101.9 KISS FM, Las Vegas (2001)

Unused bumper sticker from 2001, sheet measures approximately 26 cm by 6 cm.
Front side: shaped; background: navy; 101.9 KISS FM logo.
Back side: Red Balloon, IHOP, N Sync at IMAX Luxor Las Vegas discount/promo coupon, KISS FM registration form.


101.9 FM in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA signed on as easy listening KRGN in 1963.
In the early 70s, it flipped to KFM 102 under the call letters KFMS and played an automated Top 40 format. From 1978-1980, KFMS played a well-rounded AOR format.
On January 1, 1981, KFMS flipped to country still under the name KFM 102, drawing the ire of the AOR listeners. A month later, KENO FM-92 switched to AOR, and later became KOMP.

In early 2000, KFMS flipped to top 40/CHR 101.9 KISS FM, KFMS broadcast "Rick Dees in the Morning" radio program in the mornings and "Buck Head Show" for evenings. Buck Head was later syndicated back to Star 98.7 until he was eventual transferred to the Los Angeles market.

The grouping of 102.7 KIIS FM in Los Angeles, KISS AM 1220 in Santa Clarita, 97.7 KAVS in the Antelope Valley, 105.3 KYHT in Barstow/Victor Valley, and 101.9 KFMS in Las Vegas created a nearly continuous coverage of KIIS FM between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. However, KFMS was branded as KISS instead of KIIS.
As time went on KFMS began adding more local DJs like Kate and Rick Kelly from 93.1 FM and after KYHT flipped to Y105 in 2001, KFMS discontinued simulcasting programming from KIIS in Los Angeles, became more Hip hop leaning, and began a local morning show hosted by Trejo and Nikki, but still continued airing the nationally syndicated Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 program.

In December 2002, 101.9 KISS FM signed off, and began stunting for several days, airing a seemingly endless repeat of Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle". Once the dust cleared in January 2003, 101.9 FM became Rhythmic CHR Wild 102, Where Hip Hop Lives and changing the call letters to KWID.

*source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWID

Z100, New York (1983-2013)

*Z100 stickers between 1983 and 2013... happy 30th anniversary!!!

WHTZ (100.3 FM)–branded Z100–is a commercial Top 40 (CHR) radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, serving the New York metropolitan area. Owned by Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, WHTZ serves as the flagship station for Elvis Duran and the Morning Show and the New York affiliate for On Air with Ryan Seacrest. The WHTZ studios are located in the TriBeCa neighborhood of New York City, while the station transmitter resides atop the Empire State Building. Besides a standard analog transmission, WHTZ broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online via iHeartRadio. The station also simulcasts over channel 12 on SiriusXM satellite radio.

Z100 went on the air at 6:08 AM on August 2, 1983 with program director/morning show host Scott Shannon. The first two songs ever played on the station were "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor, followed by "America" by Neil Diamond. Initially, the station called themselves by their new call letters (WHTZ), but by late August, they began calling themselves "Z100". The station signed on from its new and still-incomplete studio in Secaucus, transmitting from the old FM tower site in West Orange, New Jersey, as their antenna was not moved to the top of the Empire State Building until August 4 at 6 AM.

Listen to audio of Z100's first day on the air here.

Z100 was the second station that summer to attempt to bring the Top 40 format back to New York, with rock station WPLJ having begun the evolution to top 40 in June. WHTZ was programmed to remind listeners of one-time AM powerhouse WABC, which had gone from a tight Top 40 format to leaning Disco in early 1979 to leaning adult rock later in 1979, to leaning adult contemporary in 1980 and then evolving to Adult Contemporary/Talk in 1981, before it finally flipped to an all-talk format on May 10, 1982.

