KGRV

A static cling sticker from 700 AM KGRV, a Religious station licensed to Winston, Oregon.
 

KCHUNG

1630 AM KCHUNG is a community radio station in the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.  They operate under the FCC's Part 15 rules which allows for very low power transmissions without having a license.  KCHUNG's hyper-local broadcasts went on the air in 2011 and cover an area of approximately two or three city blocks.
 

CFOK

CFOK was on the air at 1370 AM in Westlock, Alberta from 1975 until 2011.  They then shut down their AM transmitter and began broadcasting at 97.9 FM. 

Encouragement Media Group

I received a nice packet of stickers a few days ago from the Encouragement Media Group.  They operate six Christian radio stations in the Tyler/Longview area of northeast Texas.  Thank you for sending them Lynda!

KFRO/KZXM - Pittsburg/Bullard, Texas

 

 KGLY - Tyler, Texas

 

KLJT/KMPA - Jacksonville/Pittsburg, Texas

KVNE - Tyler, Texas

KWTX

A magnet from CHR station 97.5 KWTX in (K) Waco, TeXas.
A reader of this blog sent along a vintage business card as well as some early 80s studio photos.  I've also included a station history that he provided.  Thanks Mike!  A rare KWTX-AM sticker and station history that Mike sent previously can be seen here.

 

Waco’s FM radio station once home to the ‘Golden Sound of Beautiful Music’ celebrates a golden anniversary

 

KWTX-FM celebrates 50 years of entertaining Central Texas listeners in 2020.

 

KWTX-FM’s inaugural broadcast was Dec. 7, 1970. The new Waco FM station at 97.5 MHz was owned and operated by KWTX Broadcasting Company, the licensee of KWTX-TV (Channel 10) and KWTX-AM (1230 kHz). All local radio and TV programming originated from the company’s Broadcast Center at 4520 Bosque Blvd. in Waco.

 

KWTX-FM’s transmitter and tower were located along I-35 near Lorena, Texas, a few miles south of Waco. The station transmitted at an effective radiated power of 71kW. Programming was sent from the Waco studio to the transmitter site by a microwave link licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as Auxiliary WAL 23.

 

Throughout the 1970s, the station aired easy-listening music in stereo with limited interruptions from 6 a.m. to midnight. Instrumental selections from albums by Percy Faith, Montovani, Ray Conniff, Ferrante and Teicher, Andre Kostelanetz, 101 Strings, plus many other similar musical artists were broadcast to listeners throughout Central Texas. The station also carried national news on the hour from the Mutual Broadcasting System. The local FM announcers gave the time and temperature on the quarter-hour and a short headline news report and weather forecast every half-hour.

 

Dave South, former KWTX radio program director and Texas A&M play-by-play sportscaster, recently recalled a few of the obstacles faced before and after the first broadcast.

 

“We put the station on the air with a very limited music library,” South said. “I had gone to Dallas a number of times begging the record distributors for any help they could provide, which wasn’t much.”

 

However, the station received programming help from an unexpected source. South received a letter from a man in Europe asking if the radio station played easy-listening music. The man’s father was an orchestra leader who had recorded 10 or 12 albums.

 

“He sent those albums to me,” South said. “We played just about every cut on each LP, and that increased our music library by 30 to 40 percent.”

 

South said station management would come into the control room occasionally and draw a line with a red grease pencil through album cuts they didn’t want to hear again.

 

“Lots of red circles became a part of our lives in FM,” South said.

 

On-air announcers also had to cope with working inside a small confined space, sometimes for up to six hours. The FM control room wasn’t much larger than a closet and crowded with equipment and storage shelves.

 

South said that it was often difficult to find someone willing to work long part-time hours for not much money – and who liked to listen to slow instrumental music.

 

“Our only full-time announcer was Clarence Garnes,” South said. “Clarence was a former radio guy and had a great voice. He was in his late 70s and smoked like a chimney. He didn’t make much money, but that was OK with him, because he was retired, and his wife had a good job at Baylor University.”

