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WRKT
WRKT (104.9 FM, "Rocket 105") is an active rock radio station in Erie, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. WRKT's studios are located in the Boston Store building in downtown Erie while its transmitter is located near NE Sherman Road and Miller Road in Chautauqua County, New York. It plays both old, new, and next rock songs plus an array of sports. History Launched on June 22, 1989, at 12:00 p.m., WRKT started as ''Rocket 101'' at , for 28 years before moving up the dial to and rebranding as ''Rocket 105'' at 12:00 p.m. on October 20, 2017. The final song as "Rocket 101" was "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, while the first song as "Rocket 105" was "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)" by AC/DC. The 100.9 frequency was to be reallocated to Westfield, New York, and sold at auction. Rick Rambaldo, owner of WEHP, won the bid, but was late in getting his down payment sent to the FCC, leading to rejection of his bid. The frequency again went up for auction i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WZTE
WZTE is a Broadcasting, broadcast radio station licensed to Union City, Pennsylvania, serving Erie County, Pennsylvania, Erie County, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, Crawford County, and Warren County, Pennsylvania, Warren County in Pennsylvania and Chautauqua County, New York, Chautauqua County in New York. WZTE is owned and operated by Inspiration Time, Inc., with headquarters in Waterford, Pennsylvania. History The station first signed on the air as WHYP on September 5, 1966, founded by James D. Brownyard. It was joined less than two years later by its like-named sister station, WHYP-FM (now WRKT), operating at 100.9. Like many co-owned FM stations of the era, it simulcast its AM sister during the daytime and provided local radio service after the AM station left the air after local sunset. Those hours of operation continue today for WZTE, as AM 1530 is a clear-channel station, clear channel reserved for WCKY (AM), WCKY at night. In January 1989, both WHYP-AM-FM were sold to R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTWF
WTWF (93.9 FM) is a country music radio station in Erie, Pennsylvania, branded as "''93.9 The Wolf''". WTWF's studios are located in the Boston Store building in downtown Erie while its transmitter is located near the junction of Interstate 79 and Interstate 90. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. WTWF airs ''The Bobby Bones Show'' from WSIX-FM in Nashville Monday to Saturday mornings, ''The Wayne D Show'' Monday to Friday evenings also from WSIX-FM Nashville, ''After MidNite with Granger Smith'' overnights, ''Country House Party'' Saturday nights and "''Woman of iHeartCountry''" from iHeartMedia's Premiere Networks. Prior to iHeartMedia ownership, WTWF aired content with live local personalities. From 2006 to 2019, local personalities such as Shannon Solo, Melissa Matthews, Johnny Marx, Bob 'Bobby D' Domingo, Chuck 'The Promo Guy' Rambaldo, Aimee 'The Outlaw' Clemson, Sammy Stone, Kyle Hendricks, Carrie Lee, Greg Mauz, Garrett Kelley, Brett Andrews, and Dan Sheldon all hosted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Store (Erie, Pennsylvania)
The Boston Store is a former department store located on State Street in downtown Erie in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The store itself was founded in 1885, with the building being constructed in 1929. At its peak, two other Boston Stores were opened, in addition to the downtown store. The Boston Store was closed in 1979. The building remained abandoned until 1988, when it was renovated into a combination apartment and commercial building, and was renamed Boston Store Place. The Boston Store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Design The Boston Store is located between 7th and 8th Streets on State Street in downtown Erie. The six-story tall, buff brick building is predominantly cubical with a frontage of along State Street. The facade is divided into eight bays by brick piers.; the bays are further subdivided by secondary piers. The top of the building is capped with parapet, with piers extending above it and topped with stone coping. Vertical pan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFNN
WFNN (1330 AM) is a sports radio station in Erie, Pennsylvania, owned by iHeartMedia. It is an affiliate of Fox Sports Radio. Its current name is Fox Sports 1330 AM Erie. WFNN's studios are located in the Boston Store building in downtown Erie while its transmitter is located near U.S. Route 19 and Sharp Rd south of Erie. History The call letters WFNN were originally licensed to a station in Escanaba, Michigan, which first began broadcasting in 1977 under the WFNN call sign. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, WFNN was "''Fun 104''," an automated Top 40 station. Most programming was separate from its sister station, WDBC, with a few exceptions including simulcasts of Casey Kasem's '' American Top 40''. In 1982, that station switched to its current calls, WYKX. WMYJ-AM was sister to WMYJ-FM which was started by Bulmer Communications, who also owned radio stations in Ashtabula, Ohio, Dunkirk, New York, Lima, Ohio, Ottawa, Ohio and Logansport, Indiana. John Bulmer was force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJET (AM)
WJET (1400 kHz) branded as Jet Radio 1400 is a commercial AM radio station in Erie, Pennsylvania. It broadcasts a talk radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. WJET's studios are in the Boston Store building in downtown Erie. WJET has a power of 1,000 watts. The transmitter is at the intersection of East 18th Street and Ash Street in the city of Erie. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator W244DX at 96.7 MHz. Programming WJET primarily runs conservative talk hosts from the co-owned Premiere Networks. Weekdays begin with a local news and information show, ''Erie Talk in the Morning,'' hosted by Barry Dain Steinhagen. The rest of the schedule is made up of nationally syndicated shows: ''The Glenn Beck Program'', ''The Sean Hannity Show'', ''The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show'', ''The Jesse Kelly Show'', '' The Joe Pags Show'', ''Coast to Coast AM with George Noory'' and '' America in the Morning with John Trout''. Weekends include ''Kim Komando'', ''Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRTS
