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WAVW
WAVW (92.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Stuart, Florida, and serving the Treasure Coast, including Port St. Lucie and Vero Beach. The station broadcasts a country music radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. Each weekday, WAVW carries two syndicated shows from co-owned Premiere Networks. ''The Bobby Bones Show'' from WSIX-FM in Nashville is heard in morning drive time. And overnight, ''CMT Nites with Cody Alan'' is heard. WAVW has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts. The transmitter is on SE Lennard Road in Port St. Lucie, near South Federal Highway (U.S. Route 1). History On December 24, 1964, the station first signed on the air. from Broadcasting Yearbook 19 ... [...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] |
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] |
Treasure Coast
The Treasure Coast is a region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is located on Florida's East Coast, bordering the Atlantic Ocean and comprising Indian River, Martin, and St. Lucie counties. The region, whose name refers to the Spanish Treasure Fleet lost in a 1715 hurricane, evidently emerged from residents' desire to distinguish themselves from the Gold Coast to the south (the coast along Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties). The Treasure Coast area includes parts of two metropolitan statistical areas designated by the Office of Management and Budget and used for statistical purposes by the Census Bureau and other agencies: the Port St. Lucie Metropolitan Statistical Area (comprising St. Lucie and Martin counties) and the Sebastian–Vero Beach, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area (comprising Indian River County). History The area has long been inhabited, but like other of Florida's vernacular regions, a popular identity for the area did not emerge until the area saw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WZTA
WZTA (1370 AM) is a commercial radio station in Vero Beach, Florida. The station serves the Treasure Coast area and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. WZTA broadcasts an oldies radio format, and is known on air as "Oldies 107.9 and 1370." Programming on WZTA is also heard on FM translator W300BQ at 107.9 MHz. History On October 24, 1954, the station signed on as WNTM. It originally was a daytimer, required to leave the air at sunset every night. It was owned by Central Florida Broadcasting and had a power of 1,000 watts, days only. It was a rare station in that era to have a female president, Naomi T. Murrell. WNTM was a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS). The station later changed its call sign to WAXE. Until July 2, 2020, WZTA had broadcast a talk radio format and carried syndicated programming from Premiere Networks and Fox News Radio Fox News Radio is an American radio network owned by Fox News. It is syndicated to over 500 AM and FM radio sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WQOL
WQOL (103.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits music format. Licensed to Vero Beach, Florida, United States, the station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. 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 fou ... On March 15, 2018, WQOL dropped the "Oldies 103.7" branding and now goes by "103.7 WQOL". Radioinsight - March 15, 2018 References External links * QOL[...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] |
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] |
Radio Syndication
Broadcast syndication is the practice of leasing the right to broadcasting television shows and radio programs to multiple television stations and radio stations, without going through a broadcast network. It is common in the United States where broadcast programming is scheduled by television networks with local independent affiliates. Syndication is less widespread in the rest of the world, as most countries have centralized networks or television stations without local affiliates. Shows can be syndicated internationally, although this is less common. Three common types of syndication are: ''first-run'' syndication, which is programming that is broadcast for the first time as a syndicated show and is made specifically to sell directly into syndication; ''off-network'' syndication (colloquially called a "rerun"), which is the licensing of a program whose first airing was on network TV or in some cases, first-run syndication;Campbell, Richard, Christopher R. Martin, and Bettina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart, Florida
Stuart is a city in and the seat of Martin County, Florida, United States. Located on Florida's Treasure Coast, Stuart is the largest of four incorporated municipalities in Martin County. The population is 17,425 according to the 2020 United States Census. Stuart is the 126th largest city in Florida based on official 2019 estimates from the US Census Bureau. It is part of the Port St. Lucie, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Stuart is frequently cited as one of the best small towns to visit in the U.S., in large part because of its proximity to the St. Lucie River and Indian River Lagoon. History In the 18th century, several Spanish galleons were shipwrecked in the Martin County area of Florida's Treasure Coast. The multiple wrecks were reportedly the result of a hurricane, and the ships were carrying unknown quantities of gold and silver. Some of this treasure has since been recovered, and its presence resulted in the region's name. In 1832, pirate Pedro Gilbert, who ofte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bobby Bones Show
''The Bobby Bones Show'' is an American nationally syndicated country music radio show aired during the morning drive. The Bobby Bones Show originated in Austin, Texas, but now originates from studios at WSIX-FM in Nashville. The show is syndicated by Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia. It launched nationwide on country music radio stations in February 2013 and reaches millions of listeners on 180 stations in the United States, including major radio markets such as Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Miami, and internationally in Halifax and Manchester, UK. The program is broadcast on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Central Time with a "Top 30 Countdown” show that is aired on Saturday mornings and hosted by Bones. Starting in 2019, a new show was launched called “The Women of iHeartCountry”, hosted by Bones’ co-host Amy, in which she interviews female country stars, and plays only country songs by female country stars. The show is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
