Thursday, February 8, 2024

XHRM



XHRM "92.5 The Flash" was a Modern Rock station in San Diego, California from 1993 to 1998.  The 100,000-watt station is licensed across the border to Tijuana, Mexico.  XHRM now carries a Rhythmic Adult Contemporary format branded as "Magic 92.5".  A “Magic” sticker can be seen here.
 

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

KHTY

KHTY "Mighty 970" was a Classic Hits station in Bakersfield, California circa the mid-2000s.
 

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

KFRO

95.3 FM KFRO was an Oldies station in the Longview/Marshall area of Texas.  They carried this format off and on from the early 1990s until the mid 2000s. 
 

Monday, February 5, 2024

KROG

96.9 FM KROG was an Adult Contemporary station licensed to Grants Pass, Oregon circa the late 1990s.  KROG currently airs an Active Rock format known as "96.9 The Rogue".
 

Sunday, February 4, 2024

Radio de la Save

Radio de la Save has been on the air since 1983 from Montaigut-Sur-Save in southwestern France.
 

Saturday, February 3, 2024

KAGG


96.1 FM KAGG is a Country music station licensed to Madisonville, Texas.  Their color scheme and branding comes from the moniker of Texas A&M University in nearby College Station.  Students were originally nicknamed "Farmers" but officially took on the name "Aggies" in 1949 in reference to the school's agricultural roots.  The logo of the bottom sticker incorporates a longhorn steer with a slash through it.  This is the logo of A&M's nemesis, the University of Texas--a football rivalry so heated it warrants its own Wikipedia page.
 

Friday, February 2, 2024

KSHL

97.5 KSHL "K-Shell Country" is licensed to Lincoln Beach, Oregon.  They went on the air in the early 1990s and were originally licensed to nearby Gleneden Beach, OR.
 

Thursday, February 1, 2024

The Light FM

The Light FM is a network of about a dozen stations heard in parts of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.  Their flagship station is 106.9 FM WMIT licensed to Black Mountain, NC.  The Light FM carries a Contemporary Christian / Talk & Teaching format.

WFGW - Norris, Tennessee

W235CY - Winston-Salem, North Carolina

W267AD - Cherokee, North Carolina

W268DM - Rock Hill, South Carolina

This sticker from 1500 AM WSMX dates to when they carried a Spanish Christian format as "La Movidita."  They are now part of the Light FM network of stations.
 

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

KGYM

KGYM is the perfectly-call lettered Sports station in Cedar Rapids, Iowa broadcasting at 1600 AM.  The ESPN Radio affiliate is also heard on two translators at 107.5 and 106.3 FM.

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

KCMA

98.5 FM KCMA was a low-power Classic Hits station in Payson, Arizona.  They were on the air from 2003 to 2021.
 

Monday, January 29, 2024

Bounces

CKBC - Bathurst, New Brunswick


WMGC - Detroit, Michigan
 
CJCH - Halifax, Nova Scotia


CHBN - Edmonton, Alberta
 

Sunday, January 28, 2024

KPTZ






91.9 FM KPTZ is a non-commercial, community radio station in Port Townsend, Washington.  They went on the air in May 2011.

Saturday, January 27, 2024

High Plains Public Radio



High Plains Public Radio is a network of 19 public radio stations and translators covering parts of five states.  Their flagship station is 91.1 FM KANZ in Garden City, Kansas which went on the air in 1980.  HPPR's coverage area is one of the largest of any National Public Radio affiliated network.  It is made up of mostly rural areas with Amarillo, Texas being the largest city included in their listening territory. 
 
Texas Standard is a one hour news magazine airing weekdays on High Plains Public Radio.  The show offers "up-to-the-moment coverage of politics, lifestyle and culture, the environment, technology and innovation and business and the economy--all from a Texas perspective." 
 

Friday, January 26, 2024

Berliner Rundfunk


The original Berliner Rundfunk was established in 1945 by the Soviet Military government and was based in Berlin, East Germany.  After the unification of East and West Germany in 1990 Berliner Rundfunk ceased operations. An identically named private station started broadcasting in 1992 at 91.4 FM.
 

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Orange 94.0

Vienna, Austria's Orange 94.0 began as an illegal pirate before gaining an official broadcast license in 1998.  They are an ad-free, non-commercial station and the largest community radio station in German-speaking countries.
 

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

WWSW AM & FM


WWSW went on the air in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1931 broadcasting at 1500 AM.  In 1949 they moved to 970 AM.  For many years they carried an MOR format but were a Country outlet circa the late 1970s when the above decal was printed. 




Sister station 94.5 FM WWSW was mostly a simulcast of its AM counterpart until the late 1960s when the FCC started requiring AM/FM combos to have separate programming.  These late 1980s/early 90s stickers date to when they carried an Oldies format (and after the FCC dropped the simulcast rule.)  Today they're a Classic Hits station.
 

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

WRCQ

910 AM WRCQ was on the air in New Britain, Connecticut from 1974 to 1990.
 

WNDH

103.1 FM WNDH is a Classic Hits station licensed to Napoleon, Ohio. 
 

Sunday, January 21, 2024

WFHB

91.3 FM WFHB is a non-profit, mostly volunteer-run community radio station in Bloomington, Indiana.  They went on the air in January 1993.  They are also heard on three translators at 98.1, 100.7 and 106.3 FM.

Saturday, January 20, 2024

WCDK

99.9 FM WCDK was on the air in Virginia, Minnesota from 1988 to 1993.  Their first two entries in the Broadcasting Yearbook listed their format as "Adult and Info" whatever that is.  All other years they were a Country station.