KDKA Group photo

 

1950s? group KDKA image

The prettier postcard style image below lacks a list of names but the Pittsburgh Press published every name. I've seen the original, it's an 8x10 glossy promotional photo they put in their press kit. There's one on Ebay right now actually. [LINK] and [LINK] Sources generally date it to the 1950s but lets see if we can improve that. But let's list off all the names first:

TOP ROW: Homer Martz, Al Azzaro, Kenny Newton, Slim Bryant, Loppy Bryant, Jerry Wallace and Neal Wallace.

CENTER ROW: Bill Newsbit, Johnny Boyer, Janet Ross,  John Stewart, and Ed Schaughency. 

BOTTOM ROW: Bernie Armstrong, Paul Shannon, Elaine Beverly, Aneurin Bodycombe, Evelyn Gardiner, and Jim Westover

 

The text clearly states that this is an enlarged photograph of 1020 KDKA-AM's staff of entertainers and that listeners who donate to the old newsboys fund will get one. It is sometimes labeled as their "TV Team" which is not accurate. That is probably based on one of two errors of assumption. Slim Bryant and the Wildcats did have a TV show (later) but also that staff were wholly separate between TV and radio, which they were not. 

What I'd like you to understand most is that this isn't even the entire staff. There were also engineers and transcription staff, librarians, and management. Today a whole station cluster in a major market has fewer staff than is pictured just here. 

TOP ROW

Homer Martz - Martz was the Farm Director and hosted the Home and Farm Hour. It's editor was E.S. Bayard as late as 1946. [SOURCE] KDKA was broadcasting farm market reports from Washington and the Chicago hog and feed markets as early as 1921. [SOURCE] He was still producing farm marketing programming as late as 1951. He appears a few time in the book Farm Broadcasting by John C. Baker.

Al Azzaro - Azzaro was a member of Slim Bryant and his Wild Cats. Don't let the accordion fool you. That was absolutely standard kit in a country band back then. He's credited on some Majestic 78s with Slim Bryant's group, and some Italian dance music LPs. In 1947 he copyrighted two songs, the PIttzburgh Polka and one named "Echo Polka" which tells us that Azzaro did pen some of the groups songs. A 1945 issue of the Warren Times Mirror reported that "...the wildcats Are heard daily on KDKA during the farm hour 6-7 AM."  His name disappears from the trades in the early 1950s, a mention that he was vacationing in Ocean City. 

Kenny Newton -  Newton was the fiddle player for the original Georgia Wildcats under Clayton "Pappy" McMichen in 1937.  Newton joined Slim Bryant and his Wild Cats in 1937 [SOURCE] A 1947 issue of Billboard described him as a "singing violinist from the hills of Pennsylvania." The last time I found his name in print was the Radio Television Daily of 1952 on a road trip through the Midewest while the band was taking time off.

Thomas Hoyt "Slim" Bryant - Slim Bryant was the vocalist and lead guitarist for the Wild cats. They performed on the Farm Hour weekdays 6:15 to 6:30 Monday Wednesday and Friday in the mid 1940s.  He died in 2010 at the age of 101. Slim really was from Georgia, and really was 6' 4". His band played regularly on KDKA for 19 years starting in 1941 running through about 1959.  He and his wire ran a gift shop starting in the 1960s, then later taught guitar lessons.

 

Raymond "Loppy" Bryant - Brother of Slim and founding member of the Wildcats. One of the last recordings for the Wild cats was a Square Dance mono LP on MGM/Lion  released in 1958. Loppy is credited as the dance caller. He retired to DormontPa and became a city councilman.

Jerry Wallace - Jerry played guitar backing up slim. In their more iconic photos he played an amplified Gibson L-5, where Slim usually played a Gibson L-5. He has virtually no press aside from the Wildcats. I should note he is not the same Jerry Wallace who recorded as "Jerry Wallace With The Jewels" in the late fifties, though with that guitar work you might think so.

Neal Wallace - A March 1946 issue of Broadcasting describes him  as the "Chief Announcer on KFBC.  Neal next appears in and Billboard 1946-1947 Encyclopedia of music as as announcing two shows: The Benny Goodman show and Musical Showcase both on KFBC, Cheyenne, WY.  A June, 1951 issue of Broadcasting, has him leaving KFBC in for KDKA to replace Bud Powell. A February, 1953 issue of Cashbox still lists Neal as a DJ at KDKA. It appears he left the station in 1955. Cash Box states "Neal Wallace, All Nite guy at KDKA-Pittsburegh, Pa.; taking a vacation from his 50,000 watts and platters." 

 

CENTER ROW

Bill Nesbitt - This name is more common than you might think. There was our Nesbitt at KDKA, the announcer for the DCSA Organ Melodies (Dairyman's Cooperative Sales Organization). Variety has him taking over the night time "Party Line program in June of 1956. Then Broadcasting magazine reports that he joined the WCAE staff in 1957 to host "Easy Listenin'".  In 1958 Variety records him still on staff at WCAE but on vacation, then in March of 1959 switching to nights.

Johnny Boyer -  A 1942 Movie and Radio Guide lists him on KDKA at 10:00 PM as "Jolly Johnny Boyer." In the 1946 KDKA Station Album Johnny Boyer appears on the news schedule at 11:15 PM after Bill Stern. Elsewhere in that same pamphlet he's described as a sportscaster. He had that slow at least a year earlier per Broadcasting magazine, [SOURCE] which they called a "Whirl Around the World of Sports." The same print ad was running with Boyer on it through at least 1950. I did find a Farm Hour glossy promo photo with Boyer and Homer Martz  as floating heads on the Wildcats. it implies that Boyer did some announcing on that program as well. A 1958 issue of Variety puts him on WCAE but still doing sports. 

Janet Ross - In 1946 Ross is listed in a KDKA album as the host of "Shopping Circle" Mon - Sat mornings. The program started before 1938 and ran until at last 1953. A 1943 issue of "The Beam" trade journal of the Association of Women Directors of NAB, (AWD) records that she spoke at one of their events with a bevy of other women directors working in radio.  [SOURCE] She was named Advertising Woman of the Year by the Pittsburgh Adclum for her 25th anniversary with KDKA in 1956. That puts her start around 1931. She remained with the station until at least 1957.

John Stewart -  He has his own show Program PM which ran from 8:00 to 10:00 PM and he was the announcer on Party Line. The hosts of that show were Ed and Windy King. The trio worked together through at least 1957. But a 1965 issue of Billboard lists Stewart on KDKA 9:00-10:00 M-Sat hosting "Program PM" doing interviews and reports. Sounds like a News Magazine program.