Within 74 days of signing on, WHTZ had climbed from last place to first in the New York Arbitron ratings book. Over the years, Z100 stayed with a top 40 format, with WPLJ behind them in the ratings. Scott Shannon left Z100 at the end of 1988 to begin "Pirate Radio" (KQLZ) in Los Angeles, and Steve Kingston took over as operations manager and Frankie Blue would become assistant programming director. By 1991, however, the Top 40 format was in an identity crisis. A major sign of this crisis came when WPLJ moved to a hot adult contemporary format by 1992. Z100 responded to this by adding some older songs and introducing an evening talk show called "Love Phones." Ratings gradually dropped from 1991 to 1993. In 1993, Z100 dropped the older songs and began mixing in alternative rock music which wasn't normally being played on Top 40 stations. By the end of 1994, the majority of the station's music consisted of alternative rock with only a few non-modern-rock-based songs per hour. The station still played the current big hits by artists such as Madonna, TLC, Mariah Carey, and others. Although, notably, Z100 snubbed several big pop hits at the time such as "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman" by Bryan Adams, "You Are Not Alone" by Michael Jackson, and "I Could Fall In Love" by Selena. At this point, Z100 was sold to Shamrock Broadcasting. Frankie Blue would leave in 1995 and Sam Milkman would move up to his position.

Ratings, though nowhere near the top anymore, remained steady at the station during much of the mid-1990s, but by March 1996, there was a steep drop after WKTU signed on at 103.5 FM with a dance music format, and WXRK (92.3 K-Rock) adapted a full-time alternative rock format. Both stations took listeners from Z100. Steve Kingston and his assistant Sam Milkman left Z100 for WXRK, while music director Andy Shane left for WKTU, joining another former Z100 music director, Frankie Blue. Airstaff had also gradually begun leaving the station beginning that February. Z100 had even stopped using the name "Morning Zoo" the year before. Morning host John Lander left in November 1995. That January, Steve Cochrane arrived to do mornings, but by May, he was gone. Z100 was undergoing a crisis at this point. The station was sold in a corporate deal to Chancellor Media.

In April 1996, the station brought in Tom Poleman as its new programming director. Initially, at that point, Z100 dropped all non-modern rock titles and began playing strictly pop alternative. By May 1996, Z100 began gradually replacing its on-air staff, and the harder alternative songs were phased out. Though initially it seemed that Z100 was becoming a modern AC station, beginning that summer, the station gradually began to move back to a mainstream Top 40 format, as it added pop music from such formats as R&B, rap, and adult contemporary. One of Poleman's biggest moves was to switch DJ Elvis Duran from afternoons to the "Z Morning Zoo" (which was known as "The Morning Show" for the previous several years), Z100's popular morning show. Despite having shared the post with other hosts (such as Elliot Segal, now at WWDC) through the years, Duran remains the "Head Zookeeper" to this day. By December 1996, Z100 was a full-time Top 40 station again. Chancellor merged with Evergreen in 1997, making WKTU a sister station of Z100. Still, both stations continued on the same courses, occasionally overlapping with music.

In a 1999 merger, Z100's parent company, Chancellor, acquired Capstar, forming AM/FM Inc. Shortly after the merger was finalized, AM/FM was bought by its current owners, Clear Channel Communications.

In early 2006, Z100 launched an HD Radio station that plays songs by bands who have not gone mainstream, or have very little exposure. Currently, it is the only New York City area HD2 station that features DJs.

In October 2007, 22 months after top-rated morning show host Howard Stern had departed the New York FM airwaves for satellite radio and after years of hovering near the top, Z100 once again became the highest-rated station in New York City, scoring a 5.1 rating in persons 12+ in the Summer book. That marked the first number-one finish for the station since the 1980s, according to Clear Channel New York programming guru Tom Poleman. It also scored a first-place among the 18-34 demographic in the book, as well as a second place in the 25-54 demo.

The call letters are supposed to represent the word "hits"; indeed, an early advertising campaign for the station claimed that HTZ was "The New Way to Spell 'Hitz' in New York." Z100's current slogan is "New York's Hit Music Station.", used in tandem on-air with "All The Hits". The long-running "#1" part of the slogan was removed in 2007. The former slogan was "Today's Best Music." Z100 is considered the 2nd largest pop/CHR/Top 40 station in the world after BBC Radio 1, pulling in an audience of 5 million daily. Additionally, according to the radio industry website, RadioStats.Net, Z100's site is the most visited US CHR website in the world and, in fact, one of the most frequented radio websites overall.

