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WNRW
WNRW (98.9 FM) - branded as 98.9 Kiss FM - is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station located in Prospect, Kentucky, serving the Louisville, Kentucky area. The station is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to broadcast on 98.9 FM with an ERP of 43,000 watts. The station's studios are located in the Louisville enclave of Watterson Park and the transmitter site is in east Louisville southwest of the I-64/I-265 interchange. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. Station history WNRW signed on from Salem, Indiana as WSLM-FM in 1967. It was the second attempt by WSLM to launch an FM station, the first having been deleted in 1964. 98.9 Kiss FM, first incarnation Prior to its flip to its current format in 2000 as "98.9 Kiss FM", the station's previous formats included classic country, Modern AC, and Hot AC. They are also a major competitor for longtime rival WDJX, but counters their broad-based direction with a Rhythmic-leaning playlist. 98.9 Radio Now, second in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTFX-FM
WTFX-FM (93.1 MHz, "Real 93.1") is a commercial mainstream urban radio station licensed to Clarksville, Indiana, serving the Louisville metropolitan area. Owned by iHeartMedia, WTFX has studios located in Louisville, while the station transmitter resides in New Albany, Indiana. Besides a standard analog transmission, WTFX-FM broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online via iHeartRadio. 93.1 FM signed on in October 1998, first with a loop of songs from "Schoolhouse Rock", and then, on October 12, officially signed on with a Modern AC format as "She 93.1" with the WQSH call letters. In September 1999, "She" moved to 98.9 FM, with 93.1 flipping to country as "The Bull", WYBL. In May 2003, WYBL flipped to smooth jazz as WJZL. In September 2005, 93.1 became the home of active rock-formatted WTFX, as their former frequency (100.5 FM) flipped to adult hits as "Louie FM." WTFX served as the local affiliate for ''Rover's Morning Glory'', ''Skratch 'N Sniff'', and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKJK
WKJK (1080 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a talk radio format with some sports talk in middays. Licensed to Louisville, Kentucky, the station serves North-Central Kentucky and South-Central Indiana. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and features programming from iHeart subsidiary Premiere Radio Networks as well as Westwood One. The station's studios are located in the Louisville neighborhood of Watterson Park and the transmitter site is off East Daisy Lane in New Albany, Indiana. WKJK broadcasts HD Radio. Its daytime power is 10,000 watts. Because AM 1080 is a clear-channel frequency, WKJK must reduce power at night to 1,000 watts to protect the Class A stations on 1080 kHz, KRLD Dallas and WTIC Hartford, Connecticut. History For most of its early years, the station was known as WKLO, owned by Dayton, Ohio-based Great Trails Broadcasting, which also owned several other Top 40 outlets, all of them in Ohio including WING, WIZE, WCOL (AM), WCOL-FM ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WQMF
WQMF (95.7 FM) is a mainstream rock radio station in Louisville, Kentucky. The station is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to the nearby city of Jeffersonville, Indiana, and broadcasts with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 28.5 kW. The station's studios are in the Louisville enclave of Watterson Park and the transmitter site is near Elizabeth, Indiana, west of the Ohio River. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. Station history 95.7 signed on as WQHI in April 1974 as ''HI 95'', an automated Top 40 station utilizing TM's "Stereo Rock" format. The first song played when HI 95 signed on was "Oh My My" by Ringo Starr. In January 1981, WQHI was sold to the Wood family owners of Secret Communications and the people behind WEBN, so the station was changed to a AOR format as ''96 FM WQMF''. Within a short period of time, QMF was successful in toppling WLRS as the top Album Rock station in the market under Program Director Tom Owens. Many current well-k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHAS (AM)
WHAS (840 AM) is a radio station owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and licensed to Louisville, Kentucky. Its studios are located in the Louisville enclave of Watterson Park, and the transmitter site is in Long Run, in far east Jefferson County. First licensed in July 1922, it is the oldest radio station in Kentucky. WHAS is a clear channel station, operating around the clock on 840 kHz with 50,000 watts. Its daytime signal can be heard in almost all of central Kentucky, as well as large slices of Ohio and Indiana, providing city-grade coverage as far east as Lexington, as far south as Bowling Green, and as far north as Cincinnati. Secondary coverage extends as far as Nashville, Dayton, and Indianapolis. The nighttime signal can be heard with a good radio in most of the continental United States and much of Canada, and at times in other countries. Since September 2007 WHAS has also broadcast full-time using the HD Radio IBOC digital radio system, following an initial testing per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKRD (AM)
WKRD (790 AM) is a sports formatted radio station in the Louisville, Kentucky metropolitan area. It is owned by iHeartMedia, and is known as 790 KRD. The station is best known for being a Top 40 powerhouse in the 1960s and 1970s as WAKY. The station's studios are located in the Louisville enclave of Watterson Park and the transmitter site is in east Louisville southwest of the I-64/I-265 interchange.. History 790 AM in Louisville was originally WGRC and featured a variety of programming typical of radio in the pre-rock era. In 1958, broadcaster Gordon McLendon, a Top 40 radio pioneer best known for his legendary KLIF in Dallas, Texas, purchased WGRC. After stunting with the novelty record "The Purple People Eater", WGRC became WAKY on July 7, 1958, and immediately shot to the top of the Louisville ratings as the market's first Top 40 music station. WAKY (known affectionately to its listeners as "Wacky") competed with 1080 AM WKLO during the 1960s and 1970s, with WAKY usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSDF
