Bills and Bengals - WLW / WABH

This afternoon, my son and I spent about 4 hours in non-stop rain (remnants of Hurricane Nate) watching the Buffalo Bills lose to the Cincinnati Bengals 20-14.  The Bills came into the game with a 3-1 record while Cincy was 1-3 but I knew Buffalo wasn't as good as they appeared and the Bengals weren't as bad.  My team has exactly one productive receiver, tight end Charles Clay and he went out with an injury early in the game.  LeSean McCoy can be a stunningly great running back but has been shut down in two of the Bills four games so far this season.  Combine that with a inaccurate passer who scrambles better than he throws and you can only hope the improved defense keeps it close....but it wasn't to be.  Still fun to go to the game as always.

The Bengals have three flagship stations in their radio network: 102.7 WEBN, ESPN 1530 WCKY and, once the Cincinnati Reds season is over, 700 WLW.

A WLW sign on a walkway ramp at Paul Brown Stadium.

Formerly WFSR, Oldies 1380 WABH is one of about two dozen stations in the Buffalo Bills radio network.

WTRM

WTRM (W Timber Ridge Ministries) is a Religious Talk station licensed to Winchester, Virginia.  They now broadcast at 91.1 FM.  In February 2013, WTRM was sold and is now one of more than 160 stations in the Mississippi-based American Family Radio network.

WMVO

The sticker equivalent to a bland, Soviet-era, concrete apartment building, this no-frills black-and-white beauty belongs to WMVO AM 1300 in (W) Mount Vernon, Ohio.  They currently carry a full-service Oldies format along with Talk and Sports programming.  The FM half actually went on the air first in 1951 while the AM sister station came along two years later.  WMVO-FM became WQIO in 1986.  WMVO-AM is also heard on translator W265DJ on 100.9 FM.

WJTG

"Joy 91" WJTG is a Religious station licensed to Fort Valley, Georgia.  They are now one of about 40 stations in the Family Life Radio network based in Tucson, Arizona.

WERZ

"Z107" WERZ has carried some form of Top-40/CHR/Hot AC format continuously since 1982.  They are licensed to Exeter, New Hampshire in the Portsmouth/Dover/Rochester media market.

Kisses

 "Kiss 103.7" WAKS - Cape Coral, Florida

 "108 Kiss FM" KAKS - Canyon/Amarillo, Texas

 "Kiss 102" WCKZ - Gastonia/Charlotte, North Carolina

"97.9 Kiss Country" KISZ - Cortez, Colorado.  Also heard on 99.3 FM K257DQ - Farmington, New Mexico.

Catholic Radios

1230 AM WMQU (W Mary, Queen of the Universe) - Grayling, Michigan

1620 AM KSMH - West Sacramento, California

1270 AM KTFI - Twin Falls, Idaho

Radio Maria 1600 AM WULM - Springfield, Ohio

KOTR

A sticker circa 2000 from "K-Otter 94.9" KOTR licensed to Cambria, California.  They carried an Adult Album Alternative format and were on the air from 1984 until they were sold in 2004.  I'm guessing that the "K-Otter" logo is upside down because real otters float around (and even sleep) on their backs.

KGLL

96.1 KGLL was a Country station licensed to Greeley, Colorado from 1991 until 2000.

KASR

680 AM KASR was the campus radio station of Arizona State University.  Broadcasting Yearbooks from that time don't include KASR as they were probably an unlicensed carrier current station.  The video below are local news reports about a 63-hour Thanksgiving holiday marathon airshift by two KASR DJs in 1987.

South Dakota Public Radio

South Dakota Public Radio is a network of about 20 stations and translators covering most of the state with a mix of NPR and other public radio talk shows as well as locally produced programming.  The flagship station is 89.7 FM KUSD licensed to Vermilion, SD which went on the air in May, 1922.

CKNW

AM 980 CKNW is a News/Talk station in Vancouver, British Columbia.  They went on the air at their original dial position of 1230 AM in August, 1944.  The 50,000-watt station airs call-in shows with mostly Vancouver-based hosts.  CKNW carried Vancouver Canucks hockey games every season from 1970 until 2006 when they moved to 1040 CKST.
Current CKNW program director Larry Gifford hosts an excellent radio-centric podcast for people in the industry as well as radio geeks like me.  Take a listen to the Radio Stuff Podcast here.

WQRK

104.5 WQRK was on the air in Norfolk, Virginia from 1973 to 1981 and had multiple formats including Adult Contemporary, Rock and Top-40.  Anybody know what format they had when branded as "QFM"?

CKKO

"K96.3" CKKO plays Classic Rock in Kelowna, British Columbia.  They went on the air in November, 2008.

WCMF

96.5 WCMF is a Classic Rock station in Rochester, New York.  Their roots go back to at least the early 1970s when they were a Freeform Rock station.  At one time they had a split format with R&B from 6AM to 3PM and "underground" rock from 3 until sign off at midnight.

More Stars

 KCKC "Star 102" - Kansas City, Missouri

CKLF "Star 94.7" - Brandon, Manitoba

KJSR "Star 103" - Tulsa, Oklahoma

WKCG "Star 101.3" - Augusta, Maine