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WSOK
WSOK (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a gospel format licensed to Savannah, Georgia, United States, The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. Its studios are located in Garden City (with a Savannah address) and utilizes a transmitter located east of historic downtown Savannah. The station is also heard on translator W259DE at 99.7 FM. History WFRP After applying in 1944, Frank R. Pidcock and James M. Wilder were granted a construction permit for 1230 AM in Savannah in 1946, which took the call letters WFRP. The station opened on October 30, 1946. It was Savannah's only independent (non-network) station, though in the early 1950s it was the local outlet for the short-lived Liberty Broadcasting System, and in 1952 it picked up the ABC affiliation. WSOK In 1958, Albert Fisher, who had previously owned stations in Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina, bought WFRP from the Georgia Broadcasting Company for $87,500. Fisher changed the station's call letters to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTKS (AM)
WTKS (1290 kHz, "NewsRadio 97.7 & AM 1290") is a radio station licensed to Savannah, Georgia. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., with iHM Licenses, LLC holding the license. WTKS airs a talk radio format. Its transmitter is located behind WTKS's studios in Garden City, Georgia (with a Savannah address). Programming is simulcast on an FM translator station, 97.7 W249BS. The station uses this FM frequency in calling itself "NewsRadio 97.7 and AM 1290." Programming Weekday mornings begin with "Savannah's News Now" with WTKS news director Bill Edwards and co-anchor Laura Anderson. The rest of WTKS's weekday schedule features syndicated personalities Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Dave Ramsey, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, ''Coast to Coast AM with George Noory'' and ''This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal''. Weekends include programs on health, gardening, home repair, golf, law and technology. Hosts include Bill Handel, Leo Laporte, Gary Sullivan, Ron Wilson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Georgia (U
The following is a list of Federal Communications Commission, FCC-licensed radio stations in the United States Georgia (U.S. state), state of Georgia, which can be sorted by their Call signs in North America, call signs, frequency, frequencies, city of license, cities of license, licensees, and radio format, programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WACL (570 AM) * WAYS (1500 AM), WAYS * WBHB (AM), WBHB * WBKZ (880 AM, Athens, Georgia) * WBMQ * WBUE-LP * WCUG (Cuthbert, Georgia) * WGHC (FM), WGHC * WGM (radio station) * WGPC * WHLE-LP * WJLG * WJTP * WMGA (1130 AM) * WRFV * WSYL See also * Georgia (U.S. state)#Media, Georgia media ** List of newspapers in Georgia (U.S. state) ** List of television stations in Georgia (U.S. state) ** Media of List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), cities in Georgia: Athens, Georgia#Media, Athens, Media in Atlanta, Atlanta, Media in Augusta, Georgia, Augusta, Media in Columbus, Georgia, Columbus, Macon, Georgia#Media, Macon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAEV
WAEV (97.3 FM, "97.3 Kiss FM") is a commercial radio station licensed to Savannah, Georgia. Owned by iHeartMedia, it broadcasts a contemporary hit radio format. WAEV's transmitter is located near Bloomingdale, Georgia, and shares studios with its sister stations in Garden City. History During the early- and mid-1970s, WXLM was an easy listening station. In September 1977, the station flipped to Album Rock in response to WTOC starting a highly successful overnight album rock program in 1976. Before this, Savannah had been without a rock station since WEAS-FM flipped in the early 1970s. 97.3 went by the name 97 Rock with the call sign WXLM. In 1980, the station flipped to Adult Contemporary known as WAEV ("Wave 97"). When WXLM left the air, Savannah did not have a rock station until WIXV picked up the format in 1986. The station evolved into a Hot AC station as Mix 97.3 in 1993. After several years of falling numbers and revenue in the early 2000s, the station rebranded to Cle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLVH
WLVH (101.1 FM) is an iHeartMedia, Inc.-owned urban adult contemporary radio station in Savannah, Georgia, licensed to Hardeeville, South Carolina. The station uses the branding "Love 101.1". Its studios are located in Garden City (with a Savannah address) and utilizes a transmitter located west of Savannah in Bloomingdale, Georgia along Interstate 16. WLVH was the Savannah, Georgia affiliate of the '' Tom Joyner Morning Show'' until it ended on December 13, 2019, and was replaced by ''The Steve Harvey Morning Show''. It also has a nighttime slow-jam show ''The Keith Sweat Keith Sweat (born July 22, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and an early figure in the new jack swing musical movement. He is known for his collection of hits including " I Want Her", " Make It Last Forever", " I'll Give ... Hotel''. External linksLove 101.1 official website* Urban adult contemporary radio stations in the United States LVH IHeartMedia radio stations [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WQBT
WQBT (94.1 FM), known as "94.1 The Beat", is a mainstream urban radio station licensed to Savannah, Georgia. It is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. Its studios are located in Garden City (with a Savannah address) and utilizes a transmitter located west of Savannah in unincorporated Chatham County. Programming The station had controversial morning hosts Star and Buc Wild—which replaced Russ Parr in the morning slot. Parr's show has since returned to WQBT's morning drive time slot, but as of 2016, it is now home to ''The Breakfast Club''. History former logo Before the mid-1970s, the station was a simulcast of WTOC (AM), and had the callsign of WTOC-FM. Before it was an Urban Contemporary formatted station, it had a long stint as a country music formatted station to compete with daytimer WEAS. In the late '80s and early '90s, the callsign WCHY was part of the station's identity as a country station ("WCHY 94.1 Continuous Country"; the station would sometimes refer to itself as "Y- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Tucker
