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WIKS
WIKS (101.9 FM) is an urban contemporary-formatted broadcast radio station licensed to New Bern, North Carolina. The station is owned by Curtis Media Group. WIKS is an affiliate of the Steve Harvey Morning Show. History The 101.9 FM frequency in New Bern signed on with an Album-oriented Rock format in August 1977 as WRBK ("K101"). Due to the nature of its frequency at 101.9 and the advent of digital tuners, the slogan was changed to "K102" in the summer of 1978. In August 1979, the station flipped to a country music format, as WAZZ ("Country Ways").Broadcasting Yearbook 1980 By 1986, the station would become "Kiss 102" with the WIKS call letters and an Urban Contemporary format. Transmitting power increased to 100,000 watts. Rap and hip-hop music was introduced in the 1990s, as WIKS became a full modern mainstream urban station by 1998. In 1997 WIKS picked up competition from the 92.3 Frequency when WQSL adopted a rhythmic top 40 format as "The Beat of Carolina". WIKS responded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beach Music
Beach music, also known as Carolina beach music, and to a lesser extent, Beach pop, is a regional genre of music in the United States which developed from rock/ R&B and pop music of the 1950s and 1960s. Beach music is most closely associated with the style of dance known as the shag, or the Carolina shag, which is also the official state dance of both North Carolina and South Carolina. Recordings with a 4/4 " blues shuffle" rhythmic structure and moderate-to-fast tempo are the most popular music for the shag, and the vast majority of the music in this genre fits that description. Though primarily confined to a small regional fan base, specifically to "Grand Strand" communities such as Myrtle Beach, Carolina Beach, and the Golden Isles of Georgia, in its early days what is now known as Carolina beach music was instrumental in bringing about wider acceptance of R&B music among the white population nationwide. Thus it was a contributory factor in both the birth of rock and ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNCT (AM)
WNCT (1070 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a beach music format, as "Beach, Boogie and Blues". Licensed to Greenville, North Carolina, United States, the station serves the Greenville-New Bern area. The station is currently owned by Curtis Media Group Inc. History In 1963, Roy H. Park, owner of WNCT-TV, bought WGTC, Greenville's oldest radio station. At the time, the station broadcast at 5,000 watts at 1590 AM. WGTC changed its call letters to the current WNCT two years later. In 1969, WNCT moved to 1070 AM and increased its power to 10,000 watts. Hinton Media Group programmed WNCT when it was "Talk 1070" and aired its programming on local Cable Channel 7. In 2006, WNCT increased its daytime power to 50,000 watts. The station also became the first AM station in North Carolina to utilize HD radio technology. By 2008, WNCT aired a contemporary Christian music format. As of January 5, 2009, the station currently brands itself as "Beach, Boogie and Blues" and plays Carolina B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Bern, North Carolina
New Bern, formerly called Newbern, is a city in Craven County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 29,524, which had risen to an estimated 29,994 as of 2019. It is the county seat of Craven County and the principal city of the New Bern Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located at the confluence of the Neuse and the Trent rivers, near the North Carolina coast. It lies east of Raleigh, north of Wilmington, and south of Norfolk. New Bern is the birthplace of Pepsi. New Bern was founded in October 1710 by the Palatines and Swiss under the leadership of Christoph von Graffenried. The new colonists named their settlement after Bern, the Swiss region from which many of the colonists and their patron had emigrated. The flag and arms of the American city are virtually identical to those of the Swiss canton. The English connection with Switzerland had been established by some Marian exiles who sought refuge in Protestant parts of Switze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Media Group
Curtis Media Group is a broadcast media company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. The company owns and operates several North Carolina radio stations and television networks. Broadcast Stations Curtis Media Group owns and operates the following stations: Radio AM *WPTF 680 AM (Raleigh, North Carolina, Raleigh, NC) *WQDR (AM), WQDR 570 AM (Raleigh, NC) *WGBR 1150 AM (Goldsboro, North Carolina, Goldsboro, NC) *WFMC 730 AM (Goldsboro, NC) *WKIX (AM), WKIX 850 AM (Raleigh, NC) *WXIT 1200 AM (Blowing Rock, North Carolina, Blowing Rock, NC) *WATA 1450 AM (Boone, North Carolina, Boone, NC) *WECR 1130 AM (Newland, North Carolina, Newland, NC) *WWMC 1010 AM (Kinston, North Carolina, Kinston, NC) *WSSG 1300 AM (Goldsboro, NC) *WNCT (AM), WNCT 1070 AM (Greenville, North Carolina, Greenville, NC) FM *WQDR-FM 94.7 FM (Raleigh, NC) *WBBB 96.1 FM (Raleigh, NC) *WWPL 96.9 FM (Goldsboro, NC) *WPLW-FM 102.5 FM (Hillsborough, North Carolina, Hillsborough, NC) *WKIX-FM 102.9 FM (Raleigh, NC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenville, North Carolina
