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List Of Jazz Radio Stations In The United States
This is a list of terrestrial, satellite and internet radio stations which identify themselves as playing jazz in any of its forms ( mainstream, traditional, fusion, acid, and smooth, among others), or have substantial jazz programming, that can be heard in the United States. References * {{Cite web , url=http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?format=jaz&s=R&sr=Y , title=Jazz Radio Stations , website=Radio-Locator.com Jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ... Radio Stations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Broadcasting
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio station, while in satellite radio the radio waves are broadcast by a satellite in Earth orbit. To receive the content the listener must have a broadcast radio receiver (''radio''). Stations are often affiliated with a radio network which provides content in a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both. Radio stations broadcast with several different types of modulation: AM radio stations transmit in AM ( amplitude modulation), FM radio stations transmit in FM ( frequency modulation), which are older analog audio standards, while newer digital radio stations transmit in several digital audio standards: DAB ( digital audio broadcasting), HD radio, DRM ( Digital Radio Mondiale). Television b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minneapolis Public Schools
Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) or Special School District Number 1 is a public school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Minneapolis Public Schools enrolls 36,370 students in public primary and secondary schools. The district administers about one hundred public schools including forty-five elementary schools, seven middle schools, seven high schools, eight special education schools, eight alternative schools, nineteen contract alternative schools, and five charter schools. With authority granted by the state legislature, the school board makes policy, selects the superintendent, and oversees the district's budget, curriculum, personnel, and facilities. Students speak ninety different languages at home and most school communications are printed in English, Hmong, Spanish, and Somali. Enrollment In the past decade enrollment in Minneapolis Public Schools has decreased significantly. In the 2001-2002 school year t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Mateo County Community College District
The San Mateo County Community College District is a community college system in California with three institutions: College of San Mateo in San Mateo, Cañada College in Redwood City, and Skyline College in San Bruno. The district serves more than 25,000 students each day with both day and evening classes. History San Mateo Junior College was founded in 1922, and the first classes started on August 22 in a building shared with San Mateo High School on Baldwin Avenue and San Mateo Drive (then called Griffith Avenue). The first student was Marjorie Brace, who could not attend Stanford because of the high cost of tuition. Julio Bortolazzo is credited with the expansion of what had become the College of San Mateo (CSM) into the three-college District. In 1956, he formed a 27-member Citizens Committee to study potential sites for a new campus for CSM, which by then occupied the training facility originally constructed for the United States Merchant Marine during World War II at Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCSM (FM)
KCSM is a radio station in San Mateo, California, broadcasting locally on 91.1 MHz. The station broadcasts jazz music, 24 hours a day, commercial-free. The radio station is not-for-profit, and listener-supported. The broadcast is mirrored as streaming media on the World Wide Web, extending the station's audience far beyond the Bay Area. Owned by the San Mateo Community College District, the station serves the San Francisco Bay Area from studios and a transmitter both located on campus of the College of San Mateo. History KCSM radio and KCSM-TV were originally established by the College of San Mateo as training facilities for radio and TV broadcasters. Many well-known media personalities were educated at the College of San Mateo, including tabloid TV reporter Steve Wilson, ESPN sportscaster, San Francisco Giants announcer Jon Miller and K101 air personality Jeff Serr. Between 1964 and 1980, the College of San Mateo offered a full range of courses in broadcasting and broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality in, and the county seat of, El Paso County, Colorado, United States. It is the largest city in El Paso County, with a population of 478,961 at the 2020 United States Census, a 15.02% increase since 2010. Colorado Springs is the second-most populous city and the most extensive city in the state of Colorado, and the 40th-most populous city in the United States. It is the principal city of the Colorado Springs metropolitan area and the second-most prominent city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. It is located in east-central Colorado, on Fountain Creek, south of Denver. At the city stands over above sea level. Colorado Springs is near the base of Pikes Peak, which rises above sea level on the eastern edge of the Southern Rocky Mountains. History The Ute, Arapaho and Cheyenne peoples were the first recorded inhabiting the area which would become Colorado Springs. Part of the territory included in the United States' 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCME
