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KSBZ (103.1 FM, "Mix 103", formerly classic rock "Rock 103"/alternatively known as "The Rock") is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Sitka, Alaska. The station, established in 1990, is currently owned by Alaska Broadcast Communications, Inc. Programming KSBZ broadcasts a hot adult contemporary music format to the Metro Sitka area. Some programming on the station had derived from Cumulus Media's "Classic Rock" radio network, in its "Rock 103" days. Since the station re-branded as "Mix 103," the syndicated programming and playlist have become identical to that of its Juneau counterpart Mix 106. History After applying in July 1989, this station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on October 5, 1990. The new station was assigned the KSBZ call sign by the FCC on October 17, 1990. On October 18, 1990, KSBZ launched with a classic rock and contemporary hit radio format. KSBZ received its license to cover f ...
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KIFW
KIFW (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Classic Hits, Oldies, Full-Service format. Licensed to Sitka, Alaska, United States, the station serves the Alaska Panhandle area. The station is owned by Alaska Broadcast Communications, and features programming from ABC Radio. The studios for KIFW and its sister station KSBZ are at 611 Lake Street in Sitka. Programming The station primarily broadcasts adult contemporary music but also airs a "Problem Corner" show where listeners call concerning local issues, among other subjects. KIFW also broadcasts Sitka High School sports games and airs live coverage of the Sitka Salmon Derby. In January 2000, KSBZ switched to a country music format. In 2006, KSBZ switched formats again, this time to an active rock format, before finally settling on a classic rock format a year later. In January 2020, KIFW transferred all its Adult Contemporary programming over to KSBZ which relaunched as a Hot AC radio station, rebranding as "Mix 103"; KI ...
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Sitka, Alaska
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Radio Stations In Alaska
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Alaska, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct stations * KABN-FM Kasilof * KAKQ Fairbanks * KALA Sitka * KAMP-LP St. Michael * KANC Anchorage * KAQU-LP Sitka * KAUG Anchorage * KCDS Deadhorse * KCKC Long Island * KGBU Ketchikan * KHGO Homer * KHOH Seldovia * KHZK Kotzebue * KIAL Unalaska * KJFP Yakutat * KMJG Homer * KOGB McGrath * KRAW Sterling * KRSA Petersburg * KSEW Seward * KSVJ Seward * KUWL Fairbanks * KVBV-LP Anchorage * KVIM-LP Juneau * KVOK Kodiak * KWJG Kasilof * KWMD Kasilof * KZXX Kenai References {{Navboxes , title = Alaska radio station regional navigation boxes , list = {{Alaska Bush Radio {{Anchorage Radio {{Fairbanks Radio {{Alaska Interior Radio {{Juneau Radio {{Kenai Radio {{South Central Alaska Radio {{Alaska Panhandle Radio Radio stations Alaska ...
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Alaska Broadcast Communications
Alaska Broadcast Communications is a local radio broadcasting company, serving the entire southeastern area of Alaska. The main office, along with the Juneau studios, is located at the Juneau Radio Center, located at 3161 Channel Drive in Juneau, Alaska. The company owns and operates nine stations in three different markets: Juneau * KJNO AM 630 * KINY AM 800 * KXXJ AM 1330 * KTKU FM 105.1 * KSUP FM 106.3 Sitka (studios at 611 Lake Street) * KIFW AM 1230 * KSBZ FM 103.1 Ketchikan (studios at 526 Stedman Street) * KTKN KTKN (930 AM) is an American commercial radio station airing talk and hot adult contemporary music programming in Ketchikan, Alaska. It is owned and operated by Alaska Broadcast Communications. The studios are at 526 Stedman Street in Ketchika ... AM 930 * KGTW FM 106.7 References Companies based in Juneau, Alaska Radio broadcasting companies of the United States {{Alaska-radio-station-stub ...