Ed Schaughency - The Uncle Ed Shaughency Show was launched in 1932 and continued until 1980. He also hosted the Starlets on Parade program in the 1940s. Uncle Ed was with KDKA radio for 48 years. He was survived by his widow Gertrude and his brother Paul. [LINK]  TV show 1957

BOTTOM ROW

Bernie Armstrong - Bernie was the bandmaster on the Musical Clock, a program hosted by Bill Hinds who's not pictured. He was also the conductor on The Duquene Show, a vocal ensemble with an orchestra and Singing Strings a 30 minute string ensemble program. Armstrong and Bodycombe chose the music and arrangements for programs. 

Paul Shannon - Host of Adventuress in Research, a program co-host with Dr. Phillips Thomas of Westinghouse. He also read poetry on a program called "The Dreamweaver." The show has been compared to Moon River on WLW. He also hosted the syndicated science-focused program Adventures in Research with Thomas Phillips. [SOURCE]  He went to WTAE-TV in 1958 to host a children's program "Adventuretime" which ran until 1979. He retired in 1975, and died in 1990.

Elaine Beverly - Born in Akron, OH she attended Duquesne University and began singing and dancing on a KDKA variety show named "Brunch." She and her husband Joe Mann married in 1946 and together why co-hosted a live daily half hour variety show "Meet Your Neighbor on KDKA-TV from 1951 to 1957. Her name change from Fierman to Mann helps date this image to before 1946. The couple moved on to performing on cruise ships. Joe died in 1971. Elaine got a straight job managing a retirement home in 1979. She died in 2004. 

Aneurin "Red" Bodycombe - A composer and organist at the First Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. He worked at Pittsburgh radio station KDKA starting in 1926. (some sources say 1929) He was born in 1899 in Wales and immigrated to the US after WWI. IN 1938 he directed the Stainless Steel Singers. KDKA gave up live programs in the late 1950s and he switched to sales. He retired from KDKA in 1964 and died in 1951. [SOURCE] He is known to have only recorded on one 78 rpm record with vocalist Bob carter. More here.

Radio Digest May 1930 

Evelyn Gardiner - Radio Digest puts Gardiner on KDKA as early as 1930. She was KDKA's resident Home Economist and host of The Home Forum and often made appearances with Janet Ross as she did with the AWD.  A 1937 issue of Motion Picture Daily Dorothy Allen was hired to assist her in her "Home Forum" broadcasts. A 1944 NAB report places her at KDKA running a Home Prize contest with Ross. A 1955 issue of Variety reports her resignation from KDKA after 25 years. She and her husband, composer Victor Saudek relocated to San Diego. A 1956 issue of Variety puts her at La Jolla High School teaching English and Journalism. Saudek directed the KDKA Little Symphony Orchestra beginning in 1922. 

Jim Westover - In 1947 he's mentioned among the staff of the comedy program "King for a Minute."  In 1949 he was selected as the announcer for the show "Americans, Speak Up! In 1951 he emceed Cinderella Weekend on KDKA. In 1962 he's mentioned in a US Steelworkers program on KDKA in passing. 1961 another passing reference narrating part of a special on Pearl Harbor. He was still with the station in 1958. In 1960 Radio TV Mirror describes him  "Noted for one of the finest voices in broadcasting, Jim Westover gathers and writes news as well."  There was also  Jim Westover on WGL in Ft. Wayne  IN. He was promoted to Chief announcer in 1945. They might be the same gentleman. (But the one on WEEI in the late sixties can't be him.) 

The Hebrew Christian Hour

This radio program is much more obscure than it probably should be.  The first information I found was in the form of a promotional postcard or flyer. The back is stamped "Gospel Crusaders, P.O. Box 845, Allentown, PA" Below that is a second stamp for the Bethlehem Revival Center on West Broad Street in Bethlehem, PA. The card is undated. That postcard, whatever it's vintage, lists only 6 radio stations. 

CALLS	FREQ	CITY	State
WVCH	740	Chester	PA
WIBG	990	Philadelphia	PA
WKAP	1320	Allentown	PA
WPIT	730	Pittsburgh	PA
WGCB	1440	Red Lion	PA
WWVA	1170	Wheeling	WV

There were many singing groups who were named Gospel Crusaders. Notably the Nyack Gospel Crusaders which were formed in 1944. There was one in Rhode Island founded by W. Robert Garlock around 1938. Yet another Gospel Crusaders played at 1550 WRHC-AM in Jacksonville, FL in 1957. In the late 1960s Brother John Phillips organized a Gospel Crusaders with a spot on 1580 KDAY-AM. 

None of those groups fit the time and place. I even found a Gospel Crusaders of Chester PA, but active in the 1990s. Right place, wrong time. The closest I found was a reference in the Gospel Herald [SOURCE] of 1950. It mentions The  Wayside Gospel Crusaders  of  Lancaster, PA. It's a possibility in a stack of wrong answers. In another section it puts them less specifically in Eastern, PA. This appears to have been a short-lived group, only peripherally related to Michelson. The Bethlehem Revival Center was also not much of a clue. It appears in newspapers into the 1970s. Google Maps images go back to 2008 and that year the signage read W.N. Serfass & Co, public accountants. It is no more. 

1948 Radio Annual

All of this is ancillary to the question of Dr. Arthur Urrah Michelson. At the bottom it gives his address at P.O. Box 707 Los Angeles, 53, CA. That "53" is a big hint. Five digit zip codes debuted in 1963. But starting in 1943 some cities began using two digit local zone numbers. This is our first bracket for dates. Also from that address I found a February 1952 issue [SOURCE] of The Jewish Hope linking the address to Dr. Arthur U. Michelson, editor of that very monthly publication. Michelson published an autobiography in 1943 which tells us he was born Kronach, Germany in 1886 and died in 1968. 

His autobiography is heavy on the theology and short on actual biographical facts but newspaper clippings put him at US revival events as early as 1932. His references to the 1922 German currency crisis give us a 10 year window for immigration. The book Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XIV by Peter Y. Medding confirmed this general date but Jewish Social Studies Vol. 10 (1938) gave his arrival as 1931 in LA coming from Chicago, so late 1920s fits. His page on ancestry.com differs slightly, it cites Krone, Germany and his death in 1969... but it has other errors as well.  (Note, Krone was part of Prussia from 1772 to 1945, it's been part of Poland since 1945.) 

