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KUPL
KUPL (98.7 FM) is a commercial radio station in Portland, Oregon. The station is owned by Alpha Media and airs a country music radio format, known as "98.7 The Bull." KUPL's studios and offices are located in Downtown Portland on SW 5th Avenue. The transmitter is in Portland's West Hills, on SW Barnes Road. History KPOJ-FM/KPOK-FM On June 6, 1948, the station signed on as KPOJ-FM at 98.7 MHz. It was owned and operated by ''The Oregon Journal''. It was powered at 44,000 watts and mostly simulcast co-owned AM 1330 KPOJ, a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System and the Don Lee Network. It moved one spot lower on the FM dial, to 98.5 MHz, on March 27, 1964. On August 15, 1968, KPOJ-FM changed its call sign to KPOK-FM. It played oldies and called itself "The Golden Sound." On June 18, 1973, KPOK-FM changed its format from oldies to beautiful music as "98-FM." On July 11, 1973, the call letters switched to KUPL-FM while AM 1330 aired country music, also using ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KUFO
KUFO (970 Hertz, kHz) is a commercial radio, commercial AM broadcasting, AM radio station city of license, licensed to Portland, Oregon. The station, owned by Alpha Media, calls itself "Freedom 970" and airs a talk radio, talk radio format. KUFO's offices and studios are on Southwest 5th Avenue in Portland. The transmitter is in Portland's Tualatin Mountains, West Hills off SW Barnes Road. KUFO broadcasts with 5,000 watts around the clock. By day, the signal is non-directional, but at night, KUFO uses a directional antenna to protect other stations on AM 970. Programming KUFO features mostly Broadcast syndication, nationally syndicated talk shows, including Brian Kilmeade, Dave Ramsey, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Todd Starnes, Red Eye Radio and Lars Larson, who is also heard on co-owned 101.1 KXL-FM. Weekends feature shows on money, home improvement, real estate and food. Syndicated weekend shows include ''Beyond the Beltway'' with Bruce DuMont. Some weekend shows are paid brokere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KKPZ
KKPZ (1330 AM, "The Truth") was a radio station broadcasting a religious radio format. Licensed to Portland, Oregon, United States, it served the greater Portland metro area. The station was owned by KPHP Radio, Inc. (Crawford Broadcasting Company), located in Happy Valley, Oregon. History The station was first licensed, as KTBR on 1140 kHz, on September 21, 1925 to Brown's Radio Shop at 172 Tenth Street in Portland. In 1932, the station (then broadcasting on 1330 kHz with 500 watts of power) was purchased by the management of KOIN, and the call letters were changed to KALE. A story in a trade publication noted that KALE "will broadcast CBS sustaining features which KOIN cannot handle." The station's call letters were changed to KPOJ effective June 6, 1948, the date on which sister station KPOJ-FM began broadcasting. The stations were owned and operated by ''The Oregon Journal''. On June 9, 1970, KPOJ changed callsigns to KPOK and switched to a "Pop Tunes and Oldies" form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Oregon Journal
''The Oregon Journal'' was Portland, Oregon's daily afternoon newspaper from 1902 to 1982. The ''Journal'' was founded in Portland by C. S. "Sam" Jackson, publisher of Pendleton, Oregon's ''East Oregonian'' newspaper, after a group of Portlanders convinced Jackson to help in the reorganization of the ''Portland Evening Journal.'' The firm owned several radio stations in the Portland area, as well. In 1961, the ''Journal'' was purchased by S.I. Newhouse and Advance Publications, owners also of ''The Oregonian'', the city's morning newspaper. Founding The Portland ''Evening Journal'' was first published on March 10, 1902.Corning, Howard M. ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956. This newspaper began as a campaign paper owned by A. D. Bowen, with William Wasson as the first editor. However, within a few months the paper had floundered and was being liquidated. In July 1902, the ''Evening Journal'', was taken over by C.S. "Sam" Jackson, who had been the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBFF
KBFF (95.5 FM, "Live 95.5") is a commercial radio station licensed to Portland, Oregon, and serving the Portland metropolitan area, including parts of Oregon and Washington. The station airs a Top 40 (CHR) radio format and is owned by Alpha Media. It carries the syndicated morning drive time show "Brooke & Jeffrey" from KQMV in Seattle. KBFF's studios and offices are located in Downtown Portland, on SW Fifth Avenue. The transmitter is in Portland's West Hills, off SW Fairmount Court. KBFF has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. History Early History The 95.5 MHz spot on the FM dial in Portland was first occupied by the original KWJJ-FM. That station signed on in 1946. It only transmitted with an effective radiated power of 3,400 watts and it mostly simulcast AM 1080 KWJJ (now KFXX). But in the 1940s and 50s, few radios could receive FM signals and management saw little opportunity to make it profitable. In the mid-1950s, KWJJ silenced the FM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 In Radio
The year 1948 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting. __TOC__ Events *22 March – ''The Voice of Firestone'' becomes the first radio program to be aired on both AM and FM radio stations. *12 May – ''Don McNeill's Breakfast Club'' appears on television for the first time, via a simulcast on both ABC Radio and ABC TV. The telecast is seen in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and New York. Because ABC-TV's New York flagship station WJZ-TV had not signed on yet (and would not for another three months), DuMont flagship WABD carried it live. * 6 August – Truman aide Donald Dawson and U.S. Representative Karl Mundt appear on ''Meet the Press'', during which ''Newsweek'' journalist Ernest Lindley asks Mundt whether Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers had spent time in mental institutions (Mundt calls these unjustified rumors). * 27 August – Whittaker Chambers appears on ''Meet the Press'' with journalists Nathan Finney, Edward T. Folliard, James R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KXTG
