Italy - Day 2 - Radio Studio Napoli 2000

On our second day we took a bus tour south to the ruins of Pompei near Naples.

I was surprised at the size of the city that was buried under 15 to 20 feet of ash after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.  It's huge, really.  About 170 acres and over 2000 buildings and they are still uncovering new areas.  Pompei even had its own red light district.  A penis carved into a cobblestone on the street pointed the way to it.  I am not making this up.

 

This cast was formed by pouring liquid plaster into the empty cavity left by a human body in hardened volcanic ash.

The crater of Mount Vesuvius which last erupted in 1944.

I picked this sticker because Naples (Napoli) is located near Pompei.  But it appears that Radio Studio Napoli 2000 was actually a station over 400 miles away in Milan.  Is that Mount Vesuvius on the sticker spewing music instead of ash?  I'd like to think so but I don't know.  This website says that Radio Studio Napoli broadcast Neapolitan music in Milan circa the early 1980s.
 

Italy - Day 1 - Radio Roma

This year’s vacation was in Italy so I’ll be featuring some Italian stickers for the next few days. 

My wife and I flew from Dayton, Ohio to Washington DC to Rome for a 12 day stay. We were exhausted after not getting much sleep on the overnight flight so we just chilled in the hotel lobby until our room was ready.  Later on we took an incredibly interesting tour of the Colosseum and Roman Forum.

Radio Roma was the first private radio station in Rome.  They went on the air in June 1975.  
 

KPRR

"Power 102.1" KPRR has been a Rhythmic Contemporary station in El Paso, Texas since 1986.
 

KFLB

KFLB is a Religious station in Midland/Odessa, Texas.  They were located at 90.5 FM until moving to their current frequency of 88.1 FM in 2009.  They are one of about three dozen stations in the Family Life Radio network.
 

WXAM

1400 AM WXAM was a Top-40 station in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1980 to 1984.
 

WRFX

WRFX "99.7 The Fox" is a Classic Rock station in Charlotte, North Carolina.  The 100,000-watt station is also the flagship station of the nationally syndicated John Boy & Billy Big Show.  WRFX is licensed to Kannapolis, NC.

WNIV

970 AM WNIV is a Religious station in Atlanta, Georgia.  Programming is simulcast on 1400 AM WLTA which also fills in the gaps of WNIV's nighttime coverage since they are required to drop their power down to 39 watts at sunset.
 

WKGL

"96.7 The Eagle" WKGL is a Classic Rock station in Rockford, Illinois.

WFMF

WFMF is a heritage Top-40 station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  The 102.5 FM frequency has used the same call letters since 1974 and has always carried some type of Top-40/CHR format (except for a brief, unsuccessful stint in the 1990s when they switched to Modern Adult Contemporary as "Loose 102" with the call letters WLSS. 

WCHY

A 1981 decal from 94.1 FM WCHY in Savannah, Georgia.  That year's Broadcasting Yearbook says they carried a Modern Country format.  WCHY was on the air from 1979 to 1999.

KYXE

1020 AM KYXE was a Regional Mexican station in Yakima, Washington.  In 2007 they changed call their letters to KDYK.
 

KROX

KROX "101X" has been an Alternative Rock station in Austin, Texas since 1995.  No Control Radio is a three hour, locally-produced Heavy Metal show that aired on Friday nights.  They are now heard on online as well as KLBJ's HD2 subchannel.
 

KNRJ

"Energy 96.5" KNRJ was a Dance/Rhythmic Contemporary station in Houston, Texas in 1989 and 1990.  They then flipped to their current Hot AC format "Mix 96.5" KHMX. 

KJNE

102.5 FM KJNE was a Country station in Waco, Texas from 1983 to 1994.  The frequency is currently home to an Active Rock station "102.5 The Bear."
 

KCPX AM & FM

Salt Lake City, Utah's 1320 AM carried the KCPX call letters three separate times.  The longest lasting was from 1959 to 1983, much of that time as a popular Top-40 station.  They were KCPX again in 1987/88 and briefly in 1992.  Co-owned KCPX FM was a Rock station circa the early 1980s and later a Top-40 outlet known as "Power 99" later in the decade.

CKSW

570 AM CKSW plays Classic Hits in southwestern Saskatchewan.  They've been on the air since 1956 and originally broadcast at 1400 AM before moving to its current dial position in 1976.  CKSW is licensed to Swift Current, SK.  Listening live while making this post I heard Billy Joel, Chilliwack, Red Rider and Midnight Oil along with a segment of local news, weather and sports.
 

CKVS

93.7 FM CKVS is a non-commercial, community radio station whose programming is aimed at the Shuswap community in southern British Columbia.  The low-power 15-watt station went on the air in 2012 and is licensed to Salmon Arm, BC.
 

Big FM

Big FM is a private, regional broadcaster based in Stuttgart, Germany.  They are heard on multiple frequencies throughout the Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate regions.  Their format consists mostly of Top-40, Dance and Hip-Hop music along with talk programs aimed at a young demographic.  Big FM went on the air in 2000.
 

WPSC

88.7 FM WPSC is the student-run radio station at William Patterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.  Before they could secure an FM signal in a crowded NY/NJ market they were an AM carrier current station heard on 590 AM.  The call letters reflected the school's name at the time--William Patterson State College.  For a time in the early 1970s WPSC arranged with WFMU to broadcast their programming for a few hours a week.  Later in the decade they could be heard through televisions in a three county area via Cablevision's Channel 3.  They received their FM license in 1983 and began broadcasting at 88.7 while playing mostly Top-40 music.  Formats over the years also included Alternative and Hip-Hop.  Their website says that their format is currently Indie Music with specialty shows on the weekend as well as play-by-play coverage of William Patterson Pioneer sports.  WPSC has won multiple Marconi awards for College Radio Station of the Year as well as Best College Radio Station from the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System.

WMGO

A 1992 sticker from Full Service station 1370 AM WMGO in Canton/Jackson, Mississippi.