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Barry Reisman
Barry Reisman is the host of ''The Barry Reisman Show'', currently an hour-long, Monday-Friday radio program playing on WWDB, 860 kHz AM, in Philadelphia, featuring klezmer and other Jewish music. His Jewish music radio program has been running almost continually on various radio stations in the Philadelphia area since 1965. Reisman started his radio career in 1962 at WRNJ-FM in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He switched to WSLT in Ocean City, NJ, and then to WMID WMID (1340 kHz) is a radio station licensed to Atlantic City, New Jersey, which plays "the classic oldies". Its parent company is Equity Communications (the station was at one time owned by entertainer Merv Griffin). WMID also carries the Phil ... in Atlantic City. In 1965, he began his Jewish music radio program on WTEL in Philadelphia. The program soon moved to WQAL-FM, and in 1969 it moved again, to WIBF-FM. The show stayed at WIBF for 23 years until 1992 when it moved to WSSJ-AM in Camden, NJ. In 1998, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWDB
WWDB (860 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with its studios and offices in the "555 Building" on City Avenue in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. It is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group and broadcasts mostly paid brokered programming. Shows on health, money, gardening, home repair, real estate, religion and politics are found on the schedule. Some programs are broadcast in Hungarian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Italian and other languages. Hosts pay for their time on the air and may advertise their services or products during their programs. WWDB is a daytimer radio station. Because AM 860 is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A CJBC Toronto, WWDB must go off the air at sunset to avoid interference. It is powered at 10,000 watts, using a directional antenna. The transmitter is off Foundry Road in East Norriton Township. WWDB's tower site is also used by 950 WKDN for its nighttime operations. History On December 6, 1926, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klezmer
Klezmer ( yi, קלעזמער or ) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening; these would have been played at weddings and other social functions. The musical genre incorporated elements of many other musical genres including Ottoman (especially Greek and Romanian) music, Baroque music, German and Slavic folk dances, and religious Jewish music. As the music arrived in the United States, it lost some of its traditional ritual elements and adopted elements of American big band and popular music. Among the European-born klezmers who popularized the genre in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s were Dave Tarras and Naftule Brandwein; they were followed by American-born musicians such as Max Epstein, Sid Beckerman and Ray Musiker. After the destruction of Jewish life in Eastern Europe during the Holocau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Music
Jewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish people. There exist both traditions of religious music, as sung at the synagogue and domestic prayers, and of secular music, such as klezmer. While some elements of Jewish music may originate in biblical times, differences of rhythm and sound can be found among later Jewish communities that have been musically influenced by location. In the nineteenth century, religious reform led to composition of ecclesiastic music in the styles of classical music. At the same period, academics began to treat the topic in the light of ethnomusicology. Edward Seroussi has written, "What is known as 'Jewish music' today is thus the result of complex historical processes". A number of modern Jewish composers have been aware of and influenced by the different traditions of Jewish music. Religious Jewish music Religious Jewish music in the biblical period The history of religious Jewish music spans the evolution of cantorial, synagogal, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAYV (FM)
WAYV (95.1 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station located in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It airs a contemporary hit radio format. It has been among the top rated and billing stations in the Atlantic City market since 1980. Its studios are located at the Bayport One complex in West Atlantic City, and its transmitter is located north of Atlantic City. The on-air personalities are Mike & Diane (mornings), Nikki (middays), Kaden (afternoons), and Jackson Blue (weeknights). WAYV is simulcast on 102.3 WAIV in Cape May. History 95.1 started broadcasting in April 1961, with call letters WRNJ. Mel Gollub, owner of WIFI (now WXTU) in Philadelphia, built WRNJ on top of the Ritz Carlton Hotel on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. He owned and operated it for its first two years. In 1963, Gollub sold WRNJ to Eddie Newman, a nighttime talk host at WPEN, Philadelphia. On July 1, 1974, Newman sold the station to Radio WAYV, Inc., and its call letters were changed to WAYV. The station featured a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWAC