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Call Sign
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station. A call sign can be formally assigned by a government agency, informally adopted by individuals or organizations, or even cryptographically encoded to disguise a station's identity. The use of call signs as unique identifiers dates to the landline railroad telegraph system. Because there was only one telegraph line linking all railroad stations, there needed to be a way to address each one when sending a telegram. In order to save time, two-letter identifiers were adopted for this purpose. This pattern continued in radiotelegraph operation; radio companies initially assigned two-letter identifiers to coastal stations and stations onboard ships at sea. These were not globally unique, so a one-letter company identifier (for instance, 'M' and two letters as a Marconi station ...
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Hot Adult Contemporary Radio Stations In The United States
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Arbitron
Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio broadcasting audiences. It was founded as the American Research Bureau by Jim Seiler in 1949 and became national by merging with Los Angeles-based Coffin, Cooper, and Clay in the early 1950s. The company's initial business was the collection of broadcast television ratings. The company changed its name to Arbitron in the mid‑1960s, the namesake of the Arbitron System, a centralized statistical computer with leased lines to viewers' homes to monitor their activity. Deployed in New York City, it gave instant ratings data on what people were watching. A reporting board lit up to indicate which homes were listening to which broadcasts. On December 18, 2012, The Nielsen Company announced that it would acquire Arbitron, its only competitor, for US$1.26 billion. The acquisition closed on September 30, 2013, and the company was re-branded as Nielsen Audio. As ...
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Classic Hits
Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 1980s and the nostalgia behind it is a major driver to the format. It is considered the successor to the oldies format, a collection of top 40 songs from the late 1950s through the late 1970s that was once extremely popular in the United States and Canada. The term is sometimes incorrectly used as a synonym for the adult hits format, which uses a slightly newer music library stretching from all decades to the present with a major focus on 1990s and 2000s pop, rock and alternative songs. In addition, adult hits stations tend to have larger playlists, playing a given song only a few times per week, compared to the tighter libraries on classic hits stations. For example, KRTH, a classic hits station in Los Angeles, and KLUV, a classic hits statio ...
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Classic Rock
Classic rock is a US radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid 1990s, primarily focusing on commercially successful blues rock and hard rock popularized in the 1970s AOR format.Pareles, Jon (June 18, 1986)"Oldies on Rise in Album-Rock Radio" ''The New York Times''. Retrieved April 19, 2019. The radio format became increasingly popular with the baby boomer demographic by the end of the 1990s. Although classic rock has mostly appealed to adult listeners, music associated with this format received more exposure with younger listeners with the presence of the Internet and digital downloading. Some classic rock stations also play a limited number of current releases which are stylistically consistent with the station's sound, or by heritage acts which are still active and producing new music."New York Radio Guide: Ra ...
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Adult Contemporary Music
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, quiet storm and rock influence. Adult contemporary is generally a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of pop/rock music. Adult contemporary tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener's attention, and is inoffensive and pleasurable enough to work well as background music. Like most of pop music, its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a verse–chorus structure. The format is heavy on romantic sentimental ballads which mostly use acoustic instruments (though bass guitar is usually used) such as aco ...
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Active Rock
Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a balance of new hard rock songs with valued classic rock favorites, normally with an emphasis on the harder edge of mainstream rock and album-oriented rock. Format background There is no concrete definition of the active rock format. Sean Ross, editor of '' Airplay Monitor'', described active rock in the late 1990s as album-oriented rock (AOR) "with a greater emphasis on the harder end of the spectrum".Toby Eddings, "Active rock finds an Asylum at 93.5", ''The Sun News'', February 7, 1999 ''Radio & Records'' defined the format as based on current rock hits in frequent rotation and targeted to males ages 18–34, akin to the approach of contemporary hit radio (CHR) stations. An active rock station may include songs by classic hard rock artists whereas a modern rock or alternative station would not; such acts include AC/DC, Def Leppard, Guns N' Roses, ...
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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, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ...
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