A daily look into one of the world's largest collections of radio station bumper stickers and memorabilia.
Friday, July 5, 2019
WGTB
WGTB is a student-run, internet-only radio station at Washington DC's Georgetown University. Radio at GU began on the AM dial in 1946 "to air the Latin Mass to shut-ins and anti-Communist theatrical plays." In the 1970s WGTB was a famously left-leaning outlet for underground music as well as feminist and gay talk shows that often clashed with the school's own administration. The signal was eventually sold to the University of the District of Columbia for one dollar. Campus radio returned in 1982 with carrier-current station WROX which then brought back the WGTB call letters in 1985. Internet broadcasting began in 1996 and by 2001 WGTB broadcasts were heard exclusively online.
Radical Silence: The Story of WGTB-FM from Static Productions on Vimeo.
Thursday, July 4, 2019
Radio Match
Radio Match began broadcasting in Jonkoping, Sweden in 1994. They would eventually be heard on seven other frequencies in the southern part of the country until ceasing to exist in 2006.
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Vallenata 99.4
La Vallenata broadcast to multiple cities in Colombia from around 2000 until approximately 2017. The 99.4 FM frequency was for Medellin although they were on other frequencies in that city at times and may not have existed there for the entire 17 years. Vallenato (literally translated as "born in the valley") is a popular folk music that uses the accordion as one of its main instruments.
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
WTTP
A 1985 sticker from WTTP in Boston, Massachusetts. The Wikipedia page for the current station at 1060 AM says that they were a Talk station while the 1985 Broadcasting Yearbook lists their format as Mass Appeal--whatever that is. WTTP was licensed to Natick, MA.
Monday, July 1, 2019
Sunday, June 30, 2019
WKIX
A 1979 sticker from Top-40 station 850 AM WKIX in Raleigh, North Carolina. They carried that format from 1958 until switching to Country in the early 1980s.
Saturday, June 29, 2019
Friday, June 28, 2019
Thursday, June 27, 2019
The Light Radio Network
The Light Radio Network consists of five stations and four translators located throughout Vermont. They carry a Religious talk and music format.
WGLY - Bolton, Vermont
WGLV - Woodstock, Vermont
W242AG - Quechee, Vermont
W243AE - Orleans, Vermont
WCMK - Putney, Vermont
WCKJ - St. Johnsbury, Vermont
W216CB - Ascutney, Vermont
WGLY - Bolton, Vermont
WGLV - Woodstock, Vermont
W242AG - Quechee, Vermont
W243AE - Orleans, Vermont
WCMK - Putney, Vermont
WCKJ - St. Johnsbury, Vermont
W216CB - Ascutney, Vermont
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
WBZT
"96.7 The Buzzard" WBZT was a Rock station licensed to Mauldin, South Carolina circa the early-to-mid 2000s.
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
KREO
The KREO call letters existed in Santa Rosa, California from 1979 until 1989, most of that time as a Top-40 station.
Monday, June 24, 2019
Sunday, June 23, 2019
KEQP
106.9 KEQP was a low-power FM Religious station in Modesto, California. They went off the air for unknown reasons in 2012.
KEEH
"Shine 104.9" KEEH is a Contemporary Christian station in Spokane, Washinton.
They are also heard at 94.9 FM on translator station K235CP licensed to Couer d'Alene, Idaho.
They are also heard at 94.9 FM on translator station K235CP licensed to Couer d'Alene, Idaho.
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Friday, June 21, 2019
Stars
"Star 99.9" WEZN - Bridgeport, Connecticut
"Star 102.7" KSL - Midvale/Salt Lake City, Utah
"Star Radio 97 FM" KSRR - Houston, Texas
"Star 102" KSRC - Kansas City, Missouri
"Star 102.7" KSL - Midvale/Salt Lake City, Utah
"Star Radio 97 FM" KSRR - Houston, Texas
"Star 102" KSRC - Kansas City, Missouri
Thursday, June 20, 2019
WROS
1330 WROS once existed on the airwaves in Scottsboro, Alabama. I pulled up a Broadcasting Yearbook from 1976 (I guessed at the year) and they listed them as having a MOR/Country& Western/Rock format. I guess bums on radio stickers was a thing back in the 70s.
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Highway Sign Stickers
The shield shape used in the top two stickers are used on the Interstate Highway System. The bottom two decals show shield shapes used on U.S. Routes aka Federal Highways.
KUSS - Carlsbad/San Diego, California
KAMO - Rogers/Fayetteville, Arkansas
KUSO - Albion, Nebraska
WKBQ - Covington/Memphis, Tennessee
KUSS - Carlsbad/San Diego, California
KAMO - Rogers/Fayetteville, Arkansas
KUSO - Albion, Nebraska
WKBQ - Covington/Memphis, Tennessee
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
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