Alaska Day 1 - KHAR

Today we packed up the radio sticker suitcase and flew from Dayton to Dallas to Anchorage to begin our Alaska land tour and cruise.  After a long day of travel it was nice to finally make it to our lodging for the night The Hotel Captain Cook.  After unwinding for a bit we decided to take a trolley tour of Anchorage to learn some of the history of the area much of which is centered around a devastating 9.2 magnitude megathrust earthquake which lasted over 4-and-a-half minutes.  We then headed to dinner at around 8PM which to our east coast bodies felt like midnight.

For the next 10 days or so I'll be posting radio stickers from Alaska--not necessarily from the exact location where we traveled but from somewhere in this giant state.

590 AM KHAR went on the air in Anchorage, Alaska in January 1961.

WUGA

91.7 FM WUGA is operated by the (W) University of GeorgiA and licensed to Athens, GA.  They went on the air in 1987 and air a mix of public radio Talk and News along with Classical, Jazz and Folk music.  The 97.9 FM translator is no longer used but instead they can be heard on 235-watt translator W233CA at 94.5 FM.
 

WPLO

590 AM WPLO (W PLOugh Broadcasting Company) broadcast in Atlanta, Georgia from 1959 until 1987.  They were a Top-40 station at first and then flipped to Country in 1966.  The WPLO call letters still reside in Atlanta at Spanish station "La Bonita 610 AM"
 

WMBH

1450 AM WMBH is a Sports station in Joplin, Missouri.
 

WHSH

WHSH was an Oldies and later Beautiful Music station in Albany, New York.  They were on the air from 1973 until 1980 when they bacame WPYX.
 

WDOD

WDOD "96.5 The Mountain" was a Classic Rock-leaning Adult Album Alternative station in Chattanooga, Tennessee circa the late 1990s/early 2000s.  The call letters reflect the city's nickname "The Dynamo Of Dixie."
 

WARM

WARM has been on the air in Scranton, Pennsylvania since 1940 originally at 1400 AM and now 590 AM.  They were a popular Top-40 station for many years known as "The Mighty 590."  This early 1990s sticker is from when they were an Adult Contemporary/MOR station.  They currently air a Classic Country format branded as "Bigfoot Legends"
 

KICT

KICT flipped from Country to Rock in 1979 and has carried a Rock-based format ever since.  In the late 90s "T-95" carried some form of Alternative Rock and are now an Active Rock outlet.  The 100,000-watt station is licensed to Wichita, Kansas.
 

KTNF

AM 950 KTNF is a left-leaning Talk station in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  In the mid-to-late 2000s they were part of the progressive Air America radio network.
 

KPEZ

102.3 FM KPEZ was a Rock station in Austin, Texas from the late 1980s until 2005.  "Channel 102.3" was a mix of Classic Rock and Adult Album Alternative music.  The EZ in their call letters refers to an Easy Listening format they carried in the early 1980s.
 

KLLB

KLLB "KB101 Rock Deluxe" was a short-lived mix of Rock and Top-40 that aired circa 1979-1980 in Portland, Oregon.
 

WIXX

101.1 FM WIXX flipped from Rock to Top-40 in 1977 and have been at or near the top of the ratings ever since.  Their 100,000-watt signal covers east/central Wisconsin including Green Bay, Oshkosh and Appleton.  WIXX is highly regarded by radio nerds (like me) not only for their success over many decades but because they are actually staffed on-air around the clock--a total rarity in the industry.  Supposedly their call letters were originally going to be WIZZ which made a humorous combination of "gee whiz" with their sister-station WGEE.  The WIZZ call letters were already taken to they went with WIXX instead.  I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure their logo hasn't changed since the late 70s.  Please WIXX, don't ever change.
 

KEZE

KEZE "Wired 96.9" was a Rhythmic Contemporary station in Spokane, Washington circa the mid-2000s.  Other KEZE stickers can be seen here.  And here.
 

CKOO

1240 AM CKOO went on the air in 1966 in the Okanagan region of southern British Columbia.  They later added a rebroadcaster at 1490 AM.  In the early 1990s they changed call letters to CJOR and are currently branded as "Bounce 1240."  CKOO was licensed to Osoyoos, BC.
 

BOB FMs

KSRV - Ontario, Oregon

K295AV - Kennewick, Washington

K283BU - Walla Walla, Washington

 

K232AM - China Lake, California

 

KPOD AM & FM

KPOD AM and FM are licensed to Crescent City, California near the Oregon border.  1240 AM currently airs a News/Talk/Sports format while 97.9 FM is a Country outlet.
 

WVNI

"Spirit 95" WVNI is a Contemporary Christian station in Bloomington, Indiana.
 

GEM AM

GEM AM began in 1988 broadcasting to much of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, East Staffordshire and Rutland in central England.  Their name stood for Great East Midlands, the region where most of their listeners lived.  GEM AM was absorbed into the Classic Gold network in the mid-1990s.  In 2012 Solid Gold Gem, a commercial-free online version of the original GEM AM, launched with many of the original DJs.
 

CHMA

106.9 FM CHMA is a campus and community radio broadcasting from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.
 

KUR

KUR is the student-run radio station at Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.  They are able to broadcast unlicensed at 1670 AM and 89.7 FM at very low power as part of the FCC's Part 15 regulations.