From My Life Story from 1943. A. Michelson (R)

That 1952 issue of the Jewish Hope does have references to radio. "I am grateful to the Lord that he has revealed himself to me and has given me the privilege of proclaiming the Gospel over the radio, which is the best method of reaching the Jews. Our radio broadcasts reach a potential audience of many millions every day." Most of it reads like that. It's all ministry and very little radio outside of his schedule.

Similarly, most print references to him are in sermons where he might be called "gallant soul" without telling us anything about the man's life. A newspaper will record that he spoke 3 churches in Sarasota FL in 1959, but not if he had a family. The one article I found that mentioned his wife did not even mention her name, only that she was Catholic. The Rocky Mountain News of August 31st, 1938 reported that he was formerly a judge in imperial German courts and attended the University of Berlin.  But back to that radio schedule in Jewish Hope. This one was from 1952. [SOURCE] A surprising number of affiliates are Canadian. A newspaper account reported that it was sold through a regular ad agency, apparently Tom Westwood. (see above) There was also a 1945 lawsuit corroborating that. [SOURCE].

CALLS	FREQ	CITY	State
CKPC	1380	Brantford	ON
CFCN	1060	Calgary	AB
WLXW	1380	Carlisle	PA
WVCH	740	Chester	PA
CHWK	1270	Chilliwack	BC
WDOK	1260	Cleveland	OH
KXXX	790	Colby	KS
KJSK	900	Columbus	NE
KROX	1260	Crookston	MN
KWDM	1150	Des Moines	IA
KGDE	1230	Fergus Falls	MN
WMRP	1510	Flint	MI
KWBC	970	Fort Worth	TX
KMMJ	750	Grand Island	NE
WFUR	1570	Grand Rapids	MI
CJCH	920	Halifax	NS
KGRI	1000	Henderson	TX
KLEE	610	Houston	TX
CFJC	910	Kamloops	BC
CKWS	960	Kingston	ON
CKCR	1490	Kitchener	ON
KCVR	1570	Lodi	CA
KGER	1390	Los Angeles	CA
WMBW	800	Miami Beach	FL
KEYD	1440	Minneapolis	MN
WKBZ	850	Muskegon	MI
CHVC	1600	Niagara Falls	ON
CJNB	1240	North Battleford	SK
WIBG	990	Philadelphia	PA
WPGH	1080	Pittsburgh	PA
KXL	750	Portland	OR
WSAY	1370	Rochester	NY
CKTB	620	St. Catherines	ON
KXA	770	Seattle	WA
KFNF	920	Shenandoa	IA
KSPO	1230	Spokane	WA
CKFH	1400	Toronto	ON
CKMO	1410	Vancouver	BC
CJVI	900	Victoria	BC
KBOK	1090	Waterloo	IA

I even eventually discovered that there are transcriptions of his sermons from radio broadcasts in the early 1950s, like this one recorded in December of 1952. (below) That card which gave his PO Box as in Los Angeles seems to predate his move to Minnesota. 

It appears he started making 1440 KEYD-AM his primary home in radioland after 1945 and before 1952. Multiple weekly issues of Radio Life list him on different stations; sometimes as the Hebrew Christian Hour and sometimes just by his name Dr. A.U. Michelson. [SOURCE] But I also found him on a KEYD schedule in October of 1954 in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Issues of Radio Life from 1941 into 1944 of Radio Life puts his program on 570 KMTR-AM and no other listed stations. I believe that L.A. station was his original home base starting before February of 1942. Some 1941 issues list him as splitting his 60 minute spot with music from 7-7:15 then Clifford E. Clinton until 7:30 and Michelson taking the balance of the hour. January and September 1945 issues puts him on KFOX. More here and here. I have not resolved a time gap between 1945 and 1952, but he remained on air until at least 1958. [SOURCE]

Eventually I discovered a possible reason that Michelson dissapeared from radioland. He was doing crime, though it's unclear if he went to prison. The book The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America by Wilber R. Miller spells out that he committed multiple felonies as the head of Jewish Hope. His crimes include false representations, mail fraud and embezzling. The book is a hefty five volume set so you'll have to settle for the cliff notes. He was investigated by the Federal Post office and the Better Business Bureau and his operation was found to be unsatisfactory. The language is academic and gentle but the charges were felonies.

Michelson was the executive head of Jewish Hope and received funds from his radio broadcasts, and through the mail with the Jewish Hope magazine, circulars and evangelistic trips. His salary was $17,418 per year which is $403k in today's dollars. Above that salary he and/or his family collected another $9,023, or another $209k in 2026 dollars which were all excluded from the books of Jewish Hope. Miller cites FBI Memorandum as his source and I corroborated this in the Jewish Social Studies journal where they describe the doings of Arthur Michelson as "nefarious" and "unethical." In 1949 the Indianapolis Jewish Post reported that Michelson took 2 out of every 3 dollars in donations and took home a million dollars a year. 

The Eastern Shore of Virginia

Delmarva is interesting enough on it's own geographically. but the Eastern Shore of Virginia has some real radio oddities. (It also has some colorful town names like central PA, but that's not a radio thing. )  But why is that shore part of Virginia anyway? It's only connected to Virginia by bridge, by land it's adjacent to Maryland.  Well per the original 1609 land grant Virginia consisted of the North American coast stretching 200 miles north and south of what we now call Hampton, VA. the real question is why does Maryland exist?  An English nobleman, By way of his father George, Cecil Calvert managed to lobby King Charles I to carve a land grant from Virginia in 1642. Anyway, that's all ancient history. It's less strange than what happened to East and West New Jersey. 

Because of the Chesapeake Bay many shoreline stations have unexpectedly large and asymmetrical coverage areas. The local big MSA is #37: Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News, VA–NC, with an estimated 2023 population of 1,787,169. That part of the Delmarva peninsula is broken into two counties: Accomack and Northampton. They are both technically part of the Norfolk MSA, but many of these stations have little coverage in the metro center because of that geography.

But outside of that orbit, many stations serve their communities in the greater bay area. You might try the map in the dxtra.com website visualizing that geography. It you look up the lat/long of the antennas you will also see how rural this area is, with most towers surrounded by farm land. 

88.9 WMVA - The station has no relation to the former WMVA-AM in Martinsville, VA. That was cancelled in 2019.  This one is in Painter, VA and was only first licensed in June of 2023. The original 2021 CP was with Friendship Cathedral who still operate the station today. 

