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.
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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.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
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
Thursday, May 28, 2009
KYIS
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
WQKS
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
WVOK

Monday, May 25, 2009
Memorial Day

Sunday, May 24, 2009
KCWJ

Saturday, May 23, 2009
WHOO


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.

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
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
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Sunday Sticker - KCVS
Saturday, May 16, 2009
KFGO


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.
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.


Thursday, May 14, 2009
Radio Salü
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