KCME (88.7 MHz) is an independent, listener-supported public radio station in Colorado Springs, Colorado, serving the Colorado Springs - Pueblo radio market. It is owned by Cheyenne Mountain Public Broadcast House, Inc., and airs a classical music radio format. Its slogan is "Local. Classical. Cultural". KCME's studios and administrative offices are at 1921 N. Weber Street in Colorado Springs. Its main broadcasting tower is on Cheyenne Mountain. KCME may be heard worldwide via internet streaming owww.kcme.org KCME also broadcasts in the HD Radio digital format. Jazz 93.5 KCME programs a wide variety of jazz on its HD-2 subchannel, which also feeds a translator station, 93.5 MHz K228EM. It is branded as Jazz 93.5, and is a sister station of KCME. Originally KCME aired jazz on Saturday mornings and Saturday evenings during the first 26 years it was on the air. In the 1990s, KCME also had Jazz during the overnight hours in the summer months. KCME dropped jazz programming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Cedar Rapids () is the second-largest city in Iowa, United States and is the county seat of Linn County, Iowa, Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River (Iowa River), Cedar River, north of Iowa City, Iowa, Iowa City and northeast of Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines, the state's capital and largest city. It is a part of the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City region of Eastern Iowa, which includes Linn County, Iowa, Linn, Benton County, Iowa, Benton, Cedar County, Iowa, Cedar, Iowa County, Iowa, Iowa, Jones County, Iowa, Jones, Johnson County, Iowa, Johnson, and Washington County, Iowa, Washington counties. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city population was 137,710. The estimated population of the three-county Cedar Rapids metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the nearby cities of Marion, Iowa, Marion and Hiawatha, Iowa, Hiawatha, was 255,452 in 2008. Cedar Rapids is an economic hub of the state, located at the core of the Interstate 380 (Io ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood Community College is a public community college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Kirkwood has a secondary campus in Iowa City, and several additional regional and county centers located in Belle Plaine, Coralville, Hiawatha, Monticello, Tipton, Vinton, Washington and Williamsburg. History Area Ten Community College opened in several locations in Cedar Rapids in 1966, serving an enrollment of 199 students. In 1969, the college officially changed its name to Kirkwood Community College, after Samuel J. Kirkwood Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (December 20, 1813 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician who twice served as governor of Iowa, twice as a U.S. Senator from Iowa, and as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Early life and career Samuel Jorda ..., an early abolitionist and Iowa's American Civil War Governor. In 2018, the college named Dr. Lori Sundberg as the school's fifth president and the first woman to hold the position. The student enrollment during the 2018- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCCK-FM
KCCK-FM is a public radio station licensed to Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids- Iowa City, Iowa. KCCK is Iowa's only jazz radio station. KCCK-FM broadcasts in HD.https://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?realid=133 Cedar Rapids HD Guide History KCCK started out as a 1972 project in an electronics class at Kirkwood Community College. The same year a license was granted and the station broadcast, albeit sporadically for the first 3 years. In 1975 KUNI donated its 1945 transmitter to KCCK and KCCK built a larger tower. Broadcasting Jazz, Blues, news and informational programming from American Public Media, besides 12 hours of blues and nine hours of new age/ambient, Native American and Celtic music per week. See also * List of jazz radio stations in the United States This is a list of terrestrial, satellite and internet radio stations which identify themselves as playing jazz in any of its forms (mainstream, traditional, fusion, acid, and smooth, among others), or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boise, Idaho
Boise (, , ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and north of the Nevada border. The downtown area's elevation is above sea level. The population according to the 2020 US Census was 235,684. The Boise metropolitan area, also known as the Treasure Valley, includes five counties with a combined population of 749,202, the most populous metropolitan area in Idaho. It contains the state's three largest cities: Boise, Nampa, and Meridian. Boise is the 77th most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States. Downtown Boise is the cultural center and home to many small businesses and a number of high-rise buildings. The area has a variety of shops and restaurants. Centrally, 8th Street contains a pedestrian zone with sidewalk cafes and restaurants. The neighborhood has many local restaurants, bars, and boutiques. The ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McCall, Idaho
McCall is a resort town on the western edge of Valley County, Idaho, United States. Named after its founder, Tom McCall, it is situated on the southern shore of Payette Lake, near the center of the Payette National Forest. The population was 2,991 as of the 2010 census, up from 2,084 in 2000. Originally a logging community whose last sawmill closed in 1977, McCall is now an all-season tourist destination for outdoor recreation. The resort town is known for its Winter Carnival, extended winters, and one of the highest average snowfalls in the state. Geography McCall is located at (44.910906, -116.103087), at an elevation of above sea level. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and is water. Transportation McCall is approximately north of Boise, about a 2-hour drive, accessed via State Highway 55, the ''Payette River Scenic Byway,'' a designated national scenic byway. It heads north from Eagle in Ada County to Horses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boise State University
Boise State University (BSU) is a public research university in Boise, Idaho. Founded in 1932 by the Episcopal Church, it became an independent junior college in 1934 and has been awarding baccalaureate and master's degrees It became a public institution in 1969. Boise State offers more than 100 graduate programs, including the MBA and MAcc programs in the College of Business and Economics; master's and PhD programs in the Colleges of Engineering, Arts & Sciences, and Education; MPA program in the School of Public Service; and the MPH program in the College of Health Sciences. In the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, it is among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The university's intercollegiate athletic teams, the Broncos, compete in the Mountain West Conference (MWC) in NCAA Division I. History The school became Idaho's third state university in 1974, after the University of Idaho (1889) and Idaho State Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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