Indeed, today Z100 serves as a bellwether of soon-to-break acts and sets the pace for pop singles that spread coast to coast. In addition, the station's Jingle Ball concert is about to expand with plans to franchise the lineup to other Clear Channel stations. Thirty years after a shaky start, Z100 is still "serving the universe," as its longtime slogan boasts.

*source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHTZ
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/worst-first-as-z100-turns-598914
http://www.z100.com/pages/30th-anniversary/

Here's my collection of Z100 stickers:

Unused bumper sticker from 2013, sheet measures approximately 14.5 cm by 7.5 cm.
Front side: shaped, background: black: Z100 logo.
Back side: white.

Unused bumper sticker from 2009, sheet measures approximately 18.5 cm by 7.5 cm.
Front side: oval, shaped, yellow chrome; background: black, Dollar symbol; Z100 logo + 1 small sticker: Z100 logo.
Back side: Z-Free Money stickers promo.

Unused bumper sticker from 2004, sheet measures approximately 15 cm by 7.3 cm.
Front side: background: white; Z100 logo.
Back side: Z-Free Money sticker promo.

Unused bumper sticker from 2000, sheet measures approximately 19 cm by 9 cm.
Front side: background: white; Z100 logo.
Back side: white.

Unused bumper sticker from 1998, sheet measures approximately 17.5 cm by 9 cm.
Front side: background: black, X-turquoise; Z100 logo.
Back side: Slap It On! promo.

Unused bumper sticker from 1996, sheet measures approximately 18.5 cm by 8.5 cm.
Front side: background: black, bar-chartreuse; Z100 logo.
Back side: white.

Unused bumper sticker from 1994, sheet measures approximately 13.5 cm by 10.7 cm.
Front side: background: clear, black, yellow; Z100 logo.
Back side: Slap It On! promo.

Unused bumper sticker from between the late 1980s and early the 1990s, sheet measures approximately 24.8 cm by 10.3 cm.
Front side: shaped, background: white; Z100 logo, New York, recycle symbol + 2 small Z100 logo, WIZ logo, 'I Zoo in My Car... Z100!'.
Back side: WIZ promo, Genovese discount coupon.

Unused bumper sticker from between the late 1980s and early the 1990s, sheet measures approximately 24.8 cm by 10.3 cm.
Front side: shaped, background: white; frequency 100.3 FM, Z100 logo, New York, Dunkin' Donuts logo + small 'I Zoo in My Car... Z100!, Z100 logo.
Back side: Z100 contest rules, 'The Original Z100 Shirt Shop' order form.

Unused bumper sticker from between the late 1980s and early the 1990s, sheet measures approximately 24.8 cm by 10.3 cm.
Front side: shaped, background: white; frequency 100.3 FM, Z100 logo, Mountain Dew logo + 2 small Z100 logo, Get Vertical, Mountain Dew logo.
Back side: Z100 contest rules, 'The Original Z100 Shirt Shop' order form.

Unused bumper sticker from between the late 1980s and early the 1990s, sheet measures approximately 24.8 cm by 10.3 cm.
Front side: shaped, background: white; Z100 logo, New York, frequency 100.3 FM + 2 small Z100 logo, Z100 heart sign Dunkin' Donuts logo.
Back side: Z100 contest rules, 'The Original Z100 Shirt Shop' order form.

Unused bumper sticker from between the late 1980s and early the 1990s, sheet measures approximately 19 cm by 11.4 cm.
Front side: shaped, background: white; Z100 logo + 2 small Z100 logo, Z100 heart sign Dunkin' Donuts logo.
Back side: 'The Z100 Gift Catalog' order form.

Unused bumper sticker from between the late 1980s and early the 1990s, sheet measures approximately 19 cm by 11.4 cm.
Front side: shaped, background: white; Z100 logo + 2 small Z100 logo.
Back side: 'The Z100 Gift Catalog' order form.