89.1 WHAR - These calls were previously on 105.1 in Havelock, NC from 2018 to 2024 and that station was also broadcasting Air-1 satcast christian music. WHAR signed on in 2005 in Cheriton, VA and in being in Cape Charles, it signal does cross the bay and reach into the metro center. Air-1 generally shuffles call letters often, which complicates the history. But I think it's always been a religious satcaster.   Print sources confirm that 89.1 Cheriton was formerly WWIP. Those calls go back to it's start in 1998. The original CP lists the Delmarva Educational Association which still owns the license today. In April of 2024 they flipped calls to WHAR. If you go looking please remember that from about 1993 - 1998 there was a CHR station with the WWIP calls on 105.9 in Wabash, IN.  Not them.

90.1 WHRX - This 46,000 watt stick is a simulcast of WHRV, out of Nassawadox, and it's coverage doesn't each much further south than Cape Charles. Oddly it's been through several call sign changes. The station was launched as WJCN in 2002, became WHRE in 2010, then WHRJ in 2011 and the WHRX later that same year. I'm not sure why all the shuffling.  But those calls intimate an acquisition, and the tower is Nandua High School intimating a connection, but that was not the case. Prior to 2010 the stick was owned by Positive alternative Radio inc and aired Spirit FM. The original 1998 CP lists only Nassawadox FM Inc. Only in the 2002 Assignment of Authorization does that change to CSN international. Both M Street and VARTV corroborate this [LINK] that CP so it's not an entry error. The corporation was real. It was incorporated in 1998 in Boca Raton, FL. [SOURCE] Radio Business magazine [SOURCE] reported that they sold the CP to CSN Int'l for 80k. It smells like a shell company.  Anyway also read that the WHRO format flip started with an all-Christmas format stunt which is more fun. 

90.7 WZLV - Being situated on the tip of the peninsula, this station penetrates into Norfolk and Virginia Beach. It's a shame the signal is wasted on K-love. The station signed on as WAZP in 1998 owned by Delmarva Educational Association. It changed calls to WZLV only in 2010. The Broadcasting yearbook of 2007 claims the station signed on in 2000 with K-love which confirms. Back then it was the only stick in Cape Charles too. What a waste.

91.5 W218CQ - This is a simulcast of WYFQ, a AM/FM station duo out of Charlotte, NC. That station has no earthly business operating a repeater in the Chesapeake, about 280 miles away... but it does. It's another example of religious satcaster obeying no earthly laws. It's operated by the Bible Broadcasting Network. The FCC lists it as silent today due to a fire on April 7th 2026. Hey, that was last week!

91.9 WHRE - This 4,400 watt stick is a simulcast of WHRV, who's coverage doesn't each much further north than Cape Charles. Per the FCC it signed on in December of 2010 with the call sign WHRJ, then changed to WHRE in January of 2011. This stick broadcasts from the grounds of Northampton High School in Eastville, VA. The original 2007 CP lists the applicant as Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications so I think it's safe to say that this has always been a WHRO/WHRV public radio property.

96.1 WROX - Technically in Exmore, this is basically in Cape Charles. This station signed on in 1986  as WIAV, "Wave 96" with a CHR format. A lightning strike took them off air in 1987 and it was sold to Bishop L.E. Willis and co-owned 1550 WVAB-AM but spinning off the AM stick. By the end of 1988 the calls where changed to WKSV,and in 1989 WXRI with a Christian AC format.  In 1991 they tried an Urban Contemporary format and changed calls to WMYK.  Sinclair  bought the stick in 1993 and flipped the format to rock. then in 1998 it became WROX. In the 1990 Broadcasting yearbook they're listed under Virginia Beach instead of Cape Charles. They had a repeater on 106.1 downtown for years but lost is to the full service WUSH-FM in 2004. But back to WVAB-AM for a moment, they had a very interesting history. 1550 WVAB broadcast from 1954 to 2018, and after an FCC investigation Birach Broadcasting surrendered the license for it and 1450 WBVA-AM. WVAB had been off air since 2008 due to "vandalism" at that time. Birach only bought the station from the very politically connected Kellam family that same year. Hmmmm

96.9 WCCZ - The station signed on in 2005 as WFAJ, in Nassawadox owned by Hispanic Target Media, Inc. They are a well known operator, which currently owns 22 stations, though they've deleted at least another 5 in recent years. Even at at 13,500 watts, this station reaches Newport News but only the very shores of Norfolk; a glancing blow on the metro center. When it was airing the Radio Amigo format it was a huge Reg Mex station. In 2024 it was sold to GSB Media who flipped the format to Classic Hits. 

98.3 WHRF - This 6,000 watt stick is a simulcast of WHRO, who's coverage doesn't each much further South than Cape Charles. The original 2009 CP was filed by Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications so very little has changed for this stick in the last 15+ years. 

99.3 WOWZ - Like WCCZ, this is a GSB Media property today. The station was founded in 1987, by Eastern Shore Broadcasting but DBA the Chincoteague Broadcasting Corporation.  That was a Stephen Marks company like The Marks Group. They entered radio in 1983 in a big way acquiring 51% of Thunder Bay Broadcasting. Then it owned only WKBKB-TV in Alpena, MI. But under Marks they went into acquisition mode. In 2022, Marks died and his window began selling off their radio properties. WOWZ signed on in 1990 as WVES, the WOWZ calls only began in 2017, six years before WOWZ was sold to GSB Media. The station has been playing country as far back as I can confirm, at least 20 years.

103.3 WESR - This station signed on in 1068, 10 years after their AM sister station. Initially a simulcast, as a Vernon Baker station it was acquired by Eastern Shore Radio in 1987 and the FM stick split off to broadcast MOR.  More here.

105.7 W289CE - This little translator broadcasts WESR-AM. Both W289CE and 103.3 WESR-FM we're knocked off air recently, April 7th by a transmitter fire. That's surely the same fire that took out W218CQ. In the daytime it's pretty redundant to that AM signal on 1330, but at night WESR-AM powers down from 5,000 watts to 51 so it doubles the coverage area with just 250 watts. I notice the tower is across the street from an Elks Lodge (BPOE 1766). ...A lot of lodges have a bar inside, I'll bet some of the staff are members.

