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Forcht Broadcasting
Forcht Group of Kentucky ''(pronounced "fork")'' is a group of companies principally owned by Terry E. Forcht, with corporate headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky and Corbin, Kentucky. The corporation employs more than 2,100 people in many companies specializing in banking and financial services, insurance, nursing homes and health care, broadcasting and print media, retail, data and Web design services, real estate and construction. Forcht Group of Kentucky officially changed its name from First Corbin Financial Corporation on November 10, 2007. The company also sponsors "The Forcht Group of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Leadership" lecture series which began in 2005 at University of the Cumberlands, where Terry Forcht formerly taught business. Forcht Bank The largest of Forcht Group's businesses is Forcht Bancorp, which is a management services company for Forcht Bankhttp://www.forchtbank.com/ which has 34 locations in 12 Kentucky counties with total assets of more than $1 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSEI (FM)
WSEI (92.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Olney, Illinois Olney ( ) is the county seat in Richland County, Illinois. The population was 9,115 at the time of the 2010 census. History Settlement of the Richland County area began around 1815 when Thaddeus Morehouse, a native of Vermont, arrived by wa ..., United States, the station serves South-East Illinois. WSEI is currently owned by Forcht Broadcasting. The station previously had the call letters WVLN-FM. References External links * * SEI Country radio stations in the United States {{Illinois-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCKQ
WCKQ (104.1 FM) is a CHR/Top 40– formatted radio station licensed to Campbellsville, Kentucky, United States. The station is owned by Corbin, Kentucky–based Forcht Broadcasting as part of a duopoly with Campbellsville–licensed rock music station WTCO (1450 AM) and Greensburg, Kentucky–licensed country music station WGRK-FM (105.7 FM). All three stations share studios and WCKQ's transmitter facilities are located on KY 323 (Friendship Pike Road) near US 68 in southwestern Campbellsville, History WCKQ went on the air in 1965 as WTCO-FM, an FM companion to the daytime-only AM station WTCO (1450 AM), allowing that station to air 24-hour programming. In 1978, WTCO-AM-FM came under the principal ownership of Lowell Caulk. He undertook a drastic change in programming in 1980, changing calls to WCKQ and adopting a rock music format. The simulcast arragenement between the two stations wound end in 1979, when the AM station split off into a country music stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbellsville, Kentucky
Campbellsville is a city in central Kentucky founded in 1817 by Andrew Campbell. It is known for Campbellsville University, Taylor Regional Hospital health care system, its historic downtown, and the proximity to Green River Lake State Park. Campbellsville is the county seat of Taylor County, with a geographic boundary shaped like a heart. Campbellsville celebrated its bicentennial on July 4, 2017. History Founding The city was founded in 1817 and laid out by Andrew Campbell, who had moved from Augusta County, Virginia. Campbell owned a gristmill and a tavern and began selling lots in Campbellsville in 1814. Campbellsville was designated by the state legislature as the county seat in 1848 after Taylor County was separated from Green County. The city agreed to sell the public square to the county for one dollar so that a courthouse could be built. Historic sites Campbellsville has several historic sites as listed under Taylor County in the National Register of Historic Place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCDQ (FM)
WCDQ (106.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States. The station airs a 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 Southern gospel and spirituals, ... format and is currently owned by C.V.L. Broadcasting, Inc. Accessed November 22, 2013 The station's call letters WCDQ were originally used by an FM station in Sanford, Maine. History The station started as WVXI, owned by Xavier University. It was sold to Key Broadcasting of Kentucky in 2000 and was rebranded as "Hot 106.3," playing current hits. References External linksWCDQ's website* CDQ Country radio stations in the United States Crawfordsville, Indiana {{Indiana-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIMC
WIMC (103.9 FM, "Thunder 103.9") is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format. Licensed to Crawfordsville, Indiana, the station serves West-Central Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ..., and is owned by Forcht Broadcasting.https://www.forchtbroadcasting.com/ Forcht Broadcasting Stations References External linksWIMC's official website* IMC Crawfordsville, Indiana Radio stations established in 1974 1974 establishments in Indiana Classic rock radio stations in the United States {{Indiana-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCVL (AM)
WCVL 1550 AM is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Crawfordsville, Indiana Crawfordsville is a city in Montgomery County in west central Indiana, United States, west by northwest of Indianapolis. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 16,306. The city is the county seat of Montgomery County, the only cha ..., the station serves the west-central region of the state and is owned by Forcht Broadcasting.https://www.forchtbroadcasting.com/ Forcht Broadcasting Stations References External linksWCVL's official website * * CVL Radio stations established in 1965 1965 establishments in Indiana Oldies radio stations in the United States Crawfordsville, Indiana {{Indiana-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawfordsville, Indiana
Crawfordsville is a city in Montgomery County in west central Indiana, United States, west by northwest of Indianapolis. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 16,306. The city is the county seat of Montgomery County, the only chartered city and largest populated place in the county. Crawfordsville is part of a broader Indianapolis combined statistical area, although the Lafayette metropolitan statistical area is only north. It is home to Wabash College, which was ranked by ''Forbes'' as #12 in the United States for undergraduate studies in 2008. The city was founded in 1823 on the bank of Sugar Creek, a southern tributary of the Wabash River and named for U.S. Treasury Secretary William H. Crawford. History Early 19th century In 1813, Williamson Dunn, Henry Ristine, and Major Ambrose Whitlock, U.S. Army, noted that the site of present-day Crawfordsville was ideal for settlement, surrounded by deciduous forest and potentially arable land, with water provided b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, primarily focusing on commercially successful blues rock and hard rock popularized in the 1970s AOR format.Pareles, Jon (June 18, 1986)"Oldies on Rise in Album-Rock Radio" ''The New York Times''. Retrieved April 19, 2019. The radio format became increasingly popular with the baby boomer demographic by the end of the 1990s. Although classic rock has mostly appealed to adult listeners, music associated with this format received more exposure with younger listeners with the presence of the Internet and digital downloading. Some classic rock stations also play a limited number of current releases which are stylistically consistent with the station's sound, or by heritage acts which are still active and producing new music."New York Radio Guide: Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIKK
WIKK (103.5 FM, "The Eagle") is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format and licensed to serve the community of Newton, Illinois, United States. The station is currently owned by Forcht Broadcasting and features programming from Westwood One Westwood One is an American radio network There are two types of radio network currently in use around the world: the one-to-many (simplex communication) broadcast network commonly used for public information and mass-media entertainment, and .... Forcht Group owns two other Illinois radio stations - WVLN and WSEI in Olney. References External linksWIKK's website * IKK [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
