For most tourists, the area around Winslow and Holbrook, Arizona just doesn't register much. Sure, there's the Eagles song (and a statue to go with it), and Meteor Crater, and if you're a Route 66 junkie, there are some nice sections of the Mother Road to be seen. But even the average visitor heading down old 66 will probably push on to Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon in one direction, or up to the Navajo Nation in the other. Back in 2011, we stopped long enough to see the sights, and the stations, and to grab some IDs from what we (well, Bill, anyway) has dubbed the Holbrook-Show Low market.

(The Show Low part of the market is about 50 miles to the south at considerably higher altitude, in a part of east central Arizona that's even farther beyond the usual touristy path. We'll have to get back there one of these days.)

We're in between "Big Trips" on Tower Site of the Week - and so we turn this week, here on Toppy, to some IDs from closer to home. From Buffalo, we catch up on the transition of AM 970 from WNED public radio (including its very last ID as WNED) to WDCZ, a simulcast of religious WDCX-FM 99.5. Down the road in Syracuse, it's the "ESPN Radio 97.7/100.1" translator relay of WTLA 1200 and WSGO 1440. From the Utica market, it's the first appearance of the new WUSP calls on AM 1550, as well as Mars Hill Network's new WMHY 88.7. And from Oneonta comes the sad story of SUNY Oneonta's little public radio voice, WUOW. We caught it in its LPFM incarnation back in 2007, and this week's update includes its newer version as a full-power signal on 88.5. Enjoy it while it lasts; on Thursday, it's signing off, apparently for good.

Seems like I've been posting Florida IDs from 2011 for most of 2013, doesn't it? I guess that's because I have. But tonight's installment of Gainesville IDs completes our run of top-hours from that very fun trip.

Behold the last installment of tower and studio pictures here...and come back next week for something non-Florida, won't you?

That would be Gainesville, Florida, don'tcha know? We stopped by for two installments of Tower Site of the Week back in 2011...and that means lots of Gainesville IDs this week and next here on Toppy, too!

This time our intrepid TOH clip collector Greg Coniglio provides 11 clips from the Land of Lincoln and 1 from the Hoosier State. The markets include the Champaign-Urbana IL, Chicago Suburbs - NW Indiana, Danville IL, Effingham IL, and Springfield IL markets.

This week's travels on Tower Site of the Week take us to the horsey town of Ocala, Florida...which, for Toppy's purposes (and Arbitron's, too), puts us in the larger Gainesville, Florida market.

I'm looking out on the southern end of the famed Las Vegas strip as I write this, but Toppy's heart this week is some 2800 miles away on the west coast of Florida, where today's update brings us a nearly complete run of AM, FM and HD2 from Fort Myers, Florida, neatly tied in with this week's Tower Site of the Week.

Debuting tonight on this website is the Parkersburg, WV/Marietta, OH market, with three stations I recorded during my trip to northern Ohio this past November. Also, in light of the great additions to the Sarasota, FL page last Wednesday, I've added 107.9 WSRQ-FM-HD2 (which was a very tricky one to pull in from where I was staying) and also a new ID from Columbus, OH from last month.

As of this morning, there were just two lonely IDs in our Sarasota, Florida category.

That's been fixed now.

(And you can see the pictures that go with it over at Tower Site of the Week.)

The only active NHL team in the state of Ohio is the Columbus Blue Jackets. You would think Cleveland would have a team, and they once did, but they haven't since the Barons folded in 1978. The Barons didn't relocate or rebrand or go into a holding pattern like the NFL's Browns from 1995-1999 -- they outright closed up shop. It was a different era for sports then, to be sure.

I enjoyed my visit to Columbus and almost everyone I encountered there was friendly. I even wore a gold Nashville Predators jersey to the Blue Jackets/Coyotes game I attended thinking I might get some cheap heat. But besides a few confused looks and a couple of "Were you confused about who was playing?" comments, I only had one guy talk smack to me, and that was at the very end after they showed on the big screen that the Preds were coming to town for the next game... and he was fueled with plenty of liquid courage.

The game itself had more fights (1) than non-shootout goals (0), but the girl who accompanied me there had a blast... and she didn't know much about the sport at all and had never been to a hockey game in person. I tried my best to explain things like icing, offsides, etc., though I think the fight is what really won her over. She seemed surprised that the refs let them battle it out, but I explained how it's just part of how things go in the NHL and the equivalent of a pressure valve. I don't think she knew exactly what I meant by that, but she was able to appreciate the world-class speed that the guys played with and how the experience is something that doesn't fully translate on television, even on a large HDTV.

With that in mind, enjoy the two sports radio IDs included in today's Columbus update. My visit happened a few weeks too early to get a legal ID of the brand new 95.5 the Game (WHOK-FM, soon to become either WZOH or WZOH-FM as per this article on Radio Insight), but reception for 95.5 FM at the downtown Red Roof Inn where we stayed (in walking distance to the arena) was iffy at best, so it might not have mattered even if the flip had happened before the trip.

But if that means an excuse to visit Columbus again sometime soon, I won't mind -- it's a fun city. Maybe I'll be able to head up there later this year to see a Columbus Crew MLS game. I never made it to a Tampa Bay Mutiny game when I moved there in April 2001, and much like the 1978 Cleveland Barons, the Mutiny folded at the end of the 2001 season and I missed out on my chance to see them in person. As my late Grandma Pickney used to say: you snooze, you lose.