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WMET is a radio station broadcasting on 1160 kHz in the mediumwave AM band, serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Over several decades, it has gone through a number of radio formats, from progressive rock to all-comedy to a conservative talk-show format. Since May 3, 2010, it has been a Catholic religious radio station. WMET moved from the 1150 kHz frequency in 2003. Its transmitter is located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. WMET has a daytime transmitter power of 50,000 watts and a 1,500-watt directional signal at night. History 1150 kHz first went on the air as WHMC (the Heart of Montgomery County). During the 1960s, WHMC was known as the "500-Watt Flower-pot". 'HMC, as it was nicknamed, hired disc jockey Barry Richards away from WINX (1600AM) in nearby Rockville, Maryland. He turned the station into one of the D.C. area's first progressive rock stations. It was the only one on the AM band. The station also sponsored a series of rock concerts underneath ...
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WCHI-FM
WCHI-FM (95.5 MHz) is a mainstream rock formatted radio station located in Chicago, Illinois, owned and operated by iHeartMedia. WCHI-FM has studios located at the Illinois Center complex on Michigan Avenue in Downtown Chicago, and it broadcasts from a 5.3 kW transmitter based atop John Hancock Center. WCHI-FM broadcasts three channels in the HD Radio format. History The station began broadcasting on March 9, 1959 as WDHF, owned by Hi-Fi systems and record store owner James deHaan.Ghrist, John R. (1996). ''Valley Voices: A Radio History''. Crossroads Communications. p. 284-285. Its call sign stood for deHaan Hi-Fi. The station operated out of deHaan's store in the Evergreen Plaza in Evergreen Park, Illinois.History Cards for WCHI-FM
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Guadalupe Radio Network
Guadalupe Radio Network is an American radio network based in Midland, Texas. It is owned by La Promesa Foundation, and is Doing Business As (D.B.A.) Guadalupe Radio Network. The Guadalupe Radio Network provides Catholic religious radio programming to its stations. As of 2021, it included 38 radio stations in the United States History The Guadalupe Radio Network began on July 19, 2000 with the station KJBC, in Midland, Texas. By 2021, it included 39 radio stations in the Houston, Kansas, North Texas, West Texas, South Texas, Central Texas, Alabama, Florida, Washington, DC, and New Mexico markets. Radio stations The Guadalupe Radio Network broadcasts in the following markets: Alabama & Florida Market * WJUV-FM 88.3, Cullman, Alabama * WQOH-FM 88.7, Springville, Alabama * WMMA-FM 97.9, Irondale, Alabama * WMMA-AM 1480, Irondale, Alabama * WDLG-FM 90.1 FM, Grove Hill, Alabama * WDWR-AM 1230, Pensacola, Florida * WDWR-FM 103.3, Pensacola, Florida * WPHK-FM 102.7, Blountst ...
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Radio Stations In Maryland
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Maryland which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WBIS * WGBG * WHFS (historic) * WHRF * WRYR-LP See also * Maryland media ** List of newspapers in Maryland ** List of television stations in Maryland ** Media of locales in Maryland: Baltimore, College Park, Cumberland, Frederick, Gaithersburg References Bibliography * * External links * (Directory ceased in 2017) Maryland, DC, Delaware Broadcasters AssociationW3EAX Amateur Radio Association University of Maryland (est. circa 1934) Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club Images File:James Harris Rogers in Maryland circa 1910s Library of Congress ggb2006003458.jpg, Radio inventor James Harris Rogers at his lab in Prince George's County, Maryland, circa 1910s File:WJSV radio transmitter in Wheaton Maryland circa 1940s Library of Congress thc199500 ...
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Barry "Reazar" Richards
Barry Richards (born November 23, 1946) is an American radio/television personality, concert promoter and music producer from Washington, D.C. He made an impact during the late 1960s / early 1970s by introducing progressive rock to radio on the East coast. Personal life Richards was born in Washington, D.C. on November 23. He lives in Beverly Hills with his wife Debra and has 3 sons: Stevie "Rocker" Richards (Deceased), Gary Richards (music executive) and Paul Richards. Gary married Anne Varnishung and has 2 children (Riley and Stevie). Paul Richards married Sivan Ayla Vardi and has 2 children (Capri and Walker). Career On air Barry first made it on the radio thanks to Don Dillard by reading on-air dedications on WDON Washington, D.C.. He carried records to Don's record-hops where he played the records while Don MC’d. e also danced on '' The Milt Grant Show'' and convinced the artists who appeared on the TV show to do Don's record hops. He stayed at WDON while he was at sch ...
