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WZZR
WZZR, known on-air as "Real Radio 92.1", is a hot talk radio station licensed to serve West Palm Beach, Florida, where its studios and transmitter tower are separately located. It is owned by iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel Communications), and broadcasts on 92.1 FM. The station is simulcast in Vero Beach on WCZR (101.7 FM). WZZR is licensed by the FCC to broadcast in the HD (digital) format, and simulcasts sister station The New 93.3 on its HD2 subchannel, which broadcasts a classic hip-hop format. Timeline *1975-1978 – Broadcast on 92.1 as WWRN with a resort style format with music targeting listeners aged 50+ *1978-1980 – WWRN was known as 92Rock. They played album oriented rock music with Gary Beck as the program director. *1983 – station was Adult Contemporary WNGS Wings 92FM. Gary Harper and Terry Lee host the morning show. *April 1988 – WNGS expands its Sunday morning Jazz programming to a total of 18 hours a week. *About April 1992 – WNGS ends Adult Contempo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRLX
WRLX (94.3 FM) is a radio station that serves the Port St. Lucie/ Stuart/West Palm Beach/Fort Lauderdale/Miami area with a Spanish-language adult contemporary format. Its studios and transmitter tower are in West Palm Beach (separately). It is under ownership of iHeartMedia, Inc., and shares a building with several other iHeartMedia stations. History The station began broadcasting in 1971, and held the call sign WGMW. It aired an easy listening format. In 1979, its call sign was changed to WNJY, and it aired a beautiful music format.History Cards for WRLX fcc.gov. Retrieved July 21, 2020. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCZR
WCZR (101.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting a Hot Talk radio format, simulcasting 92.1 WZZR in West Palm Beach. WCZR is licensed to Vero Beach, Florida, and serves the Treasure Coast. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., through licensee iHM Licenses, LLC. History The station first signed on the air in 1989 as WAVW. The call sign stood for "The Wave." On January 25, 2008, it was announced that WCZR was one of several Clear Channel Communications radio stations to be sold, in order to remain under the ownership caps following the sale of Clear Channel to private investors. WCZR and the other stations to be sold were placed into the Aloha Station Trust, LLC. The main station, WZZR, remained under Clear Channel ownership. Clear Channel later became today's iHeartMedia, Inc. From January to November 1987, the WCZR call letters were used for 107.3 FM in the Cleveland media market. Since November 1987, that station has been known as WNWV WNWV (107.3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOLL
WOLL (105.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Hobe Sound, Florida. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. It airs an adult contemporary radio format, switching to Christmas music for much of November and December. WOLL serves Florida's Treasure Coast and the Palm Beaches. Sunday through Friday evenings, it carries the syndicated ''Delilah'' show featuring call-ins and dedications, provided by co-owned Premiere Networks. WOLL's studios and offices are on Continental Drive in West Palm Beach. The transmitter is on Hill Avenue, also in West Palm Beach. WOLL is a Class C2 station with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts. History Early years as WGMW, WNJY, WMXQ In 1971, the station signed on in Riviera Beach, Florida at 94.3 MHz as WGMW, owned by WGMW, Incorporated, and airing a Top 40 music format. It was powered at 3,000 watts on a 300-foot antenna, as a Class A FM station with coverage limited to the communities around Riviera Beach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLDI
WLDI (95.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Juno Beach, Florida and broadcasting in the Treasure Coast and West Palm Beach, Florida markets. The station airs a Top 40 (CHR) format. It is owned by iHeartMedia, and broadcasts at 95.5 FM. Its studios are in West Palm Beach and its transmitter is located west of Interstate 95 near Palm City, Florida. The station broadcasts in an HD radio format, originally having LGBT hits and dance station Pride Radio on its HD2 subchannel. WLDI eventually dropped Pride Radio for Gen X Radio, broadcasting a classic hits format from the 1970s - 1980s. It later dropped that for commercial-free R&B station All My Jams, before it started simulcasting sister station WJNO on its HD2 subchannel in 2021. Timeline as WOVV Before its move to West Palm Beach, WOVV was one of the first FM outlets on the Treasure Coast and operated beside WIRA in Fort Pierce, Florida. For many years, both stations broadcast from a downtown riverfront location on Melody Lane ... [...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] |
WBZT
WBZT (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports gambling format. Licensed to West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, the station serves the West Palm Beach area. With a synchronous amplifier in Pompano Beach, Florida, they also cover Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. History The station went on the air as WJNO in 1936. WJNO swapped frequencies on December 20, 2000 and the station changed its call sign to the current WBZT. History Timeline July 31, 1936: — WJNO signed on at 1 p.m. According to the ''Palm Beach Post'', WJNO was originally a CBS affiliate, and it aired everything from classical music to Steve Allen. September 1943: — pollsters found that 94 percent of all radios in use in Palm Beach, West Palm Beach and Lake Worth were tuned to WJNO (1230 AM). At the time, the 7-year-old station was the only signal between Orlando and Miami. August 13, 1979: — WJNO Program Director, John Picano, moves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJNO
