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Radio Stations In Delaware
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Delaware, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WNWK * WRJE See also * Delaware media ** List of newspapers in Delaware ** List of television stations in Delaware ** Media of locales in Delaware: Dover, Wilmington References Bibliography * * External links * (Directory ceased in 2017) Maryland, DC, Delaware Broadcasters Association {{Navboxes , title = Delaware radio station regional navigation boxes , list = {{News/Talk Radio Stations in Delaware {{Dover Radio {{Salisbury-Ocean City Radio {{Wilmington DE Radio Delaware Radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security. The FCC was formed by the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. The FCC also provides varied degrees of cooperation, oversight, and leadership for similar communications bodies in other countries of North America. The FCC is funded entirely by regulatory fees. It has an estimated fiscal-2022 budget of US $388 million. It has 1,482 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WILM (AM)
WILM (1450 kHz) is a news/talk AM radio station broadcasting in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. WILM is known as the station where radio and television talk show Joe Pyne developed the confrontational style now standard in radio and TV talk shows. Another well-known WILM personality was Tom Mees (ESPN) who worked at the station in the 1970s. In the 1950s and 1960s WILM, under the ownership of Ewing Hawkins, experimented with various music formats, including Top-40 and MOR (middle-of-the-road). For a time, the WILM deejays were known as the "Flip Top Jocks." One of the program directors was Dean Tyler, who would later go on to be an influential broadcaster and manager in Philadelphia radio. In the early 1970s WILM adopted an Adult contemporary music format and featured an all-night block of rhythm and blues music geared to the city's African-American community. At this time, the station was affiliated with the Mutual Broadcasting S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOCM
WOCM (98.1 FM, "Ocean 98") is an AAA/Rock radio station in the Ocean City, Maryland, area. The radio station's studios are located at Seacrets, a massive restaurant and nightclub campus located along Assawoman Bay in Ocean City. The station features an eclectic mix of rock, reggae, and other modern hits, in a format not unlike a college radio station. WOCM was one of the nation's first independent radio stations to broadcast over the Internet a live video feed of its jocks and visiting musical performers from its website. History WOCM is owned by Leighton Moore, who founded Seacrets in 1988, and is managed by David "Bulldog" Rothner, host of the station's " Rude Awakening Morning Show." This station originally signed on the air at 97.9 FM with the call letters WSBL (Selbyville) and featured a country music format. National talk radio personality Don Geronimo briefly hosted "Don Geronimo's Rockin' Soul Show" on WOCM, after having retired from the syndicated Don and Mike Sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNCL
WNCL (930 AM, "Cool 102.1/930") is a radio station licensed to Milford, Delaware. Owned by Forever Media, it broadcasts a classic hits format serving Dover, Delaware. It is simulcast on FM translator 102.1 W271CX in Milford. History Before ESPN, the then-WYUS 930 used to air a Spanish language Contemporary Hit Radio music format called "La Exitosa". WYUS 930 also broadcasts from a translator located in Milford DE on 102.1 FM with 250 watts. The station was assigned the WYUS call sign by the Federal Communications Commission on September 2, 1982. In late-October 2019, the station dropped ESPN Radio, and flipped to classic hits as ''Cool 102.1/930''. The format and branding originated from sister station WNCL, which had begun to transition to the country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMPH
WMPH (91.7 FM, "Super 91.7") is Delaware's first high school radio station, located in Wilmington. The Brandywine School District Board of Education owns the license granted by the FCC. The call letters WMPH stand for Mount Pleasant High and offered several program formats including Top 40, progressive rock, dance and now classic and alternative music. WMPH signed off the air on June 11, 2010 but has since been totally renovated and came back on-air at full power on June 3, 2011 in a classic/alternative rock, jazz and community based format. In 2014, WMPH partnered with Delaware First Media, which owns and operates the NPR affiliate WDDE in Dover, to create Delaware Public Media. WMPH carries NPR programming during morning and afternoon drive times. History Jesse Morris, Class of 1968, was running for the Mount Pleasant Senior High School student council. On the Morris Ticket was the proposal for a student-run low power radio station. The radio station was initially proposed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMHS (FM)
