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KYTY
KYTY is a Christian radio station based in San Antonio, Texas and broadcast on 810 AM. 810 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency. History Signed on May 16, 1988 as "Good News Radio, 810 KCHG", airing a Christian format. In July 1998, the station was leased through a local marketing agreement with Clear Channel Radio to make room for the format of 96 KSJL. From July through Labor Day, KCHG was simulcast with 96.1 KSJL-FM. When the simulcast began, KSJL played more of an adult oriented rhythm and blues. Once KSJL moved to 810 AM and 92.5 FM KSJL-FM, the station's hip-hop lean and the Mix Show was no more, instead playing mostly slow jams and softer music. Crossover hits like Zhane "Groove Thang", or Montell Jordan's "This is how we do it" were no longer in the music rotation. Between 1998-2000, KTFM was the only commercial FM outlet for hip-hop, until the arrival of KBBT 98.5 the Beat. KSJL History The KSJL calls originated on 760 AM. Its formats on 760 AM included "S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
810 AM
The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 810 kHz: 810 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency. KGO San Francisco and WGY Schenectady share Class A status on 810 AM. In Argentina * Federal in Buenos Aires * Mitre in Cordoba In Australia * 2BA in Bega, NSW * 6RN in Perth, WA In the Bahamas * C6B-3-AM (still identifies as ZNS-3-AM) in Freeport In the People's Republic of China * BEN49 in Xian In Colombia * HJCY in Bogotá, Distrito Capital In Denmark In Greenland * OYN in Upernavik In Fiji * 3DX in Labasa In India * VUR in Rajkot In Indonesia * PM3B in Bandung * PM8DBD in Enrekang * PM2B in Jakarta * PM3BIS in Majalengka * 8FW210 in Merauke * PM3CEC in Tanjung Balai In Japan * JOKN in Tokyo (Yokota Air Base) In Mexico * XEAGR-AM in Acapulco, Guerrero * XECSAA-AM in Cuernavaca, Morelos * XEEMM-AM in Salamanca, Guanajuato * XEFW-AM in Tampico, Tamaulipas * XEHT-AM in Huamantla, Tlaxcala * XERB-AM in Cozu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KXXM
KXXM (96.1 FM, "96.1 NOW") is a Top 40 (CHR) station based in San Antonio, Texas, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. Its studios are located in the Stone Oak neighborhood in Far North San Antonio, and the transmitter site is in Frederich Wilderness Park on the city's northwest side. History On May 5, 1964, KMFM signed on 96.1 MHz. It was a classical music station owned by the Pennington family, broadcasting from studios at 134 E. Agarita Ave. In 1976, Harry Pennington, Jr. died, and his wife Rosa Lee took over the station before selling it to Classic Media in 1977. Classic built a new, 100 kW facility for the station. Six years later, the station was sold to C&W Wireless, which programmed a Contemporary Christian format known as "Son Light Radio FM 96" and changed the callsign to KSLR to match the new moniker. Inner City Broadcasting, which already owned KSJL 760 AM, bought KSLR in 1986. The two stations began simulcasting as Super Q 96 FM and Super Q 76 AM, with the calls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerset, Texas
Somerset is a city located in Bexar County, Texas, Bexar County, Texas, United States. It is located less than 20 miles south of Downtown San Antonio and is part of the metropolitan area. The population was 1,756 at the 2020 census. History English speaking European settlers had already arrived in the area by the early 1800s. Somerset was named for an organized settlement that had been begun in 1848, in what is now Atascosa County, by a group of Baptist families from Somerset, Kentucky. The present site was named Somerset when the First Townsite Company was formed on the Artesian Belt Railroad right-of-way on May 25, 1909, by A. M. Pyron, Carl Kurz, and Jonas A. Kerr. In 1913, while drilling for artesian water, Kurz discovered oil and an Business cycle, economic boom followed. The Somerset oilfield extended from Somerset to below Pleasanton and was the largest known shallow field in the world at that time. Two oil refineries in the field and a pipeline into San Antonio handled th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inner City Broadcasting Corporation
The Inner City Broadcasting Corporation ("ICBC") was an American media company based in New York City. It was one of the first broadcasting companies wholly owned by African-Americans. History Inner City was founded in 1970 by a group of prominent African-American New Yorkers active in business and civic affairs. They were led by Percy Sutton, an attorney and a former president of the New York borough of Manhattan; and Clarence Jones, a former publisher of the ''New York Amsterdam News''. Sutton and Jones were joined by over fifty shareholders including legendary disk jockey Hal Jackson; Sutton's fellow "Gang of Four" member David Dinkins, who would later become New York's first African-American mayor; Wilbert (Bill) Tatum, who succeeded Jones as publisher of the ''Amsterdam News''; future New York state senator and comptroller Carl McCall; Betty Shabazz, the widow of Black Muslim minister and civil rights leader Malcolm X; civil rights activist, journalist and congressional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTKR
KTKR (760 AM) is a sports radio station serving the San Antonio, Texas, United States area. KTKR, more popularly known as "Ticket 760", is owned by iHeartMedia (previously Clear Channel Communications until September 2014) as a sister station to, among others, heritage station WOAI. Its studios are located in the Stone Oak neighborhood in Far North San Antonio, and the transmitter site is just east of the city along I-10. The station lineup includes Mike Taylor, Andy Everett, Sam 'Biggest Puma' Freas, Dan Patrick, Colin Cowherd, and other Fox Sports Radio programs. It is also the flagship station of UTSA football and basketball. The station is also the local affiliate of Westwood One's NFL broadcasts, as well as the Texas Longhorns basketball. History of AM 760 KSJL received its callsign on July 19, 1982. It signed on two years later under the ownership of Inner City Broadcasting as All Hit 76 KSJL, a Top 40 format broadcasting in AM stereo. It would later become part of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOAI (AM)