WJNO (1290 AM) is a commercial talk radio station licensed to serve West Palm Beach, Florida, covering Palm Beach County and portions of the Miami metropolitan area. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., WJNO serves as the local affiliate for: Fox News Radio; ''The Glenn Beck Program'', ''The Rush Limbaugh Show'', ''The Sean Hannity Show'', ''The Mark Levin Show'', ''The Dave Ramsey Show'' and ''Coast to Coast AM''; and syndicated personalities Kim Komando, Ric Edelman and Bill Handel. The WJNO studios are located in West Palm Beach, while the station transmitter resides in nearby Loxahatchee. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WJNO streams online via iHeartRadio. This station is the second station in the West Palm Beach area—and the third AM station overall—to use the WJNO call sign, which originated on the former WJNO (1230 AM) in 1936; that station is now known as WBZT. WJNO is also notable as being the first station in the market to use the WIRK call sign when it signe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKGR
WKGR (98.7 FM) is a classic rock station licensed to Wellington, Florida and serving the West Palm Beach market. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., it transmits at 100,000 watts effective radiated power with an antenna height above average terrain of . WKGR's signal can be picked up as far north as Melbourne, as far west as Moore Haven, and usually no further south than highway 595 in Fort Lauderdale. Its transmitter is located on the west side of Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound. Also sharing WKGR's transmitter tower are stations WIRK (which itself was a primary competitor of WKGR before moving its rock programming to an HD Radio subchannel) and WMBX. WKGR previously simulcast the programming of sister station WJNO on its HD2 subchannel starting in September 2010; by 2013 this was replaced with the signal of Christian rock station WREH. WKGR later went to classic country on HD2, and in 2019, dropped its HD2 subchannel. Then on January 19, 2021, WKGR brought back its HD2 su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palm Beach Post
''The Palm Beach Post'' is an American daily newspaper serving Palm Beach County in South Florida, and parts of the Treasure Coast. On March 18, 2018, in a deal worth US$42.35 million, ''The Palm Beach Post'' and ''The Palm Beach Daily News'' were purchased by New York-based New Media Investment Group Inc., which has ever since owned and operated ''The Palm Beach Post'' and all circulations and associated digital media sources. History ''The Palm Beach Post'' began as ''The Palm Beach County'', a weekly newspaper established in 1910. On January 5, 1916, the weekly became a daily, morning publication known as ''The Palm Beach Post''. In 1934, the Palm Beach businessman Edward R. Bradley bought ''The Palm Beach Post'' and ''The Palm Beach Times'', which published daily in the afternoon daily. In 1947, both were purchased by the longtime resident John Holliday Perry Sr., who owned a Florida newspaper chain of six dailies and 15 weeklies. In 1948, Perry purchased both the ''Palm Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIRK
WIRK (103.1 FM broadcasting, FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Indiantown, Florida, the station serves the Treasure Coast and Palm Beach County, Florida, Palm Beach County area. The station is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, through licensee WPB FCC License Sub, LLC. Its studios are in West Palm Beach and its antenna is located on the west side of Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound, Florida. History WLMC/WOKC-FM Okeechobee and move-in to West Palm Beach The 103.1 frequency began in Okeechobee, Florida, Okeechobee in mid-1966 as WLMC, the FM counterpart to the town's established AM station, WOKC. The station was a Class A outlet, covering largely Okeechobee and the immediate area. On New Year's Day 1987, WLMC became WOKC-FM. The station aired a country format. In 1992, Okeechobee Broadcasters was approved to move the station to its present tower near Hobe Sound, changing the city of license to Indiantown and making WOKC-FM a move-in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby Boomers
Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the Western demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964, during the mid-20th century baby boom. The dates, the demographic context, and the cultural identifiers may vary by country. The baby boom has been described variously as a "shockwave" and as "the pig in the python". Most baby boomers are children of either the Greatest Generation or the Silent Generation, and are often parents of late Gen Xers and Millennials. Late baby boomers can also be the parents of older members of Generation Z. In the West, boomers' childhoods in the 1950s and 1960s had significant reforms in education, both as part of the ideological confrontation that was the Cold War, and as a continuation of the interwar period. In the 1960s and 1970s, as this relatively large number of young people entered their teens and young adulthood—the oldest turned 18 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, pianist and composer. Commonly nicknamed the "Rocket Man" after his 1972 hit single of the same name, John has led a commercially successful career as a solo artist since the 1970s, having released 31 albums since 1969. Collaborating with lyricist Bernie Taupin since 1967, John is acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his work during the 1970s, and his lasting impact on the music industry. John's music and showmanship have had a significant impact on popular music. His songwriting partnership with Taupin is one of the most successful in history. John was raised in the Pinner suburb of London and learned to play piano at an early age, forming the blues band Bluesology in 1962. After leaving Bluesology in 1967 to embark on a solo career, John met Taupin after they both answered an advert for songwriters. For two years, they wrote songs for other artists, and John worked a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
