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WUBT
WUBT (101.1 FM, "101.1 The Beat") is an American urban contemporary radio station broadcasting in the Nashville, Tennessee market, under ownership of iHeartMedia. Though the station is licensed to Russellville, Kentucky, its studios are located in Nashville's Music Row district and the transmitter site is in White House, Tennessee. History The Russellville years On September 16, 1964, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized South Kentucky Broadcasters, owner of WRUS (610 AM), to build a new FM radio station at 92.1 MHz, to broadcast with 3,000 watts, in Russellville. The station debuted as WRUS-FM February 27, 1965, as a full-time simulcast with its AM sister station. In 1974, the FCC approved WRUS-FM to increase its effective radiated power to 100,000 watts on 101.1 MHz, giving it much wider regional coverage. When the upgraded facility went into effect on December 10, 1974, the station changed its call sign to WAKQ and adopted a separate Top 40 format. One re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBVR-FM
WBVR-FM (96.7 Hertz, MHz) is a radio station broadcasting a country music radio format, format. The station, which is licensed to Auburn, Kentucky, United States, and serving the Bowling Green, Kentucky, Bowling Green area, is owned by Forever Communications, Inc. The station's transmitter is located in northwestern Allen County, Kentucky, Allen County just east of Alvaton, Kentucky, Alvaton. History On December 11, 1963, Bowling Green Broadcasters, Inc., a subsidiary of Bahakel Communications and owner of WLBJ (Kentucky), WLBJ (1410 AM), received a construction permit to build a new FM radio station in Bowling Green on 96.7 MHz. WLBJ-FM began broadcasting in May 1965. This was the first time WLBJ had offered an FM service since the early 1950s, when it owned WBON, later WLBJ-FM. By the late 1970s, the station was airing an album-oriented rock format known as "Natural 97 FM". This shifted to contemporary hit radio "BJ-97" in 1980. Seven years later, the station's callsign was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSIX-FM
WSIX-FM (97.9 MHz, "The Big 98") is a radio station licensed to serve Nashville, Tennessee. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station broadcasts a country music format. WSIX's studios are located in Nashville's Music Row district and the transmitter site is in Forest Hills, Tennessee. History Countrypolitan Originally the sister station of a similarly-styled AM station (now WYFN which simulcasts the Bible Broadcasting Network's religious programming), WSIX-FM is credited with pioneering the "countrypolitan" "Nashville sound" of country music, which developed in the 1960s. Violins and other stringed instruments (and occasionally horns) were added to the traditionally fiddle- and guitar-driven sound of country music. During those years (beginning in 1967 until the late 1970s) WSIX-FM used the slogan "We're ''metropolitan'' country." As such, WSIX-FM became one of the first successful country-formatted stations on the FM dial in the U.S., as country music formats were typically found on A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRVW
WRVW (107.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to the city of Lebanon, Tennessee, but serving the nearby Nashville market. It is currently branded as 107.5 The River, broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format, and has become something of a heritage station for Top-40 music in middle Tennessee. It is owned by iHeartMedia and operates out of studios in the world-famous "Music Row" area. Its transmitter is located just north of downtown Nashville. History WCOR-FM/WUSW (US107) The station signed on the air on August 31, 1962, as WCOR-FM on the 107.3 MHz frequency in Lebanon as the FM sister station to WCOR. It played a country music format for its first 19 years on the air. The station also broadcast some Southern gospel music programming in the middle and late 1970s. By 1980, it branded itself as US107 and changed its callsign to WUSW. This station proved to be short-lived; its absentee owner shut it down along with its AM sister, WCOR, in mid-1981. It was sold, moved to Nashvill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNRQ
WNRQ is an FM radio station in Nashville, Tennessee, broadcasting on a frequency of 105.9 MHz. Owned and operated by iHeartMedia, it serves counties in northern middle Tennessee and southern central Kentucky. The station's studios are located in Nashville's Music Row district and the transmitter site is located in Brentwood, Tennessee, a Nashville suburb. History/ownership WNRQ has previously been the adult contemporary "Star 106," WLAC-FM; the album oriented rock "Rock 106," WKQB; and "The Joy of Nashville," WJYN, the latter reflecting a former easy listening format. Since 1964 it has been the partner station of the historical AM station WLAC, through numerous ownership changes. In 1998, Dick Broadcasting, owner of WGFX, and SFX Broadcasting, the then-owner of WLAC-FM, agreed to trade the intellectual property of the stations. The trade, to have taken place February 2, 1998, would have moved WLAC-FM to 104.5 FM, and moved WGFX's classic rock format to 105.9 under SFX own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLAC
WLAC (1510 AM) – branded ''Talkradio 98.3 & 1510'' – is a commercial talk radio radio station licensed to serve Nashville, Tennessee. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station covers the Nashville metropolitan area. The WLAC studios are located in Nashville's Music Row district, while it transmits from a three-tower facility in the city's Northside neighborhood. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WLAC broadcasts an HD Radio signal utilizing the in-band on-channel standard, is simulcast over a digital subchannel of WSIX-FM, WRVW, and on FM translator W252CM (98.3 FM), and is available online via iHeartRadio. WLAC operates around the clock at 50,000 watts, the highest power authorized for AM stations in the United States. It is one of two clear-channel stations in Tennessee, the other being WSM in Nashville. A single tower radiates the transmitter's full power during the day to most of Middle Tennessee. At night, power is fed to all three towers in a directional patter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russellville, Kentucky
