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WBAN (1340 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Veazie, Maine, United States, the station serves the Bangor area. The station is owned by Port Broadcasting, LLC, and features programming from Fox News Radio. History WBAN originally signed on in 2002 as WNZS, simulcasting CNN Headline News but gradually added Salem Radio Network talk show hosts William Bennett, Bill Bennett's Morning in America, The Laura Ingraham Show, Mike Gallagher (political commentator), Mike Gallagher and Michael Medved. In 2011, co-owned WGUY signed on the air and began simulcasting WNZS. In March 2012, the station began simulcast on FM translator W231CH 94.1, which had previously simulcasted WHZP, WWNZ. The FM translator switched to a simulcast of WGUY in May 2012, when that station flipped formats to Oldies. In late 2014, the Salem Radio Network programming moved to WWNZ, with WNZS picking up WWNZ's Fox News Radio programming. As a talk station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Laura Ingraham Show
''The Laura Ingraham Show'' was a three-hour American radio show hosted by conservative Laura Ingraham. It was among the most popular radio shows broadcast in the United States. In 2016, the show ranked number 20 on the ''Talkers Magazine 2016 Heavy Hundred'' list of the most important talk show hosts in America; Ingraham was the highest-ranking female host listed. The show primarily focused on politics, pop culture, and media bias; topics of interest included race relations, trends in education, the Middle East, and the legacy of feminism. The show aired from 2001 to 2018. Background Ingraham's show, one of several to launch in 2001 as the conservative talk radio genre expanded in popularity, originally aired on the now defunct Westwood One Network. Ingraham joined the Talk Radio Network in 2004. In June 2008, Ingraham temporarily left the air due to a contract dispute. A number of hosts filled in for her, primarily Tammy Bruce and Monica Crowley. Ingraham returned at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream Adult Contemporary Radio Stations In The United States
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WBAN (1340 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Veazie, Maine, United States, the station serves the Bangor area. The station is owned by Port Broadcasting, LLC, and features programming from Fox News Radio. History WBAN originally signed on in 2002 as WNZS, simulcasting CNN Headline News but gradually added Salem Radio Network talk show hosts William Bennett, Bill Bennett's Morning in America, The Laura Ingraham Show, Mike Gallagher (political commentator), Mike Gallagher and Michael Medved. In 2011, co-owned WGUY signed on the air and began simulcasting WNZS. In March 2012, the station began simulcast on FM translator W231CH 94.1, which had previously simulcasted WHZP, WWNZ. The FM translator switched to a simulcast of WGUY in May 2012, when that station flipped formats to Oldies. In late 2014, the Salem Radio Network programming moved to WWNZ, with WNZS picking up WWNZ's Fox News Radio programming. As a talk station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldies Music
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music. After 2000, 1970s music was increasingly included. "Classic hits" has been seen as a successor to the oldies format on the radio, with music from the 1980s serving as the core format. Description This broad category includes styles as diverse as doo-wop, early rock and roll, novelty songs, bubblegum music, folk rock, psychedelic rock, baroque pop, surf music, soul music, rhythm and blues, classic rock, some blues, and some country music. Golden Oldies usually refers to music exclusively from the 1950s and 1960s. Oldies radio typically features artists such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Beach Boys, Frankie Avalon, The Four Seasons, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXEX (AM)
WXEX (1540 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Exeter, New Hampshire, and covering the New Hampshire Seacoast region and Southern Maine. The station airs an oldies radio format. The station's license is held by Port Broadcasting LLC. The station simulcasts its sister station, 92.1 WXEX-FM in Sanford, Maine. In addition, listeners can tune in the station's FM translator at 97.1 MHz, W246BP, also based in Exeter, which offers another simulcast of WXEX. AM 1540 is a clear-channel frequency reserved for Class A stations KXEL in Waterloo, Iowa and ZNS-1 in Nassau, Bahamas. So WXEX severely lowers its power at night. By day the station broadcasts at 5,000 watts. But at night, the power is only three watts. History The AM 1540 frequency in Exeter went on the air on June 4, 1966, as WKXR. It was owned by Frank Estes, who also owned WKXL in Concord, New Hampshire. Estes sold the station in 1978, and on March 10, 1982, the station was renamed WMY ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXEX-FM