WSDF (100.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Gen-X/Variety Hits format under the branding "100.5 FM". Licensed to Louisville, Kentucky, United States, the station serves the Louisville area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and features programming from Premiere Radio Networks. The station is also broadcast on HD radio. The station's studios are located in the Louisville enclave of Watterson Park and the transmitter site is in east Louisville, southwest of the I-64/I-265 interchange. History The station was assigned call letters WTFX on June 28, 1991. On April 19, 2002, the station changed its call sign to WTFX-FM, on August 19, 2005 to WLUE, and an application was filed as of September 3, 2009, to change the call sign to WLGX. On February 4, 2020, the call sign was changed to WSDF. This station initially signed on with a classic rock format on June 7, 1993, which shifted more towards mainstream rock and then active rock by 2002, as ''100.5 The Fox''. On August 10, 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAMZ
WAMZ (97.5 FM) is a country music-formatted radio station located in Louisville, Kentucky. The station broadcasts with an ERP of 100 kW. The station's studios are located in the central part of Watterson Park and the transmitter site is in Brooks. Station history Experimental W9XEK began on July 22, 1944 at 45.5 MHz (on the original FM band). A second sister FM station was established on April 20, 1947 on the newer FM band when WCJT started at 99.7 FM as the sister station to WHAS 840. The call sign represented the initials of '' The Courier Journal'' and '' Louisville Times'', all of which were owned by the Bingham family. By the following year, W9XEK was taken off the air and WCJT became WHAS-FM. FM was still an infant technology, however, and as most early FM licensees did in the early 1950s, the Binghams returned WHAS-FM's license to the FCC on December 31, 1950. The 99.7 frequency later became the home for WKLO-FM (now WDJX). On September 7, 1966, the second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate 265
Interstate 265 (I-265) is a Interstate Highway partially encircling the Louisville metropolitan area. Starting from I-65 in the southern part of Louisville, it runs through Jefferson County, Kentucky, crosses the Ohio River on the Lewis and Clark Bridge into Indiana, meets I-65 for a second time, and then proceeds westbound to terminate at the I-64 interchange. The entire Kentucky stretch of the road is cosigned with Kentucky Route 841 (KY 841). An additional stretch of freeway between U.S. Route 31W (US 31W)/ US 60/ KY 1934 and I-65 in the southern Louisville is solely designated as KY 841. The highway is named the Gene Snyder Freeway (originally named the Jefferson Freeway), after the former congressman, and usually called "the Snyder" by locals. On the Indiana side, the highway is known as the Lee H. Hamilton Freeway. Route description , - , IN , , 13.1 , , 21.1 , - , KY , , 38.9 , , 62.6 , - , Total , , 52 , , 83.7 India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salem, Indiana
Salem is a city in and the county seat of Washington Township, Washington County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 6,319 at the 2010 census. History Salem was laid out and platted in 1814. It was named for Salem, North Carolina, the hometown of one of the city founders. The Salem post office has been in operation since 1816. Morgan's Raid In June 1863, the Confederate cavalry under John Hunt Morgan had departed Tennessee on what would later become known as Morgan's Raid. Traveling through Tennessee and into Kentucky, Morgan eventually crossed into Indiana; he reached Salem on July 10, 1863, coming north from Corydon. Upon entering Salem at approximately 9 a.m., Morgan immediately took possession of the town and placed guards over the stores and streets. The cavalrymen burned the large, brick railroad depot, along with all the train cars on the track and the railroad bridges on each side of the town. Morgan demanded taxes from the two flour mills that belonge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winston-Salem is a city and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. In the 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the second-largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region, the 5th most populous city in North Carolina, the third-largest urban area in North Carolina, and the 90th most populous city in the United States. With a metropolitan population of 679,948 it is the fourth largest metropolitan area in North Carolina. Winston-Salem is home to the tallest office building in the region, 100 North Main Street, formerly known as the Wachovia Building and now known locally as the Wells Fargo Center. In 2003, the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point metropolitan statistical area was redefined by the OMB and separated into the two major metropolitan areas of Winston-Salem and Greensboro-High Point. The population of the Winston-Salem metropolitan area in 2020 was 679,948. The metro area covers over 2,000 square miles and spans the five cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watterson Park, Kentucky
Watterson Park is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 976 at the 2010 census. Geography Watterson Park is located in central Jefferson County at (38.194819, -85.689506). Interstate 264 runs just north of the city limits, while Newburg Road forms the northeast border and Poplar Level Road (Kentucky Route 864) forms parts of the southwest border. Downtown Louisville is to the northwest. Watterson Park is bordered to the east by West Buechel, and Poplar Hills touches a small length of the southwest boundary. According to the United States Census Bureau, Watterson Park has a total area of , of which , or 0.21%, are water. Demographics At the 2000 census there were 953 people in 504 households, including 252 families, in the city. The population density was . There were 538 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 78.38% White, 16.68% African American, 0.42% Native American, 1.47% Asian, 0.4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSLM (AM)
WSLM (1220 AM) is a full service radio station licensed to serve the community of Salem, Indiana. Programming consists of news and sports. The station is owned and operated by Rebecca L. White. WSLM 1220 AM is a Kentuckiana Affiliate for Purdue Sports and the Cincinnati Reds. There is a sister station, WSLM-FM. Rebecca L. White holds the license to the FM station as well. On June 2, 2014, WSLM 1220 AM became the new Kentuckiana home of the Rick and Bubba radio morning show. The station is also a member of the Country Music Association as well as the Indiana Broadcasters Association. AM 1220 celebrated its Diamond Anniversary in 2013. On February 14, White held a Birthday Party on the radio by giving away $60 per hour in honor of the 60th anniversary of the station, as well as playing archival audio of station founder Don Martin, old WSLM commercials, programming and clips from Broomsage Ballet, recorded from 1972. WSLM began broadcasting in C-QUAM AM stereo in September 2012. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
