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KBRT
KBRT (740 AM, known on-air as KBRITE) is a Southern Californian Christian radio station. It airs Christian talk radio programming from Costa Mesa, California to Los Angeles, Orange County, the Inland Empire, San Diego, and Santa Barbara. The station broadcast at 10,000 watts sunrise to sunset at 740 kHz. On February 28, 2013, when KBRT moved to a new transmitter site near Corona, California, started broadcasting at 50,000 watts sunrise to sunset, and had the city of license changed to Costa Mesa. The studio and business offices remain located in Costa Mesa. KBRT is a Class D station broadcasting on the Canadian clear-channel frequency of 740 AM. (CFZM in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is the dominant North-American station on the frequency.) KBRT is licensed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to broadcast in the HD (hybrid) format. History The station went on air in 1952. It was founded by entrepreneur John H. Poole as KBIG. Poole had worked at KEZY in Anaheim, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Buhler
Rich Buhler (July 17, 1946 – May 7, 2012) was an American evangelical Christian radio talk show host, writer, and pastor. He held honorary doctorates from Biola University and Trinity College of Graduate Studies. He is best known for his radio talk show, Talk from the Heart. He created www.truthorfiction.com. He died May 7, 2012 of causes relating to pancreatic cancer. Career Journalism and radio Buhler worked for the on-campus radio while attending Biola University. After graduating at age 17, he got his first job as an office assistant at KFWB KFWB (980 AM) is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California. It airs a classic Regional Mexican music format. KFWB is owned by Lotus Communications. The station has a colorful history, being the radio voice of Warner Bros. Studios i ... in Los Angeles. He worked his way up to the position of journalist and eventually news editor. Ministry Buhler was pastor of a Foursquare Christian church for nine years. Talk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawford Broadcasting
Crawford Broadcasting is a family-owned media company based in Denver, Colorado. crawfordbroadcasting.com Crawford Broadcasting primarily owns radio stations with Christian radio, Christian, Talk radio and Urban formats. History The broadcast company was founded in 1959 by evangelist Percy Crawford, Dr. Percy B. Crawford. In 1949 Crawford produced his first Christian television broadcast, which aired on the fledgling American Broadcasting Company, ABC Television Network. In 1958, Crawford put together a business plan for the acquisition of seven radio stations. By 1960 seven stations were acquired. These radio stations were in Miami, Florida (WHYI, WMFP)1; Buffalo, New York (WDCX-FM, WDCX); Des Moines, Iowa (KHKI, KDMI)2; Portland, Oregon (KPDQ (AM), KPDQ)3; Chicago, Ill ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KWHY-TV
KWHY-TV (channel 22) is a Spanish language in the United States, Spanish-language Independent station (North America), independent television station in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. It is owned by Alex Meruelo, Meruelo Broadcasting alongside Garden Grove, California, Garden Grove–licensed KBEH (channel 63); the two stations share RF channel 4 under a frequency sharing, channel sharing agreement. KWHY and KBEH share studios on West Pico Boulevard in the Mid-City, Los Angeles, Mid-City section of Los Angeles and transmitter facilities atop Mount Wilson. History Early years as KBIC-TV, KIIX and KPOL-TV On June 19, 1952, John Poole, owner of radio station KBRT, KBIG (740 AM), filed for a construction permit for a new television station on channel 22 in Los Angeles, which was granted as KPIK on December 20, 1952. It was stated in February that KPIK would debut that fall. Poole announced that the facility, with an effective radiated power of 540,000 watts, woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBIG-FM
KBIG (104.3 FM, 104.3 MYfm) is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Los Angeles, California and serves the Greater Los Angeles area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and broadcasts a hot AC format heavy on music from the 2000s to the present day. KBIG has studios located in Burbank, California and its primary transmitter is based on Mount Wilson. History Early years The original KBIG (740 AM) was founded by John H. Poole in 1952, originating from Catalina Island off the coast of California. Known as "The Catalina Island Station", Poole knew KBIG would have wide coverage of Southern California by broadcasting the station's directional signal across ocean water. KBIG was heard from Santa Barbara to San Diego, including the large audience in Los Angeles. The station became popular as it presented an island theme and scheduled music, news, and commercials on a different sequence from his competitors. "We knew if you changed stations during a commercial, you would a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBIG
KBIG (104.3 FM, 104.3 MYfm) is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Los Angeles, California and serves the Greater Los Angeles area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and broadcasts a hot AC format heavy on music from the 2000s to the present day. KBIG has studios located in Burbank, California and its primary transmitter is based on Mount Wilson. History Early years The original KBIG (740 AM) was founded by John H. Poole in 1952, originating from Catalina Island off the coast of California. Known as "The Catalina Island Station", Poole knew KBIG would have wide coverage of Southern California by broadcasting the station's directional signal across ocean water. KBIG was heard from Santa Barbara to San Diego, including the large audience in Los Angeles. The station became popular as it presented an island theme and scheduled music, news, and commercials on a different sequence from his competitors. "We knew if you changed stations during a commercial, you would a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonneville Communications