WMHS (88.1 FM, "EDge Radio") is a high school radio station licensed to serve Pike Creek, Delaware, United States. The station is owned by the Red Clay Consolidated School District and operated by the students of Thomas McKean High School. It airs a variety radio format. The station has been assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since January 12, 2000. See also *List of community radio stations in the United States This is a list of FCC-licensed community radio stations in the United States. See also List of Pacifica Radio stations and affiliates This article provides a list of Pacifica Radio owned and operated stations, associated stations, and affil ... References External links WMHS official website* MHS Community radio stations in the United States High school radio stations in the United States Variety radio stations in the United States {{Delaware-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLBW
WLBW is a radio station in the Fenwick Island / Ocean City area of Delaware and Maryland and broadcasting at 92.1 MHz. The station plays a contemporary Christian music format as part of the K-Love network. The station is owned by the Educational Media Foundation. History HVS Partners acquired the construction permit for WADD before it went to air, changed the call letters to WLBW, and signed the station on with an oldies format known as "The Wave" on April 1, 1994, simulcasting WLVW-FM in Salisbury, Maryland. The move allowed WLVW's oldies format to expand its reach. HVS Partners sold its stations in the Ocean City-Salisbury market to Cumulus Broadcasting in 1997—including WLBW, three additional FM outlets and an AM station—in a $9.2 million transaction; earlier in the year, Cumulus had entered into a local marketing agreement to run them. Clear Channel Communications acquired WLBW, WLVW-FM, and the other Cumulus Ocean City stations in 2000, amid financial problems at Cumu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKNZ
WKNZ (88.7 FM) is a non-commercial educational broadcast radio station licensed to Harrington, Delaware, United States. WKNZ is owned and operated by The Bridge of Hope, Inc. WKNZ programming can also be heard on WNJH in Cape May, New Jersey WNKZ-FM to the south of Salisbury, Maryland and on 100.1 (W261AE) in Templeville, Maryland and on 94.9 (W235DD) in Ocean City, Maryland. Programming WKNZ broadcasts an adult Contemporary Christian music format, serving Central Delmarva. The primary focus of the station is to bring people of different Christian denominations together, to strengthen families and churches through positive and uplifting music and to offer hope to people trying to find their way through difficult situations. History This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on January 25, 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKDB
WKDB (95.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish hits Hits or H.I.T.S. may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music * ''H.I.T.S.'', 1991 album by New Kids on the Block * ''...Hits'' (Phil Collins album), 1998 * ''Hits'' (compilation series), 1984–2006; 2014 - a British compilation album se ... music format. Licensed to Laurel, Delaware, United States, the station serves the Salisbury-Ocean City area. The station is currently owned by The Voice Radio Network. On August 24, 2009, Great Scott Broadcasting broke apart. The B 101.7/95.3, and began simulcasting Studio 106.1 on 95.3 FM with an old school R&B format. The format was dropped in late 2011, as the station reverted to a simulcast of WZEB. On November 3, 2014, WKDB changed their format to Spanish hits, graded as "Maxima 95.3". References External links * KDB {{Delaware-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJWL
WJWL (900 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Georgetown, Delaware. The station airs a Regional Mexican format known as "La Raza". The studios and AM transmitter are located on U.S. Route 113 northwest of Georgetown. The station is repeated by two FM translators, covering Georgetown and Laurel. History Early years On December 13, 1950, Rollins Broadcasting received a construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a new daytime-only radio station on 900 kHz in Georgetown. The station signed on June 23, 1951, the first in Sussex County and an independent outlet. Soon after the station launched, in October 1952, John W. Rollins, co-owner of Rollins Broadcasting with his brother O. Wayne and Lieutenant Governor of Delaware from 1953 to 1957, announced plans to file for a television station on channel 40, which would have been the first on the Lower Peninsula. The station was never opened, but Rollins continued to expand its Delaware media holdings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJKI-FM
WJKI-FM (103.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Bethany Beach, Delaware. The station is owned by The Voice Radio Network. It airs a classic rock format. The station has been assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since November 21, 2018. With the sale of WXSH pending, the Classic rock Classic rock is a US radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid 1990s, primar ... format is now being simulcasted on WJKI (formerly WICO) and on 102.9 FM (W275CX). References External links * JKI-FM Classic rock radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1996 1996 establishments in Delaware {{Delaware-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
