Tuesday, February 20, 2018

KURL

KURL 93.3 FM is a Religious station in Billings, Montana.

I can only assume that KURL AM was a co-owned station when this 1994 sticker came out.  AM 730 is currently a News/Talk outlet with call letters KYYA.

Monday, February 19, 2018

WDIZ



100.3 WDIZ was a heritage Rock station in Orlando, Florida going back to the 1970s.

Sunday, February 18, 2018

CKKW

CKKW in Kitchener, Ontario went on the air at 1320 AM in 1959 before moving down the dial to 1090 in 1975.  The "Oldies 1090" branding began around 1993 and lasted until 2009 (with a brief detour as a Sports station in the early 2000s.)  In 2009, they converted to the FM band and began broadcasting at 99.5 with the AM signal going dark.

Saturday, February 17, 2018

KGRA

"Nova 104" KGRA was an Album Rock station in Lake Charles, Louisiana from 1976 to 1981.  Alongside mainstream Rock & Roll, the 100,000-watt station also played Progressive Rock, Folk and Alternative Country music.  This sticker dates to around the time when Delbert McClinton scored his biggest hit, "Giving It Up for Your Love", which reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.  The video below is choppy but I'm posting it because I still can't believe McClinton appeared on the super cheesy Solid Gold television show back in 1981.

Friday, February 16, 2018

WRBS



95.1 WRBS (W Reynolds Broadcasting Service--the original owners) has been a Religious/Contemporary Christian station in Baltimore, Maryland since 1964.

Thursday, February 15, 2018

More Z93s

KZOZ is a Classic Rock station in San Luis Obispo, California.  They were Top-40 when this 80s-era sticker was current.

 WCIZ plays Classic Hits in Watertown, New York


Amarillo Texas' KQIZ is currently a Rhythmic Top-40 known as "The Beat".  They were a mainstream CHR outlet when this sticker and t-shirt could be seen in Bomb City.

WJZQ is a 100,000-watt Top-40 station licensed to Cadillac, Michigan.  The JZ in the call letters is from a previous Jazz format.  They've been a CHR station since 2009.

Other "Z93"-branded station stickers can be seen hereHereHere.  And here.

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

KOHM


89.1 FM in Lubbock, Texas first went on the air as KLSD and was operated by the (K) Lubbock Independent School District.  It was soon decided that having LSD in your school-affiliated station was a bad idea so they switched call letters to KOHM about a year later.  The new calls were a nod to the school's electronics program (an ohm is a unit of electrical resistance).  In the late 1980s, KOHM was purchased by Texas Tech University who boosted their transmitter power and brought the now 70,000-watt station into the National Public Radio fold.  In 2012 they switched call letters to KTTZ while continuing to air Classical music and NPR programming.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

WWCK

Flint, Michigan's WWCK went on the air as a daytime Top-40/nighttime Rock station in 1971.  The call letters were chosen to take advantage of (and/or a tribute to) Windsor, Ontario's legendary CKLW.  By the mid-1970s they had gone full-time AOR and by the early 80s became the highest rated Rock station in the country and won a Billboard award for "Best Local Programming-All Markets".  Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore once had a Sunday morning talk show on WWCK called Radio Free Flint.  As of this writing, WWCK carries a CHR format as "CK105.5".

Check out this excellent documentary about the history of "Flint's Best Rock".

Monday, February 12, 2018

WLJC

The first Christian radio station on FM in the state of Kentucky, WLJC (Wonderful Lord Jesus Christ) went on the air in 1965.  Licensed to Beattyville, WLJC now broadcasts at 102.1 FM as part of the Air1 Radio network.

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Way-FM Network

The Way-FM Network is a set of Contemporary Christian stations heard in about a dozen states.  They began in 1987 with a single FM station, 88.7 WAYJ in Fort Myers, Florida.  They are currently based in Colorado Springs, Colorado with programming originating from Franklin, Tennessee.


KXWA - Loveland, Colorado

KYWA - Wichita, Kansas

WAYJ/W263BI - Naples/Fort Myers, Florida

Not really sure which Way-FM station this is from.  Could be WAYM in Spring Hill, Tennessee or WAYJ Fort Myers which was originally located at 88.7 FM (currently at 89.5 FM).

WAYF - West Palm Beach, Florida

K283BL - Portland, Oregon

 
K239AA - A disused translator station from Fayetteville, Tennessee circa the late 1990s.
 
Another defunct translator W217AN in Prospect, Tennessee.

Saturday, February 10, 2018

The Steve Cochran Show

Steve Cochran is currently the morning show host on Chicago's WGN.  This shirt probably dates to the 1980s or early 90s since it copies the classic Late Night with David Letterman script logo.  Hard to know what station Cochran worked at when this tee was current...his Wikipedia page says he worked at 14 radio stations in 10 cities between 1981 and 2007.

Friday, February 9, 2018

SWF



The television and radio operation Südwestfunk (Southwest Broadcasting Corporation) existed from 1946 until 1998 in the German states of Rheinland-Palatinate and Baden Württemberg.  SWF3 was the pop music radio station of the public broadcasting outlet and went on the air in January, 1975.  The station's mascot was the Black Forest moose.  SWF eventually merged with another broadcasting entity Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) to form the current Südwestrundfunk (SWR).

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Radio Rio

Google has turned up zilch about the existence of this station.  Somebody wrote Argentina on the back and that's all I know.  Anybody have any info on Radio Rio?

WYCE


88.1 WYCE (WYoming Community Education) is a non-profit, community radio station airing primarily Adult Album Alternative music.  The 10,000-watt station went on the air in 1983 and are licensed to Wyoming, Michigan, a suburb of Grand Rapids.  Another WYCE decal can be seen here.

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

WQRT

WQRT was a Rock station in Olean/Salamanca, New York from the late 1990s until 2006.  They are still known as "98 Rocks" although now with call letters WQRS.

Monday, February 5, 2018

WMVY




WMVY began in 1981 as a commercial station at 92.7 FM licensed to Tisbury, Massachusetts.  In 2013, the station was sold, became a repeater of Boston's WBUR and changed call letters to WBUA.  About 15 months later, WMVY re-emerged as a listener-supported, non-commercial outlet at 88.7 FM now licensed to Edgartown, MA.  Their 13,000-watt signal covers most of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket with Adult Album Alternative music.  As of this posting, there's a link on their website for free Blue Lobster WMVY bumper stickers via self-addressed stamped envelope.

Sunday, February 4, 2018

WJTO



730 AM WJTO (Where Jets Take Off--a reference to the the nearby Brunswick Naval Air Station) is an Adult Standards/Oldies station licensed to Bath, Maine.  The top sticker dates to a previous News Talk/Sports format.  Although commercially-licensed, WJTO plays no commercials and relies on listener donations to stay on the air.  The sole DJ is also the station's owner, Bob Bittner, who plays music from the 1930s to the 1980s as well as the occasional political commentary and public service announcement.  Bittner also owns WJIB in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

WESC


92.5 WESC (W Easley Seneca Clemson) is a 100,000-watt Country station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina.



Saturday, February 3, 2018

KTGR

A 1981 decal from 1580 KTGR in Columbia, Missouri back when they played Country music.  They still brand themselves as "Tiger Country" (a nod to the University of Missouri's mascot) although they now carry a Sports format.  Another KTGR sticker can be seen here.

Thursday, February 1, 2018

KISN


The KISN call letters existed in Salt Lake City, Utah for about 20 years, mostly as a female-leaning Adult Contemporary or Top-40 station.