Unused bumper sticker from 1986, sheet measures approximately 19 cm by 11 cm.
Front side: shaped, background: white; city landscape, Z100 logo + 2 small Z100 logo.
Back side: 'Z-100 Z-Shirt or Sweatshirt' order form.

Unused bumper sticker from 1985, sheet measures approximately 14.5 cm by 11 cm.
Front side: shaped balloon; background: yellow; 'Turn Up the Volume', Agree shampoo logo.
Back side: white.

Unused bumper sticker from 1984, sheet measures approximately 14.5 cm by 11 cm.
Front side: shaped balloon; background: yellow; Z100 logo, 'Turn Up the Volume', Agree shampoo logo.
Back side: white.

Unused bumper sticker from 1983, sheet measures approximately 14.5 cm by 11 cm.
Front side: shaped balloon; background: yellow; Z100 logo, 'Turn Up the Volume', Agree shampoo logo.
Back side: white.

Kiss 95.1, Charlotte (2000)

Unused bumper sticker from 2000, sheet measures approximately 17.7 cm by 8.3 cm.
Front side: background: orange, lite-orange; Kiss 95.1 logo.
Back side: 'Ace & TJ' promo.


WNKS, known on the air as Kiss 95.1 FM, is a 100,000 watt radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina. It broadcasts at 95.1 MHz from a tower in Dallas, North Carolina, primarily serving the Charlotte metropolitan area. On air programming consists of mainstream top 40 (CHR) music. The station is owned by CBS Radio and formerly served as the flagship for the syndicated "Ace & TJ Show" until May 2011, replaced by "Drex and Maney Mornings" later. The studios are located on South Boulevard in Charlotte's South End and a transmitter is located in Dallas, North Carolina.

In the 1960s, WIST-FM was one of the first oldies stations. SIS radio bought the station in 1972. WIST-FM changed to album-oriented rock with the new letters WRNA, eventually becoming WROQ a.k.a "95Q". With album-oriented rock declining in popularity, WROQ became a CHR station called " The New Q95" in 1984. Late in the 1980s, WROQ evolved into Rock 40.

In 1990, the station returned to CHR as WZZG a.k.a. "Gorilla Radio, The New Z95.1 FM". Later in the year, WZZG became WGKL-FM "Kool 95.1", an oldies station emphasizing 50s music more than Magic 96.1. In October 1991, WGKL stunted with a different format each day, using mostly satellite formats from SMN, and one day even doing all-comedy, before becoming WAQQ "95-Double-Q", a CHR station with an modern rock emphasis. Pure CHR was one of the "choices" listeners were to vote on, but the eventual choice was "none of the above". In 1994, along with a name change to WEDJ "95.1 The Edge", the station moved even closer to modern rock. The switch to the current name, letters and format was made in 1996.

*Kiss 95.1 Charlotte and Kiss 108 Boston stickers

The Kiss logo
Kiss 95.1 uses the same/similar logo as WXKS-FM ("Kiss 108"), a Top-40 station owned by Clear Channel Communications and based in Boston, Massachusetts. This dates back to when both stations were owned by the Pyramid Broadcasting before WNKS-FM was spun off to American Radio Systems, which became CBS, in the late 90s.

This is actually the second station in Charlotte to use the "Kiss" moniker. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, WCKZ was known as "Kiss 102", using a churban format similar to what is today called rhythmic CHR; it is now the Urban AC-formatted WBAV ("V101.9"), another CBS Radio-owned station. Only this "Kiss 95.1" is a Pop station; the moniker was used before Clear Channel trademarked it for its pop stations years down the line.
*source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNKS

106.7 KDL, Dallas (2003)

Unused bumper sticker from 2003, sheet measures approximately 18.5 cm by 9.5 cm.
Front side: shaped, background: black; 106.7 KDL logo.
Back side: white.


The station's roots began at 106.5 as a "great oldies" station with the call letters KXGM until 2001 when it moved to 106.7 and was sold to Entravision. However in exchange for the move it was agreed with HBC that it would not change to a Spanish format for five years.