Greenville is the county seat of and the most populous city in Pitt County, North Carolina, Pitt County, North Carolina, United States; the principal city of the Greenville, North Carolina metropolitan area, Greenville metropolitan area; and the List of municipalities in North Carolina, 12th-most populous city in North Carolina. Greenville is the health, entertainment, and educational hub of North Carolina's Tidewater (geographic term), Tidewater and Atlantic coastal plain, Coastal Plain. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, there are 87,521 people in the city. Greenville is the home of East Carolina University, the fourth-largest university in the University of North Carolina system, and ECU Health Medical Center, the flagship hospital for ECU Health and the teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine. History Founding Greenville was founded in 1771 as "Martinsborough", after the Royal Governor Josiah Martin. In 1774 the town was moved to its present loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSFL-FM
WSFL-FM (106.5 MHz) is a classic rock radio station located in New Bern, North Carolina that broadcasts to the entire eastern region of North Carolina. It has been around for several decades and is considered a fixture in the local community. History WSFL was one of the first Top 40 FM stations in North Carolina. During the 1980s the format switched to adult contemporary. In December 1986, Caravelle Broadcast Group Inc. completed its purchase of WSFL-FM and Kinston radio stations WISP and WQDW. In March 1989, after Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwā against Salman Rushdie for writing ''The Satanic Verses'', WSFL-FM burned all of its Cat Stevens records. WSFL and several other stations went off the air for a while, but WSFL-FM came back with an album rock format. By 1994, WSFL-FM was airing John Boy and Billy. In 1995, WSFL (1380 AM) became WCOO after J4 Broadcasting bought the station along with WCKO in Norfolk, Virginia and WCKN in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. These sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMJV
WMJV is a commercial radio station in Grifton, North Carolina, broadcasting to the Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville, North Carolina area on 99.5 FM. WMJV airs a hot adult contemporary format branded as "99.5/97.5 The Wave", along with translator W248BS in Jacksonville. History WVVY played adult contemporary and then R&B music as "Wavvy 99.5" (with no rap) in 1988 through 1993. It switched to country music as WTND and was known as "Thunder Country" until 1996 when the call letters changed to WXNR and the name changed to "New Rock 99X". The station went through many station identities (e.g., Extreme Radio, New Rock, etc.) until 2006 when the name was changed to "99.5 The X" with the positioning statement "It Just Rocks". In 2002, WXNR was left as the only Howard Stern affiliate in the Southeastern United States. At that time, the station taped the show and broadcast it in the evenings. "The X" was an affiliate of Lex and Terry, which served as their morning show. Weekdays were h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMGV
WMGV (103.3 FM, "Magic 103.3/95.5") is an adult contemporary music formatted radio station licensed to serve Newport, North Carolina. The station serves Eastern North Carolina with a mix of music from the 1980s, 1990s and today. History WMGV has been on the air since the early 1980s. Over the years it has been known as "V103.3", "Classy 103.3, "Kat 103.3", and, back in the 1980s, "Z103". In 1989, Henry Hinton started New East Communications of Greenville, North Carolina. The company's stations were WKQT, WCZI, and WGPM. WKQT was sold in 1996. On February 2, 2017, Beasley Media Group announced that it would sell its six stations and four translators in the Greenville- New Bern-Jacksonville, North Carolina market, including WMGV, to Curtis Media Group for $11 million to reduce the company's debt. The sale was completed on May 1, 2017. On October 24, 2022 the station reverted back to adult contemporary as "Magic 103.3/95.5", including the recent addition of a simulcast on tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Call Letters
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] |
Urban Contemporary
Urban contemporary music, also known as urban music, hip hop, urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of Black genres such as R&B, pop-rap, quiet storm, urban adult contemporary, hip hop, Latin music such as Latin pop, Chicano R&B and Chicano rap, and Caribbean music such as reggae and soca. Urban contemporary was developed through the characteristics of genres such as R&B and soul. Because urban music is a largely US phenomenon, virtually all urban contemporary formatted radio stations in the United States are located in cities that have sizeable African-American populations, such as New York City, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Montgomery, Memphis, St. Louis, Newark, Charleston, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, Oakland, Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream Urban
Mainstream may refer to: Film * ''Mainstream'' (film), a 2020 American film Literature * ''Mainstream'' (fanzine), a science fiction fanzine * Mainstream Publishing, a Scottish publisher * ''Mainstream'', a 1943 book by Hamilton Basso Music * Mainstream jazz, a term coined in the 1950s to describe the form of jazz which was a continuation of the Swing era * ''Mainstream'' (band), a late-1990s British shoegazer band, or their first album * ''Mainstream'' (Fullerton College Jazz Band album), 1994 * ''Mainstream'' (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album), 1987 * ''Mainstream'' (Quiet Sun album), 1975 * '' Mainstream EP'', by Metric, 1998 * Mainstream Records, an American record label * "Mainstream", a song by Thea Gilmore from the 2003 album ''Avalanche'' See also *Mainstreaming (other) *Mainstream media * Mainline Protestant, a group of American denominations *Mainstream Renewable Power, an Irish renewable energy development company *Mainstream Energy Corporati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