1330 WESR-AM - This is the only AM stick in either Accomack or Northampton county; so that also makes it the only one in the Virginia section of the Delmarva Peninsula. This AM stick is the original local station for the Eastern Shore. They signed on in January of 1958, the product of a meeting between a hotel owner, Charles F. Russell and Vernon Baker, a Virginia tech professor who founded many radio stations. It is audible miles out to sea, and due to it's coverage pattern, it covers parts to both the Washington D.C. market and Norfolk, though more of the former. I listened to it this evening and Coastal Country was Darius Rucker while the FM stick was playing the Pointer Sisters "Neutron Dance." 

A Yugoslavian Radio Archive (Part 2)

Radio NB map from their 2002 site

First, a foot note from Part 1. The radio format "folk" in this region is going to be music most Americans would call Polka. But the usage here is more like ethnic, thought there are multiple ethnicities at play... hence the break-up really.  I will say that the more you listen, the more you can hear other cultural influences that take the music somewhere distinctly different than a Polish Polka. But still.. like Reg Mex... there's a lot of Polka in there. 

As I browse the sites for information I keep finding references to NATO bombings and it's not lost on me how bloody the break up was. This was not an amicable separation. This was a collapse driven by nationalistic rivalries and multiple wars of independence. If you are looking for more in that history I recommend the BBC documentary series The Death of Yugoslavia. It's on Youtube here. 

RADIO LASAREVAC [LINK] The Radio L website was loaded with Flash so it's content is mostly lost. The landing page gives the frequencies 103.6, 89.3 and 648 ST. The about section is blank. According to Streema today the station is based in Lazarevac, Serbia and the station Airs Adult Contemporary and Top 40/Pop music.

RADIO LESKOVAC [LINK] There was a short blurb on this site: "Radio Leskovac broadcasts thirteen hours of programming every day. Only two hours of programming are rebroadcast: Radio Belgrade - "Vesti", "Novosti dana", Radio Free Europe - "Jutarnji dnevnik", Radio B92 - "Dnevnik"." Then it also had 11 hours of it's own local programming. The site stopped updating in 2005.

RADIO MADONA [LINK]  This pop station broadcast on 101.00 and 104.9. It had some connection to a disco of the same name. It's hard to know if that was metaphorical or literal. The website says that it had only two shows: Hit Needle - Saturdays from 3:00 - 9:00 PM and DJ Time & Top 20 - Sundays from 9:00 to Midnight. Their transmitter was on Crni Vrh, a mountain in eastern Serbia between towns of Bor and Žagubica.

 

RADIO MARIJA [LINK] This was a religious station with the motto "God's voice in every house" The name means Radio Maria. It broadcast on 102.9 in Novi Sad. The station signed on in 1987 and is still on air today [LINK]  The new site uses the TLD .cr indicating a home in the modern boarders of Croatia. That modern site explains:

"The Radio Marija Association is a non-profit, non-governmental and non-political civil society organization, founded in Croatia in 1995. The first initiative committee was created within the framework of the Rosary Movement for Conversion and Peace, and on the eve of its foundation, cooperation was established with Radio Maria of Italy. The idea of ​​Radio Marija and the first program originated in 1983 in a parish in Erba in northern Italy."

RADIO MORAVA [LINK] Radio Morava signed on July 1st 1996. on 98.4 broadcasting folk music. It was based in Jagodina in central Serbia. The site information suggests they had live music as well. The .rs TLD of their new site [LINK] indicates their domain is hosted Romania though they are still physically in Jagodina. 

RADIO NB [LINK]  Located in Novi Becej, at the center of Vojvodina, This station was founded in 1998 by the  Novi Bečej Municipal Assembly and broadcast programs in Hungarian and Serbian. It's signal was on 106.1 and the map was cached and pictured at top. These municipal stations seem to be akin to a community station in some ways.

 

RADIONICA [LINK] This is not a radio station but I included it because it's the only website I found which actually addressed the dissolution of the .yu domain. It describes the process for transferring .yu websites which would very messy and bureaucratic "I hope that this whole campaign about the National Internet domain will have some results and as soon as possible, because this current situation is unsustainable and unacceptable.." I think this was a web host.  Radionica means workshop in Croatian but I'm keeping it here for it's ICANN commentary which is lengthy and detailed.

RADIO NOVI SAD [LINK] This station was founded in 1949, possibly the oldest in the set if not the region. It broadcast in Derbian, Hungarian, Slovak, Ruthenian, Romanian, Ukrainian and Romanian. It operated Radio Stotka on 100 Mhz and Radio Novi Sad on UKT 89.5 MHz and 93.7 MHz, St 1485 kHz which operated 13 hours a day. It describes the programming as "The basic purpose of this City Radio service has been reporting from the City Assembly meetings, the government and all the other city authority body. It also means covering the work of public utilities and services under city control." But it was also home to the Tamburitza Orchestra and had robust music programming.

RADIO NOVOSTI [LINK]  Some of the flash survived on this one. Novosti means news, and this is an all news station which broadcast on 104.4 in Begrade, Serbia.  It operated today on 104.7 on a .com TLD. [SOURCE] That news site confirms they signed on in 1993 and today broadcasts with 10 digital channels.

RADIO ORION [LINK] This station signed on April 24th 2001 with a mix if music and news. The menu is broken and parts of the site lost. Today it operates on 91.7 in Romania broadcasting 24 hour a day. When I tuned in today it was pop music. 

RADIO PALIC [LINK]  This station broadcast on 103.0 starting in 1998 from Subotica, Serbia. The site is mostly text. But the a staff list survived. I found a news article which suggested a radio tower in Palic was bombed by NATO in 1999. It may have been destroyed. The station does not exist today. There is another station Radio 103 which seems to occupy the same frequency. [SOURCE]

RADIO PEK [LINK] Pek signed on March 13th 1996 on 93.9 FM broadcasting to Kučevo and the surrounding area of eastern Serbia. The station move3d to 94.0 by 2006 and was broadcasting a mix of folk, pop, dance and rock music with a second signal on 98.3.
 

RADIO PINGVIN [LINK] Pingvin means Penguin.  It signed on November 23rd 1991 broadcasting in Belgrade on 90.9. The description confirms it had several different owners before 2006 and different names but that it's basic policy of no politics and no populists had remained constant. That logo is great and they are still on air today. [LINK]

 RADIO PLANETA [LINK] This station broadcast on 102.2 Mhz in Novi Sad beginning in 2003. Their studio was located in the Planeta Shopping Center. The site makes a point of directing listeners to the Fontana restaurant where the staff hang out. Someone was getting free drinks. 