So, in August 2002 it launched an English-language format, Dance Top 40, as KKDL (106.7 KDL, "The Dance Leader" and later, "The Texas Party Station"). In 2004, it moved in a rhythmic Top 40 direction with a Hispanic rhythmic bias as KZZA, "CASA 106.7".
*source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZZA

Q107, Calgary (2004)

Unused bumper sticker from 2004, sheet measures approximately 16.5 cm by 8.8 cm.
Front side: background: red; Q107 logo + 1 small stickers: Q107 website address.
Back side: Q107's 2004 Nissan 305Z and Burger King promo.


Q107 (CFGQ) is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 107.3 MHz in Calgary, Alberta.

The station was launched on April 15, 1982 as CKIK-FM, and first broadcast an adult album rock format. Throughout the 1980s and much of the 1990s, CKIK-FM (known on-air as 107 KIK FM and later as Rock 107) played a variety of rock formats. Early in its history, the station encountered financial difficulties, which were alleviated in 1985, when Harvey Glatt, Ottawa music impresario and founder of CHEZ-FM, acquired a 75% interest in the station, which he held until 1995.

In September 1997, CKIK-FM adopted a CHR format branded as "Power 107". In January 2002, CKIK-FM would later evolve to become a hot adult contemporary station known as "The Peak 107.3". In 2004, CKIK-FM dropped the hot AC format, becoming a classic rock station branded as "Q107". The station's call letters were changed to CFGQ.
*source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFGQ-FM

Beat 104.3, Austin (1999, 2005)

Unused bumper sticker from 2005, sheet measures approximately 19 cm by 6.5 cm.
Front side: shaped; background: purple, magenta; Beat 104.3 logo
Back side: white

Unused bumper sticker from 1999, sheet measures approximately 26 cm by 6.2 cm.
Front side: background: chartreuse, ghost green; Beat 104.3 logo.
Back side: Wendy's and Just Brakes promo


As The Beat 104.3 (1st phase, KQBT)
KQBT 104.3 FM was launched in 1998 (station licensed to Taylor, Texas) after the frequency would be moved southward to the Austin area after previously serving the Temple-Killeen market as KKIK. Soon enough, KQBT, with the branding [The] Beat 104.3, began targeting Austin in 1998 as a Rhythmic Contemporary Hits station, playing Hip Hop, R&B, some Pop, and some Dance. At the time, the station complemented the then co-owned Urban AC station KJCE "K-Juice 1370" (now a talk radio station). This would eventually propel KQBT as one of Austin's Top 5 radio stations (sometimes #1) according to Arbitron ratings.

But in 2004, Howard Stern was expected back on the radio due in several markets due to Clear Channel firing him for indecency. And KQBT, along with five other replacement radio stations owned by what was then called Infinity Broadcasting (which owned Stern's show through syndication), was selected to carry the morning drive. As a result, there would be uncertainty that the Hip Hop/R&B format would even survive with Howard Stern on the air, so the frequency flipped to talk radio, changed calls to KOYT and called itself 104.3 The Coyote. The FM Talk format did not do well at all; because of this, the ratings tanked.
 
As "Beat 104.3" (2nd phase, KXBT)
With the failure of KOYT, the frequency returned to a Rhythmic Contemporary Hits format five months later under the former branding Beat 104.3 but with new call letters KXBT because KQBT was already assigned to a radio station in Llano, Texas, and later, a radio station in Houston, Texas now. Even though it is a Rhythmic, this time KXBT skewed slightly towards an unofficial Mainstream Urban format, unusual for the market's demographics given the fact less than 10% of the Austin radio market's population is African American. Soon after the return to the format, KXBT has reintroduced Freestyle Dance music and added more Reggaeton music to the charts. 

104.3 FM is currently a Regional Mexican station "La Que Buena" (KLQB).
 *source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLQB

98.8 KISS FM, Berlin (1995, 2006)

Unused bumper sticker from 2006, sheet measures approximately 14.7 cm by 10.4 cm.
Front side: background: black; KISS FM logo, website + 3 small stickers: KISS FM logo, website.
Back side: postcard.