Benjamin M. Tucker (December 13, 1930 – June 4, 2013) was an American jazz bassist who appeared on hundreds of recordings. Tucker played on albums by Art Pepper, Billy Taylor, Quincy Jones, Grant Green, Dexter Gordon, Hank Crawford, Junior Mance, and Herbie Mann. He was born in Tennessee. As bass player in the Dave Bailey Quintet in 1961, he wrote the instrumental version of the song " Comin' Home Baby!", first issued on the album ''Two Feet in the Gutter''. Bob Dorough later wrote a lyric to the song, and the vocal version became a Top 40 hit for jazz singer Mel Tormé in 1962. Tucker released the album ''Baby, You Should Know It'' ( Ava, 1963) with Victor Feldman, Larry Bunker, Bobby Thomas, Ray Crawford, Tommy Tedesco, and Carlos "Patato" Valdes. By 1972, Tucker owned two radio stations, WSOK-AM, which had over 400,000 listeners, and WLVH-FM. Both of these were located in his hometown of Savannah, Georgia. He died in a traffic collision in Hutchinson Island, Georgia, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WYKZ
WYKZ (98.7 FM) is an adult contemporary radio station owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and licensed to Beaufort, South Carolina, with the branding "98.7 The River - The Best Variety Of Yesterday & Today!" The station's studio is located on Alfred St. in Savannah, Georgia Savannah ( ) is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the British colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later t ..., and the transmitter is located near Sun City, South Carolina. History The station began broadcasting in the early 1960s as a station primarily for Beaufort County, WBEU-FM. 98.7 upgraded its tower in the early '80s and began targeting Savannah as adult contemporary WQLO "98.7 Lite FM". The station was known as "Kiss 98.7" for most of the 1980s before adopting its current name in the early 1990s. External links98.7 The River* YKZ Mainstream adult contemporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otis Johnson
Otis Samuel Johnson (born 1942) is an American social worker, educator and politician from the U.S. state of Georgia who served as the Mayor of Savannah from 2004 until 2012. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Background Mayor Johnson is a Savannah native who graduated from A.E. Beach High School in 1960, Armstrong Junior College (now Armstrong State University) in 1964 (the first African American to graduate from that school) and the University of Georgia (A.B.) in 1967. He served from 1959 to 1965 in the U.S. Naval Reserve. In 1969, he earned a master's degree in social work from Clark Atlanta University and, in 1980, he received his Ph.D. from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Before becoming mayor, Johnson worked for the Economic Opportunity Authority, Model Cities Program, and Savannah State University. From 1983 until 1988, he served as the City Council Representative from the second district of Savannah. He then became the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutual Black Network
The Mutual Black Network (MBN) was founded by the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1972 as the first national full-service radio network aimed at African Americans; it was initially branded as Mutual Reports before the branding change to MBN. With 98 affiliated stations across the United States, including flagship WNJR in New York, the network broadcast an hourly five-minute newscast at 50 minutes past the hour. It also aired sports and feature programs, and for one year beginning in the spring of 1974, a 15-minute daily soap opera called ''Sounds Of The City''. Some of its special programming focused on African-American history, much of which was researched, written and narrated by MBN news anchor Ben Frazier. Other MBN news anchors included Glen Ford, John Askew and Ed Castleberry; Castleberry also hosted a celebrity interview program, ''Soul of Entertainment''. In 1981, the Mutual Black Network was purchased by Sheridan Broadcasting, an African American-owned company which had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi ( ; ) is a city in and one of two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States (the other being the adjacent city of Gulfport). The 2010 United States Census recorded the population as 44,054 and in 2019 the estimated population was 46,212. The area's first European settlers were French colonists. The city is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area and the Gulfport–Biloxi–Pascagoula, MS Combined Statistical Area. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, Biloxi was the third-largest city in Mississippi, behind Jackson and Gulfport. Due to the widespread destruction and flooding, many refugees left the city. Post-Katrina, the population of Biloxi decreased, and it became the fifth-largest city in the state, being surpassed by Hattiesburg and Southaven. The beachfront of Biloxi lies directly on the Mississippi Sound, with barrier islands scattered off the coast and into the Gulf of Mexico. Keesler Air Force Base lies within the city and is home to the 81st ... [...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] |
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah ( ) is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the Kingdom of Great Britain, British British America, colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. A strategic port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah is today an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport. It is Georgia's Georgia (U.S. state)#Major cities, fifth-largest city, with a 2020 United States Census, 2020 U.S. Census population of 147,780. The Savannah metropolitan area, Georgia's List of metropolitan areas in Georgia (U.S. state), third-largest, had a 2020 population of 404,798. Each year, Savannah attracts millions of visitors to its cobblestone streets, parks, and notable historic buildings. These buildings include the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
