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Davidson Media Group
The Davidson Media Group (DMG) is a Charlotte-based broadcaster specializing in multi-cultural, community focused formats. The company runs stations in a number of markets in 10 states and also specializes in selling large blocks of time on some of its stations to brokers who broadcast Spanish and/or urban contemporary gospel programs. Despite the minority-focus of DMG's market, the company itself is not minority-owned and is controlled through two private equity groups, CapStreet II LP and Citigroup Venture Capital. Felix Perez was at one time DMG's president and chief executive officer; by January 2012, Perez had been named as the general manager for Univision Radio. On February 13, 2009, SS Broadcasting Holdings (SSH) announced that it was purchasing Davidson Media Group for $1,000 cash and assumption of debt. This transaction placed SSH in control of 43 stations previously licensed to DMG. Organization The structure of the Group was quite complicated and prone to change as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte ( ) is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont (United States), Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making Charlotte the List of United States cities by population, 16th-most populous city in the U.S., the seventh most populous city in Southern United States, the South, and the second most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast behind Jacksonville, Florida. The city is the cultural, economic, and transportation center of the Charlotte metropolitan area, whose 2020 population of 2,660,329 ranked List of metropolitan statistical areas, 22nd in the U.S. Charlotte metropolitan area, Metrolina is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2020 census-estimated population of 2,846,550. Between 2004 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KMNQ
KMNQ (1470 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, and serving the Twin Cities radio market. The station simulcasts the Spanish-language programming of sister station KMNV, playing Regional Mexican music. In October 2021, it began stunting with a variety format, before leaving the air entirely in early 2022. In January 2023, it returned, again simulcasting sister station KMNV. It left the air again the following day. KMNQ's radio studios were located on 27th Avenue South and East Lake Street in Minneapolis. Those studios burned in the Minneapolis Riots following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. The station returned to the air with help from KFAI, which offered space in its facility. Studios were subsequently established in Richfield. The transmitter is located in Brooklyn Park. KMNQ’s power is 5,000 watts using a directional antenna to protect other stations on 1470 AM. History Since 1994, 1470 has simulcast KLBB (1400 AM), whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampa, Florida
Tampa () is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The city's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and the seat of Hillsborough County. With a population of 384,959 according to the 2020 census, Tampa is the third-most populated city in Florida after Jacksonville and Miami and is the 52nd most populated city in the United States. Tampa functioned as a military center during the 19th century with the establishment of Fort Brooke. The cigar industry was also brought to the city by Vincente Martinez Ybor, after whom Ybor City is named. Tampa was formally reincorporated as a city in 1887, following the Civil War. Today, Tampa's economy is driven by tourism, health care, finance, insurance, technology, construction, and the maritime industry. The bay's port is the largest in the state, responsible for over $15 billion in economic impact. The city is part of the Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTMP (AM)
WTMP (1150 kHz) is an AM radio station serving the Tampa Bay, Florida region. The station is licensed to Egypt Lake, Florida and owned by Neal Ardman of NIA Broadcasting, Inc. It also broadcasts on FM translator W271DL on 102.1 MHz in Egypt Lake and just added on October 1, 2022, W225CQ 92.9 MHz in Tampa. WTMP's studios are located on Howard Avenue in West Tampa, and its transmitter is located northwest of downtown. Station history WTMP plays urban oldies in the Tampa Bay area on frequencies 1150 kHz AM, 102.1 FM (translator, moved from 97.5), and as of October 2022, 92.9 covering Downtown Tampa. Even though its programming and frequencies have changed over the station's 57-year tenure, its main urban competitor is WBTP. Its target audience is listeners between the ages of 25 and 54. WTMP, on 1150 AM originally (including a few prior years as urban-formatted WIOK), has been a longtime heritage urban contemporary station in the market. Noted R&B vocalist and Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, and the seat of Hampden County. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 155,929, making it the third-largest city in Massachusetts, the fourth-most populous city in New England after Boston, Worcester, and Providence, and the 12th-most populous in the Northeastern United States. Metropolitan Springfield, as one of two metropolitan areas in Massachusetts (the other being Greater Boston), had a population of 699,162 in 2020. Springfield was founded in 1636, the first Springfield in the New World. In the late 1700s, during the American Revolution, Springfield was designated by George Washington as the site of the Springfield Armory because of its central location. Subsequently it was the site of Shays' Rebel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WACM (AM)