KXTG (750 AM, "The Game") is a sports radio station in Portland, Oregon. Its transmitter is located in Damascus, while studios are in downtown Portland. It is owned by Alpha Media, a company owned by veteran radio executive Larry Wilson. Programmimg KXTG is Portland's flagship home to the March Madness, the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer, and the Seattle Mariners. It also served as home of the Portland Steel of the Arena Football League in 2016. The Bald Faced Truth with host John Canzano airs weekdays on KXTG. Canzano's show was the inaugural sports program on the station and remains on air today. The Bald Faced Truth launched The Game's sports programming on May 12, 2008. Among the first guests that first day were golfer Peter Jacobsen and former United States' President Barack Obama. History KXTG first began broadcasting in 1926 as KXL. KXL was bought by Alpha Broadcasting in 2009, along with a sister station, KXTG, on the FM band. That station first signed on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KXL-FM
KXL-FM (101.1 Hertz, MHz) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station in Portland, Oregon. It is owned by Alpha Media and broadcasts a all news radio, news/talk radio, talk radio format. The radio studio, studios are on SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland. KXL-FM is the flagship (broadcasting), flagship station for the radio syndication, nationally syndicated ''Lars Larson, Lars Larson Show''. In addition to news blocks in weekday AM and PM drive time, KXL-FM also carries syndicated shows from Chad Benson, ''Markley, Van Camp and Robbins'', ''Red Eye Radio'', ''First Light (radio program), First Light'' and ''America in the Morning''. KXL-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for most FM stations in the U.S. The transmitter is on Barnes Road, a radio masts and towers, tower site shared with KATU Channel 2. History KOIN-FM On , the station sign-on, signed on as KOIN-FM. It was the FM counterpart to KOIN 970 AM (now KUFO). The power was origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tualatin Mountains
The Tualatin Mountains (also known as the West Hills or Southwest Hills of Portland) are a range on the western border of Multnomah County, Oregon, United States. A spur of the Northern Oregon Coast Range, they separate the Tualatin Basin of Washington County, Oregon, from the Portland Basin of western Multnomah County and Clark County, Washington. The highest peak in the range is Dixie Mountain at . Other notable peaks include Cornell Mountain at 1,270 feet (390m), Council Crest at , and Pittock Hill, location of the Pittock Mansion. Despite steep slopes, periodic landslides, and multiple earthquake faults, many residences have been built in the Tualatin Mountains, though much of the northern portion is undeveloped land within the Forest Park. The landscape, inside and outside the park, is predominantly forested. History The hills date from the late Cenozoic era, and range up to over . Composed mainly of basalt, the mountains were formed by several flows of the Grande Ronde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sign-on
A sign-on (or start-up in Commonwealth countries except Canada) is the beginning of operations for a radio or television station, generally at the start of each day. It is the opposite of a sign-off (or closedown in Commonwealth countries except Canada), which is the sequence of operations involved when a radio or television station shuts down its transmitters and goes off the air for a predetermined period; generally, this occurs during the overnight hours although a broadcaster's digital specialty or sub-channels may sign-on and sign-off at significantly different times as its main channels. Like other television programming, sign-on and sign-off sequences can be initiated by a broadcast automation system, and automatic transmission systems can turn the carrier signal and transmitter on/off by remote control. Sign-on and sign-off sequences have become less common due to the increasing prevalence of 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week broadcasting. However, some national broadc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous county in Oregon. Portland had a population of 652,503, making it the 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area. Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1840s, near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simulcast
Simulcast (a portmanteau of simultaneous broadcast) is the broadcasting of programmes/programs or events across more than one resolution, bitrate or medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously). For example, Absolute Radio is simulcast on both AM and on satellite radio. Likewise, the BBC's Prom concerts were formerly simulcast on both BBC Radio 3 and BBC Television. Another application is the transmission of the original-language soundtrack of movies or TV series over local or Internet radio, with the television broadcast having been dubbed into a local language. Early radio simulcasts Before launching stereo radio, experiments were conducted by transmitting left and right channels on different radio channels. The earliest record found was a broadcast by the BBC in 1926 of a Halle Orchestra concert from Manchester, using the wavelengths of the regional stations and Daventry. In its earliest days the BBC often transmit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downtown Portland
Downtown Portland is the city center of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is on the west bank of the Willamette River in the northeastern corner of the southwest section of the city and where most of the city's high-rise buildings are found. The downtown neighborhood extends west from the Willamette to Interstate 405 and south from Burnside Street to just south of the Portland State University campus (also bounded by I-405), except for a part of northeastern portion north of SW Harvey Milk Street and east of SW 3rd Ave that belongs to the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood. High-density business and residential districts near downtown include the Lloyd District, across the river from the northern part of downtown, and the South Waterfront area, just south of downtown in the South Portland neighborhood. Portland's downtown features narrow streets— wide—and square, compact blocks on a side, to create more corner lots that were expected to be more valuable. The sma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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