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KSTZ
KSTZ (102.5 FM, "Star 102.5") is a commercial FM radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. The station airs a hot adult contemporary radio format. KSTZ is part of Saga Communications' Des Moines Radio Group, with studios located on Locust Street in Des Moines. KSTZ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 92,000 watts (100,000 watts with beam tilt). The transmitter is located off Ankeny Boulevard ( U.S. Route 69) near Alleman. KSTZ broadcasts in the HD Radio format. The HD2 subchannel carries a classic country format known as "93.7 The Outlaw - Legends and Young Guns", which is also relayed on 250-watt translator station K229CC, at 93.7 MHz. History The station signed on the air in 1970 as KRNT-FM. It was the FM counterpart to KRNT (AM 1350). Both stations were owned by the Cowles family, publishers of the ''Des Moines Register''. During those early years, Drake-Chenault's automated "Hit Parade" format was aired. In 1974, the station became KRNQ ("Q-102"). That year, Cow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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KSTZ (102.5 FM, "Star 102.5") is a commercial FM radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. The station airs a hot adult contemporary radio format. KSTZ is part of Saga Communications' Des Moines Radio Group, with studios located on Locust Street in Des Moines. KSTZ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 92,000 watts (100,000 watts with beam tilt). The transmitter is located off Ankeny Boulevard ( U.S. Route 69) near Alleman. KSTZ broadcasts in the HD Radio format. The HD2 subchannel carries a classic country format known as "93.7 The Outlaw - Legends and Young Guns", which is also relayed on 250-watt translator station K229CC, at 93.7 MHz. History The station signed on the air in 1970 as KRNT-FM. It was the FM counterpart to KRNT (AM 1350). Both stations were owned by the Cowles family, publishers of the ''Des Moines Register''. During those early years, Drake-Chenault's automated "Hit Parade" format was aired. In 1974, the station became KRNQ ("Q-102"). That year, Cowl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KIOA
KIOA (93.3 FM) is a commercial radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. It is owned by the Des Moines Radio Group subsidiary of Saga Communications and airs a Classic Hits radio format. The station's studios are located at 1416 Locust Street along with Saga's other Des Moines stations (KSTZ, KAZR, KOEZ, KRNT and KPSZ). The transmitter is located off 24th Street SE, near 6th Avenue SE, in Altoona. KIOA broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format. Its HD2 subchannel carries a contemporary hit radio format branded as "Hits 99.9." It is also heard on 250–watt FM translator station 99.9 K260AM in Des Moines. History KWDM The 93.3 frequency got its start on September 18, 1964 as KWDM. George Webber, who was the founder of the original KWDM (1150 AM, now KWKY), brought back his unique programming after having sold the AM station in 1959 to the 3M Corporation. The FM station consisted of block programming of music, including classical, operatic and ethnic music not heard elsewhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KPSZ
KPSZ (940 AM, "Hope 940") is a commercial radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. The station's studios and offices are located on Locust Street in Des Moines along with the Des Moines Radio Group subsidiary of Saga Communications' other local stations (KRNT, KSTZ, KIOA, KOEZ and KAZR). KPSZ broadcasts a Christian talk and teaching radio format. National religious leaders heard on KPSZ include Adrian Rogers, David Jeremiah, Joyce Meyer and Jim Daly. Using a brokered programming model, hosts buy blocks of time on KPSZ and may use their shows to seek donations to their ministries. KPSZ is powered at 10,000 watts by day and 5,000 watts at night. It uses a directional antenna with a six-tower array to protect other stations on 940 AM, a Canadian and Mexican clear channel frequency. The transmitter is on 228th Avenue at Carpenter Street in Hartford. History KIOA: 1948–1957 On January 15, 1948, the station signed on as KIOA. Its studios were located in the Onthank building at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KRNT
KRNT (1350 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Serving the Des Moines, Iowa, United States, area, the station is owned by the Des Moines Radio Group subsidiary of Saga Communications through licensee Saga Communications of Iowa, LLC. Studios are located on Locust Street in Des Moines, with its 4-tower transmitter array located on King Avenue in Des Moines. Programming KRNT features programming from ESPN Radio. In addition, it serves as the broadcast outlet for several sports teams: * Drake University athletics (football, men's and women's basketball) * Chicago Cubs baseball History KSO The station was first licensed on October 9, 1925 to the A. A. Berry Seed Company in Clarinda, Iowa, transmitting on 1240 kHz, with the call sign KSO. The call letters reflected the slogan "Keep Serving Others". In 1926, an adverse legal decision briefly eliminated the ability of the U.S. government to assign station frequencies and powers, and as of December 31, 1926 K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines () is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small part of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines, which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857. It is located on, and named after, the Des Moines River, which likely was adapted from the early French name, ''Rivière des Moines,'' meaning "River of the Monks". The city's population was 214,133 as of the 2020 census. The six-county metropolitan area is ranked 83rd in terms of population in the United States with 699,292 residents according to the 2019 estimate by the United States Census Bureau, and is the largest metropolitan area fully located within the state. Des Moines is a major center of the US insurance industry and has a sizable financial services and publishing business base. The city was credited as the "number one spot for U.S. insurance companies" in a ''Business Wire'' articl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KOEZ (FM)
