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WHQX
WHQX (107.7 FM, "Kicks Country") is a radio station licensed to serve Gary, West Virginia, United States. The station is owned and operated by Charles Spencer and Rick Lambert, through licensee First Media Services, LLC. Programming WHQX broadcasts a country music format serving Southeastern West Virginia and Southwestern Virginia. The station operates in conjunction with sister station WHKX as "Kicks Country". History Cedar Bluff Broadcasting Company, Inc., received the original construction permit for a new FM radio station to serve Cedar Bluff, Virginia, from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on June 20, 1988. The new station was assigned the call sign WJHT by the FCC on December 7, 1989. WJHT received its license to cover from the FCC on March 15, 1991. Facing financial difficulties, Cedar Bluff Broadcasting Company, Inc., filed an application with the FCC in February 1992 to voluntarily assign its broadcast license to Richard A. Money, bankruptcy trustee. The tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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WHQX (107.7 FM, "Kicks Country") is a radio station licensed to serve Gary, West Virginia, United States. The station is owned and operated by Charles Spencer and Rick Lambert, through licensee First Media Services, LLC. Programming WHQX broadcasts a country music format serving Southeastern West Virginia and Southwestern Virginia. The station operates in conjunction with sister station WHKX as "Kicks Country". History Cedar Bluff Broadcasting Company, Inc., received the original construction permit for a new FM radio station to serve Cedar Bluff, Virginia, from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on June 20, 1988. The new station was assigned the call sign WJHT by the FCC on December 7, 1989. WJHT received its license to cover from the FCC on March 15, 1991. Facing financial difficulties, Cedar Bluff Broadcasting Company, Inc., filed an application with the FCC in February 1992 to voluntarily assign its broadcast license to Richard A. Money, bankruptcy trustee. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHKX
WHKX is a country-formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Bluefield, Virginia, serving Bluefield, Tazewell, and Bland in Virginia and Bluefield and Princeton in West Virginia. WHKX is owned and operated by Charles Spencer and Rick Lambert, through licensee First Media Services, LLC. History 106.3 FM in this region launched as WOVE-FM, the FM counterpart of WOVE (1340 AM), in 1966. In 1969, Kenneth J. Crosthwaite, who had owned WOVE, acquired the station, changed the call letters to WKJC and was approved to change its city of license from Welch, West Virginia Welch is a city located in McDowell County in the State of West Virginia, United States. The population was 3,590 at the 2020 census, however the 2021 census estimate put the population at 1,914, due to the McDowell Prison complex in the north ..., to Bluefield. References External links * - Kicks Country Online * 1966 establishments in Virginia Country radio stations in the United States Radio s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKOY
WKOY-FM is an American classic rock-formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Princeton, West Virginia, serving Princeton, West Virginia, Bluefield, Virginia and Bluefield, West Virginia Bluefield is a city in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 9,658 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Bluefield WV- VA micropolitan area, which had a population of 106,363 in 2020. Geography Bluefie .... WKOY-FM is owned and operated by Charles Spencer and Rick Lambert, through licensee First Media Services, LLC. External linksWKOY Online* KOY-FM Classic rock radio stations in the United States {{WestVirginia-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In West Virginia
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of West Virginia, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WCFC * WCFC-FM * WMBP-LP * WOBG * WPDX * WQAB * WQTZ-LP * WSPW-LP * WVBL-LP * WVPP-LP * WVPV-LP * WXDB-LP See also * West Virginia media ** List of newspapers in West Virginia ** List of television stations in West Virginia ** Media of cities in West Virginia: Charleston, Huntington, Wheeling References Bibliography * * External links * West Virginia Broadcasters AssociationTri-State Amateur Radio Association Huntington, WV * Images File:1938 radio listener in Westover, West Virginia Library of Congress fsa2000030730.jpg, Radio listener in Westover, West Virginia, 1938 File:1941 quiz program of LOVE radio in West Virginia Library of Congress fsa2000006087.jpg, LOVE radio quiz, West Virginia, 1941 File:WWVU-FM Antenna.jpg, WW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHAJ
WHAJ (104.5 FM, "J104") is a contemporary hit radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Bluefield, West Virginia, serving Southern West Virginia and Southwestern Virginia. WHAJ is owned and operated by Charles Spencer and Rick Lambert, through licensee First Media Services, LLC. History WHAJ began as WHIS-FM in 1948, as the strongest FM station in the world at the time, with an effective radiated power of 186,000 watts. It was the sister station of WHIS. The radio station was not successful, and broadcasting had permanently ceased by 1950. The management of WHIS decided to relaunch the station in 1963, this time with an Effective Radiated Power of 5.8 kW. In 1977 power was increased to 100 kW and the call sign was changed from WHIS-FM to WHAJ-FM to emphasize separate programming from WHIS. When the radio station was relaunched in 1963, the studios were co-located with WHIS and WHIS-TV (now WVVA) in what was then the Bluefield, WV City Hall. In December 1967 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKEZ (AM)