WXEX-FM (92.1 FM; "Seacoast Oldies") is a radio station licensed to Sanford, Maine, United States. The station serves the Southern Maine Coast and New Hampshire Seacoast Region with an oldies format. WXEX-FM is owned by Port Broadcasting LLC (based in Newburyport, Massachusetts) and simulcasts with WXEX (1540 AM) from Exeter. History The station originally went on the air October 10, 1975, as WSME-FM, with an automated Drake-Chenault adult contemporary/oldies hybrid format. In 1986, WSME-FM became WCDQ, well known for its on-air staff, as well as creative programming. One such program was "Dead Tracks", an all-Grateful Dead program broadcast on Thursday nights at 10 PM. Another program was "Blue Monday", featuring all Blues music hosted by "The First Lady of Mt. Rialto" Sharon Small. Two other groundbreaking programs were "Mt. Rialto Redemption", a Reggae music show, and "Local Chords", an opportunity for local, unsigned bands to get their material played on the radio. It w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNBP
WNBP (1450 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States, and serving the Greater Boston radio market. The station is owned by Bloomberg L.P. and serves as a simulcast of Bloomberg-programmed WRCA ( AM 1330) from Watertown, Massachusetts. WNBP and WRCA carry financial news from Bloomberg Radio. WNBP has a power of 1,000 watts. The transmitter is off Ferry Road in Salisbury, Massachusetts. Its programming is simulcast on two FM translators, W291CC (106.1 MHz), transmitting from Haverhill, and W221EE (92.1 MHz) in Topsfield. History On March 10, 1958, WNBP signed on the air as a 500 watt daytime only station at 1470 AM, owned by Puritan Broadcasting of Lynn, Massachusetts. (The call letters represented Newburyport.) Puritan also owned WLYN (1360 AM) and WLYN-FM (101.7), as well as stations in Brattleboro, Vermont, and Nashua, New Hampshire. Through the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, the station cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWSF
WWSF (1220 AM; "104.3 The Legends") is a radio station airing an oldies format. Established in 1957 as WSME, the station is licensed to serve Sanford, Maine, United States. WWSF is owned by Port Broadcasting. History WWSF signed on as WSME on November 9, 1957. Its original studio was located on lower School Street in Sanford. The call letters were changed to WPHX after being purchased by Phoenix Media/Communications Group in 1999. The station was silent as its transmitter failed in 2010, but returned to the air in June 2011. The station was acquired by Port Broadcasting, which also owned WNBP in Newburyport, Massachusetts Newburyport is a coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, northeast of Boston. The population was 18,289 at the 2020 census. A historic seaport with vibrant tourism industry, Newburyport includes part of Plum Island. The mo ..., in 2012. When the sale was completed, the call letters were changed to WWSF. WWSF's format is identical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
The Maine Public Broadcasting Network (abbreviated MPBN and branded as Maine Public) is a state network of public television and radio stations located in the U.S. state of Maine. It is operated by the Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation, which holds the licenses for all the PBS and NPR stations licensed in the state. MPBN has studios and offices in Portland, Lewiston and Bangor. MPBN's television network shows a block of standard PBS programming, as well as many documentaries including nature programs and other science programs. MPBN's radio network airs news and talk programming from NPR, locally produced news programming, jazz and classical music. MPBN's television and radio signals reach virtually all of the populated portions of Maine, and nearby parts of New Hampshire and Massachusetts as well as the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec. MPBN Television is also carried on cable television in parts of Quebec and most of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVII
WVII-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Bangor, Maine, United States, affiliated with ABC and Fox. The station is owned by Rockfleet Broadcasting, and has studios on Target Industrial Circle in West Bangor; its transmitter is located on Black Cap Mountain along the Penobscot– Hancock county line. WVII-TV serves as the default ABC affiliate through cable for the Presque Isle market, as that area does not have an ABC affiliate of its own. It is carried in the local tier of Charter Spectrum's cable system in Presque Isle, and is also offered as the ABC affiliate in the Presque Isle Dish Network and DirecTV channel lineups. WFVX-LD (channel 22) operates as a low-power translator of WVII-TV. History The station signed on October 15, 1965, as WEMT under the ownership of Downeast Television, an ownership group that included Melvin Stone, owner of WGUY (1250 AM, later WNSW on 1200 AM; now defunct) and Rumford's WRUM, and Herbert Hoffman, owner of WBOS-AM- FM in Boston. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