WOAI (1200 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in San Antonio, Texas, which airs a news/talk format. It is owned and operated by locally based iHeartMedia, Inc., and is that company's flagship station. Studios are located in the Stone Oak neighborhood in Far North San Antonio. Its non-directional antenna transmitter site is off Santa Clara Road in Zuehl, Texas. WOAI promotion refers to the station as the "50,000 Watt Blowtorch" of South Texas. It is a Class A clear-channel station, broadcasting fulltime at the U.S. maximum power of 50,000 watts. In the daytime, WOAI covers most of Central and South Texas, providing at least secondary coverage as far north as the Waco suburbs and as far south as Corpus Christi. With a good radio, WOAI's nighttime signal reaches much of the United States and Mexico, and parts of central Canada. However, it is strongest in the central United States. WOAI audio streaming is also available through iHeartRadio. Programming WOAI airs a mix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clear Channel Communications
iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc.), a company founded by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, B. J. "Red" McCombs in 1972, and later taken private by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners through a leveraged buyout in 2008. As a result of this buyout, Clear Channel Communications, Inc., began to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of CC Media Holdings, Inc. On September 16, 2014, CC Media Holdings, Inc. was rebranded iHeartMedia, Inc., and Clear Channel Communications, Inc., became iHeartCommunications, Inc. Overview iHeartMedia, Inc. specializes in radio broadcasting, podcasting, Digital media, digital and live events through Division (business), division iHeartMedia (sans "Inc." suffix; formerly Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, Clear Channel Radio, et al.) and subsidiary iHeartMedia an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Sutton
Percy Ellis Sutton (November 24, 1920 – December 26, 2009) was an American political and business leader. An activist in the Civil Rights Movement and lawyer, he was also a Freedom Rider and the legal representative for Malcolm X. He was the highest-ranking African-American elected official in New York City when he was Manhattan borough president from 1966 to 1977, the longest tenure at that position. He later became an entrepreneur whose investments included the ''New York Amsterdam News'' and the Apollo Theater in Harlem.Salazar, Cristian (December 27, 2009)."Percy Sutton, Attorney for Malcolm X, Dies at 89 — Percy Sutton, Attorney for Malcolm X and Pioneering Media Mogul, Dies at 89" ''The Associated Press'' (''via'' ''ABC News''). Accessed December 27, 2009. Early life, military service, education, and family Sutton was born in San Antonio, Texas, the youngest of fifteen children born to Samuel Johnson ("S.J.") Sutton and his wife, Lillian. His father, an ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSAQ
KSAQ 102.3 FM is a radio station licensed to Charlotte, Texas. The station broadcasts 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 owned by Creative RF Venture Group LLC. fcc.gov. Accessed December 19, 2013 References External links * SAQ Country radio stations in the United States {{Texas-radio-stat ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of enslaved Africans who are from the United States. While some Black immigrants or their children may also come to identify as African-American, the majority of first generation immigrants do not, preferring to identify with their nation of origin. African Americans constitute the second largest racial group in the U.S. after White Americans, as well as the third largest ethnic group after Hispanic and Latino Americans. Most African Americans are descendants of enslaved people within the boundaries of the present United States. On average, African Americans are of West/ Central African with some European descent; some also have Native American and other ancestry. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, African immigrants generally do not s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Antonio, Texas
("Cradle of Freedom") , image_map = , mapsize = 220px , map_caption = Interactive map of San Antonio , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1= State , subdivision_name1 = Texas , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name2 = Bexar, Comal, Medina , established_title = Foundation , established_date = May 1, 1718 , established_title1 = Incorporated , established_date1 = June 5, 1837 , named_for = Saint Anthony of Padua , government_type = Council-Manager , governing_body = San Antonio City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Ron Nirenberg ( I) , leader_title2 = City Manager , leader_name2 = Erik Walsh , leader_title3 = City Council , leader_name3 = , unit_pref = Imperial , area_total_sq_mi = 504.64 , area_total_km2 = 1307.00 , area_land_sq_mi = 498.85 , area_land_km2 = 1292.02 , area_water_sq_mi = 5.79 , area_water_km2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KRPT
KRPT (92.5 FM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a classic country format. Licensed to Devine, Texas, United States, the station serves the San Antonio area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel Communications). The KRPT studios are located in the Stone Oak neighborhood in Far North San Antonio, and the transmitter site is in Pearsall. History The station first signed on November 17, 1982 on the 92.1 FM frequency as KDCI with a middle of the road music format. The station changed its call sign to KTXX in June 1985, and later moved to 92.5 FM. In August 1998, KTXX-FM Inc. president Kahn Hamon sold the station to San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications for $1.5 million; at the time of the sale, it aired a country music format. A month later, the station changed its call letters to KSJL-FM and flipped to urban adult contemporary as a simulcast of KSJL (760 AM). On February 20, 2004, KSJL-FM changed its format to rhythmic contemporary with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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