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Greater Media
Greater Media, Inc., known as Greater Media, was an American media company that specialized in radio stations. The markets where they owned radio stations included Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia, Charlotte, and the state of New Jersey. The company was formed in 1956 in Southbridge, Massachusetts, and its headquarters were located in Braintree, Massachusetts. Greater Media also published several weekly newspapers in Central New Jersey. The newspaper group won 12 Suburban Newspapers of America awards for 2006. On November 12, 2007, Greater Media announced it was buying three stations in Charlotte, North Carolina from Lincoln Financial Media-- WBT, WBT-FM, and WLNK. The deal was finalized on January 31, 2008. On July 19, 2016, Beasley Broadcast Group announced that it would acquire Greater Media's radio stations for $240 million. The FCC approved the sale on October 6, and the sale closed on October 29. The Greater Media newspapers were sold to the Newspaper Media Group. List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBT-FM
WBT-FM (99.3 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Chester, South Carolina that primarily serves the western region of the Charlotte metropolitan area. The station is owned by Urban One. The station's programming primarily consists of simulcasts of the news/talk radio format of WBT in Charlotte. WBT-FM was first licensed, as WCMJ, on December 1, 1969. It broadcasts on 99.3 MHz with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 7,700 watts, using a tower nearly 600 feet (182 meters) in height above average terrain (HAAT). The transmitter is located southwest of Charlotte, off Armenia Road in Chester. The station is also authorized to broadcast using the digital HD Radio format. Studios are located at One Julian Price Place on West Morehead Street, just west of Uptown Charlotte, co-located with the city's CBS affiliate WBTV, which previously had common ownership. Programming WBT-FM almost always simulcasts its AM sister, WBT (AM), although the two have occasionally carried sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDHA-FM
WDHA-FM (105.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Dover, New Jersey, and serving the Morris County area of North Jersey. WDHA is owned and operated by Beasley Broadcast Group and airs a mainstream rock radio format. The station's studios and offices are at 55 Horsehill Road in Cedar Knolls. The transmitter is off Casterline Road in Denville. Format The station's playlist is made of up of classic rock of the 1970s and 1980s as well as active rock from the 1990s, 2000s, and today. The station calls itself "The Rock Of New Jersey." Core artists include the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Mötley Crüe, Queen, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Nirvana, The Doors, Foreigner, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne and Rush. The station is local and live full-time. In terms of ratings, the station is consistently the top local station in the Nielsen ratings for the Morristown radio market. WDHA has always scored good ratings in North Jersey, even when New York City had as many as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCTC
WCTC (1450 AM broadcasting, AM "Fox Sports New Jersey") is a commercial radio, commercial radio station broadcasting a sports radio radio format, format. city of license, Licensed to New Brunswick, New Jersey, the station serves Middlesex County, New Jersey, Middlesex, Somerset County, New Jersey, Somerset, and Union County, New Jersey, Union counties. The station is owned by Beasley Broadcast Group (through Beasley Media Group, LLC). It is the radio home for Rutgers University athletic events and Somerset Patriots Minor League Baseball games. WCTC transmits with 1,000 watts, omnidirectional antenna, non-directional. It formerly broadcast in C-QUAM AM stereo. The transmitter is off Valentine Street at South 5th Avenue in Highland Park, New Jersey, near the Raritan River. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator W228DY at 93.5 Hertz, MHz in New Brunswick. History WCTC is considered New Jersey's first radio station built during the post-World War II broadcast boom. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMGQ
WMGQ (98.3 MHz Magic 98.3) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to New Brunswick and serving Central Jersey (Middlesex, Union and Somerset Counties). It is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group, along with sister station WCTC 1450 AM. It broadcasts an adult contemporary radio format, switching to Christmas music for much of November and December. The slogan is "Today's Hits, Yesterday's Favorites". WMGQ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 1,200 watts. The transmitter is on Veronica Avenue near Somerset Street (New Jersey Route 27) in Franklin Township. History The station began as WCTC-FM, signing on the air in July 1948. Initially it simulcast WCTC 1450 AM, which went on the air two years earlier. In the 1970s, it aired a beautiful music format. The call sign was changed to WQMR on February 28, 1972, and to WMGQ on February 14, 1977. In the 1980s, Greater Media, its owner, began switching a number of its FM stations to "Beautiful Rock," a soft rock format fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRIF
WRIF (101.1 FM) is a commercial active rock radio station licensed in Detroit, Michigan and serving Metro Detroit as well as bordering city Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The station is currently owned by Beasley Media Group. WRIF is a grandfathered FM station, Under current U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) limits for Class B stations, WRIF would be allowed to broadcast an effective radiated power (ERP) of at most 16,000 watts using an antenna 268 meters high. The station transmitter is in the Detroit suburb of Southfield near the intersection of 10 Mile Road and Northwestern Highway, and transmits its signal from the same tower as WXYZ-TV. WRIF's studios are in Ferndale. History WXYZ-FM 101.1 FM signed on in 1948 as WXYZ-FM. For most of the station's early years, the station was simply a simulcast of WXYZ AM 1270 (now WXYT AM). That changed in 1966, when the FCC decreed separate programming for at least half of the broadcast day on FM stations that had been simulcasts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMGC-FM