RADIO POZAREVAC [LINK] This station, founded in 1977,  has a really good history page which I'll quote "The solid roots of Radio Požarevac were established in the early seventies through the so-called "Radio LJ K I", a program that, in cooperation with the Organizing Committee of the Ljubičevo Games, ran every summer before and during this tourist and sports event... The first program of this type was broadcast from the premises of the KPD Zabela, while it was later moved to the premises of the Požarevac Municipal Assembly. The program consisted of news, specialized programs dedicated to the Ljubičevo Games, a news program, music programs, as well as listeners' wishes.In the summer of the same year, the experimental program of Radio Požarevac began, which lasted from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The ceremonial start of the broadcasting of the Radio Požarevac program followed on October 12. The program was broadcast on medium waves of 240 m and ultra-short wave area of 92.1 Mhz.This significant undertaking was started by Bogran Živanović, Jovan Rajković, Ljubiša Dobrosavljević, Siniša Ristić and Zoran Vasić as journalists, Novica Mišić and Radenko Ristić as sound engineers, and Petar Crnobrnja and Gordana Kuzmanović as announcers.  " 

RADIO PULS [LINK] Puls (which means pulse) broadcast news, music, sports and had call in programs from 91.1 FM. I think this is the same station which today broadcasts on 96.0 from Despotovac, Serbia. If so it was founded December 19th 1997. [SOURCE] A 2003 cache tells me the station was founded in September 2002 and their original frequency was 91.1 and that they carry music and information programs. 

RADIO S [LINK]  Radio S had multiple signals 104.7 in Beolgrade, 94.3 in Kragujevac and 96.9 in - Novi Sad. Their stick in Belgrade was the first and signed on August 17th 1994. The had a very fancy site of all flash which was cached.

RADIO SAFIR [LINK] Safir signed on in 1995 and their "about" section brags that they have over 70,000 songs in their library. I think there were two more stations in the group from the line "your Gold 013 FM 106.4 MHz"Their studio was based in Pancevo across the river from Belgrade, Serbia. 

RADIO SECANJ [LINK] The landing page reads "Public Enterprise of Broadcasting Activities" This public station started broadcasting on July 9th 1999 on 96.3.  As of 2005 it employed 13 workers. and planned to launch a cable television channel and establish a local radio and television stations.

RADIO SOMBOR [LINK]  Surely the oldest station in this list, Sombor started broadcasting on July 31st 1972. It reads "On medium and ultra-short waves, the program was broadcast on weekdays from 1 to 6 p.m. Among the first shows were "Chronicle of the Day", "Pop Studio", "Twice Forty" and others. The program was prepared by the journalists of "Somborski novina" and the newly formed editorial staff of Radio Sombor.  Today, Radio Sombor broadcasts its program on two frequencies, 90.9 MHz and 97.5 MHz. On 90.9 MHz, 11 journalists - nine in the Serbian-language newsroom and two in the Hungarian-language newsroom prepare a daily program that lasts 24 hours."

RADIO SPEKTAR [LINK] The Spektar group was founded on November 11th 1995. The station broadcast on 107.7 from Pancevo 24 hours a day with a mix of news, education and music programming. Their about section emphasized a number of local programs:" The Businessman's Club, Every Word, Evergreen Club, Danube flows into Tamis, Top Kiss, a Quiz show, a Nostalgia program and Happy Turnips (Veseli repici) which purports to be about pets... Google thinks the name is Slovenian.

 

RADIO STARA CARSIJA [LINK]  This station broadcast ion 99.1 from Cuprija Serbia. There's not much info on the programming but it says that "According to some of our internal research, conducted in Cuprija, Radio Stara Carsi is mainly listened to by the intellectual class of the population." They're still broadcasting today [LINK]

RADIO SUBOTIKA [LINK] This website was available in Magyar, Croatian and Serbian. The station was founded by the Subotica Municipal Assembly on November 29th 1968, and was broadcasting on 91.5 in 2006. Their history notes that broadcasting on Medium wave was interrupted by NATO
bombing on May 22nd 1999.  [SOURCE]  The station broadcast programs in Serbian and Hungarian for six hours a day, and in Croatian for one hour. They actually have a Wikipedia page which reports they launched a German program in 1998, which is the first radio show in German since 1944... ahem. 

 RADIO TOCAK [LINK] Instead of an about page they post a mission where they report that Radio "Točak" was the first Roma electronic media in the region of Western Serbia broadcasting on 104.2 FM. The station broadcast news and educational programs for Roma minority groups. The station was founded April 28th 2003 and served an ethnic minority of 40,000 Roma. Točak means wheel in English

RADIO TREND [LINK] This station was based in Baèka Topola in Vojvodina, 65 miles from Novi Sad. The community had about 15,000 citizens consisting mostly of Serbs, Hungarians, Slovaks and Ruthenians. The station broadcast on 95.2 FM. A 2018 report listed them as one of a handful of stations broadcasting Hungarian programming. [SOURCE]

RADIO X [LINK] Broadcasting from Požarevac on 100.5 this station broadcast folk music. Not just folk, it clarifies "folk music - songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s" So that's the Adult AC of Folk. Their signal covered Pozarevac and the entire Branicevski district, Smederevo and surrounding towns. Their biggest program was Željoteka Live which inenglish means disco with live folk music groups.

RADIO ZENIT [LINK]  This station covered the municipalities of Kula and Vrbas and broadcast 24 hours a day mostly in Bosnian. The site has a great animated .gif of the coverage area. Their name translates to Radio Zenith. The station was founded on December 26th, 1998, and broadcasts on 100.7.  The station is still on air today. [LINK] Their new site has a .ba TLD for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

RADIO ZVEZDARA [LINK] The cache is very fragmented. Zvezdara is a city in Belgrade, presumably it's locality. This station broadcast on 106.2, information only preserved in page title. The station still exists today [SOURCE] on the same frequency.

VOICE OF AMERICA, SERBIAN SERVICE [LINK]  The history on this site has nothing specific to Yugoslavia, not even in 1999. It's very generic info that describes the whole global VOA network. Locally it was called Glas Amerike, this service was started in 1942 during WWII. All programming originates in the USA, but if broadcast 24/7, 365. It purports to be objective and accurate but it's Western propaganda initially created to combat Nazi propaganda. But it's still on air today and depending on where you live, it might be a better news source than you have otherwise. The cache goes back to 1998. It's still operating in Serbia and Macedonia today of course. [LINK] and [LINK] They ended their Croatia service in 2011. More here and here.

