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WAZR
WAZR is a Contemporary Hit Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Woodstock, Virginia, serving the Central Shenandoah Valley. WAZR is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. History WAZR launched on October 18, 1985 and officially took its callsign on December 3. It was owned by Ruarch Associates, LLC of Woodstock, Virginia. The station would carry an adult standards format, branded as "Z-93". Ruarch sold WAZR to Clear Channel for $1.35 million in May 2001; the following year the adult standards format was moved from WAZR to WAMM at 1230 AM, while WAZR became a contemporary hit radio format, branded as "93.7 Kiss FM; The Valley's Hit Music". The station's tower was moved south into Rockingham County and puts a poor signal into Woodstock. At noon on September 20, 2010, WAZR shifted to hot adult contemporary, branded as "Alice 93.7; Music of the 90s, 2K and Today". At the same time, the station dropped the syndicated "Elvis Duran and the Morning Show E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Virginia
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Virginia which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WBBL * WBDY * WBVA * WCLM-LP * WDIC * WDUF * WJRX-LP * WJYI * WLEE * WMVA * WODI * WORJ-LP * WOWZ * WPEX * WPVC-LP * WRAP * WRRW-LP * WSVG * WVAB * WXMY * WXZR-LP See also * Virginia media ** List of newspapers in Virginia ** List of television stations in Virginia ** Media of cities in Virginia: Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke, Virginia Beach References Bibliography * * External links * (Directory ceased in 2017) Virginia Association of BroadcastersMid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club Images File:Arlington radio towers in Virginia Library of Congress thc1995002299.jpg, Radio towers, Arlington, Virginia, 20th c. File:2005 Virginia State Capitol radio press booth in Richmond Library of Congress va1498 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKCI (AM)
WKCI is a news/talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Waynesboro, Virginia, serving Staunton and Eastern Augusta County, Virginia. WKCI is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. 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 fou ... References External links NewsRadio WKCY Online 1965 establishments in Virginia News and talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1965 KCI IHeartMedia radio stations {{Virginia-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSVO
WSVO (93.1 FM) is an Adult Contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Staunton, Virginia and serving Staunton and Augusta County, Virginia. WSVO is owned and operated by iHeartMedia. History WSVO first launched with the callsign WSGM on May 29, 1959, and carried a mainstream rock format. The station became country on February 13, 1992, and changed the callsign to WKDW-FM, becoming a sister station of WKDW at 900 AM, which was also carrying a country format. WKDW-FM remained a sister station of WKDW until March 28, 1994, when the callsign for 900 AM was switched to WBGT. It was also around this time that the station's format was switched from a Country format to Oldies, branded as "Oldies 93.1". On January 31, 1996, the WKDW callsign was reassigned to 900 AM, while 93.1 FM became WSVO. The station continued to carry its oldies format until 11:00 P.M. on April 3, 2005, when the format was changed to adult contemporary, branded as "Mix 93.1; The 80s to Now". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKDW (AM)
WKDW is a classic country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Staunton, Virginia, serving Staunton and Augusta County, Virginia. WKDW is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. 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 fou ... References External links 900 WKDW Online 1954 establishments in Virginia Classic country radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1954 KDW IHeartMedia radio stations Augusta County, Virginia {{Virginia-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKCY-FM
WKCY-FM is a country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Harrisonburg, Virginia, serving the Central Shenandoah Valley. WKCY-FM is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. 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 fou ... References External links 104-3 KCY Country Online* 1980 establishments in Virginia KCY-FM Radio stations established in 1980 IHeartMedia radio stations Harrisonburg, Virginia {{Virginia-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKCY (AM)
WKCY is a news/talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Harrisonburg, Virginia, serving Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Virginia. WKCY is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. History WKCY signed on the air on May 11, 1967. WKCY-AM-FM were acquired by the Mid-Atlantic Network in 1989. Clear Channel Communications, based in 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_t ..., acquired WKCY-AM-FM in 2001. Translator In addition to the main station, WKCY is relayed by an FM translator to widen its broadcast area. References External links NewsRadio WKCY Online 1967 establishments in Virginia News and talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1967 KCY IHeartMedia radio stations {{Virginia-radio-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WACL
WACL is a classic rock-formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Elkton, Virginia, serving Harrisonburg, Staunton and Waynesboro in Virginia. WACL is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. History Pre-launch The history of WACL begins on October 15, 1983, when Robert James Lacey applied for a construction permit to build a radio station licensed to Elkton, Virginia. The application asked that the station air on 98.3 FM and broadcast with a power of 3,000 watts. Lacey's application was returned on January 22, 1984, for undetermined reasons. On April 2, 1984, another company, Elkton Broadcasters, Inc. filed their own construction permit, also requesting use of the 98.3 FM frequency and to operate at 3,000 watts. Elkton Broadcasters, Inc. was operated by Pamela Joan Davis, her brother Fred W. Greaves Jr., and their father, Fred W. Greaves Sr. On March 4, 1987, Administrative law judge Joseph B. Gonzalez held oral argument an appeal to determine whether the approval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDCO-CD
WDCO-CD, virtual channel 10 ( UHF digital channel 24), is a low-powered, Class A TBD owned-and-operated television station licensed to Woodstock, Virginia, United States and serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Owned by the Hunt Valley, Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group, it is sister to Washington-licensed ABC affiliate WJLA-TV (channel 7) and local cable channel WJLA 24/7 News. WDCO-CD's transmitter is located in Ward Circle in Washington's northwest quadrant. Co-owned and co-located WIAV-CD, virtual channel 58 (UHF digital channel 30), licensed to Washington, relays WDCO-CD's TBD programming in the new ATSC 3.0 broadcasting standard. History The station has operated since September 30, 1985, when it was put on the air as a religious independent station by Ruarch Associates, LLC (its original calls were W10AZ, with the WAZT calls, introduced in 1994, apparently being derived from it), and once had a radio sister station, WAZR (93.7 FM; that station is now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nielsen Audio
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 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSVG (AM)
WSVG was a broadcast radio station licensed to Woodstock, Virginia, serving Woodstock and Shenandoah County, Virginia. WSVG was last owned and operated by Shenandoah Valley Group, Inc. Its license was cancelled on October 1, 2019.Call Sign History fcc.gov. Retrieved October 3, 2019. History Peggy Boston and Joan Anderson, two retired '''' reporters, formed Hometown Radio to purchase the then-WAMM from Grass Roots Broadcasting in May 2002. They instituted an all-local adult standards format branded "Radio Retro". However, the olde ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nielsen Holdings
Nielsen Holdings plc is an American information, data and market measurement firm. Nielsen operates in over 100 countries and employs approximately 44,000 people worldwide. The company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and used to be a component of the S&P 500. History Formation Nielsen was founded in 1923 by Arthur C. Nielsen, Sr., who invented an approach to measuring competitive sales results that made the concept of "market share" a practical management tool. The company was originally incorporated in the Netherlands and later was purchased on May 24, 2006, by a consortium of private equity firms. Merger and listing In January 2011, Nielsen consummated an initial public offering of common stock and, subsequently, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “NLSN”. On August 31, 2015, Nielsen N.V., a Dutch public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, merged with Nielsen Holdings plc, by way of a cross-border merger under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security. The FCC was formed by the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. The FCC also provides varied degrees of cooperation, oversight, and leadership for similar communications bodies in other countries of North America. The FCC is funded entirely by regulatory fees. It has an estimated fiscal-2022 budget of US $388 million. It has 1,482 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
