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WGH-FM
WGH-FM (97.3 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Newport News, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads. WGH-FM is owned and operated by Max Media and airs a country music radio format. It uses the branding "97.3 The Eagle." Studios and offices are on Greenwich Road in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The transmitter is on Newport News Point, near Interstate 664. Station history WGH-FM first signed on the air in November 1948, one of the first FM stations in Virginia. It broadcasts at 74,000 watts in an area of the country where today the maximum power for FM radio stations should be 50,000 watts. But because the station dates back to 1948, before the Federal Communications Commission set rules for FM power levels, it is grandfathered at the higher power. The call letters for WGH-FM and its sister station WGH (1310 AM) stand for "World's Greatest Harbor", a slogan for the Hampton Roads or Tidewater area of Virginia, where there is a large shipbuilding industry and both commercia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVBW-FM
WVBW-FM (100.5 MHz, "100.5 The Vibe") is a commercial radio station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia. The station broadcasts to the Hampton Roads area. WVBW-FM is owned and operated by Max Media. The studios and offices are on Greenwich Road in Virginia Beach. The transmitter is off Gammon Road, also in Virginia Beach. History Early years as WCMS-FM WVBW-FM traces its roots back to July 1, 1954, when WCMS (1050 AM) first went on the air. It replaced a legendary African American-oriented radio station, WRAP, which moved to 850 AM. In 1961, WCMS was purchased by George A. and Marjorie Crump of Suffolk. The Crumps took the unprecedented step of playing only country music on WCMS when other Norfolk-area radio stations carried different musical styles, as country music was still looked down on in that era. Critics at the time assured the Crumps that their bold decision would fail quickly. WCMS was originally a daytimer, broadcasting on a clear-channel frequency reserved for XEG in Mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGH (AM)
WGH (1310 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Newport News, Virginia, and serving Hampton Roads. WGH is owned and operated by Max Media, and airs a sports radio format. It mostly carries shows from Fox Sports Radio and calls itself "Fox Sports 1310 and 100.9." Studios and offices are on Greenwich Road in Virginia Beach, Virginia. WGH operates with 20,000 watts by day and 5,000 watts at night. To protect other stations on 1310 AM, it uses a directional antenna, sending much of the signal to the east. The transmitter is off Mary Ann Drive in Hampton, just over the line from Newport News. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator W265EF at 100.9 MHz in Newport News. History Station WPAB was first licensed on 940 kHz on December 6, 1926. The station was assigned the call letters WGH and moved to 1310 kHz in 1928. Because it dates back to the early days of radio, WGH is the only station in Virginia to retain its three-letter call sign, although ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVSP-FM
WVSP-FM (94.1 MHz, "ESPN Radio 94.1") is a sports formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Yorktown, Virginia, United States, serving The Peninsula, Middle Peninsula and Southside of Hampton Roads. WVSP-FM is owned and operated by Max Broadcast Group Holdings, LLC. WVSP's studios are located on Greenwich Road in Virginia Beach, while its transmitter is located in Newport News Park in York County near Colonial National Historical Park. History The station had originally signed on in 1975 as WYVA-FM, serving Yorktown, Virginia with a country format. In 1986, it changed call letters to WKEZ while retaining the country format. On October 14, 1991, it began a time-brokered simulcast with then AAA-formatted WKOC "The Coast" in Norfolk. The next year, the simulcast was ended and the station switched to Adult Contemporary as WXEZ, "EZ94". The transmitter tower was moved to give the station a better signal over the Tidewater area. The station was sold in the mid 1990s t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Media
Max Media is a company that owns radio stations throughout the United States. It is based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. History Max Media was founded in 2001. Prior to this, some of the company's management had run the TVX Broadcast Group from 1979 until its sale in 1991 to Paramount Communications (which renamed Mata mare it the Paramount Stations Group), and had also run Max Media Properties (similarly named to the current company) from then until its sale in 1998 to the Sinclair Broadcast Group (which owned some former TVX stations). On September 30, 2013, the Cowles Publishing Company acquired Max Media's Montana television station cluster for $18 million. On October 31, 2013, Sinclair acquired the non-license assets of WPFO(TV), Waterville, Maine, for $13.6 million; the deal made it a sister station to WGME-TV, Portland, Maine, which already produced a newscast for the station. On November 20, 2013, it was announced that Cunningham Broadcasting was to acquire the license ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTWV-FM
WTWV-FM (92.9 Hertz, MHz) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station City of license, licensed to Suffolk, Virginia, and serving Hampton Roads. WTWV-FM is owned and operated by Max Media. It airs an adult contemporary radio format using the branding "92.9 The Wave." Studios and offices are on Greenwich Road in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The transmitter is off Greenbrook Drive in Suffolk. History Early years as WXYW, WFOG WTWV-FM first Sign-on, signed on the air in December 1965 as WXYW. It was owned by the Suffolk Broadcasting Company, along with AM 1460 WLPM (now 1450 WBVA (AM), WBVA, which is currently dark (broadcasting), silent). WXYW was largely broadcast automation, automated, playing a beautiful music format of mostly instrumental versions of pop songs, as well as Cinema of the United States, Hollywood and Broadway theatre, Broadway show tunes. In 1970, the call sign was switched to WFOG, since the Tidewater region of Virginia, along the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grandfather Clause