Russellville is a home rule-class city in Logan County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 6,960 at the time of the 2010 census. History Local historian Alex C. Finley has claimed the area was first settled by Gasper Butcher, as a frontier settlement of the Transylvania Colony of Virginia, around 1780, but others have questioned this claim. Although the area is known to have been called "Big Boiling Spring", "Gasper Butcher's Spring", and "Butcher's Station", W.R. Jillson was unable to find written records of any habitation before 1790. That year William Cook and his wife erected Cook's Cabin, accompanied by eighteen-year-old William Stewart.''The Kentucky Encyclopedia''p. 790 "Russellville". University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1992. Accessed 4 October 2013. Also known as "Cook's Station", the community was located about east of the present city. It was renamed "Logan Court House" when it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top 40
In the music industry, the Top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre. It is the best-selling or most frequently broadcast popular music. Record charts have traditionally consisted of a total of 40 songs. "Top 40" or " contemporary hit radio" is also a radio format. Frequent variants of the Top 40 are the Top 10, Top 20, Top 30, Top 50, Top 75, Top 100 and Top 200. History According to producer Richard Fatherley, Todd Storz was the inventor of the format, at his radio station KOWH in Omaha, Nebraska. Storz invented the format in the early 1950s, using the number of times a record was played on jukeboxes to compose a weekly list for broadcast. The format was commercially successful, and Storz and his father Robert, under the name of the Storz Broadcasting Company, subsequently acquired other stations to use the new Top 40 format. In 1989, Todd Storz was inducted into the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. The term "Top 40", describing a radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aiken, South Carolina
Aiken is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Aiken County, in western South Carolina. It is one of the two largest cities of the Central Savannah River Area. Founded in 1835, Aiken was named after William Aiken, the president of the South Carolina Railroad. It became part of Aiken County when the county was formed in 1871 from parts of Orangeburg, Lexington, Edgefield, and Barnwell counties. Aiken is home to the University of South Carolina Aiken. According to 2020 census, the population was 32,025. The National Civic League gave Aiken the All-America City Award in 1997. Aiken was also named "best small town of the South" by Southern Living. Geography and climate Aiken is near the center of Aiken County. It is northeast of Augusta, Georgia, along U.S. Route 1 and 78. Interstate 20 passes to the north of the city, with access via South Carolina Highway 19 (Exit 18) and US 1 (Exit 22). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of , of which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kentucky Wildcats Men's Basketball
The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team is an American college basketball team that represents the University of Kentucky. Kentucky is the most successful NCAA Division I basketball program in history in terms of List of teams with the highest winning percentage in NCAA Division I men's college basketball, all-time winning percentage (.765). The Wildcats are currently coached by John Calipari. Kentucky leads all schools in total NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament bids by school, NCAA tournament appearances (59), NCAA tournament wins (131), NCAA Tournament games played (184), NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances (45), NCAA Elite Eight appearances (38), total postseason tournament appearances (68), and are second in regular-season conference championships (53, of which 51 are Southeastern Conference (SEC) regular-season championships). Furthermore, Kentucky has played in 17 NCAA Final Fours (third place all-time behind North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball, North Carolin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White House, Tennessee
White House is a city in Robertson County, Tennessee, Robertson and Sumner County, Tennessee, Sumner counties in the United States state of Tennessee. The population was 12,982 at the 2020 census. It is approximately twenty-two miles north of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville. History Settlers The area that is now White House was purchased around 1828 by Richard Stone Wilks, a settler from Virginia. A trail running from Kentucky to Nashville, originally created by Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans, cut through the area. This trail was originally known as the Louisville & Nashville Turnpike during the mid-19th century. In 1928, the trail was renamed US Highway 31W. Naming the town In the mid-19th century, the Carter, Thomas, and Hough Stagecoach Company traveled the L&N Turnpike carrying passengers. A typical stop along the way was a white, two-story house built by Richard Wilks in 1829. The house was a popular stop for lodging, food, and changing o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVVR
WVVR (100.3 FM, "The Beaver") is a radio station licensed to serve Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The station is owned by the Five Star Media Group subsidiary of Saga Communications through licensee Saga Communications of Tuckessee, LLC. It airs a country music format. History WVVR-FM went on the air in 1960 as WFOF-FM with several call sign changes through the years including WKSD-FM, WKOA-FM, WYKH-FM, WZZF-FM and WBVR-FM. The station was purchased in 1977 by a group of Hopkinsville, Kentucky investors, with Hal King serving as the manager. WKOA became WYKH – meaning "''Y''our ''K''entucky ''H''ome" – which switched to a solid gold format in 1986 after John N. Hall III bought the station. The next year the station became WQKS "Kiss FM" to reflect a new urban contemporary format. Over time the station programmed beautiful music, stereo rock and contemporary hit radio. The station, known as "K-100", became "Z-100" when the call letters changed to WZZF-FM in 1986. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