WKEZ (1240 AM, "98.7 EZ-FM") is a radio station licensed to Bluefield, West Virginia. Owned by Charles Spencer and Rick Lambert, through licensee First Media Services, LLC, it broadcasts a soft adult contemporary format. History On September 14, 2016, WKEZ changed their format from classic country to classic hip hop, branded as "G98.7", simulcasting on FM translator W254CV 98.7 FM Bluefield. Alpha Media sold its Bluefield cluster to First Media Services in September 2018. In December 2018, WKEZ rebranded as "Z98.7", with no change in format. In November 2019, WKEZ began stunting with Christmas music as "Christmas 98.7". At midnight on January 1, 2020, the station flipped to soft adult contemporary as "98.7 EZ-FM". The new format is also simulcast by WELC 1150 AM Welch. References External links * * * {{Adult Contemporary Radio Stations in West Virginia Soft adult contemporary radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1948 KEZ Kez (russian: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedar Bluff, Virginia
Cedar Bluff is a town in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,139 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Bluefield, WV-VA micropolitan area, which has a population of 107,578. History Cedar Bluff is a 19th-century mill town located on the banks of the Clinch River in Tazewell County, Virginia. Centered around the Old Kentucky Turnpike, a street looking much as it did when the Virginia Legislature chartered the thoroughfare in 1848, the nationally listed historic district extends from the restored old grist mill to the 1873 birthplace of Virginia Governor George C. Peery. Cedar Bluff is the home of the Clinch Valley Blanket Mill which housed the Goodwin weavers, in operation from 1890 through World War II. The Virginia Civil War Trails project includes a Cedar Bluff battle site, with two markers detailing the event. There are also several marked graves of Civil War Soldiers in the historic Jones Chapel Cemetery located in the West end of Cedar Bluff. ... [...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] |
1988 In Radio
The year 1988 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting. __TOC__ Events *February - Longtime St. Louis rocker KWK 106.5, tired of playing second-fiddle to KSHE 94.7, flips to CHR/Top-40 as WKBQ "Q-106.5" to try its luck going after consistently top-3 rated KHTR 103.3. Although the station skews younger ("Out with the old, in with the Q!"), it shaves off enough of KHTR's younger audience to drop it to the middle-of-the-pack and forces a format change later in the year. *August 13 – Los Angeles radio personality Shadoe Stevens takes over as host of "American Top 40." He replaces Casey Kasem, who had hosted since the show's debut in 1970. Stevens will remain with the program until the end of its original run in January 1995. *September – KMGK in Minneapolis, Minnesota becomes KQQL, adopting an oldies format after stunting various versions of "Louie Louie". *September 22 – WYNY 97.1, a country music station and WQHT 103.5 (Hot 103), a CHR station swapped frequen ... [...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] |
Gary, West Virginia
Gary is a city located along the Tug Fork River in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. According to the 2020 census, the city had a population of 762. It was named for Elbert Henry Gary, one of the founders of U.S. Steel. The former coal towns of Elbert, Filbert, Thorpe, and Wilcoe became part of Gary at the time of its incorporation in 1971. History In 1902, U.S. Steel began housing people in Gary Hollow for employment at one of the coal town's fourteen mines that produced metallurgical coal. During the early 1940s, Gary Hollow, named for Elbert Henry Gary, produced around a quarter of the amount of coal mined from McDowell County, as well as a quarter of the coal used by U.S. Steel during World War II. At the time, the town boasted a large number of African American miners and began integrating the school system in the 1950s. However, Gary Hollow's education system was not completely integrated until 1964. On July 1, 1971, the city of Gary was incorporated af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcast License
A broadcast license is a type of spectrum license granting the licensee permission to use a portion of the radio frequency spectrum in a given geographical area for broadcasting purposes. The licenses generally include restrictions, which vary from band to band. Spectrum may be divided according to use. As indicated in a graph from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), frequency allocations may be represented by different types of services which vary in size. Many options exist when applying for a broadcast license; the FCC determines how much spectrum to allot to licensees in a given band, according to what is needed for the service in question. The determination of frequencies used by licensees is done through frequency allocation, which in the United States is specified by the FCC in a table of allotments. The FCC is authorized to regulate spectrum access for private and government uses; however, the National Telecommunications and Informatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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