• in 1920, KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first radio station to broadcast Major League Baseball on the radio?
• listeners in the Klamath Falls, Oregon, area know radio station KRAT as "The Rat"?
• staff at KLYC in McMinnville, Oregon, reported a paranormal "presence" in the radio station's previous studio building?
• the radio station WHOS in Decatur, Alabama, aired an all-Elvis Presley format from October 1988 to April 1989?
• in 1986 KWVR-FM of Enterprise, Oregon, became the smallest-market radio station to win a Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio and Television?
• from 1995 to 2003, an Arkansas radio station now called KZTD shared its "KBBL" call sign with the fictional radio station on The Simpsons?
• after 60 years of service to Greenville, Alabama, the FCC is allowing radio station WGYV to move to Aurora, Indiana, a suburb of Cincinnati?
• employees at radio station WIXI in Jasper, Alabama, reported that for more than 30 years their radio studios were haunted?
• entrepreneur Ralph D. Foster and his partner started Missouri radio station KGBX (now KSGF) in 1926 to advertise their Firestone Tires dealership?
• from 1956 to 1986, radio station KYKN in Keizer, Oregon, was called "KGAY"?
• the radio station now called KARP-FM was launched in 1968 as the FM sister station to KDUZ in Hutchinson, Minnesota?
• the Shreveport deejay Barney Cannon was particularly knowledgeable about the history of country music, his radio station KWKH-AM, and the former Louisiana Hayride?
• the owner of a radio station in Corvallis, Oregon, had the station's legal call sign changed to KEJO to honor his late daughter, Emily Jo?
• the previous owners of KWVR in Enterprise, Oregon, actually lived at the radio station until they sold it in 2008?
• there are two radio stations in Brunei that broadcast partially in Gurkhali for the Nepalese speakers of the First Battalion of the Royal Gurkha Rifles stationed in Brunei?
• to save money, new Minnesota radio station KYES shares studio space with KKJM, which founder Andy Hilger had donated to the Diocese of St. Cloud in 2000?
• the owner of KFMR, forced off the air for financial reasons, is selling the Utah radio station and New Mexico sister station KPSA-FM to his own father?
• the most powerful radio station in Imperial Russia operated from New Holland Island in Saint Petersburg?
• the studio band of radio station WRAG (now WREN) in Carrollton, Alabama, is credited with popularizing bluegrass music in central Alabama and eastern Mississippi?
• the Christian Science Monitor once described radio station KSLM (now KVXX) in Salem, Oregon, as "a barricade holding questionable advertising material from the ears of listeners"?
• the first private radio station in India was Akashvani which was set up in 1935 in Mysore, Karnataka?
• a 1970s weather forecast of "low goat pressure" on radio station KRSB in Roseburg, Oregon, was a sure sign of rain ahead?
• California radio station KOWL's original radio studios were located inside the Harrah's Stateline Club, a casino in Stateline, Nevada?
• radio station KSWB in Seaside, Oregon, was originally owned by Jerden Records founder Jerry Dennon and American folk group The Brothers Four?
• radio station WGGH owner Jimmy "Fish" Fishback provided the imaging voice of the fictional "V-Rock" radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories?
• radio station WLWI in Montgomery, Alabama, founded in 1930 as WSFA, gave country music legend Hank Williams his start as a professional musician?
• radio station WMSP in Montgomery, Alabama, broadcasts the college football games of both the Alabama Crimson Tide and arch-rival Auburn Tigers?
• radio station KLBS broadcasts a Portuguese-language world music format to California's San Joaquin Valley?
• radio station KBCH chose its call sign to represent the "20 Miracle Miles" of beaches in Lincoln County, Oregon?
• "The Cowboy Culture Center" is a weekly three-hour block of cowboy poetry and western music on radio station KNND in Cottage Grove, Oregon?
• broadcasting brothers James R. Doss, Jr. and James L. Doss named Alabama radio stations WJRD and WJLD after themselves?
• Congressman Greg Walden, former owner of radio station KIHR in Hood River, Oregon, began his career in broadcasting as the station's janitor?
• news director Brad Boyer of Missouri radio station KIRK received a Distinguished Service Award from the MSHSAA in 2008 for his "lifelong contributions to the ideals of interscholastic activities"?
• radio station KTIL in Tillamook, Oregon, was renamed KMBD in honor of talk show host Mildred Berkey Davy?
• radio station WLIQ (now WMOB) broadcast from the historic Battle House Hotel in Mobile, Alabama, from 1964 to 1971?
• KZZR and sister station KQHC are the only two radio stations with Burns, Oregon, as their community of license?
• WEPS in Elgin Area School District U46 is the oldest educational radio station in Illinois, USA?
• WKKR and WZMG (now known as WTLM) were the first radio stations in Alabama to win NAB Crystal Radio Awards for outstanding commitment to community service?
• WLVV, the oldest radio station in Mobile, Alabama, was once known as WMML (for "M-M-Mel") as a play on then-owner Mel Tillis' famous stutter?
• broadcasting in the Soviet Union was so secretive that they didn't disclose the frequencies the domestic radio stations operated on, thus leaving SWLs wanting to tune into Soviet radio to memorize the frequencies and remember where the sites were?
• Shakin' Stevens recently launched Christmas FM, Ireland's first radio station dedicated to the festival?
• radio stations KGAL and KSHO are celebrating Oregon's sesquicentennial with a year-long series of historical vignettes?
• radio stations WHOW and WEZC broadcast from a "big red barn" (pictured) just south of Clinton, Illinois?
• radio stations WMFC and WMFC-FM originally broadcast from a Quonset hut in the heart of Monroeville, Alabama?
• "Johnny Mac" McDonald was elected mayor of Thomasville, Alabama, in 1976 while working at radio station WJDB-FM as announcer and account executive?

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• the radio station now called KARP-FM was launched in 1968 as the FM sister station to KDUZ in Hutchinson, Minnesota?