WWAC (1020 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Ocean City, New Jersey, and serving the Atlantic City area of the Jersey Shore. It is owned by WIBG, LLC, and broadcasts a Spanish-language Contemporary Hits radio format. WWAC is co-owned with WIBG-FM, an oldies station licensed to Avalon, New Jersey. By day, WWAC is powered at 1,900 watts, non-directional. WWAC's signal reaches from Toms River to Cape May. But 1020 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for 50,000 watt Class A KDKA Pittsburgh. So at night, WWAC must go off the air to avoid interference. During critical hours, WWAC is powered at 680 watts. Programming is also heard on several FM translators around the clock: W267BP 101.3 MHz in Pleasantville, W270DV 101.9 MHz in Palermo and W298DI 107.5 MHz in Port Norris. History The station signed on the air on . The original call sign was WSLT and the original frequency was 1520 kHz. The studios were on Asbury Avenue and the origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMID
WMID (1340 kHz) is a radio station licensed to Atlantic City, New Jersey, which plays "the classic oldies". Its parent company is Equity Communications (the station was at one time owned by entertainer Merv Griffin). WMID also carries the Philadelphia Phillies. Its studios are located on East Black Horse Pike in the West Atlantic City section of Egg Harbor Township, and its transmitter is located on Murray Avenue in Atlantic City. History WMID began broadcasting May 30, 1947. It was a Mutual affiliate on 1340 kHz with 250 W of power. In the 1950s, WMID broadcast from a small studio in the old Brighton Hotel that stood in the beach block of Indiana Avenue, across the street from the Claridge Hotel. The Brighton was torn down to make way for the Sands Casino, itself now closed and demolished. Since the 1960s the station has broadcast from studios adjacent to its tower site at Ohio and Murray Avenues, just off U.S. Route 30 next to the Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm. During th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WUMR (FM)
WUMR (106.1 MHz, "Rumba 106.1") is a commercial Spanish CHR FM radio station licensed to serve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The WUMR studios are located in the neighboring community of Bala Cynwyd, while the station transmitter resides in nearby Wyndmoor. Besides a standard analog transmission, WUMR broadcasts using two HD Radio channels, and is available online via iHeartRadio. History Early years The station commenced operations at 5 p.m. on November 11, 1959, with the WQAL call sign, owned by George Voron, whose company provided businesses with " piped-in music". After playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" as performed by Henry Mancini and a message from Dave Custis—in charge of the station's format—the first song was " The Carousel Waltz" by Percy Faith. The station employed a beautiful music format playing mostly instrumental versions of popular songs with an occasional vocalist. Transamerica Corporation's United Artists subsidiary purch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPPZ-FM
WPPZ-FM (107.9 FM) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Pennsauken, New Jersey in the Philadelphia radio market. The station is owned by Urban One, through licensee Radio One Licenses, LLC, and broadcasts an Urban Oldies format. Studios are located in Bala Cynwyd and the broadcast tower used by the station is located atop One Liberty Place in Center City, Philadelphia at (). WPPZ-FM uses HD Radio, and broadcasts an Urban Gospel format on its HD2 subchannel branded as ''Praise 107.9 HD2''. History In 1946, the station signed on at 98.9 MHz as WSNJ-FM in Bridgeton, New Jersey, a farming community about 35 miles south of Philadelphia. It was owned by Eastern States Broadcasting Company. At first, it simulcast its AM sister station, WSNJ. In the early 1960s, it became an affiliate of the WQXR Classical Network, based in New York City. In the 1961, WSNJ-FM's frequency moved to 107.7 MHz, after a frequency swap with the Philadelphia Bulletin's WPBS, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WEMG
WEMG (1310 AM, "Mega 105.7") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to serve Camden, New Jersey. The station is owned by Mega-Philadelphia LLC and airs a Spanish Hits format. History The station was originally owned by the City of Camden and in 1924 was assigned the WCAM call sign. In the 1940s the station shared time on its frequency with WTNJ in Trenton and WCAP in Asbury Park; an agreement implemented in 1949 ended the time-share and allowed WCAM to become a full-time station, although with lower power than it had previously used. WCAM broadcast a variety of formats over the years. From September 1965 to April 1966 it was the Philadelphia-area affiliate of the NBC Radio Network, and it was the radio flagship of the Philadelphia Flyers in the team's second season, 1968–69. The station was not consistently profitable, and the city began attempting to sell it in the mid-1960s. After a few false starts, a deal was finally made in the late 1970s and the station was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNWR
WNWR (1540 AM) is a commercial radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ... owned by Aztec Capital Partners. Its studio is located at 200 Monument Road, Suite 6, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania and its transmitter is located in the Roxborough, Philadelphia, Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia, off Ridge Avenue. The station airs a simulcast of WHAT (AM), WHAT 1340 AM airing Spanish music. History The station first Sign-on, signed on the air on July 11, 1947. Its call sign was WJMJ which stood for "Jesus, Mary, Joseph." The station broadcast Middle of the road (music), middle-of-the-road music and religious programming. It was owned by Patrick Joseph Stanton and had its offices and studios in the St. James Hotel (Philadelphia, Penn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Radio Personalities
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