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WSFZ
WSFZ (930 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Jackson, Mississippi. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. As of December 1, 2020, WSFZ is broadcasting an African-American oriented all-news format. History WSLI signed on in September 1938, becoming Jackson's second radio station. It was owned by, and named for, the Standard Life Insurance Company. It began broadcasting from studios located in the Robert E. Lee Hotel. The transmitter was located on High Street, near the Pearl River. WSLI was affiliated with NBC's Blue Network. L.M. Sepaugh was named the first manager. WSLI had the distinction of employing Mississippi's first female announcers, Nancy Chambers and Virginia Metz.The station was originally located at 1420 kHz, moving to 1450 kHz in 1941 upon NARBA reallocation and then to 930 kHz in 1946. WSLI expanded into television in 1954 when it started WSLI-TV channel 12. The station was merged with WJTV, then on channel 25, the next year, and the two stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Information Network
Black Information Network (BIN) is a radio network and content brand owned by iHeartMedia. Launched on June 30, 2020, it is an all-news radio network of stations targeting the African American community, carrying mostly important national news headline stories as well as current events and special interest features. Some stations also incorporate local news, traffic, weather and sports updates into the network feed. Tony Coles is the network's president and Tanita Myers is the news director. History On June 29, 2020, 15 iHeartMedia radio stations in markets with large African American populations (including AM, FM, and HD Radio subchannel stations) ceased their regular programming, and began stunting with clips of speeches by prominent African Americans, such as Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet" address, interspersed with messages stating that "our side of the story is about to be told", and promoting a major change in their programming at 12:00 p.m. EDT the next day. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJDX (AM)
WJDX (620 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to serve Jackson, Mississippi. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications until September 2014) and licensed to iHM Licenses, LLC. It airs a news/talk/sports format. ''Mississippi Sports This Morning, which is now airing on WJQS'' is the station's flagship local program. It aired during WJDX's morning drive slot without interruption from 1998 to 2020. It is currently hosted by Doug Colson and Jay White. It is the longest running daily sports talk program in Mississippi radio history. WJDX also serves as the Jackson home for the New Orleans Saints and NASCAR. The station was assigned the current WJDX call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on October 9, 1998. According to the FCC, the call letters were WJDS from July 6, 1990 to October 8, 1998. Prior to July 6, 1990 the call letters were WJDX for several years. On October 3, 2011 WJDX changed their format to news/talk. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJDX-FM
WJDX-FM (105.1 MHz) is a mainstream urban radio station licensed to Kosciusko, Mississippi, but located in Jackson, Mississippi. It is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications until September 2014). From October 1998 to March 2003 WQJQ was a Jammin' Oldies station. Its studios are located in northwest Jackson, and its transmitter site is east of Canton. On January 24, 2011, WQJQ relaunched as "Oldies 105.1" and in the process changed its call letters to WJDX-FM. The original WJDX-FM call letters were on a progressive rock station at 102.9 (now WMSI-FM) from the late 1960s through the early 1970s. The station changed its calls to WZZQ in 1973 and would evolve from progressive rock to a locally produced AOR music format. WJDX-FM's oldies format includes some of the songs that were popular on WJDX (AM) when that station played Top 40 music during the 1970s. In November 2013, WJDX-FM flipped to its usual Christmas music format for the holidays. However, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSTZ-FM
WSTZ-FM (106.7 FM, "Z106.7") is a classic rock music formatted radio station in Jackson, Mississippi, but is licensed to Vicksburg, Mississippi. WSTZ is owned by iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel Communications until September 2014). WSTZ serves Jackson and surrounding area with an ERP of 85,000 watts. Its studios are located in Northwest Jackson and the transmitter site is in Raymond. Programming WSTZ features John Boy and Billy John Isley (born August 15, 1956) and Billy James (born August 31, 1957), known as John Boy & Billy, are American radio hosts based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Their comedic morning program ''The John Boy & Billy Big Show'' broadcasts from 6:00& ... every weekday morning, and "Brother Dave" weekday afternoons (He left station sometime in 2011). "The Best of John Boy & Billy" comes on every Saturday morning. On Sundays, they have "Sunday Brunch" in the morning, in the afternoon they have "Christian the Drunken Fool", and at night they have "Flash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMSI-FM
