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WBPT
WBPT (106.9 FM, "Classic Rock 106.9") is a classic rock music-formatted radio station licensed to Homewood, Alabama, that serves the Birmingham and central Alabama area. The station was assigned the WBPT call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on October 17, 2001. Since October 2005, it has used the branding "106.9 the Eagle". The station is owned by SummitMedia, along with six other stations in the cluster, and all share studios in the Cahaba neighborhood in far southeast Birmingham. Its transmitter is located atop Red Mountain in Birmingham. History The 106.9 frequency has been the home of several formats and call signs throughout its history. It signed on as WBRC-FM in 1957, the second attempt at an FM station from WBRC (one had operated from 1948 to December 3, 1949, at 102.5 MHz, broadcasting with 546,000 watts). Throughout the 1960s, the FM station simulcasted WBRC AM, a typical practice for its day. By 1971, WBRC-FM was playing Top 40 music, but it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAGG
WAGG (610 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama. It is owned by SummitMedia and broadcasts an urban gospel radio format that targets Birmingham's African-American community. The radio studio, studios and offices are in the Cahaba neighborhood in Southeast Birmingham, along with six other stations owned by SummitMedia. The station was assigned the WAGG call sign by the Federal Communications Commission on January 15, 1999. It broadcasts at 5,000 watts by day, reducing power to 610 watts at night to avoid interfering with other stations on AM 610. It uses a omnidirectional antenna, non-directional antenna at all times. The transmitter is off Avenue W, near Birmingham International Raceway. History of AM 610 Some generations ago, the 610 AM frequency was home to Birmingham’s third oldest radio station. That station began in 1926 as WKBC, broadcasting at 1310 AM. The original owner of the station was a local furni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WZZK-FM
WZZK-FM (104.7 FM) is a country music-formatted radio station licensed to Birmingham that serves northern and central Alabama. As of January 3, 2007, WZZK-FM is the flagship station of the Rick and Bubba radio network. It was the first FM station in Birmingham to switch to country music, and throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s was the top-rated radio station in Birmingham. The station is owned by SummitMedia alongside six other stations, and all share studios in the Cahaba neighborhood in far southeastern Birmingham. Its transmitter is located atop Red Mountain in Birmingham. History The 104.7 frequency was originally put on the air as the sister station of WJLD/1400. It began in 1948 as WJLN-FM and originally repeated the rhythm and blues music format of the AM station. By the end of the 1960s, WJLN began playing progressive rock music at night, while continuing the daytime simulcast of WJLD. In 1973, the call letters of WJLN were changed to WZZK. With the new call lett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPYA
WPYA (97.3 FM) is an American radio station licensed to Gardendale, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, United States. It is owned by SummitMedia. It airs a hot adult contemporary format. It shares studios with six other sister stations in the Cahaba neighborhood in far southeast Birmingham, and the transmitter is based atop Red Mountain. History As of 2022, 97.3 is the newest full-powered station to sign on in the Birmingham market. WEDA, then licensed to Homewood, signed on with a CHR format on November 2, 1998, calling itself "Hot 97.3". Birmingham had not had a CHR station since WAPI-FM (now WJOX-FM) changed formats in 1994, and the owners were hoping to fill that niche. However, WQEN, a CHR station licensed to Gadsden, began broadcasting from a tower closer to Birmingham earlier in the year and was more successful than WEDA. In 1999, Cox Radio purchased WEDA from the local investors who owned the station, changed the call letters to WRLR, and changed the format to active ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBHJ
WBHJ (95.7 FM) is an urban-leaning rhythmic-formatted radio station that serves Birmingham, Alabama. In 2005, it also began broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity. It is owned by SummitMedia along with six other stations in the market, and all share studios in the Cahaba neighborhood in far southeast Birmingham where the Program Director is Nuyork. Its transmitter is located atop Red Mountain in Birmingham. History 95.7 originally came on the air in 1958 as WTBC-FM, a Tuscaloosa station that was a companion to WTBC (AM)/1230 with its transmitter on 15th Street. As WTBC-FM, the station was just a placeholder for the AM station, playing a stack of MOR format LPs on a turntable. A contributor who worked at WTBC (AM) notes that when the stack of records was finished, it just started playing over. Station IDs weren't done regularly because they were done by the often-forgetful AM jocks. The program director would go live for a few hours eac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cox Radio
CMG Media Corporation (doing business as Cox Media Group) is an American media conglomerate principally owned by Apollo Global Management in conjunction with Cox Enterprises, which maintains a 29% minority stake in the company. The company primarily owns radio and television stations—many of which are located in the South, Pacific Northwest, Eastern Midwest, and Northeast, and the regional cable news network Pittsburgh Cable News Channel (PCNC). Originally founded in December 2008 by Cox Enterprises through a consolidation of its existing publishing and broadcasting subsidiaries, the current incarnation of Cox Media Group was formed on December 17, 2019, through the acquisition by Apollo of the original Cox Media Group (along with Cox Enterprises’ advertising subsidiary, Gamut) from Cox Enterprises, which transferred a controlling interest in the company to Apollo, and Northwest Broadcasting from Brian Brady. History In December 2008, Cox Enterprises created Cox Media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJOX-FM
