FM Frequency of the Week: 98.1

[ksradiogeek]

Central Kansas:
At times, decent (though weak) reception from KMBZ-FM/KCK. I believe KUSN/Dearing and KFGE/Milford have come in before, though not very often.

 

[KyleSmith1988]

Eastern Upstate SC -
Common: Weak Signal from WHZT (80 Miles SW)
Behind Strong Interference from 97.9 WPEG.

Rarely: Tropo can bring weak to fair signal of WQSM (150 miles east) or WBRF (110 Miles NE)

Very Rare: E-Skip A few years ago, heard KVET from Austin TX (980 Miles West/Southwest)

Also noted recently hearing 98.1 WOGL (Philly) while on approach to BWI Airport, from near Annapolis MD / Chesapeake Bay.

 

[KD4YQR]

Central Kentucky:
WBUL and only WBUL Lexington. Have never heard anything else on 98.1, here.

This frequency has only had 3 sets of calls since it's 1968 sign on, as WLEX FM, then owned by WLEX TV (18).
WLEX FM ran 2 Drake Chenault formats: "Hit Parade XX" ( insert year here) during the week and "Solid Gold" on the weekends.
It was a fresh, new sound for Lexington then.

You would frequently hear it in businesses that catered to a younger adult clientele. It became quite popular although car listening was limited due to small number of vehicles then that had FM. FM car radios were quite expensive then and the car stereo aftermarket was still a few years away.
They were also the station for the Cincinnati Reds in Lexington as WLEX TV had the Reds TV rights.

Late in 1974, WLEX FM was sold to a NC company and the calls changed to WKQQ, and the format became AOR on January 1, 1975.
Album Oriented Rock coupled with irreverent humor made WKQQ an instant hit with the high school and college age crowd. For many years was Lexington's #1 FM station. ,"Double Q".

WKQQ remained on 98.1 until 1998, when Clear Channel decided to "de-throne" country powerhouse WVLK FM "K 93", by placing "The Bull" country format on 98.1 and moving WKQQ to 100.1 with a lower power transmitter .

It worked.

WBUL became Lexingtons #1 country station and still is, with WVLK FM running second.
WBUL became the FM flagship for University of Kentucky sports, the icing on the cake, taking that, too from WVLK FM.

As a side note, I've been to southeastern Kentucky and had WBUL and WBRF, Galax VA., another monster signal on 98.1., swap back and forth. Ironically WBRF uses the same jingle package as WBUL.

 

[CurtisNEPA]

In the Wilkes-Barre(Northeast PA) area, it's mostly bleedover from our local WBSX "97.9X". However, during tropo conditions, I usually pull in country WHWK "The Hawk" from Binghamton. Sometimes, I can even get WFGY "Froggy 98" from all the way in Altoona, The former can be regularly heard with sometimes a decent signal once I am in the Scranton area, but on a very good radio.

Also, WOGL from Philly is another closest station on this frequency, but so far I haven't picked them up during tropo openings where I live.

 

[MarioMania]

Central Kentucky:
WBUL and only WBUL Lexington. Have never heard anything else on 98.1, here.

This frequency has only had 3 sets of calls since it's 1968 sign on, as WLEX FM, then owned by WLEX TV (18).
WLEX FM ran 2 Drake Chenault formats: "Hit Parade XX" ( insert year here) during the week and "Solid Gold" on the weekends.
It was a fresh, new sound for Lexington then.

You would frequently hear it in businesses that catered to a younger adult clientele. It became quite popular although car listening was limited due to small number of vehicles then that had FM. FM car radios were quite expensive then and the car stereo aftermarket was still a few years away.
They were also the station for the Cincinnati Reds in Lexington as WLEX TV had the Reds TV rights.

Late in 1974, WLEX FM was sold to a NC company and the calls changed to WKQQ, and the format became AOR on January 1, 1975.
Album Oriented Rock coupled with irreverent humor made WKQQ an instant hit with the high school and college age crowd. For many years was Lexington's #1 FM station. ,"Double Q".

WKQQ remained on 98.1 until 1998, when Clear Channel decided to "de-throne" country powerhouse WVLK FM "K 93", by placing "The Bull" country format on 98.1 and moving WKQQ to 100.1 with a lower power transmitter .

It worked.

WBUL became Lexingtons #1 country station and still is, with WVLK FM running second.
WBUL became the FM flagship for University of Kentucky sports, the icing on the cake, taking that, too from WVLK FM.

As a side note, I've been to southeastern Kentucky and had WBUL and WBRF, Galax VA., another monster signal on 98.1., swap back and forth. Ironically WBRF uses the same jingle package as WBUL.

There's KBUL on 98.1 in Carson City/Reno