Monday, June 15, 2015

WOSE


WOSE (W Ottawa Sandusky Erie) was a short-lived Country music station in Toledo, Ohio from 1981 until 1983.  94.5 FM is currently Classic Rock WXKR.  WOSE was licensed to Port Clinton, OH.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

KKDI

1540 AM KKDI broadcast from Sheridan, Arkansas from 1982 until 1988.  For the first year or so their Country music programming was duplicated on 102.3 KKDI FM. 

Saturday, June 13, 2015

KRST




92.3 KRST has been a Country outlet in Albuquerque, New Mexico since 1980.  In May, 2014 the station re-branded itself to become one of many Cumulus-owned "Nash FM" stations.  KRST's call letters refers to Sandia Crest which rises a whopping 10,678 feet above sea level and almost 5,000 feet above downtown Albuquerque.  This makes for an ideal location for the KRST signal tower (along with more than a dozen other radio and television towers) and makes Sandia Crest the highest elevation tower farm in the country.



Friday, June 12, 2015

KGRS



107.3 KGRS is an Adult Contemporary station licensed to Burlington, Iowa.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

KPOI









KPOI was a Rock station in Honolulu, Hawaii.  They started in 1980 as a typical AOR outlet (originally with the call letters KDUK before switching calls to KPOI in 1983) then evolved into Modern Rock by 1993 as "The Edge".  Later they became "The Rock You Live On" which lasted until 2004 at which point new owners flipped them to Hawaii's first FM News/Talk station.  97.5 FM is currently Country station KHCM.  The KPOI call letters live on in Honolulu at Alternative Rock station "Alt 105.9".

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

KXTP


AM 970 KXTP began playing Adult Standards using the syndicated "Music of Your Life" service in 1982.  Format changes to Country. Radio Disney, Talk and, in 2008, back to MoYL followed, along with a call letter change to WGEE.  AM 970 is now the CBS Sports Radio affiliate WDUL.  KXTP was licensed to Superior, Wisconsin.

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

WMIL







FM 106 WMIL in (W) MILwaukee, Wisconsin has been a Country station since 1983.  They are sister stations with Sports outlet WOKY "The Big 920" which combined forms MIL-WOKY.  WMIL is licensed to Waukesha, WI.

Monday, June 8, 2015

WRLO


WRLO is a Classic Rock station licensed to Antigo, Wisconsin.  The station's original 1973 call letters were WATK and broadcast at 104.9 FM.  They became WRLO in 1978 and now reside at 105.3 FM.

Sunday, June 7, 2015

WKOL



1570 WKOL went on the air on August 16, 1961 in Albany, New York.  The back of the K-Card shows that they were owned by Metter Broadcasting which would place it to around 1984/85.  The Broadcasting Yearbook lists their formats around that time variously as Country & Western, Contemporary Country and Adult Contemporary.  WKOL was licensed to Amsterdam, New York and is currently Adult Contemporary WVTL which is also simulcast on 104.7 FM.

WENY



1230 WENY is a News/Talk station licensed to (W) Elmira, New York.  They were a Full Service outlet through the 50s, 60s and went Top-40 some time in the 1970s.  They continued playing music up until the early 1990s when they flipped to their current format.

Friday, June 5, 2015

KBCM


The front and back of a KBCM (K Big Country Music) listener card from Sioux City, Iowa.  According to the always handy Broadcasting Yearbook, KBCM was established on March 11, 1974 at 95.5 FM.  Strangely, every Yearbook from 1975 through 1983 lists the station as being at 95.5 FM with no evidence of it being located around 105 FM as shown on the card.  (The 1984 edition shows that the call letters had been changed to KGLI).  1470 AM had the call letters KTRI in 1975 and KWSL through at least 1986 when I got bored and stopped looking...no indication that 1470 AM ever held the call letters KBCM.  If anyone has any info they would like to shed on this, leave a comment below.

UPDATE:  Ignore everything you just read.  See comments.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

WVWC

WVWC first broadcast from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1969.  The public radio station is fully operated by undergraduate students and airs an Adult Contemporary format.  "C-92" is licensed to Buckhannon, West Virginia.

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

WDCR


A sticker and magnet from Religious station WDCR in (W) DeCatuR, Illinois.  Their studios are located on the campus of St. Mary's Hospital.  WDCR went on the air in 2011 and are licensed to Oreana, IL.

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

WCBK

102.3 WCBK plays Country music in Martinsville, Indiana.

Monday, June 1, 2015

WNTD

WNTD "Radio Unica" carried a Spanish format in Chicago, Illinois from 1999 until 2004. 
According to this list, 950 AM is the 49th oldest station in the United States when it went on the air in April, 1922 as WAAF.  WNTD is currently "Relevant Radio" and carries a Religious format.

Sunday, May 31, 2015

WKSM


"99 Rock" WKSM is licensed to Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

Saturday, May 30, 2015

WGCC

90.7 WGCC broadcasts from (W) Genesee Community College in Batavia, New York.  They went on the air in 1985.

Friday, May 29, 2015

WNBR / WZBR / WBSY

The Country Bear trimulcast of stations played Classic Country in southeastern North Carolina circa 1998.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

KUNC

91.5 KUNC is a non-commercial, public radio station licensed to Greeley, Colorado.  They began broadcasting from Colorado State College in 1967 as KCBL (K Colorado Broadcast Laboratory) before becoming KUNC when the school was renamed the (K) University of Northern Colorado in 1970.  Programming is heard on 14 stations and translators throughout northern Colorado.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

KQXR

"Q94" KQXR was a Top-40 station in Bakersfield, California for most of the 1980s.  94.1 FM is currently "Hot 94.1" KISV.