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KHSL (FM)
KHSL-FM (103.5 MHz, "The Blaze") is a country music formatted radio station based in Chico, California. It is owned and operated by Deer Creek Broadcasting and Digital Interactive LLC, which also owns News-Talk 93.9 KPAY-FM (formerly KFMF-FM), KPAY Fox Sports 1290 AM /102.9 FM, Mix 95.1 Lite Rock KMXI-FM, KZAP-FM 96.7 Classic Rock and formerly owner of Regional Spanish station KHHZ-FM 97.7 (known as La Gran X/Radio Mexico), now owned by Bustos Media. The station's partner and general manager is longtime Chico media personality Dino Corbin, who served as general manager at KHSL-TV for over 20 years and has served the community in broadcasting for 50 years. The program director and morning personality is Mike Wessels. The distinction of the longest-tenured on-air talent at the station goes to Moriss Taylor, who has been a fixture at the station for six decades. (Taylor is now deceased.) History KHSL Radio began in Chico, CA, in 1935 at the request of the Chico Chamber of Commerce. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise, California
Paradise is a town in Butte County, California, United States in the Sierra Nevada foothills above the northeastern Sacramento Valley. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 4,764. On November 8, 2018, a major wildfire, the Camp Fire, destroyed most of Paradise and much of the adjacent communities of Magalia, Butte Creek Canyon, and Concow. After the Camp Fire, the population declined by more than 90%. In January 2019, the state of California reported 4,600 residents, and a door-to-door count in April 2019 found 2,034. History The first post office was established at Paradise in 1877. It closed for a time in 1911, but was re-established later that year, when the post office at Orloff was closed. Paradise incorporated in 1979. For many years, the Butte County Railroad operated trains along the ridge, serving mines and sawmills. Naming According to GNIS, the community has been known in the past by four different names or spellings: ''Leonards Mill'', ''Poverty Ridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KPAY-AM
KPAY (1290 AM) is a sports formatted radio station in Northern California. The station can be heard in Butte County, California, and parts of Tehama County, Glenn County, and Colusa County. The station's transmitter power is 5,000 watts and is located in Chico, California. The station is owned by Deer Creek Broadcasting, LLC. KPAY is a radio affiliate of Fox Sports Radio, also covering north valley sports, including Chico State Wildcat Athletics (baseball, basketball), the NFL, MLB, Warriors, Oakland A's and Butte Community College Football. History In October 1949, KXOC-AM began broadcasting. In February 1953, KXOC-AM changed its call sign to KPAY-AM. In July 1994, the KPAY building was destroyed by fire.Chico: A 20th Century Pictorial History The station was originally located on 1060 kHz, but moved to 1290 kHz, which had been vacated by KHSL-AM after KHSL moved its format to the FM band at 103.5, now known as " The Blaze". In July 2019, Portland, Oregon-based Bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kix Brooks
Leon Eric Brooks III, better known by his stage name Kix Brooks (born May 12, 1955), is an American country music artist, actor, and film producer best known for being one half of the duo Brooks & Dunn and host of radio's ''American Country Countdown''. Prior to the duo's foundation, he was a singer and songwriter, charting twice on Hot Country Songs and releasing an album for Capitol Records. Brooks and Ronnie Dunn comprised Brooks & Dunn for twenty years, then both members began solo careers. Brooks's solo career after Brooks & Dunn includes the album '' New to This Town''. In 2019, Brooks & Dunn were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Early life Brooks grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana. He has a sister, a half-sister, and a half-brother; his father also adopted a son of his third wife. After graduating from the former Sewanee Military Academy, an Episcopal school in Sewanee, Tennessee, Brooks attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston as a theatre arts major. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Country Countdown
''American Country Countdown'', also known as ''ACC'', is a weekly internationally syndicated radio program which counts down the top 40 country songs of the previous week, from No. 40 to No. 1, according to the ''Billboard'' Country Airplay chart. The program premiered in 1973 and as of January 2006 is hosted by Kix Brooks. It is syndicated by Cumulus Media Networks. History ''American Country Countdown'' was conceived as a spinoff program from '' American Top 40'' (''AT40''), which had premiered in 1970 and showcased the week's most popular singles. The new program was a creation of Casey Kasem and Don Bustany, the same duo behind ''AT40'', with Tom Rounds as co-creator and Watermark Inc. distributing. "In 1969, when Casey Kasem and I were planning 'American Top 40,' we said, 'Hey, if this works, we can do a country countdown, an MOR countdown, a whatever countdown,'" Rounds explained to ''Radio & Records'' magazine as to the show's conception. However, it was not until 1973 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terri Clark
Terri Lynn Sauson, known professionally as Terri Clark, born August 5, 1968, is a Canadian country music singer who has had success in both Canada and the United States. Signed to Mercury Records in 1995, she released her self-titled debut that year. Both it and its two follow-ups, 1996's ''Just the Same'' and 1998's '' How I Feel'', were certified platinum in both countries, and produced several Top Ten country hits. Her fourth album, 2000's ''Fearless'', though certified gold in Canada, was not as successful in the U.S., producing no Top 10 hits. ''Pain to Kill'' from 2003 restored her chart momentum in the U.S. with "I Just Wanna Be Mad" and " I Wanna Do It All", while a 2004 greatest hits album produced the Number One "Girls Lie Too". A non-album single, "The World Needs a Drink", and the 2005 album '' Life Goes On'' were her last releases for Mercury before she signed to BNA Records in 2007. There, she released the singles " Dirty Girl" and " In My Next Life". Although the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Gold