A Yugoslavian Radio Archive (Part 1)

Yugoslavia [LINK] is no more. Yugoslavia only existed from existed from 1918 to 1992 and in many ways it was Josip Broz Tito though force of will, (and every other kind of force) which allowed it to survive that long. Slobodan Milosevic was able to get more sovereignty for Serbia at the cost of unity and without that majority stake, the states separated. But let's move on from the big political story to our side quest.

As an unexpected side-effect, this break up led ICANN to retire the .yu top level domain (TLD) in March of 2010. [SOURCE] (This is well explained by Jacob Filipp.) [SOURCE] So in 2010, the majority of Yugoslavian websites dissapeared, or migrated to other TLDs, including every radio station website. That would be the end of it, nothing but human memory and magnetic decay. Except that the Wayback Machine exists... 

With thanks to the miracle of the Wayback Machine, we have cached copies of many of these radio stations websites just as they were prior to 2010, though many ceased updates as early as 2002. There were lots of animated .gifs. This is not a complete list of radio sites of course, Yugoslvia was almost 99k square miles in size. That's about the size of Wyoming in American terms. Consider this a highlight reel.

RADIO 106 [LINK] - Radio 016 began operating on March 29, 1993. It was the first radio station in southern Serbia and the third in Serbia after Radio "PINGVIN from Belgrade and Radio 34 from Kragujevac). It operated on the frequency 101.60 MHz and with a 250 watt transmitter.

RADIO 021 [LINK] The earliest capture is from 1999 and mysteriously reports  "On Thursday, March 25, the Federal Ministry of Telecommunications temporarily confiscated the transmitter of Radio 021, which has not yet been returned." They appear to have returned to broadcasting and the website continued to be updated through early 2007 referring to a new domain outside of Yugoslavia [LINK] perhaps not feeling very confident about the future of the new local TLDs.

 

RADIO 101 [LINK]  Music Radio 101 claimed to be the first and oldest music radio in the country, but only began broadcasting on May 3, 1989. So this is about 30 years too late for that to be true. It broadcast on 101.4 and 98.5 MHz. Though the resume of EIC Zarko Obradović I found the station came from the Radio Belgrade "EKO Program" in the 1980s. This may trace back earlier. This source confirms Radio 101 stopped broadcasting in 2006. [SOURCE]

RADIO 103 [LINK] Radio 103 is a radio station located in Subotica, and covers the area of ​​North Backa and part of the area of ​​West Banat in Serbia near the Hungarian border. It first signed on in 1989 and had been on air for 17 years when the website ceased updates. 

 

Radio 31 [LINK] Radio 31 broadcast from Uzice in what is now Western Serbia. It began operating on April 1, 1993. It was block formatted in that era, playing pop and rock but with robust new programming. It seems to be primarily folk  music now. They exist today as Radio 31+ which an internet-only station on a Russian TLD. [LINK]

RADIO 5 [LINK] Radio 5 had a fun anthropomorphic bio. It described itself as a Leo born on August 10, 2001 in Novi Sad. It first broadcast on 107.5 MHz and signed on formally on 20 at 11.55 AM. 

RADIO 90 [LINK] Radio 90 is still using the same yunord email they had on their site in 2005. They are still on air and have been broadcasting since August 11, 2000. 

RADIO ADA [LINK] Their 2009 site was just a .pls file an an animated gif. Earlier versions had a little more information. The station was based on Vojvodina on 107.7. They are still on air but have no website that I can fine. 

RADIO ANTENA [LINK]  In Novi Sad on 106.0 Mhz this station described it self as "folk radio." Older versions have little info aside from broadcast schedules. The images show kids which made me think it was a college station.

RADIO AS [LINK]  This station broadcast on 101.2 starting on October 26th 2000 in Novi Sad. It mised music and talk radio programming. Their coverage map confirms they also broadcast on 101.6 in Subotica with some signal clearly receivable in Hungary.

RADIO BARAJEVO [LINK] Broadcasting from 105.9 this station broadcast from Barajevo in Belgrade, Serbia. It appears to be some kind of municipal service. The site was taken down before 2003 and had not been updated since 1999.

RADIO BEOGRAD [LINK] This was also known as Radio Yugoslavia. Versions of the page exist from 2007 which reveal a third draft of the site. Another cache exists on a .com domain here. No cache of Beograde 2 survives. The station still exists today operating 8 channels: Radio Belgrade 1, Radio Belgrade 2, Radio Belgrade 3, Radio Belgrade 202, Radio (RTS) Vrteshka, Radio (RTS) Rockenroller, Radio (RTS) Jukebox, and Radio (RTS) Pletenica. Vrteška, Rokenroler, Jukebox and Pletenica only signed on in 2019. 

RADIO BISER [LINK] Radio Biser was a folk station operating on 105.8 first signing on 05-08-1995 in Orovnik in what is now Macedonia.  In 1998 they added Biser Plus on 87.9 Mhz and starting in 2002 UHF channel 53 as Television Biser. The site stopped updating around 2002.

RADIO BIS [LINK] Radio Bis was another folk music station. In 2005 boat that it aired original national music "devoid of kitsch and Islamization." Oh my. Their motto was "Sumadija radio for generations from two to one hundred and two years old" Sumadija was presumably it's city of license, probably near it's capital, Kragujevac in Serbia.

RADIO BUBA MARA [LINK]  This cache is mostly a history of broken gifs. There is one bright yellow incarnation from 2004 which mysteriously says to click on the Ladybug. All links beyond are broken. The station still exists on 105.2. They are self-described as Macedonia's favorite online radio station.[LINK]  The new site has a history page which traces the station back to April 1994 as the most listened to station in Skopje.

 

RADIO BRAVO [LINK]  Very little of this site was cached. It broadcast on 103.5 from Pokrivamo Croatia. The motto "good music lovers club" implies it was a music station. 

RADIO BUM [LINK] The page was constructed entirely of gifs carefully positioned. One cache from 2002 yielded the below logo. A 2007 cache yielded a station history. It signed on April 26th 2001. broadcasting music and news from Boljevac, Timocka Krajina, Serbia.

RADIO BUCA [LINK] Radio Buca was founded on November 20, 2000 as a folk music station. It was on 89.0 Mhz broadcasting out of Novi Sad.  

RADIO BUS [LINK] Bus appears to be a community station of some kind.  The history gives no start date but reports "The main mission of BUS radio is to inform, entertain and educate the target group of citizens in the wide area where BUS can be heard."  They broadcast on 94.1 in Novi Sad.