WACM (1270 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, and the seat of Hampden County. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the ..., United States. The station is owned by John Fuller, through licensee Red Wolf Broadcasting Corporation. It airs an oldies music format, simulcasting WSKP 1180 AM Hope Valley, RI. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the station had a Top 40 format. Later decades, the station had a talk/news approach before its current format. The station was assigned the WSPR call letters by the Federal Communications Commission in 1936. On April 12, 2016, it changed its call sign to the current WACM. On May 1, 2016 WACM changed their format from Spanish tropical (as "Bomba 1270") to oldies, branded as "Kool Radio AM" (simulcasting WSKP 1180 AM Hope Valley, Rhode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and the fourth most populous city in the southeastern U.S. Located on the Cumberland River, the city is the center of the Nashville metropolitan area, which is one of the fastest growing in the nation. Named for Francis Nash, a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, the city was founded in 1779. The city grew quickly due to its strategic location as a port on the Cumberland River and, in the 19th century, a railroad center. Nashville seceded with Tennessee during the American Civil War; in 1862 it was the first state capital in the Confederacy to be taken by Union forces. After the war, the city reclaimed its position and developed a manufacturing base. Since 1963, Nashville has had a consolidated city-coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNVL
WNVL (1240 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican music format. Licensed to Nashville, Tennessee, United States, the station is currently owned by Mark Janbakhsh, through licensee TBLC Media, LLC. The station signed on in 1947 as WKDA, Nashville's fourth radio station, with stints as Nashville's leading Top 40 station and playing country music. It dropped the call sign in 1998 and has since programmed gospel music and Spanish-language programming. History Early years The Capitol Broadcasting Company, a partnership of A. G. Beaman and T. B. Baker, Jr., applied on July 31, 1944, for a construction permit to build a new radio station in Nashville, to broadcast full-time with 250 watts on 1450 kHz. Beaman owned a bottling firm, while Baker was the advertising manager of Nashville radio station WLAC. After a comparative hearing, Capitol received a permit for a similar facility on 1240 kHz on October 9, 1946; 1450 kHz was instead awarded to an applicant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middletown, Rhode Island
Middletown is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 17,075 at the 2020 census. It lies to the south of Portsmouth and to the north of Newport on Aquidneck Island, hence the name "Middletown". History Various issues including unjust taxation and a growing population caused the freeholders living in the northern section of Newport to petition the general assembly for independence. As a result of the petition, the land that Middletown occupies was set apart in 1731. The town was incorporated in 1743. During the 1980s, large sections of East Main Road and West Main Road running through Middletown began to be commercialized, and by the late 1990s, the area had become Aquidneck Island's central business district. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 14.9 square miles (38.7 km2), of which 13.0 square miles (33.6 km2) is land and 2.0 square miles (5.1 km2; 13.18%) is wat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKKB
WKKB (100.3 FM, "Latina 100.3") is a radio station in Middletown, Rhode Island, United States. The station airs a Tropical format, which consists of such musical styles as salsa and merengue and some reggaeton. Its transmitter is located in Middletown. Its offices and studios are located in 75 Oxford Street in Providence, while its transmitter is located in Tiverton. Prior to its switch to Tropical, the station was a rock station. History WKKB started out as WOTB in 1974 on 107.1 MHz. WOTB was a smooth jazz station with the moniker "Cool FM", co-owned with WKFD/1370 in Wickford, later with WADK/1540 in Newport. WOTB switched frequencies to 100.3 MHz and boosted its effective radiated power to 6 kW. The smooth jazz format ended on June 14, 1996, when it was sold to Urso Broadcasting. WOTB then changed to WDGF and began simulcasting WDGE for a brief time. In February 1997, WDGF became a '70s oldies/disco station as "100.3 The Beat". After stunting with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaffney, South Carolina
Gaffney is a city in and the county seat, seat of Cherokee County, South Carolina, United States, in the upstate South Carolina, Upstate region of South Carolina. Gaffney is known as the "Peach Capital of South Carolina". The population was 12,539 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, with an estimated population of 12,609 in 2019. It is the principal city of the Gaffney, South Carolina, Micropolitan Statistical Area (population 55,662 according to 2012 estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau), which includes all of Cherokee County and which is further included in the greater Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, Spartanburg-Anderson, South Carolina, Anderson, South Carolina Combined Statistical Area (population 1,384,996 according to year 2012 U.S. Census Bureau estimates). History Michael A. Gaffney, born in Granard, Ireland, in 1775, emigrated to the United States in 1797, arriving in New York City and moving to Charleston, South Carolina, a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WEAC-AM
WZZQ (1500 AM) is a radio station licensed to Gaffney, South Carolina. As WEAC, the station took over the former programming of sister FM WAGI in 2007. WOLT took over Gaffney High School broadcasts. Dennis Fowler, who served as Gaffney Broadcasting station manager, bought WEAC at the time Davidson Media Group bought WAGI. Unless the listener was in Cherokee County, it was nearly impossible to receive the AM broadcast, due to its low power 1,000 watt daytime only transmitter. WZZQ transmits from the original WAGI studio on Providence Road in Gaffney and broadcast in the daytime only until August 23, 2009, when the translator W282AX was added at 104.3 to add nighttime programming and a wider signal range. For the 2009 season, Gaffney High School sports moved from WOLT to WZZQ's FM translator. WZZQ began broadcasting pre-game coverage of the football games of the Limestone College Limestone University, formerly Limestone College, is a private Christian university in Gaff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