Unused bumper sticker from 1995, sheet measures approximately 21 cm by 4.5 cm.
Front side: background: black; KISS FM logo, slogan: "1st Deejay Radio Berlin."
Back side: white.


98.8 KISS FM is a privately owned radio station broadcasting to Berlin 98.8 MHz, specializing in R&B, dance, hip hop and pop. It also broadcasts via analogue cable in Berlin and Brandenburg on 97.90 MHz and nationwide via DAB+. Its studios are part of the medienzentrum Berlin located in the shopping center Das Schloss in the district of Steglitz.

KISS FM has a technical reach of 4.2 million listeners living in Berlin and Brandenburg. Its core target group are young people living in Berlin between the ages of 14 and 29 years. Within this target group, KISS FM is third place with 23,000 listeners per hour.

KISS FM started its broadcasts in January 1993. It was named after the New York radio station 98.7 Kiss FM which was one of the first stations to play rap music regularly, catering only to an African-American audience. The vision of the Berlin adaptation was to play "underrepresented music". The broadcasting license for KISS FM was tied to certain requirements which are still in force today. KISS FM must air a program with music and spoken word which focuses on all fields of young life in Berlin, especially vocational training, work, leisure time and youth-related problems. Furthermore, the program must be socially engaged, react to current trends and put an emphasis on the integration of minorities living in Berlin.

In its beginning, KISS FM was broadcast solely via analogue cable on 98.45 MHz making it hard for the station to reach a significant number of listeners. On 1 August 1994, the cable frequency was switched to 97.9 MHz. In the same month, KISS FM was considering to discontinue its broadcasts due to financial issues and appealed to the regional media authority MABB to assign an FM frequency to the station. After a decision by the MABB in December 1994, KISS FM received the frequency 98.8 MHz from BFBS on 28 February 1995.

In its first five years, KISS FM regarded itself as a DJ radio and a representative for Berlin's club scene. Its slogan at that time was "Power Music Radio". The daytime programming was formatted, offering a mix of R&B, hip hop and dance music. Typical artists heard on the station included Freundeskreis, Apollo 440, Run DMC, Janet Jackson, Robert Miles or Nas. In the nighttime, DJ shows were aired focusing on all kinds of urban & dance music genres. Among its DJs were Paul Van Dyk, Ray Cokes and DJ Tomekk. KISS FM also participated in the Love Parade and the Christopher Street Day in Berlin with its own truck.
*source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/98.8_KISS_FM_Berlin

Top 40 (CHR) stations, USA (early 1990s)

*Sample of POWER PLAYLISTS (c)Billboard Magazine

The first time I know the international AM and FM stations (outside of IndONEsia), especially stations in Northern America, is from Billboard Magazine, circa 1992.

Billboard's POWER AIRPLAY is one of my favorite articles beside "Vox Jox", "newslines..", "Networks and Syndication" and "Billboard's PD of the Week." POWER AIRPLAY is the sample of current playlist/music chart of the largest and the most influential Top 40 (CHR) stations across the U.S., there are also sample playlists from the Country music stations (Hot Country Playlists) and from Urban stations (Hot R&B Playlists).

*U.S. CHR station stickers (early '90s)

Currently I've some bumper stickers of U.S. top 40 (CHR, Contemporary Hit Radio) stations--designed, released in the early '90s--where their logo was displayed on the POWER PLAY each week such as 102.7 KIIS FM Los Angeles, Z100 New York, Kiss 108 Boston, B96 Chicago, Q102 Philadelphia, 97.1 KEGL The Eagle Dallas, Star 94 Atlanta, Power 106 Los Angeles, Q106 San Diego, 95.5 WPLJ New York, Z101.5 KPLZ Seattle, Power 93 Tampa, KMEL JAMS 106 FM San Francisco, WAVA 105 FM Washington, DC, Kiss 95.7 Hartford, Power 108 Cleveland, Power 95 Dallas, Mix 96.5 Houston, 101.3 KDWB Minneapolis-St. Paul, 99.5 WZPL Indianapolis, KUBE 93 Seattle, 104 KRBE Houston, 99.5 The FOX Detroit, Q105 Tampa, and Q102 Cincinnati.