RADIO B92 [LINK] This station was the leading independent pro-democracy station in Yugoslavia. It was shut down by the Serbian government in April 1999.  The site moved freeb92.net by 2000. That year their about section became mostly about their survival. " Information and contributions from a number of associates will also be published on the Free B92 site. These will throw more light on the bombing of Yugoslavia and the consequences of this. The common aim of these projects is to preserve the spirit of professionalism which has been stripped from everyday communication in Yugoslavia through the Belgrade regime’s banning and takeover of Radio B92."

RADIO CITY [LINK] This site was built in flash so most of the content was lost. From the one surviving line of text I gather is was a news station. There are multiple stations with that brand today in the region. It appears that They expended into TV based on their current site. [LINK]  But way back in 2004 Dragan Belajac, an engineer at Radio City posted on a forum:  

"I see that you are talking about radio here, I happen to be the owner of a local radio station and I deal with the production and assembly of broadcast and studio equipment. At the moment, there is general madness in our country on radio frequencies, you don't know who drinks and who pays and it is very difficult to find a so-called free frequency, because today people think that if you have a radio, you will be successful like Zeljko Mitrovic with Pink. As for the music on the radio, it must be on original Wav discs, which will be sent to your address as soon as you sign a contract with one of the productions, free of charge, because this is the material that you need to present to the listeners. As for broadcast equipment (excavator, amplifier, stereo encoder), I personally make it, but when the new law comes out, each device will have to have a certificate, but for now, nothing, so just start a company and enjoy your work. I could talk about this until tomorrow because I've been doing this since I was 10 years old..."

RADIO DAK [LINK] Another folk station. This one was 9 years old in 2006 meaning it was founded around 1997.  The station broadcast on 106.3 from Ćuprija. Their logo includes what is surely an unlicensed image of Daffy duck so I'm not going to post it. This may be a pun.  Dak does not mean duck, it means station. These are english letters in a nation which mostly uses Cyrillic letter. So Radio Dak means radio station. (радио дак is Duck Radio)

RADIO DELFIN [LINK] According to the website Radio Delfin is the most listened to radio station in Uzice. It plays all commercial music except folk, which might be a relief by now. It also has no news. Their signal covered an area which included Ovčar Banja and Zlatibor in Serbia.

RADIO DOINA [LINK]  Radio D 96 actually had an English version. This station was based hear the Romanian border in Grabovica, Serbia.They had little information posted but a small pology for their home brew HTML page " We have not abandoned the updating of the presentation, but at the moment the connection to the Internet is quite bad, so a lot of effort is put into updating it." There are three station with that brand now in the region but none on 96. 

RADIO DUGA [LINK] This station operated on 100.2 in Pozarevac in the Braničevo District in eastern Serbia. They were the third private station in Serbia and broadcast live in the style of Radio Luxembourg. It began broadcasting April 28th 1992. This site was last updated in 2006.

RADIO DUNAV [LINK] Dunav broadcast on 98.8 in Novi sad and 99.5 in Belgrade. The website had no info beyond that and the heart-like logo. A station with that brand operated today on 101.5 [LINK]  It purports to have been using the brand since May 18th, 1998 from Vukovar in Croatia. It also reports that over the years they have broadcast locla programs in the languages of "Hungarian, Ukrainian and Ruthenian national minorities."  That's only the second time I've ever read the word Ruthenian but we will get to Dorothy Thompson another time. It describes the music mix as  (50% folk-folk , 25% local pop-rock and 25% foreign music). That's how Canada does it right? 

RADIO DZENARIKA [LINK] This station broadcast on 103.8. Dzenzarika just means plum.  Modern streaming sites describe it as a Serbian folk station. It signed on in 1992 and is based in Cack, Serbia. [SOURCE] 

RADIO GAGA [LINK]  Radio GAGA was the first private radio station in the Jablaničko Okrug, which started broadcasting in 1994. It operated on 105.0 Mhz broadcasting mostly news. 

RADIO GALEB [LINK]  Broadcasting on 104.6 this station covered the municipalities of Veliko Gradište, Golubac, Požarevac and parts of the municipalities of Smederevo, Majdanpek, Petrovac na Mlavi, Kucevo, Bela Crkva, Vršac, Kovin, Žagubic. They first began broadcasting on February 14th 1995. Their motto means "Fly On Wings of Radio - The Seagull"

RADIO HORREUM MARGI [LINK] Aka Radio Margi, this station broadcast from Ćuprija, on  95.1 MHz. It signed on in 1992 as the first local radio station in the city.  It added a second signal on 100.3 as a simulcast. They advertised a 100 km coverage area. The Romans founded the town as a fort Horreum Margi, and the station is named for it.  (It means Marava River Granary) 

 

RADIO INDEX [LINK] This website cache is covered in news blurbs from 2001. There is an English version of the page with a history! [LINK]  It was founded in June of 1992 as a college radio station by Nenad Cekic and a group of enthusiastic Belgrade University students, over the years Radio Index grew into a major player on 99.8 FM in Serbia's media landscape. Their media coverage included protests against Milosevic. The station was banned by Milosevic in 1998, and it's EIC Nenad Cekic arrested. After NATO bombing ended in 1999, Radio Index returned after 9 months of silence. 

RADIO JAT [LINK] Radio Jat was established on March 21st, 1999 on 95.7 MHz in the Belgrade area. It aired a mix of popular music and news. Station manager Momcilo Kostic might be the same one who teaches engineering at U. of Sarajevo today.

RADIO KNEZ [LINK]  Every cache version of this site is all broken image links. A couple Top 10s survive. There is no information online. The word Knez means Duke or Prince in both Serbian and Croatian. A DX log from 2001 confirms the station was real and on 91.2. [SOURCE]  It may have been located in Knez Selo, Serbia. KNEZ in Lompoc, CA has no relation of course.

RADIO KULA [LINK] Radio Kula broadcast on UKT 89.2 Mhz for 6-24 hours and programs are in broadcast in three languages: Serbian, Hungarian and Ruthenian. They operated out of the Information and Propaganda Center KULA (IPC Kula) and printed a newspaper called the Kula Commune. It appears to have been liquidated in 2007. [SOURCE]

RADIO KRAJINA [LINK]  - No info here, just links to other sites. The incomplete site was retired before it was finished. The station is still around today on a new domain.[LINK]  Unfortunately the new station about section has no history. But their new site dopes have a 24/7 folk music stream. Krajina is a quasi city-state in Croatia, with little other information I believe this was a station in that area which no longer exists.