WJOX-FM (94.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Birmingham. The station airs a sports radio format. WJOX is owned by Cumulus Media (the parent of radio network Westwood One). The station was assigned the WJOX-FM call sign by the Federal Communications Commission on February 8, 2010. The station has studios in Homewood and its transmitter is in West Birmingham along the west ridge of Red Mountain. Programming The station is an affiliate of CBS Sports Radio, and was the Birmingham area flagship affiliate for University of Alabama sports. WJOX became the flagship station of the ''Paul Finebaum Radio Network'', which was syndicated throughout Alabama and adjoining states, in 2007. WJOX is an affiliate of the Tennessee Titans football radio network and the Atlanta Braves radio network. In 2013, Finebaum moved to ESPN Radio to host ''The Paul Finebaum Show'' for SEC Network, with WJOX continuing to carry the show. History The forerunner of WJOX debuted December 1, 1947 as WAFM o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crimson Tide Sports Network
The Crimson Tide Sports Network (sometimes stylized as the CTSN) is the radio and television network of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide men's and women's sports teams. It consists of four television stations, two regional cable networks, and several radio stations throughout the state of Alabama, some of which serves small parts of surrounding states. This organization's headquarters are located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It is operated through a joint venture between IMG College and Learfield Communications.''2012-2013 Alabama Men’s Basketball Media Guide'', page 5. Programming Coach’s shows Television *''Crimson Tide This Week''''2014 Alabama Football Media Guide'', page 207. *''The Nick Saban TV Show'' Radio *''Crimson Tide Today'' *''The Nick Saban Show'' *''Hey, Coach'' Over the air television stations Regional cable networks Station list *Asterisk (*) indicates HD Radio broadcast. * indicates low-power FM translator. Satellite Radio In a partnership with CT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDXB
WDXB (102.5 FM) is a country music formatted radio station licensed to Pelham, Alabama, and serving the Birmingham metropolitan area and north-central Alabama. The radio studios and offices are at Beacon Ridge Tower in Birmingham (near Red Mountain). The station calls itself "102.5 The Bull" and is owned by San Antonio–based iHeartMedia WDXB has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 90,000 watts. The transmitter is in Red Mountain Park in Southwest Birmingham, off Venice Road. WDXB broadcasts using HD Radio technology. The HD-2 digital subchannel carries iHeart's Black Information Network and the HD-3 subchannel carries iHeart's soft adult contemporary music service "The Breeze." The HD-2 subchannel feeds 225 watt FM translator W224CK at 92.7 MHz in Vestavia Hills. Programming Weekdays: Granger Smith is on from 12-5am. Dollar Bill and Madison are on 5-10am. Billy Greenwood is from 10am-3pm. Major Tom is from 3-7pm. The Bobby Bones Show is on from 7pm-12am. Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WERC (AM)
WERC (960 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama. It is owned by iHeartMedia and it simulcasts a talk radio format with sister station 105.5 WERC-FM. The studios and offices are in Beacon Ridge Tower on First Avenue South in Birmingham, off Interstate 65. WERC transmits with 5,000 watts. By day, the signal is non-directional, but to protect other stations on 960 AM from interference, at night it uses a directional antenna with a two-tower array. The transmitter is off Arkadelphia Road near Interstate 20 in Birmingham. Programming WERC was the first station in Birmingham to carry an all-talk format. Weekdays begin with a local news and interview show, "Alabama's Morning News with JT and Leah." The rest of the weekday schedule is nationally syndicated shows, largely from co-owned Premiere Networks: "The Glenn Beck Program," "The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show," "The Sean Hannity Show," " The Michael Berry Show," "The Jesse Kelly Show," "Coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBHK
WBHK (98.7 FM) is an urban adult contemporary music formatted radio station owned by SummitMedia that serves Birmingham, Alabama. It is currently ranked by the Arbitron rating system as the nation's highest rated urban adult contemporary station. ''98.7 Kiss FM'' is licensed to Warrior and broadcasts on the 98.7 Megahertz (MHz) frequency at effective radiated power of 39 kilowatts (kW) from atop Red Mountain. It is owned by SummitMedia along with six other stations, and all share studios in the Cahaba neighborhood in far southeast Birmingham. The station has an unusually strong signal that broadcasts on a class C1 that can be heard across the majority of North and Central Alabama and even in parts of eastern Mississippi and western Georgia. WBHK is sometimes mistaken for or confused with the former New York City urban AC with the same moniker, WRKS-FM, 98.7 Kiss FM (now WEPN-FM with an ESPN sports format). The similar musical format and dial position of both st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WENN (AM)
WENN (1320 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama. It simulcasts the urban contemporary gospel radio format heard on co-owned WAGG. It is owned by SummitMedia, which also owns six other Birmingham stations, and all share radio studio, studios and offices in the Cahaba neighborhood in southeast Birmingham, but is not related to the fictional radio WENN in the AMC (TV channel), American Movie Classics sitcom ''Remember WENN'', which ran from 1996 to 1998. By day, WENN broadcasts at 5,000 watts. To avoid interfering with other stations on 1320 AM, it reduces power to 111 watts at night. The transmitter is in North Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, Hopper City on the city's northside. History WEZB, WENN and WAGG The station that now broadcasts at 1320 AM in Birmingham started in 1950 as WEZB, an easy listening music station licensed to Homewood, Alabama. When WEZB changed frequencies, moving to 1220 AM in 1959, it was ... [...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] |