 

Many FM radio hosts brought “Beautiful Stereo Music” to Central Texas listeners for over a decade until the format changed in the early ’80s to personality DJs playing contemporary hits 24 hours a day.

 

A few other noteworthy changes to KWTX-FM have occurred. A new broadcast tower and transmitter facility was built near Moody, south of Waco, in 1979. FM power increased to 100kW in 1986. KWTX AM/FM/TV moved to a new facility at 6700 American Plaza in 1987. Both KWTX radio stations were sold to Gulfstar Communications in 1996, and are now owed by iHeartMedia. Today, KWTX AM, FM and other Waco iHeartMedia stations are located at 314 W. Hwy. 6.

95.8 Capital FM

95.8 Capital FM is a CHR station broadcasting from London, England.  They are one of a dozen Capital FM Network stations heard throughout much of England, Wales and Scotland.
 

Bute Island Radio

Bute Island Radio is a community radio station broadcasting from Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland.
 

The Buzzes

WBZU - Waunakee/Madison, Wisconsin

WHHZ - Newberry/Gainesville, Florida

KVOL - Lafayette, Louisiana

WTZB - Englewood/Sarasota, Florida
 

WOGB

103.1 FM WOGB is a Classic Hits station in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
 

WKXN

95.7 WKXN is an Urban Contemporary station licensed to Fort Deposit, Alabama near Montgomery.  They were licensed to Greenville, AL when this sticker came out and I think they had a Top-40 format.  If you know what era this decal is from or what the format was, leave a comment below.

WGMZ

"Z93.1" WGMZ plays Classic Hits in Gadsden/Anniston, Alabama.
 

WDRE / WIBF

92.7 FM WDRE was a Modern Rock station broadcasting to New York City and parts of Long Island.  They came about after the demise of legendary Progressive/Alternative Rock outlet WLIR due to a prolonged legal battle and loss of license.  WDRE was on the air from 1987 until 2004.

 In 1992 WDRE began simulcasting on 103.9 FM at what was then WIBF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Three years later The Underground Network was created which simulcast WDRE to about 10 stations in markets such as Albany New York, Nashville Tennessee and Little Rock Arkansas.

The station that currently holds the WDRE call letters is located in Binghamton, New York.  "100.5 The Drive" is an Alternative Rock station whose logo is inspired by the 80s-era WDRE design (for which I sadly don't have a sticker.)
 

WCAP

980 AM WCAP airs a mix of Oldies music, News/Talk programming and local Sports.  They went on the air in 1951 and are licensed to Lowell, Massachusetts.
 

KYCW

1090 AM KYCW was a Classic Country station in Seattle, Washington.  They carried this format on two separate occasions, first from around 1999 until 2001 and then, after a brief, unsuccessful flip to Talk, again from May 2002 until the fall of 2004.
 

KRHV

93.3 FM KRHV plays a mix of Classic and Modern Rock.  They are licensed to Big Pine, California located in the Owens Valley between the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains.
 

Wilds

"Wild 94.3" KWDD - Fairbanks, Alaska

"Wild 96.1" KWIE - San Jacinto, California

"Wild 105.5" KLHB - Portland/Corpus Christi, Texas

"Wild 96.1" KMRK - Odessa, Texas
 

KEUN

AM 1490 KEUN was a Country station licensed to (K) EUNice, Louisiana.  As of this posting they are now a News/Talk station. 
 

WINC

1400 AM WINC is a News/Talk station in WINChester, Virginia.  Country music legend Patsy Cline made her broadcast debut on WINC as a then 14-year-old in 1948.  Stickers from sister station WINC-FM can be seen here.
 

KXEN

A 1970s(?)-era sticker from 1010 AM KXEN in St. Louis, Missouri.  They've carried some form of a Gospel/Religious format since the late 1950s.  KXEN is currently owned by the nephew of rock legend and St. Louis native Chuck Berry.
 

WDRV

A static window sticker and the front and back covers of a calendar from WDRV in Chicago, Illinois.  "97.1 The Drive" has been a Classic Rock station since March 2001.