I am still looking for bumperstickers of other stations on the POWER PLAYLIST such as Hot 97 New York, Hot 94.7 Chicago, 96.3 FM WHYT Detroit, Mix 107.3 and 95.5 WPGC Washington, DC, Eagle 106 Philadelphia, Power 99 Atlanta, Y100 and Power 96 Miami, 94.5 WZOU Boston, 92 Pro FM Providence, Kiss 98.7 New York, WEDR 99 JAMZ Miami, WYLD FM98 New Orleans, 107.5 WBLS New York, FM98 WJLB Detroit, FM92 The Beat Los Angeles, etc.

If you have those bumper stickers, please feel free to let me know and contact me soon at rickenstein2000@gmail.com (Ricky), thank you.

*related link: Radio stickers from the '80s, '90s, 2Ks and NOW

97.9 The Beat, Dallas (2000s, 2013)

Unused bumper sticker from 2013, sheet measures approximately 17.5 cm by 8 cm.
Front side: background: white; 97.9 The Beat logo + website ijustgothit.com
Back side: The Island, DefJam recordings.

Unused bumper sticker from 2013, sheet measures approximately 17.5 cm by 8 cm.
Front side: background: white; 97.9 The Beat logo + website thebeatdfw.com
Back side: white.

Unused bumper sticker from 2000s, sheet measures approximately 17.5 cm by 8 cm.
Front side: background: white; 97.9 The Beat logo
Back side: white.

Unused bumper sticker from 2000s, sheet measures approximately 17.5 cm by 8 cm.
Front side: background: blue; 97.9 The Beat logo
Back side: white.


KBFB (97.9 FM, "97.9 The Beat") is a Dallas/Fort Worth-based radio station with a Urban Contemporary musical format. It is owned by Radio One with sister station KSOC-FM ("Old School 94.5"). Its studios (alongside KSOC) are located in the Valley View Center in North Dallas, and its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas, USA.
The station traces its history back to the October 5, 1946 launch of the first FM radio station to sign on in Texas, "KERA-FM" (no relation to the current radio and television stations known under the same call letters), although its roots go back to an experimental FM station "W5X1C" that signed on October 15, 1945, and another experimental trial dating back to 1939. By 1947, it had moved from its original home at 94.3 FM to a preferred location in the center of the dial at 97.9 FM under the WFAA-FM call letter, initially simulcasting its AM sister station WFAA (570 AM).

In September 1973, WFAA-FM changed its call letters to KZEW and played classic and progressive rock music for 17 years with the on-air slogan "The Zoo." In 1987, KZEW and KRQX (the former WFAA radio, now KLIF) were sold by A.H. Belo Corporation, which retained ownership of the Dallas Morning News and WFAA-TV (channel 8). Three years later KZEW switched formats to a light rock station, changing both calls and branding to KKWM (Warm 97.9). A year later, the station changed its callsign and station nickname again to KLRX (Lite 97.9) while maintaining its light rock format.

In 1993, the station was sold by Cox Enterprises to Infinity/CBS Radio and formats were switched back to progressive rock and re-branded KRRW (Arrow 97.9). In 1997, the station switched formats back to soft rock/adult contemporary music and renamed to the current KBFB, and the slogan became B-97.9. Programming during this soft rock incarnation included Delilah during the nighttime hours via satellite before she was shifted to its former sister station KVIL.

KBFB made the change to Urban Contemporary as 97.9 The Beat in 2000 after the station was sold to Radio One. Since The Beat's launch, the station has been in direct competition against longtime heritage Urban station KKDA (K104). In addition to KKDA, they also had a competitor with former Rhythmic Contemporary rival KZZA until the station flipped to Spanish Oldies in 2008. Today, KBFB competes with KKDA, along to an extent with CHR formats on KHKS-FM (106.1 Kiss FM) and KLIF-FM (i93.3). Throughout the years as "The Beat," the station shifts between Urban Contemporary and CHR/Rhythmic.
*source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBFB