began in 1997 with a Classic Rock format featuring an expanded 10,000 song playlist.  They were locally owned by the Varecha family whose roots went back to the mid 1960s at freeform rock station KNAC in Los Angeles.  "The Ride" flipped to Adult Hits "Jack FM" in 2013.  104.9 KRYD is licensed to Norwood, Colorado while translator K224CS at 92.7 FM is licensed to Grand Junction, CO.

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Merry Christmas (Eve)! - CKWF

CKWF "101.5 The Wolf" is a Rock station licensed to Peterborough, Ontario.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

KKWY

KKWY was a Country music station licensed to Fox Farm, Wyoming from 1997 until 2005.  AM 1630 is currently a Regional Mexican station with the call letters KRND.

Monday, December 22, 2014

KDYL


AM 1060 KDYL in Salt Lake City, Utah carried both an Adult Standards and Oldies format...not sure which one was airing when they were using the Great Music-Great Memories" slogan.  The KDYL call letters go back to the beginning of radio in SLC when they went on the air in 1922 and they've lived on at least four different frequencies in that time.  This thread on a Utah radio message board circa 2013 says that KDYL switched to a News/Talk/Sports format operated by China Radio International. 

Sunday, December 21, 2014

CIBL



101.5 CIBL is a French-language, community radio station in Montréal, Quebec.  They began broadcasting on April 26, 1980.