Turn it up! It's WKFR!

Growing up my Father introduced me to radio and it was love at first sound. I was shocked that out of this little box I could hear stories being told, songs sung and news reported; I was addicted. All I have every wanted to do was play on the radio, I am lucky because my dreams came true. Hence why I feel the need to celebrate this "National Holiday".

With the day to honor radio quickly aproaching, I did some research. I found the web-site michiguide.com and they had a tale to tell about the radio we all know and love on the West side of our great state...

It was not until April 28th in 1923 that a Southwest Michigan radio station received their license to broadcast, believe it or not, the station was not out of Kalamazoo but Berrien Springs. The station would eventually evolve into a Kalamazoo radio station.

It was not until 1964 that WELL-AM-FM became WKFR-AM-FM; and the AM station became Top 40 rocker!

Then I started to wonder how we became WKFR (you know, the call letter and what do they mean), the Michigan guide to radio explained that too..WKFR Battle Creek: used letters from one of the cities the station would be licensed in.

WKFR = Kalamazoo FM Radio. So cool that the cal letters represent our area!

So with this special day approaching National Radio Day suggests how we can celebrate the day...