WRTS (103.7 FM, "''Star 104''") is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station in Erie, Pennsylvania. WRTS's studios are located in the Boston Store building in downtown Erie while its transmitter is located near Knoyle Rd and Dewey Rd. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, and its 50,000 watt signal has a large coverage area stretching from Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio to Dunkirk, New York, as well as across Lake Erie in parts of the Canadian province of Ontario. WRTS is one of the most popular stations in the Erie area, and has been nominated for Top 40/ CHR Station Of The Year: Markets 101+ at the Radio and Records conventions in both 2006 and 2007. Some of the syndicated shows that WRTS airs are ''Elvis Duran and the Morning Show'' (Monday to Friday), ''On Air with Ryan Seacrest'' (Monday to Friday), ''American Top 40'' (Sundays), ''On the Move'' ''with Enrique Santos'' (Saturdays), ''Most Requested Live with Romeo'' (Saturday nights), ''iHeartRadio Countdown'' (Sundays)'','' and ''The Vibe wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WEBG (FM)
WEBG (95.9 FM, "''Fox Sports 1330''") is a radio station licensed to Mina, New York owned by iHeartMedia. Its transmitter is located near Northeast Sherman Rd and Miller Rd in Chautauqua County New York. The station broadcasts a sports format as a simulcast of WFNN (1330 AM) from Erie, Pennsylvania. The station has a rimshot signal serving the nearby Erie market, however it is unable to be heard in the city itself because of co-channel interference from low-power Three Angels Broadcasting Network repeater WBIT-LP in the city. Its signal is strongest in rural western Chautauqua County, New York but is spotty in the population centers of Dunkirk, Fredonia and Jamestown. WEBG is iHeart's only broadcast property in New York west of Rochester. It (and its predecessor Clear Channel) has historically owned stations across almost all markets of New York except Western New York. WEBG's minimal local operations are headquartered along with iHeart's stations in Erie at the Boston S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXBB
WXBB (94.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Erie, Pennsylvania. It is branded as "''94.7 Bob FM''" and carries an adult hits format as of January 5, 2007. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. WXBB's studios are located in the Boston Store building in downtown Erie while its transmitter is located near Peach Street and Sesame Street south of I-90. History The "94.7 Bob FM" branding replaced WFGO "Froggy 94.7" on January 5, 2007. Froggy 94.7 was one of the Froggy stations that neither carried country music nor used fictitious frog-themed names for its disc jockeys. The present-day WXBB call sign was previously assigned to what is now WSAK/WSHK in Hampton New Hampshire. WXBB can also be heard in Ashtabula, Ohio, and surrounding areas. The station airs the syndicated ''Valentine In The Morning'' from KBIG in Los Angeles via iHeartMedia's Premium Choice network. On March 27, 2019, Connoisseur Media announced that it would transfer WXBB along with its sister sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westfield, New York
Westfield is a town in the western part of Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The population was 4,513 at the 2020 census. Westfield is also the name of a village within the town, containing 65% of the town's population. This unique town is accompanied by vineyards, gorges and historical buildings. History The area was first settled in 1802 by James McMahan, formerly of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. McMahan established a mill near the mouth of Chautauqua Creek, where it empties into Lake Erie. The mill was later dismantled in advance of the War of 1812 to prevent it falling into the hands of the British. Today some of the millstones from McMahan's mill rest outside the Patterson Library in Westfield village. The town of Westfield was established in 1828 from parts of the towns of Portland and Ripley. The Barcelona Lighthouse was constructed in 1829 to overlook Barcelona Harbor and aided sailors on Lake Erie until being deactivated in 1859. It was the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WICU-FM
WICU-FM (92.7 MHz) is a contemporary hit radio-formatted radio station in Erie, Pennsylvania, licensed to Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania, under the ownership of SJL Broadcasting (a sister company to Lilly Broadcasting). It uses the moniker "Happi 927". WICU-FM is simulcast in Warren on Lilly-owned WICU (1310 AM and 96.7 FM). History The station, using the call sign WEHP, signed on the air November 9, 2012, stunting with songs including the word " Happy"; at 12p.m. on November 16, 2012, it formally launched its contemporary hit radio format under the branding of "Happi 92.7". The station was originally owned by Rick Rambaldo'a Erie Radio Company; the construction permit had been acquired, under the name First Channel Communications, for $2,068,000 in a May 2011 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auction, outbidding an entity affiliated with Connoisseur Media. Rambaldo had previously a group of Erie radio stations that was sold to NextMedia in 1999, and subsequently acquired by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security. The FCC was formed by the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. The FCC also provides varied degrees of cooperation, oversight, and leadership for similar communications bodies in other countries of North America. The FCC is funded entirely by regulatory fees. It has an estimated fiscal-2022 budget of US $388 million. It has 1,482 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldies
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, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
