Thursday, March 7, 2024

WBKR





92.5 FM WBKR is a 100,000-watt Country station licensed to Owensboro, Kentucky.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

WYUL

94.7 FM WYUL in Chateaugay, New York began in 1997 as a simulcast of CHR station WYSX in Morristown, NY.  In 2002 they became "94.7 Hits FM" targeting nearby Montreal, Quebec with an English-language Top-40 format.  The YUL in their call letters is also the airport code for Montreal's main airport.  Being a U.S.-based station exempted them from CRTC CanCon regulations and allowed them to accept French-language advertising (something Canadian-licensed, English-language stations are not allowed to do.)  WYUL was sold in 2021 and is now yet another Contemporary Christian K-LOVE affiliate.

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

WRTI



90.1 FM WRTI is a public radio station airing a mix of Classical and Jazz music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  They are owned by Temple University and began as an AM carrier current station that could only be heard on campus.  WRTI (W Radio Training Institute) was founded by John Roberts, a professor of communications at Temple and a long-time anchorman on WFIL-TV.  In 1953 WRTI began broadcasting on FM and over the years have added multiple full-power repeater stations to expand their reach into northeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and most of southern New Jersey.
 
WRTY - Jackson Township, Pennsylvania

WRTQ - Ocean City, New Jersey

WRTL - Ephrata, Pennsylvania


Monday, March 4, 2024

WOKS

1340 AM WOKS is an Urban Oldies station in Columbus, Georgia.  They are now also heard on a translator at 94.1 FM.
 

Sunday, March 3, 2024

WGPL

1350 AM WGPL is a Black Gospel station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia.
 

Saturday, March 2, 2024

KYOX


"94.3 The Ox" KYOX is a Country station licensed to Comanche, Texas.
 

Friday, March 1, 2024

KSHO

Honolulu, Hawaii's 96.3 FM began as an Easy Listening station with call letters KJYE.  They switched to Jazz in the early 1980s with new call letters KSHO.  Today the frequency is home to Adult Contemporary KRTR "Krater 96."  KSHO was licensed to Kailua, HI.
 

Thursday, February 29, 2024

KNKT



107.1 FM KNKT was a Religious station licensed to Armijo, New Mexico near Albuquerque.  They were on the air from 1994 until 2021 when they were sold to the Bible Broadcasting Network.
 

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

KHAC

1300 AM KHAC began operations in 1967 as a daytime-only broadcaster licensed to Window Rock, Arizona.  They aired a Religious format aimed at the local Native American population with some programming in the Navajo language.  They moved to 1110 AM in 1979 and are currently found at 880 AM now licensed across the border in Tse Bonito, New Mexico.
 

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

KCMD

AM 970 KCMD was a Talk station in Portland, Oregon circa the mid-2000s.  The call letters were left over from a previous (K) CoMeDy format. 
 

Monday, February 26, 2024

Sud Radio





Sud Radio ("Radio South") is heard on dozens of FM frequencies throughout France along with digital audio broadcasts from studios in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris.  They went on the air in 1958 under the name Andorradio and became Sud Radio in 1966.
 

Sunday, February 25, 2024

KCMB

104.7 FM KCMB is a 100,000-watt Country station licensed to Baker City, Oregon.
 

Saturday, February 24, 2024

CJCI

620 AM CJCI signed on the air from Prince George, British Columbia in August 1970.  They were owned by Central Interior Radio Inc--the CI in CJCI's call letters.  "Wild Country 620" moved to 97.3 FM in 2002 and became "The Wolf."  A CJCI FM sticker can be seen here.
 

Friday, February 23, 2024

KHTY and KMGQ



Santa Barbara, California's KHTY started as Top-40 station "Y97" beginning in 1985.  They flipped to Modern Rock in the mid-1990s and flipped again three years later to Smooth Jazz after sister station KMGQ moved their format and call letters from 106.3 FM to 97.5 FM. 
 

Thursday, February 22, 2024

97.4 Rock FM

97.4 Rock FM broadcasts from Preston in northwestern England.  Despite their name Rock FM is actually a straight-ahead Pop/CHR station.  A name change to Hits Radio Lancashire is set to take place in April of this year.

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Radio Netherlands Worldwide





Early international shortwave broadcasts from the Netherlands began as early as the 1920s with reception reports received from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).  Radio Netherlands Worldwide transmissions began just after World War II with help from the BBC.  English broadcasts to North America ended in 2008 and a massive 70% budget cut took place in 2011.  The very last shortwave broadcast was in Spanish for a Cuban audience in 2014.  Radio Nederland Wereldomroep is now RNW Media with content aimed mostly at countries in Africa and Asia to bring about social change using digital media platforms.

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

KBHW


99.5 FM KBHW is a Religious station licensed to International Falls, Minnesota.  They are also heard on about a dozen other frequencies across northern Minnesota on what is now known as the Psalm FM network. 
 

Monday, February 19, 2024

PIK

Ραδιοφωνικό Ίδρυμα Κύπρου (PIK) is the Greek name for the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation based in the capital city of Nicosia.  Together with two television channels, the public broadcasting service also transmits four domestic radio channels along with an external shortwave service targeted to Greek Cypriots living in the United Kingdom.  PIK's first radio broadcast took place in October 1953 with programs in Greek, Turkish and English.
 

KHTN



"Hot 104.7" KHTN is a Rhythmic Top-40 station licensed to Planada, California, part of the Merced/Modesto media market.
 

Sunday, February 18, 2024

WWXM

"Mix 97.7" WWXM is a 100,000-watt CHR station in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.