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WJZN
WJZN (1400 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Augusta, Maine, United States. The station, established in 1932 as WRDO, is owned by Townsquare Media and broadcasts an alternative rock format simulcast from WCYY in Portland. WJZN's programming is also heard on W240DH (95.9 FM) in Augusta. History WJZN went on the air February 23, 1932, as WRDO, owned by the Rines family's Congress Square Hotel Company, who also owned WCSH in Portland and WFEA in Manchester, New Hampshire. The Rines family sold WRDO to Ocean Coast Properties, owner of WPOR AM- FM in Portland, for $100,000 in 1974. H&R Corporation bought the station for $225,000 in 1977. By 1978, WRDO had a middle of the road format and was affiliated with the NBC Radio Network. H&R sold WRDO to Sterling Broadcasting Corporation for $260,000 in 1980. Sterling changed the station's format to country music in 1981; the format was simulcast with FM sister station WSCL (92.1 FM). Augusta-Waterville Broadcasters, controlled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCYY
WCYY (94.3 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Biddeford, Maine, and serving the Portland metropolitan area. Its target audience are men between 18 and 44. The station airs an active/alternative rock radio format and is owned by Townsquare Media. It carries the syndicated morning show '' Toucher and Rich'' from WBZ-FM Boston. WCYY studios are at One City Center in Portland. WCYY has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 11,500 watts. The transmitter is on Cascade Road in Saco, Maine. WCYY is the flagship station of a three-station simulcast, including WPKQ 103.7 FM on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, and WJZN 1400 AM and 95.9 FM in Augusta, Maine. History WIDE-FM, WBYC, WYJY and WSTG The station signed on the air on . Its original call sign was WIDE-FM. It simulcast the middle of the road programming of its sister station WIDE 1400 AM (now WVAE). The stations were owned by Hoy Communications and were affiliates of the ABC Information Radio Network. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMME-FM
WMME-FM (92.3 MHz), known as "92 Moose", is a radio station located in Augusta, Maine. The station airs a Top 40 format. The station has an Effective Radiated Power of 50,000 watts, meaning that the station can be heard across much of Central, Western, and Mid-Coast Maine. WMME's transmitter is located on U.S. Route 202, about 6 Miles Northeast of Downtown Augusta. On weekday mornings, the station airs the "Moose Morning Show", a popular morning program in Central Maine. The station is owned by Townsquare Media. On air personalities include Renee Nelson, Cooper Fox, Brittany Rose, Kayla Thomas and Matt James. Affiliated stations *WEBB 98.5 "B 98.5" Country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ... * WJZN/WTVL "Kool AM 1400 and 1490" References External linksWMM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTVL
WTVL (1490 kHz "Kool AM 1490") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Waterville, Maine, and serving Kennebec County. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and until January 2023, it broadcast an adult standards radio format, playing softer hits from the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s. The station featured the music of Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Nat King Cole and Dionne Warwick in its playlist. WTVL’s transmitter power output is 1,000 watts. The transmitter is off Benton Avenue in Winslow. The studios and offices are on Western Avenue in Augusta. History On June 19, 1946, WTVL first signed on as an ABC Network affiliate owned by Kennebec Broadcasting Company. WTVL carried ABC's schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the " Golden Age of Radio." An FM sister station went on the air March 26, 1968, at 98.3 FM, simulcasting WTVL's programming. WTVL-AM-FM had a middle of the road format and carried n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKIM
WKIM (98.9 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Munford, Tennessee, and serving the Memphis metropolitan area. It is owned by Cumulus Media and airs a news/talk radio format. The studios are located on Murray Road at the Memphis Radio Group building in East Memphis. The transmitter site is in Cordova, Tennessee, off Raleigh-Lagrange Road. WKIM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the current maximum for American FM stations. Programming Weekdays on WKIM begin with the "Memphis Morning News with Ditch and Bob." In afternoon drive time, another local show is heard, "Nation of Jake." The rest of the schedule is nationally syndicated talk shows: Dan Bongino, Ben Shapiro, Brian Kilmeade, Michael Knowles, Rich Valdes, Jimmy Failla, "Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis" and " America in the Morning." Some local news and weather is supplied by WREG-TV Channel 3. Most hours begin with an update from Fox News Radio. WKIM carries Tennessee Titans football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusta, Maine
Augusta is the capital of the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Kennebec County. The city's population was 18,899 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth-most populous city in Maine, and third-least populous state capital in the United States after Montpelier, Vermont, and Pierre, South Dakota. Located on the Kennebec River at the head of tide, it is the principal city in the Augusta-Waterville Micropolitan Statistical Area and home to the University of Maine at Augusta. History The area was first explored by the English of the short-lived Popham Colony in September 1607. 21 years later, English settlers from the Plymouth Colony settled in the area in 1628 as part of a trading post on the Kennebec River. The settlement was known by its Native American name ''Cushnoc'' (or Coussinoc or Koussinoc), meaning "head of the tide." Fur trading was at first profitable, but because of Native uprisings and declining revenues, Plymouth Colony sold the Kennebec Pate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adult Contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence. Adult contemporary is generally a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of pop/rock music. Adult contemporary tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener's attention, and is inoffensive and pleasurable enough to work well as background music. Like most of pop music, its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a verse–chorus structure. The format is heavy on romantic sentimental ballads which mostly use acoustic instruments (though bass guitar is usually used) such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston, New York
