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WNNK-FM
WNNK-FM (104.1 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Owned by Cumulus Media it carries a hot adult contemporary format. The station's studios are on Vartan Way in Harrisburg, with its transmitter atop Blue Mountain in East Pennsboro Township. History The station signed on for the first time in 1962 as WTPA-FM under ownership of Newhouse Broadcasting, owner of WTPA-TV (today's WHTM-TV with a beautiful music format. It switched to an AOR format in 1980. Until the 2000s, its ownership was less settled. Newhouse sold WTPA to Foster Media in 1982, who then sold it to Keymarket Communications in 1984. In January 1985, the call sign was changed to WNNK, the station's branding changed to ''Wink 104'' and the format changed to CHR. Throughout the 80s and 90s, Wink 104 was consistently ranked #1 in the Arbitron ratings for the Harrisburg / Carlisle / Lebanon market. Keymarket Communications sold WNNK to Capstar Broadcasting Corporation in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTPA-FM
WTPA-FM (93.5 FM, "93.5 WTPA") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a classic rock format. Its broadcast tower is located on Reesers Summit in Fairview Township, York County at (). WTPA-FM broadcasts using HD Radio and simulcasts the sports radio programming of sister station WHGB on its HD2 subchannel. History The Federal Communications Commission granted West Shore Broadcasting a construction permit for the station on October 5, 1977. The station was assigned the WQVE call sign by the FCC on December 5, 1977, and signed on for the first time on November 1, 1978. Studios were originally located in Mechanicsburg, with the transmitter located north of Dillsburg near Williams Grove. The branding was changed to ''Magic 93'' in 1982, followed by a call sign change to WKCD. In 1985, ''FM104'' WTPA changed call signs to WNNK and its branding to ''Wink 104''. At that time, Jim O'Lear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHGB
WHGB (1400 AM) is a commercial radio station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a sports radio format. Most programming is supplied by the CBS Sports Radio Network, in which parent company Cumulus has a financial interest. Programming is also heard on two FM translators, W237DE at 95.3 MHz and W243BR at 96.5 MHz. History On May 28, 1945, the station first signed on, owned by the Harrisburg Broadcasting Company. It was given the call sign WHGB and broadcast at 250 watts, as a network affiliate of ABC. In 1963, it became WFEC (for its owner Florida East Coast Broadcasting) featuring a Top 40 format. By 1977, it tried several unsuccessful formats, including country music, disco and urban contemporary. In 1982, owned by Great Scott Broadcasting, it returned to Top 40, adopting Mike Joseph's Hot Hits format in response to that format's national success. Although WFEC featured the jingles and other high-energy basics of the Hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WINK-FM
WINK-FM (96.9 Hertz, MHz) is a commercial radio, commercial FM broadcasting, FM radio station in Fort Myers, Florida. The station airs an adult contemporary radio format. It is owned by the Fort Myers Broadcasting Company, locally controlled by the McBride Family, which also owns CBS Network affiliate WINK-TV. WINK-FM has radio studio, studios and offices on Palm Beach Boulevard (Florida State Road 80, S.R. 80) in Fort Myers. The transmitter is located on Freeland Lane, off Florida State Road 31 in North Fort Myers, Florida. Its effective radiated power (ERP) is 100,000 watts, sharing a radio masts and towers, tower with WINK-TV at 457 meters (1,499 feet) in height above average terrain, taller than the Empire State Building. This allows WINK-FM to be clearly heard as far north as Hardee County, Florida, Hardee County, as far south as the Everglades and as far east as Okeechobee County, Florida, Okeechobee County. WINK-FM can also be heard on Channel 11.6, a subchannel of WIN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WQXA-FM
WQXA-FM (105.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve York, Pennsylvania. Owned by Cumulus Media, it broadcasts an active rock format serving South Central Pennsylvania. Its studios are located at 2300 Vartan Way in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and the station's broadcast tower is located near York at (). History On August 8, 1947, the Federal Communications Commission proposed a new station on 105.7 MHz. The Helm Coal Company was granted a construction permit for the new station on May 12, 1948. The station was granted its first license on May 31, 1950, with the WNOW-FM call sign. On August 1, 1957, the station's license was transferred to WNOW, Inc. The station's license was transferred to Rust Communications Group, Inc. on June 22, 1972. The call sign was changed to WQXA effective December 1, 1973. The station was known as "Q106" in the 1980s. In October 1989, the station's branding changed to "Hot 105.7" along with a format change to Dance Music. On November 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRVV
WRVV (97.3 FM, "The River 97.3") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and broadcasts a classic rock format. The station's studios and offices are located at 600 Corporate Circle in Harrisburg. WRVV has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 15,000 watts. The transmitter antenna is on the WHP-TV broadcast tower on Blue Mountain in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County at (). It uses the slogan is "Real. Rock. Variety." WRVV broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its HD2 digital subchannel simulcasts the talk radio programming on sister station WHP 580 AM. History WHP-FM On January 10, 1945, WHP, Inc. applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a construction permit for a new station on 43.5 MHz on the original 42-50 MHz FM broadcast band. After the FCC created the current FM band on June 27, 1945, the Commission granted the permit on November 21, 1945, while modifying it by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKHL (FM)