Bonneville International Corporation is a media and broadcasting company, wholly owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) through its for-profit arm, Deseret Management Corporation. It began as a radio and TV network in the Triad Center Broadcast House in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bonneville's name alludes to Benjamin Bonneville and the prehistoric Lake Bonneville that once covered much of modern-day Utah, which was named after him. Bonneville owns 13 radio stations in four major markets as well as one television station in its home market; it also manages eight additional radio stations in two markets under a local marketing agreement. Additionally, its Bonneville Communications division provides marketing and communications strategy and branding services. Bonneville Distribution, another division, provides broadcast syndication and distribution services to non-profit organizations. History Bonneville International was formed in 1964, with approval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy Listening
Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non-rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs. It mostly concentrates on music that pre-dates the rock and roll era, characteristically on music from the 1940s and 1950s. It was differentiated from the mostly instrumental beautiful music format by its variety of styles, including a percentage of vocals, arrangements and tempos to fit various parts of the broadcast day. Easy listening music is often confused with lounge music, but while it was popular in some of the same venues it was meant to be listened to for enjoyment rather than as background sound. History The style has been synonymous with the tag "with strings". String instruments had been used in sweet bands in the 1930s and was the dominant sound track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Wess
Frank Wellington Wess (January 4, 1922 – October 30, 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. In addition to his extensive solo work, Wess is remembered for his time in Count Basie's band from the early 1950s into the 1960s. Critic Scott Yanow described him as one of the premier proteges of Lester Young, and a leading jazz flutist of his era—using the latter instrument to bring new colors to Basie's music. Biography Wess was born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, the son of a principal father and a schoolteacher mother. He began with classical music training and played in Oklahoma in high school. He later switched to jazz on moving to Washington, D.C. and by nineteen was working with big bands. His career was interrupted by World War II although he did play with a military band in the period. After leaving the military, he joined Billy Eckstine's orchestra. He returned to Washington D.C. a few years afterwards and received a degree in flute at the city's Mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Hefti
Neal Paul Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He wrote music for ''The Odd Couple'' movie and TV series and for the ''Batman'' TV series. He began arranging professionally in his teens, when he wrote charts for Nat Towles. He composed and arranged while working as a trumpeter for Woody Herman providing the bandleader with versions of "Woodchopper's Ball" and "Blowin' Up a Storm" and composing "The Good Earth" and "Wild Root". He left Herman's band in 1946. Now concentrating on writing music only, he began an association with Count Basie in 1950. Hefti occasionally led his own bands. Beginnings Neal Paul Hefti was born October 29, 1922, to an impoverished family in Hastings, Nebraska, United States. As a young child, he remembered his family relying on charity during the holidays. He started playing the trumpet in school at the age of eleven, and by high school was spending his summer vacations playing in local terr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count Basie
William James "Count" Basie (; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, and others. Many musicians came to prominence under his direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, the guitarist Freddie Green, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison, plunger trombonist Al Grey, and singers Jimmy Rushing, Helen Humes, Thelma Carpenter, and Joe Williams. Biography Early life and education William Basie was born to Lillian and Harvey Lee Basie in Red Bank, New Jersey. His father worked as a coachman and caretaker for a wealthy judge. After automobiles replaced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McGuire (radio Host)
Paul McGuire (born 1953) is an American conservative radio talk show host, author, feature film producer and television commentator. McGuire is host of the syndicated McGuire Report, broadcasting for over 10 years. He is a frequent guest on the Fox News Network and CNN. He is the author of 15 books, the producer of two science fiction films and has written columns for WorldNetDaily and NewsMax. The History Channel presented a three-hour special with McGuire entitled ''Seven Signs of the Apocalypse''. Career The ''Paul McGuire Show'' was a nationally syndicated radio talk show with a conservative point of view. Guests included former President Jimmy Carter, Tim LaHaye, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, Senator John McCain, Rick Warren, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, PLO leaders and Anne Rice. McGuire was one of the first radio talk show hosts in the US to broadcast his shows in both English and Spanish. He frequently had nationally known attorneys and legal defense guest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Crawford
Percy Bartimus Crawford (October 20, 1902 – October 31, 1960) was an evangelist and fundamentalist leader who especially emphasized youth ministry. During the late 1950s, he saw the potential of FM radio and UHF television and built the first successful Christian broadcasting network. He also founded The King's College and Pinebrook, a Bible conference in the Pocono Mountains. Youth and conversion Crawford was born in Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada, and was reared in Vancouver, British Columbia. He dropped out of school to help support the family after his father left his mother and their three children. As a teenager, he left home and completed high school at the YMCA school in Portland, Oregon. Preparing to enter the University of California at Los Angeles, he was converted to Christianity on September 23, 1923, at Reuben Torrey's Church of the Open Door, under the preaching of itinerant evangelist W. P. Nicholson. Education In 1924 he enrolled at the Bible Institute of Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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