WMSI-FM (102.9 MHz, "Miss 103") is a radio station in Jackson, Mississippi, and owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications until September 2014). WMSI's signal covers a roughly 90 mile radius around the city with an ERP of 100,000 watts. It is Mississippi's primary entry point for the Emergency Alert System. History The station began in 1948 as WJDX-FM, an FM sister to WJDX (620 AM), broadcasting easy listening music in the early 1960s. In 1968, WJDX-FM switched to a progressive rock format, calling itself "WJDX, the Rock of Jackson" and becoming one of the first stations in the South to adopt what was then considered an underground format. Initially, deejays were granted complete control over the playlist, but a fairly loose rotation system was gradually imposed over the first few years. In 1973, the call letters were changed to WZZQ. By this time, the format had evolved into a local version of AOR (Album Oriented Rock), influenced but never restricted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the Capital city, capital of and the List of municipalities in Mississippi, most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The city is also one of two county seats of Hinds County, Mississippi, Hinds County, along with Raymond, Mississippi, Raymond. The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, down from 173,514 at the 2010 census. Jackson's population declined more between 2010 and 2020 (11.42%) than any Major cities in the U.S., major city in the United States. Jackson is the anchor for the Jackson metropolitan area, Mississippi, Jackson metropolitan statistical area, the largest metropolitan area completely within the state. With a 2020 population estimated around 600,000, metropolitan Jackson is home to over one-fifth of Mississippi's population. The city sits on the Pearl River (Mississippi–Louisiana), Pearl River and is located in the greater Jackson Prairie region of Mississippi. Founded in 1821 as the site f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WYAB
WYAB 103.9 FM (formerly 93.1 FM) is a radio station serving the city of Jackson, Mississippi, including Madison County, Yazoo County, Rankin County, and Hinds County. The studios of WYAB are located within the Cotton Exchange Plaza in Flora, Mississippi. History WYAB originally began as WAZF-FM in 1984 as a vacant allotment in the FCC's Table of Allotments, which is essentially a community-by-community listing of all radio station channels and classes within the United States and its territories. The initial allotment was for a 3,000 watt station to broadcast on 93.7 FM to serve Yazoo City. The allotment was created by a company known as Dri-Two, Inc. to serve as a "sister" FM station to the now silent WAZF 1230 AM, also licensed to Yazoo City. The vacant allotment sat without an actual broadcast station occupying its place from 1984 until 1995, when Mississippi College, license holder of WHJT 93.5 FM, petitioned the FCC to have the allotment removed from the Table. The colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHJT
WHJT (93.5 FM broadcasting, FM, "93.5 The Legend) is an American radio station city of license, licensed to serve Kearney Park, Mississippi, United States. The station was owned and operated by Mississippi College until 2017. Its studios and transmitter were based on campus from the Aven Fine Arts Building. Mississippi College sold WHJT to New South Radio in March 2017. The station's new 12,000-watt transmitter is located off Highway 49, in Pocahontas, Mississippi, Pocahontas. Its new studio is located at 265 Highpoint Drive, in Ridgeland, Mississippi, Ridgeland. WHJT had previously broadcast a contemporary Christian radio format, format to the Jackson, Mississippi, area from Easter Sunday 1989 until midnight on July 31, 2017. On July 31, WHJT changed its format from Christian contemporary to classic country, and is now branded as "93.5 The Legend" (format moved from Flinn Broadcasting-owned WJXN-FM 100.9 Utica, which began stunting). The station was assigned the call sign " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has had ten No. 1 singles on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", "Longfellow Serenade", "I've Been This Way Before", "If You Know What I Mean", "Desiree (song), Desirée", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "America (Neil Diamond song), America", "Yesterday's Songs", and "Heartlight (song), Heartlight". Thirty-eight songs by Diamond have reached the top 10 on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Adult Contemporary (chart), Adult Contemporary charts, including "Sweet Caroline". He has also acted in films, making his screen debut in the 1980 Musical film, musical drama film ''The Jazz Singer (1980 film), The Jazz Singer''. Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, and he received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Thicke
Robin Alan Thicke (born March 10, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his 2013 hit single " Blurred Lines", which is one of the best-selling singles of all time. At the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, he received nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Thicke is a son of actress Gloria Loring and actor Alan Thicke. He has collaborated with numerous artists, such as Nicki Minaj, 3T, T.I., Christina Aguilera, Jessie J, K. Michelle, Pharrell, DJ Cassidy, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Flo Rida, Brandy, Kid Cudi, Mary J. Blige, Emily Ratajkowski and composed songs for Marc Anthony. He worked on albums such as Usher's '' Confessions'' and Lil Wayne's ''Tha Carter III'', while releasing his own R&B singles in the United States including "Lost Without U", "Magic", and "Sex Therapy". He is currently a judge on the Fox musical competition show ''The Masked Singer''. Life and career 1977–1998: Early years and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blurred Lines
"Blurred Lines" is a song by American singer Robin Thicke featuring American rappers T.I. and Pharrell Williams from the former's sixth studio album of the same name (2013). Solely produced by Williams, it was released as the album's lead single on March 26, 2013, through Star Trak Recordings and Interscope Records. For the lyrics, Thicke said the song is about his former wife Paula Patton. Musically, "Blurred Lines" is an R&B and pop track with instrumentation consisting of bass guitar, drums, and percussion. The song received generally negative reviews from music critics, with some saying it glorified rape culture. Commercially, the song topped the charts of 25 countries and reached the top five of six others. "Blurred Lines" spent 12 consecutive weeks atop the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, making it the longest-running single of 2013 in the United States. In June 2018, the song was certified a diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