WMGC-FM (105.1 MHz "105.1 The Bounce") is a commercial radio station in Detroit, Michigan. It is owned and operated by the Beasley Broadcast Group and airs a classic hip-hop radio format. WMGC-FM broadcasts with 50,000 watts of effective radiated power (ERP) from a transmitter tower co-located with its studios and offices off Radio Plaza in the Ferndale section of Royal Oak Charter Township in Oakland County. History Classical music as WQRS (1960–1997) The station signed on the air on March 6, 1960, owned by Fine Arts Broadcasters. For nearly four decades, 105.1 was home to Detroit's commercial classical music station, WQRS. During its early years, WQRS was commercial-free and listener-supported, a precursor to NPR. Operated by volunteers headed by General Manager Richard Hughes, it had tiny studios at the top of the Maccabees Building near Wayne State University. It also featured folk, jazz and other adult-appeal forms of music. Classical music was one of the most common f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCSX
WCSX (94.7 FM) is a classic rock radio station licensed to Birmingham, Michigan, serving Metro Detroit and owned by Beasley Broadcast Group. WCSX's transmitter is in suburban Oakland County in Royal Oak Township near the intersection of 8 Mile Road and Wyoming Avenue. WCSX transmits its signal from an antenna 951 feet high with an effective radiated power of 13,500 watts. Five other Detroit radio stations transmit their signal from the same tower as WCSX. The studios are in Ferndale. Despite its call sign, it is not affiliated with the CSX Corporation. History MOR (1958-1972) The 94.7 FM frequency was originally home to WHFI ("Whiffieland"), featuring a MOR/adult contemporary format with disc jockeys such as Lee Alan (formerly of WXYZ). The original FCC Construction Permit for WHFI was issued to Garvin H. Meadowcroft, President of Meadowcroft Broadcasting, Inc. on January 18, 1957 with an address of 1095 Badder Road in Troy, Michigan. Meadowcroft began broadcasting on WHFI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBOS
WBOS (92.9 MHz, "Rock 92-9") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Brookline, Massachusetts, and serving Greater Boston. WBOS is owned and operated by Beasley Broadcast Group. The studios and offices are in Waltham. WBOS airs a classic rock radio format, which it calls "the next generation of classic rock." While rival WZLX's playlist extends from the 1960s and 1970s into the 1980s and 1990s, WBOS concentrates on the 1990s and early 2000s, with some 1980s titles. "Dave and Chuck the Freak," syndicated from co-owned WRIF in Detroit, are heard weekday mornings on WBOS. WBOS has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 18,500 watts. The transmitter is on the top of the Prudential Tower in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. WBOS broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format. The HD2 subchannel simulcasts WRCA, which carries business news programming from Bloomberg Radio. History Early years On April 1, 1960, WBOS-FM Sign-on, signed-on, simulcasting most of the programming of i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMJX
WMJX (106.7 FM) – branded Magic 106.7 – is a commercial adult contemporary radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station serves Greater Boston and much of surrounding New England. The WMJX studios are located in Boston's Allston–Brighton neighborhood, while the station transmitter resides on the Prudential Tower in Downtown Boston. Besides a standard analog transmission, WMJX broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online via Audacy. History Previous FM installation The first WBZ-FM had its origins in a construction permit held by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company to operate at 42.6 MHz; this facility signed on as W1XK on November 7, 1940, from the Hull transmitter site of sister station WBZ. Westinghouse soon sought a commercial FM license, and on February 19, 1941, was granted a construction permit for W67B on 46.7, W1XK left the air for good on December 28, 1941, and W67B signed on March 29, 1942. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBQT (FM)
WBQT (96.9 MHz "Hot 96.9") is a commercial FM radio station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group and airs an urban-leaning rhythmic hot AC radio format. WBQT's studios and offices are located in Waltham. Its transmitter is atop the Prudential Tower in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. History The station originated in 1945 as W1XHR (later WXHR), owned by Harvey Radio Laboratories and programming a classical music format. In 1966, WXHR was sold to a joint venture of Kaiser Broadcasting and the ''Boston Globe'', and in 1967, became beautiful music station WJIB (whose AM successor operates out of the old Harvey Radio Labs building in Cambridge). WJIB's music and programming director was Marlin Taylor who instituted the beautiful music format. After several further ownership changes—first to General Electric in 1972, then to NBC in 1983 (three years before the merger between NBC's parent company, RCA, and GE) and Emmis Communications in 1988—it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKLB-FM
WKLB-FM (102.5 FM broadcasting, FM, "Country 102.5") is a country music, country radio station licensed to Waltham, Massachusetts, and serving Greater Boston. WKLB's studios are located in Waltham. The transmitter is located in Needham, Massachusetts, Needham, on a tower shared with WBUR-FM and several TV stations serving Boston and beyond. Past WKLB frequencies Prior to its current location, the WKLB calls and format were located on WCRB, 99.5, WBQT (FM), 96.9, and WROR-FM, 105.7. 99.5 started out in 1947 as WLLH-FM, the FM counterpart to WLLH, programming a full-service format to the Merrimack Valley. During the 1970s, 99.5 became WSSH (for "Wish 99.5"), which programmed a format of chiefly soft instrumental renditions of pop tunes with a few vocalists an hour, consisting of soft AC and standards cuts. In 1982, WSSH evolved to a soft AC format, gradually eliminating the instrumental renditions and became home to popular nighttime radio personality Delilah Rene (before she be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