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The Greaseman
Doug Tracht is an American radio, television, and movie personality. He is nicknamed "The Greaseman". Personal Tracht was born and grew up in the South Bronx with his younger sister, Diana, and parents, Alfred and Gertrude Tracht. His father was a native New Yorker who sold dental supplies; his mother was a Lutheran immigrant from Germany who stayed home to raise her two children until they were in high school, then became a noted educator. Tracht attended DeWitt Clinton High School and graduated in 1968. He majored in broadcasting at Ithaca College and landed a job at the college radio station. "From the first day I got on the air, I was trying to do comedy bits and tell jokes. After my first year in college, I had this station (WYSL) in Buffalo, New York, offer me a big time job." Tracht got a job at WTKO, a low-power top-40 station in Ithaca. The following year, he had moved up to night DJ at a larger station in Binghamton, New York, WENE. Tracht graduated from Ithaca College ...
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Gaithersburg, Maryland
Gaithersburg ( ), officially the City of Gaithersburg, is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. At the time of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 U.S. Census, Gaithersburg had a population of 69,657, making it the ninth-largest location in the state. Gaithersburg is located to the northwest of Washington, D.C., Washington, and is considered a suburb and a primary city within the Washington metropolitan area, Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Gaithersburg was incorporated as a town in 1878 and as a city in 1968. Gaithersburg is located east and west of Interstate 270 (Maryland), Interstate 270. The eastern section includes the historic area of the town. Landmarks and buildings from that time can still be seen in many places but especially in the historic central business district of Gaithersburg called "Olde Towne". The east side also includes Lakeforest Mall, City Hall, and the Montg ...
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Washington
The Archdiocese of Washington is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States. Its territorial remit encompasses the District of Columbia and the counties of Calvert, Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's and Saint Mary's in the state of Maryland. It was originally part of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The archdiocese crosses a state line. Three other U.S. Latin Church dioceses ( Wilmington, Norwich and Gallup) also do this, but they each have territory in more than one state. The Archdiocese of Washington is home to The Catholic University of America, the only national university operated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher education in the country. In addition, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, a minor basilica dedicated to the nation's patroness, the Immaculate Conception, is located w ...
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Huffines Media
Donald Blaine Huffines is an American politician and businessman from the state of Texas. Huffines co-owns and operates Huffines Communities, a real estate development company in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. A conservative, Tea Party Republican, Huffines represented District 16 in the Texas Senate from 2015 to 2019. He lost his re-election campaign in 2018. Remaining active in politics, Huffines ran for Governor of Texas in the 2022 Republican primary, challenging incumbent Greg Abbott. Background Early life, education, and family Don Huffines is a fifth-generation Texan born in Dallas on April 26, 1958. He has two older brothers, James and Ray, and an identical twin brother, Phillip. In his childhood, his brothers and he spent time assisting at their grandfather’s car dealership. Don Huffines' grandfather, James Lecil "J.L." Huffines, started the Huffines Motor Company in Denton, Texas, in 1924. The company has grown into a large network of metroplex dealerships ...
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CTM Media Holdings
CTM is an initialism that may stand for: Companies and organizations * Compagnie de Transports au Maroc, a Moroccan public bus transport company * Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau, a Macau telecommunications company * Confederation of Mexican Workers, a confederation of labor unions Technology * Cell Transmission Model, a traffic prediction algorithm * Chemical transport model, a simulation of atmospheric chemistry and pollution * Close to Metal, a low-level programming interface * '' Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming'', a 2004 textbook * Corner transfer matrix, a method in statistical mechanics * Critical thermal maximum, the temperature above which an organism cannot survive * Current Transformation Matrix, the transformation matrix currently applying in a graphics pipeline * Certified Technology Manager, an accreditation by ATMAE - Association of Technology, Management and Applied Engineering. Transport * Chatham railway station, Kent; Nation ...
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Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States. A small part of Midland is in Martin County. At the 2020 census, Midland's population was 132,524. It is the principal city of the Midland, Texas metropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Midland County, the population of which grew 4.6% between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012, to 151,662, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The metropolitan area is part of the larger Midland–Odessa combined statistical area, which had a population of 340,391 in the 2020 census. People in Midland are called Midlanders. Located in the Permian Basin in West Texas, Midland is a major center for oil and natural gas production. Midland was founded as the midway point between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1881. The city has many connections to the Bush family; It was the onetime home of former Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush and the hometown of former First L ...
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Chicago, Illinois
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Arlington
The Diocese of Arlington ( la, Dioecesis Arlingtonensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Mid-Atlantic United States. The Diocese of Arlington comprises 70 parishes across 21 counties and seven independent cities. The Diocese of Arlington is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Baltimore. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge is the ordinary of the diocese since December 2016; his residence is on the grounds of the Cathedral of Saint Thomas More in Arlington County, Virginia. In 2013, there were 256 priests and 453,916 registered Catholics in the Diocese of Arlington. , the total population within the diocese, Catholic and non-Catholic, was 2,968,486. The diocese also operates two mission churches for the Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana in the Dominican Republic—Bánica Mission Parish (St. Francis of Assisi Church) and Pedro Santana Mission Parish, which are overseen by the di ...
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