''Country Gold'' is a 10-track compilation CD of songs taken from Nanci Griffith's MCA Records albums released by the label from 1986 to 1991: '' Lone Star State of Mind'', ''Little Love Affairs'', '' One Fair Summer Evening'' and ''Storms''. It was released on March 11, 1997. Track listing All tracks composed by Nanci Griffith except where indicated. #"Trouble in the Fields" 3:18 #"Cold Hearts/Closed Minds" 2:40 #"I Knew Love" (Roger Brown) 3:17 #"Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool" 2:39 #"From a Distance" (Julie Gold) 4:10 #"Never Mind" (Harlan Howard Harlan Perry Howard (September 8, 1927 – March 3, 2002) was an American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote many popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists. C ...) 3:42 #"Once in a Very Blue Moon" (live) ( Patrick Alger, Eugene Levine) 2:16 #"I Wish It Would Rain" 2:38 #"Listen to the Radio" 3:45 #"Drive-In Movies and Dashboard Lights" 3:14 Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lia Show
''The Lia Show'', formerly known as ''Neon Nights'' and ''Cryin’, Lovin’ or Leavin’'', is a nationally syndicated country music and entertainment radio program hosted by Lia Knight (born in Kentucky). The program airs nightly from 7 pm to midnight locally across the United States. Based out of Seattle, Washington, The Lia Show is a very artist-driven program with loads of interviews from the top names in the country music industry and many from the film and television industries. The show contributes a measure of its success to its caller hotlines. Putting on caller-intensive shows allowed for it to become more emotional and real. ''The Lia Show'' continues to grow. Whereas in its infancy, it focused primarily on country music, the show has branched out considerably and has featured several high-profile celebrity guests, such as Jenny McCarthy, Bill Engvall, UFC fighters Chuck Liddell, Forrest Griffin, and Matt Hughes, Piers Morgan, Larry the Cable Guy, Chelsea Handler, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHSL-TV
KHSL-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Chico, California, United States, serving the Chico– Redding market as an affiliate of CBS and The CW Plus. It is owned by Allen Media Broadcasting, which provides certain services to dual NBC/Telemundo affiliate KNVN (channel 24, also licensed to Chico) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with Maxair Media. Both stations share studios at the McClung Broadcast Center on the corner of Eaton and Silverbell Road on the northwest side of Chico, while KHSL's transmitter is located along Cohasset Road in rural Butte County northwest of Paradise, California. History KHSL-TV came on air in 1953 and was established by the McClung family's Golden Empire Broadcasting Company along with KHSL-AM 1290. The call letters are in honor of Harry Smithson and Sidney Lewis, who founded KHSL-AM in 1935. They sold the station to Hugh and Ruth "Mickey" McClung a year later. During the same year, a control panel fire broke out at the K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moriss Taylor
''The Moriss Taylor Show'' was one of the longest-running locally produced television shows in history. Hosted by longtime radio personality and producer Moriss Taylor, the show (based in Chico, California) was a weekly country music-variety staple featuring such musicians as Charlie Robinson, Greg Ecox, Yvonne Ambrose-Haygood, Bill Teague, Mark Alstad, Rosie Mello, Jolene Farrara, Mark Pacheco, and Mel Wilson. Announcer Ron Palmer and news reporter Rick Rigsby also made appearances on the show. The show started in 1956, three years after the launch of its host television station KHSL-TV. It was produced at both KHSL-TV studio locations on 4th and Wall Streets from 1956-84 and on Silverbell Road from 1984-95. It was broadcast on Channel 12 from 1956-95 and was shown in reruns on KHSL-TV until 1997 when it was cancelled following the acquisition of the station by Catamount Broadcasting. From 1997 to 2015, repeats (usually early 1990s shows) aired on KRVU in Chico. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHHZ-FM
KHHZ (97.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican format. Licensed to Gridley, California, United States, the station serves the Chico area. The station is currently owned by Bustos Media, through licensee Bustos Media Holdings, LLC, and features programming from CNN Radio CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the M .... History The station went on the air as KEWE on 14 February 1979. On 1 October 1996, it changed its call sign to KZCO, and on 10 March 2000 to the current KHHZ. References External linksKHHZ-FM official website(Spanish) HHZ Regional Mexican radio stations in the United States HHZ {{California-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KZAP-FM
KZAP (96.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Paradise, California, with studios and offices in and broadcasting to the Chico, California, area. KZAP airs a classic rock format. History The station signed on the air on June 4, 1977, as KNVR-FM, then in 1992 changed to KZZP. In 1995, The "Z" switched to "A" and the current call letters KZAP became reality. KZAP became the market's AC leader in 2000 as "Star 96.7" and in 2002 switched to Rhythmic Top 40 as "Club 96.7". Program director wa Randy Zachary, also former owner and main on-air personality at KYIX-FM. On June 18, 2007, KZAP flipped to adult album alternative and adopted the KPIG brand for the Chico area. The format was not successful in the market, and on May 10, 2010, the station switched to its news/talk format. The station then decided to change to an oldies format in March 2011 called "Classic Hits 96.7". After KFMF dropped its classic rock format in August 2019 (following a sale of the stations to Bust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KMXI-FM
KMXI is a commercial radio station located in Chico, California, broadcasting on 95.1 FM. KMXI airs an adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ... music format branded as "Today's Lite Rock Mix 95.1". History The station began in 1972 as KPAY-FM with a beautiful music format until 1987 when they shifted to an adult contemporary format. In April 1994 they changed their call letters to KMXI, now known as "Mix 95.1". Personalities and shows Dori in the Morning, Dori McKay , 6:00am–9:00am PST *No repeat Workday , Robin Scott , 9:00am–3:00pm PST *Drive At Five , Mark Chase , 3:00pm–7:00pm PST *TK Live Tom Kent Radio Network, 7:00pm-midnight PST External links MXI Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States Radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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