Tuesday, June 2, 2009

KRYS

Not sure what the format was for KRYS-AM but the current KRYS-FM in Corpus Christi, Texas is Country so there's a good chance the AM was as well. It was a Radio Disney outlet long after this sticker was printed which has a 1970s look to it. 1360 AM is now KKTX, a News/Talk station.

EDIT:  15 years after originally posting this I received a KRYS music survey in the form of a 45 rpm record sleeve.  The chart confirms what many have already said in the comments, that KRYS was a Pop/Top-40 station...at least in 1978.



Monday, June 1, 2009

WPLA



WPLA "Planet Radio 93.3" was a Modern Rock station in Jacksonville, Florida from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Sunday Sticker - KDAR

98.3 KDAR is a Christian Talk/Religious Teaching station licensed to Oxnard, California.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

KMEZ



KMEZ was an Urban Adult Contemporary station licensed to Belle Chase, Louisiana. In 2008 they began simulcasting on their sister station KKND which dropped its Country format. KKND then became Hip-Hop "Power 102.9" to challenge WQUE, another Rap/Urban station in the New Orleans market. The KMEZ calls and Old School R&B format now reside at 106.7 FM licensed to Port Sulphur, LA.

Friday, May 29, 2009

WKKJ



WKKJ is a Country music station licensed to Chillicothe, Ohio. In 2002 WKKJ swapped frequencies with WFCB (now WLZT, an Adult Contemporary station) and moved up the dial to 94.3 FM.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

KYIS

KYIS is a Hot Adult Contemporary station from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They've used the "Kiss" branding since 1991 after switching from "Z99" with the call letters KZBS.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

WQKS

"Alice 96.1" was a Classic Hits station in Montgomery, Alabama from 2000 until 2008. WQKS is currently an Oldies station known as "Q96.1"

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

WVOK

WVOK was a Country music station in Birmingham, Alabama from 1977 until 1985. In the early 1980s the FCC allowed them to begin broadcasting 24 hours a day. They were a daytime-only signal all through the 60s and 70s when they were Top-40 "The Mighty 690." They are currently a Sports station "690 The Fan."

Monday, May 25, 2009

Memorial Day

WPCV (W Polk County Voice) has been a Country music station since 1973. With 100,000 watts and their central Florida transmitting site, they're one of the few stations able to reach both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts including Orlando and parts of Tampa Bay. WPCV is licensed to Winter Haven, Florida.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

KCWJ


KCWJ was a Religious Teaching/Southern Gospel station in Kansas City, Missouri. The 1030 AM frequency has had a variety of formats and call letters over the years including Oldies KBST, Adult Contemporary KKJC, Hard Rock KBZR, Talk KBEQ and Classic Country KOWW. The above sticker is circa 2001 when KCWJ was Contemporary Christian Rock station. KCWJ is licensed to Blue Springs, Missouri and currently carries a Classic Country format.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

WHOO


WHOO "Hits 96" was a Top-40 station licensed to Orlando, Florida. (if anyone has any information about what time period they were CHR, I'd like to know.) In 1984 they flipped to Country while retaining the WHOO calls. In 1987 they became WHTQ "Q96" with a Rock format and today they are strictly a Classic Rock station.

Friday, May 22, 2009

WHAT

AM 1340 WHAT has been broadcasting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since the mid 1920s. From the 1960s through the early 1980s they carried an R&B/Soul format and for awhile they were an Urban Talk station.


Starting in January, 2007 they became "Skin Radio" playing a blend of Alternative, Indie, Hip-Hop and Reggae as well as poetry readings and local music. It lasted less than eight months and by September they dropped it in favor of Adult Standards and changed their branding to "Martini Lounge Radio". They began this new format by playing nothing but Frank Sinatra music for a full month.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

WHEN

AM 620 WHEN is currently a Sports Talk station licensed to Syracuse, New York.

In the late 1970s and early 80s the then music-based WHEN carried out one of the most successful bumper sticker campaigns in the history of radio. This sticker resembles the style of New York license plates which were in use from 1973-1986.

This one resembles the type of New York license plate used from 1986 until 2000.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

WHER

WHER is a Classic Country station serving the Laurel/Hattiesburg, Mississippi area. Eagle 99 is licensed to Heidelberg, MS.

Around 1994 WHER was located up the dial at 103.7 licensed to Hattiesburg.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

WHYI



WHYI is a Contemporary Hit Radio station licensed to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. "Y100" has run some form of CHR continuously since 1973, making them the longest-running Top 40 station in North America that has kept the same branding and call letters. Prior to 1973 they were a Religious station as WMFP (1960-62) then a Beautiful Music station as WMJR (1962-73.)

Monday, May 18, 2009

KHOW

630 AM KHOW is a Talk station from Denver, Colorado.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Sunday Sticker - KCVS

KCVS is a Religious Teaching/Christian Music station licensed to Salina, Kansas. It is one of about 20 stations and translators in the Voice of Christian Youth America Radio Network, an evangelical Christian ministry based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

KFGO


Fargo, North Dakota's KFGO began as a Country music station in 1986 after switching from Adult Contemporary as KRRZ. During the Garth Brooks-induced "New Country" craze of the early 1990s they began using the "Moose Country" slogan. After briefly being known as "K102," by 2002 they had flipped to Classic Rock as KKBX "The Box" and now go by the highly uncreative "Rock 102" KRWK.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Places I've Lived #3 - Plainsboro, New Jersey

We moved from Pennsylvania in 1978 for the lush paradise wasteland that is New Jersey. The next year is pretty much a blur. We were waiting for a house to be built that suffered from shoddy construction and sat unworked upon for months at a time. In the meantime we lived in a rented house owned by an Indian family somewhere in or near Plainsboro. For some reason my brother and I went to two separate school districts. I remember being left alone every day at my second cousin’s house before walking to school and listening to lots of Bee Gees and Donna Summer on the kitchen radio. I wish I could remember what station it was but I was only 8 or 9 and wasn’t keeping track of these things. I was more interested in my cousin’s Star Wars action figures and discovering Pop Rocks while left alone in his room. 
Other random, fleeting memories: A creepy kid from across the street who lived in absolute filth and who didn’t go to school ; watching Super Bowl XIII at the Newark airport on a fuzzy black and white TV ; my brother running away from home ; a one-legged girl who ran (limped?) away from home (an incident which somehow also involved my brother) ; starting a stamp collection ; driving past a water tower in Grovers Mill which people mistook for an alien while listening to War of the Worlds in 1938.
Dad was a maintenance supervisor at a Johnson & Johnson factory and mom worked in the library at nearby Princeton University.  The house never got finished while we lived there and by December 1979 we had fled to rural western New York.

WPRB is a listener-supported station staffed mainly by Princeton University students. They have an eclectic format of Rock, Classical, Blues and Jazz as well as specialty shows including Greek music and children's programming. In 1955 WPRB became the first college FM station to be granted a limited broadcasting license by the FCC.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Radio Salü

Radio Salü plays a blend of Contemporary Hit Music along with 80s and 90s hits, something akin to a Hot AC station. They broadcast from Saarbrücken which is located in southwest Germany along the border with France. Radio Salü has been on the air since December 31st, 1989.