WKHL (92.1 FM, "K-LOVE") is a non-commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Palmyra, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Educational Media Foundation and is an affiliate of K-LOVE, EMF's contemporary Christian music network. History The station was first licensed on December 4, 1959 with the WJWR call sign. It was owned by William N. Reichard. The station was sold effective January 1, 1961 to Radio Music, Inc. On July 20, 1965, the call sign was changed to WRLC, followed by a change in ownership to Harrisburg Broadcasting Corporation effective on August 27, 1965. Another ownership change took place effective April 14, 1969 to Clinton Broadcasting Company, followed by a call sign change on May 15, 1969 to WCTX. By 1977, the station was broadcasting a beautiful music format. By 1990, the station had switched to an oldies format, but by 1994 the format had switched back to beautiful music. On November 2, 1995, the station was sold to Quaker State Broadcasting corporation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWKL
WWKL (106.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Hershey, Pennsylvania. Owned by Cumulus Media, it broadcasts a contemporary hit radio format. History Originally WMSH-FM, the station changed its call sign to WRKZ and branded as "Z107" with a country format in 1980. On February 19, 2004, the station changed its call sign to WCPP and rebranded as ''Coolpop'' after over 24 hours of playing "Pop Goes the Weasel" on a continuous loop. Many rumors circulated in the community to explain the loop, including rumors of a staff member taking hostages and locking him/herself in the studio and playing the loop. This proved false when the new format launched with "Hey Ya!" by Outkast. The original airstaff of Coolpop included only one live show, "Michelle & Mitchell" in the morning, while the midday and afternoon shifts were voicetracked by talent from Citadel Broadcasting Company sister station 93Q in Syracuse, New York. As of Spring, 2004, a full line up of live talent w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album-oriented Rock
Album-oriented rock (AOR, originally called album-oriented radio) is an FM radio format created in the United States in the 1970s that focuses on the full repertoire of rock albums and is currently associated with classic rock. Album-oriented radio was originally established by U.S. radio stations dedicated to playing album tracks by rock artists from the hard rock to progressive rock genres. In the mid-1970s, AOR was characterized by a layered, mellifluous sound and sophisticated production with considerable dependence on melodic hooks. Using research and formal programming to create an album rock format with greater commercial appeal, the AOR format achieved tremendous popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s. From the early 1980s onward, the "album-oriented radio" term became normally used as the abbreviation of "album-oriented rock," meaning radio stations specialized in classic rock recorded during the late 1960s and 1970s. The term is also commonly conflated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Hit Radio
Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock, pop, or urban music. Used alone, ''CHR'' most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term ''contemporary hit radio'' was coined in the early 1980s by ''Radio & Records'' magazine to designate Top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into Adult contemporary, Urban contemporary, Contemporary Christian and other formats. The term "top 40" is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. The term has also been modified to describe top 50; top 30; top 20; top 10; hot 100 (each with its number of songs) and hot hits radio formats, but carrying more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arbitron
Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio broadcasting audiences. It was founded as the American Research Bureau by Jim Seiler in 1949 and became national by merging with Los Angeles-based Coffin, Cooper, and Clay in the early 1950s. The company's initial business was the collection of broadcast television ratings. The company changed its name to Arbitron in the mid‑1960s, the namesake of the Arbitron System, a centralized statistical computer with leased lines to viewers' homes to monitor their activity. Deployed in New York City, it gave instant ratings data on what people were watching. A reporting board lit up to indicate which homes were listening to which broadcasts. On December 18, 2012, The Nielsen Company announced that it would acquire Arbitron, its only competitor, for US$1.26 billion. The acquisition closed on September 30, 2013, and the company was re-branded as Nielsen Audio. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IHeartMedia
iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc.), a company founded by Lowry Mays and B. J. "Red" McCombs in 1972, and later taken private by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners through a leveraged buyout in 2008. As a result of this buyout, Clear Channel Communications, Inc., began to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of CC Media Holdings, Inc. On September 16, 2014, CC Media Holdings, Inc. was rebranded iHeartMedia, Inc., and Clear Channel Communications, Inc., became iHeartCommunications, Inc. Overview iHeartMedia, Inc. specializes in radio broadcasting, podcasting, digital and live events through division iHeartMedia (sans "Inc." suffix; formerly Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, Clear Channel Radio, et al.) and subsidiary iHeartMedia and Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHTM-TV
WHTM-TV (channel 27) is a television station licensed to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Susquehanna Valley region as an affiliate of ABC. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on North 6th Street in Harrisburg (although with a Hoffman Street address). Through a channel sharing agreement with Red Lion–licensed religious independent station WLYH (channel 49), the two stations transmit using WHTM-TV's spectrum from an antenna on a ridge north of I-81 along the Cumberland–Perry county line. History The station first signed on the air on June 19, 1953 as WTPA (standing for "Television Pennsylvania"), operating as an NBC affiliate. WTPA was founded by the Newhouse family, whose media holdings eventually became Advance Publications, and was operated alongside Harrisburg's two major newspapers, ''The Patriot'' and ''The Evening News'' (since merged as ''The Patriot-News''). The following year, it switched affiliations to ABC. It origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