KOEZ (104.1 FM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a soft adult contemporary music radio format, switching to Christmas music for part of November and December. Licensed to Ames, Iowa, the station serves the Des Moines metropolitan area. The station is owned by the Des Moines Radio Group subsidiary of Saga Communications. The station's studios are located on Locust Street in Des Moines, while its transmitter is located near Woodward. History The station signed on the air on . The original call sign was KLFM. It was owned by Paul D. Lunde and was branded as "KLFM Stereo - Ames; Central Iowa's first 24-hour FM station." It aired a beautiful music format with ABC FM Radio Network news at 15 minutes after the hour. Robert and Norma Bunce were the owners of Bunce Broadcasting Corporation. Bob started his broadcasting career as a disc jockey with KCBC and later bought the station in 1968. Robert sold KCBC in 1975 and purchased KLFM in Ames. The station call letters were cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KAZR
KAZR (103.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Pella, Iowa, and serving the Des Moines metropolitan area. It is owned by the Des Moines Radio Group subsidiary of Saga Communications, with studios located on Locust Street in Des Moines. KAZR airs a mainstream rock radio format, known as "Lazer 103.3." The transmitter is located off Pinion Avenue near Runnells, broadcasting at 100,000 watts. KAZR broadcasts in the HD Radio format. History The station signed on as KPLL in 1976, with studios and transmitter located in Otley, near Pella, Iowa. It was owned by the Meyer family with a varied format of music and religious programming. In 1980, its call letters changed to KXJX , in 1986 to KFMD, and to KDMG in 1988. KDMG, owned by Beta Broadcasting, had a "gold" format until 1989 and then followed various "classic oldies" formats until late 1990. From January 1991 to April 1992, KDMG followed an adult album alternative (AAA) format "Where The Music Comes First", simi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disc Jockey
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include Radio personality, radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at a nightclub or music festival), mobile DJs (who are hired to work at public and private events such as weddings, parties, or festivals), and turntablism, turntablists (who use record players, usually turntables, to manipulate sounds on phonograph records). Originally, the "disc" in "disc jockey" referred to shellac and later vinyl records, but nowadays DJ is used as an all-encompassing term to also describe persons who DJ mix, mix music from other recording media such as compact cassette, cassettes, CDs or digital audio files on a CDJ, controller, or even a laptop. DJs may adopt the title "DJ" in front of their real names, adopted pseudonyms, or stage names. DJs commonly use audio equipment that can play at least two sources of recorded music simultaneously. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Hit Radio
Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock, pop, or urban music. Used alone, ''CHR'' most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term ''contemporary hit radio'' was coined in the early 1980s by ''Radio & Records'' magazine to designate Top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into Adult contemporary, Urban contemporary, Contemporary Christian and other formats. The term "top 40" is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. The term has also been modified to describe top 50; top 30; top 20; top 10; hot 100 (each with its number of songs) and hot hits radio formats, but carrying more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka ( ; Kansa language, Kansa: ; iow, Dópikˀe, script=Latn or ) is the Capital (political), capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the County seat, seat of Shawnee County, Kansas, Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 126,587. The Topeka Topeka, Kansas metropolitan area, metropolitan statistical area, which includes Shawnee, Jackson County, Kansas, Jackson, Jefferson County, Kansas, Jefferson, Osage County, Kansas, Osage, and Wabaunsee County, Kansas, Wabaunsee Counties, had a population of 233,870 in the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. The name "Topeka" is a Kansa-Osage word that means "place where we dig potatoes", or "a good place to dig potatoes". As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River. Topeka's founders chose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Automation
Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines. Automation has been achieved by various means including mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, electronic devices, and computers, usually in combination. Complicated systems, such as modern factories, airplanes, and ships typically use combinations of all of these techniques. The benefit of automation includes labor savings, reducing waste, savings in electricity costs, savings in material costs, and improvements to quality, accuracy, and precision. Automation includes the use of various equipment and control systems such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers, and heat-treating ovens, switching on telephone networks, steering, and stabilization of ships, aircraft, and other applications and vehicles with reduced hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drake-Chenault
Drake-Chenault Enterprises (originally American Independent Radio Inc.) was a radio syndication company that specialized in automation on FM radio stations. The company was founded in the late-1960s by radio programmer and deejay Bill Drake (1937–2008), and his business partner, Lester Eugene Chenault (1919–2010). Drake-Chenault was the predecessor of Jones Radio Networks with its syndicated satellite-delivered formats. History In the 1940s and 1950s, FM radio stations began to appear all over the US, generally alongside a sister AM station. Most stations held their FM license by simulcasting the programming of the AM sister station. In the 1960s the FCC introduced a rule that prohibited owners of AM and FM stations from simulcasting in an attempt to increase variety of programming and generate FM listenership. The FM audience share at that time was very small. Since the AM and FM stations aired the same programming, there was little reason to listen to FM. The rule targeted m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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