Thursday, May 29, 2025

WWWE




1100 AM in Cleveland, Ohio carried the WWWE call letters from 1972 to 1996.  They originally aired a mix of MOR music and Sports but moving to full-time News/Talk/Sports in the mid-1980s.  The 1100 AM frequency is currently home to News/Talk station WTAM.
 

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

WRES

100.7 FM WRES airs Jazz, Gospel and Urban Contemporary music aimed at African-American listeners in Asheville, North Carolina.  The 94-watt, low-power FM station went on the air in 2004.
 

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

WNGC


WNGC in Athens, Georgia was on the air at 95.5 FM from 1968 to 1999.  (W) North Georgia Country now broadcasts at 106.1 FM and is licensed to Arcade, GA.
 

Monday, May 26, 2025

WKDE



1000 AM WKDE was on the air in Altavista, Virginia from 1962 to 2018, most, if not all of those years, as a Country station.  The frequency is currently home to Oldies outlet WGVY.  Sister station 105.5 FM WKDE began in 1969 and plays Classic Country.
 

Sunday, May 25, 2025

WFKZ

"Sun 103.1" WFKZ is a 100,000-watt Classic Rock station licensed to Plantation Key, Florida.
 

Saturday, May 24, 2025

WCEV

1450 AM WCEV was a time brokered Ethnic station licensed to Cicero, Illinois.  They shared the frequency with WXOL with WCEV on the air from 1PM to 10 PM on weekdays and WXOL filling all the remaining hours.  WCEV went off the air in January 2020 after more than 40 years of broadcasting.

Friday, May 23, 2025

KYSN



97.7 FM KYSN has been a Country station in Wenatchee, Washington since the mid-1980s.
 

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

KROF



AM 960 KROF began as a daytime-only outlet in Abbeville, Louisiana in 1948.  Their call letters stood for the three main exports of Vermilion Parish at the time (K) Rice, Oil and Furs.  A sister station at 104.9 FM went on the air in 1974 and would occasionally simulcast with their AM half.  Formats over the years included Top-40, Country, Classic Country, Oldies and Cajun (broadcast entirely in French!)  KROF-AM is a News/Talk station while the FM half moved up a notch to 105.1 and now has the call letters KFTE.
 

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

KNNN


KNNN "Mix 99.3 FM" was a Top-40 station in Redding, California.
 

KJJR

880 AM KJJR is a News/Talk station in Kalispell, Montana.  They went on the air in 1979 at their original frequency of 1400 AM with a mix of Top-40, Oldies and Classic Country.  Their call letters are an homage to KJR in Seattle.  KJJR is also heard on an FM translator licensed to Whitefish, MT.
 

KCNL





104.9 FM KCNL was on the air in San Jose, California from 1999 to 2012 (except for a brief 10 day period with the call letters KMJO in 2005.)  Many of those years were spent as an Alternative Rock station and also as a Spanish outlet as "Enamorada 104.9" circa the mid 2000s.  In 2012 KCNL was sold to the University of Southern California.  The frequency currently airs Classical music with the call letters KXSC, a simulcast of San Francisco's KDFC.
 

Sunday, May 18, 2025

CKRY







105.1 FM CKRY has been a Country station in Calgary, Alberta since signing on the air in July 1982.

Saturday, May 17, 2025

WUSY



100.7 FM WUSY plays Country music in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Friday, May 16, 2025

WPRJ

101.7 FM WPRJ was a Contemporary Christian station licensed to Coleman, Michigan.  They flipped to a Christian CHR format in the early 2000s and are now a repeater signal of the Columbus, Ohio-based Radio U which plays Christian Rock.
 

Thursday, May 15, 2025

WCIC



91.5 FM WCIC is a Contemporary Christian station in Peoria, Illinois.  Their broadcasts are simulcast on multiple translators in central Illinois and the Quad Cities area in Iowa.

W263AO - Galesburg, Illinois

W255AI - Bloomington, Illinois

WPRC - Sheffield, Illinois


 

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

WMFD

WMFD signed on the air from Wilmington, North Carolina in 1935.  The Sports-formatted station is now also heard on a translator at 101.7 FM.
 

WIBW


580 AM WIBW is a News/Talk/Sports station in Topeka, Kansas.  They are one of the rare stations on the west side of the Mississippi River with call letters that start with the letter W instead of K.  This is because WIBW actually began as a "portable" radio station in Indiana in 1925.  Back in the 1920s the Department of Commerce issued licenses for portable stations to serve cities who did not yet have their own broadcasters.  WIBW was eventually owned by Charles Carrell who owned a handful of these "stations on wheels."

WIBW has been an affiliate of the Kansas City Royals Radio Network since the team began playing in 1969.
 

WDYL

"Y101" WDYL was a Modern Rock station in Richmond, Virginia from 1999 to 2010.
 

Sunday, May 11, 2025

WAVX

"90.9 The Wave" WAVX was a Contemporary Christian station licensed to Schuyler Falls, New York from 2004 to 2007.  The frequency is now part of Vermont Public Radio.
 

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Valley Public Radio


Valley Pubic Radio consists of 89.3 FM KVPR in Fresno, California and 89.1 FM KPRX in Bakersfield, CA.  They air a mix of National Public Radio programming and Classical music.