Kingston is a city in and the county seat of Ulster County, New York, United States. It is north of New York City and south of Albany. The city's metropolitan area is grouped with the New York metropolitan area around Manhattan by the United States Census Bureau. The population was 24,069 at the 2020 United States Census. Kingston became New York's first capital in 1777. During the American Revolutionary War, the city was burned by the British on October 13, 1777, after the Battles of Saratoga. In the 19th century, it became an important transport hub after the discovery of natural cement in the region. It had connections to other markets through both the railroad and canal connections. Many of the older buildings are considered contributing as part of three historic districts, including the Stockade District uptown, the Midtown Neighborhood Broadway Corridor, and the Rondout-West Strand Historic District downtown. Each district is listed on the National Register of His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKXP
WKXP (94.3 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Kingston, New York, and serving the Hudson Valley of New York state. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and it broadcasts a soft adult contemporary radio format from its radio studios in Poughkeepsie, New York. Weekday evenings, WKXP carries the nationally syndicated show "Intelligence for Your Life" with John Tesh. WKXP has an effective radiated power of 2,250 watts. Its transmitter tower is off Station Road in Port Ewen, New York. History WGHQ-FM The station signed on in 1965 as WGHQ-FM. It was a sister station to the Thayer family-owned WGHQ 920 AM. For its first decade, WGHQ-FM would simulcast the AM's programming by day and aired automated easy listening during hours when the AM was not on the air. In 1975, WGHQ-FM split off from the AM, flipping to an automated Top 40 format, and changing its call sign to WBPM (for World's Best Popular Music). Several years after this switch, family patriarch Harry Thaye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGHQ
WGHQ (920 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Kingston, New York and serving the Hudson Valley. WGHQ is owned by Pamal Broadcasting The station airs a mix of adult standards, oldies, and soft adult contemporary formats known as "Magic 92.5". WGHQ operates at 1000 watts daytime and 38 watts nighttime, non-directional, from a single tower located south of Port Ewen, New York, while its studios are in Beacon. WGHQ also broadcasts on an FM translator (W223CR) also in Port Ewen, New York at 92.5 FM. History WGHQ 920 kHz first signed on the air on March 4, 1956. The original call letters were WSKN licensed to Saugerties, New York with 1000 watts of power, for daytime broadcasting only. Its transmitter and studio were located on the Glasco Turnpike, in the Town of Saugerties. In 1959 the call letters were changed to WGHQ, the City of License was changed to Kingston, the transmitter site was moved to Route 9W, just south of Port Ewen, NY. The station's oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester, New Hampshire
Manchester is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. It is the most populous city in New Hampshire. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 115,644. Manchester is, along with Nashua, one of two seats of New Hampshire's most populous county, Hillsborough County. Manchester lies near the northern end of the Northeast megalopolis and straddles the banks of the Merrimack River. It was first named by the merchant and inventor Samuel Blodgett, namesake of Samuel Blodget Park and Blodget Street in the city's North End. His vision was to create a great industrial center similar to that of the original Manchester in England, which was the world's first industrialized city. History The native Pennacook people called Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River—the area that became the heart of Manchester—''Namaoskeag'', meaning "good fishing place". In 1722, John Goffe III settled beside Cohas Brook, later building a dam and sawmill at what was dubbed " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NBC Red Network
The NBC, National Broadcasting Company's NBC Radio Network (known as the NBC Red Network prior to 1942) was an American commercial radio network which was in operation from 1926 through 2004. Along with the Blue Network, NBC Blue Network it was one of the first two nationwide networks established in the United States. Its major competitors were the CBS Radio, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), founded in 1927, and the Mutual Broadcasting System, founded in 1934. In 1942, NBC was required to divest one of its national networks, so it sold NBC Blue, which was soon renamed the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). After this separation the Red Network continued as the ''NBC Radio Network''. In 1987 NBC sold its remaining radio network operations to Westwood One (1976–2011), Westwood One, which continued using NBC identification for some of its programming until 2014. Beginning in 2016, NBC Radio News has been distributed in conjunction with iHeartMedia. Early history WEAF chain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