A grandfather clause, also known as grandfather policy, grandfathering, or grandfathered in, is a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future cases. Those exempt from the new rule are said to have grandfather rights or acquired rights, or to have been grandfathered in. Frequently, the exemption is limited, as it may extend for a set time, or it may be lost under certain circumstances; for example, a grandfathered power plant might be exempt from new, more restrictive pollution laws, but the exception may be revoked and the new rules would apply if the plant were expanded. Often, such a provision is used as a compromise or out of practicality, to allow new rules to be enacted without upsetting a well-established logistical or political situation. This extends the idea of a rule not being retroactively applied. Origin Southern United States The term originated in late nineteenth-century legislation and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister Station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio or television stations operated by the same company, either by direct ownership or through a management agreement. Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and sometimes one station is on the AM band while another is on the FM band. Conversely, several types of sister-station relationships exist in television; stations in the same city will usually be affiliated with different television networks (often one with a major network and the other with a secondary network), and may occasionally shift television programs between each other when local events require one station to interrupt its network feed. Sister stations in separate (but often nearby) cities owned by the same company may or may not share a network affiliation. For example, WNYW and WWOR-TV, in New York City and Secaucus, New Jersey, are both owned by Fox Corporation. WNYW is a Fox owned-and-operated station; WWOR-TV is a MyNetworkTV own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1310 AM
The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 1310 kHz: The Federal Communications Commission classifies 1310 AM as a regional frequency. In Argentina * LRA42 in Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos. * LRG379 in Piedra del Aguila, Neuquén. * Master in Luján. In Canada * CIWW in Ottawa, Ontario - 50 kW, transmitter located at In Mexico * XEAM-AM in Matamoros, Tamaulipas * XEC-AM in Tijuana, Baja California * XEGRT-AM in Taxco, Guerrero * XERAM-AM in Betania, Chiapas * XETIA-AM in Guadalajara, Jalisco * XEVB-AM XEVB-AM is a radio station on 1310 AM in Monterrey, Nuevo León Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Loca ... in Monterrey, Nuevo León * XEQRMD-AM in Querétaro, Querétaro In the United States References {{Lists of radio stations by frequency Lists of radio stations by frequency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also applies to non-Western art music. Classical music is often characterized by formality and complexity in its musical form and harmonic organization, particularly with the use of polyphony. Since at least the ninth century it has been primarily a written tradition, spawning a sophisticated notational system, as well as accompanying literature in analytical, critical, historiographical, musicological and philosophical practices. A foundational component of Western Culture, classical music is frequently seen from the perspective of individual or groups of composers, whose compositions, personalities and beliefs have fundamentally shaped its history. Rooted in the patronage of churches and royal courts in Western Europe, surviving earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport News, Virginia
Newport News () is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the 5th most populous city in Virginia and 140th most populous city in the United States. Newport News is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is at the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the northern shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe's Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river's mouth at Newport News Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads. The area now known as Newport News was once a part of Warwick County. Warwick County was one of the eight original shires of Virginia, formed by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of King Charles I in 1634. In 1881, fifteen years of rapid development began under the leadership of Collis P. Huntington, whose new Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from Richmond opene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft Rock
Soft rock is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in Southern California and the United Kingdom which smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock, relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions. Soft rock was prevalent on the radio throughout the 1970s and eventually metamorphosed into a form of the synthesized music of adult contemporary in the 1980s. History Mid- to late 1960s Softer sounds in rock music could be heard in mid-1960s songs, such as " A Summer Song" by Chad & Jeremy (1964) and "Here, There and Everywhere" by the Beatles and "I Love My Dog" by Cat Stevens, both from 1966. By 1968, hard rock had been established as a mainstream genre. From the end of the 1960s, it became common to divide mainstream rock music into soft and hard rock, with both emerging as major radio formats in the US. Late 1960s soft rock artists include the Bee Gees, whose song "I Started a Joke" was a number one single in several countries; Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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