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WDSA
WDSA (1320 AM, "1320 Gold") is a radio station broadcasting an Urban Talk radio format. WDSA is licensed to serve the community of Dothan, Alabama, United States. The station is currently owned by Wilson Broadcasting Co., Inc. The station was reassigned the WAGF call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on January 1, 1985. Programming WDSA features programming from CNN Radio. Notable on-air personalities include Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, the Rev. Al Sharpton, the sports duo 2 Live Stews, and the "gorgeous queen of night time talk" Bev Smith. History WDSA went on the air on December 14, 1933, originally with the call letters WHET, and was long billed as the "Voice of the Tri-States." Its studio was located on the top floor of the Houston Hotel, moved to the ground floor, then in 1935 to East Main Street adjacent to the Martin Hotel and the Young Building. Its transmitter was located at the Dothan Fairgrounds but moved in 1941 to Headland Highway. The station's or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Alabama
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Alabama, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WAAO-AM * WACD * WACM-LP * WAQG * WARI * WBRC-FM * WBYE * WCMA * WCOC * WCOX * WDLK * WERH * WERH-FM * WFBH-LP * WGEA * WGYJ * WGYN * WHMZ-LP * WIQR * WIZD-LP * WJDB * WJHX * WJLQ-LP * WJSD-LP * WJSR * WJWC * WKDG * WKIJ * WKOC-LP * WKXM * WKYD * WLHQ * WLVN * WMFC * WPPT * WPRN * WQHC * WQLS * WQXD-LP * WREN * WRJX * WRMZ-LP * WSMX-LP * WTID * WTOH * WTQX * WTXQ * WUAC-LP * WULA * WVPL * WWFC-LP * WWWH * WYDK * WYJD * WYVC * WZCT * WZNN * WZTN * WZTQ * WZZX See also * Alabama media ** List of newspapers in Alabama ** List of television stations in Alabama ** Media in cities in Alabama: Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa * Alabama Broadcasters Association References Bibliogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDIG (AM)
WDIG (1450 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format in Dothan, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Larry Williams. It is also simulcast on FM translator W271DN (102.1 FM) in Dothan. WDIG is Dothan's second-oldest radio station, signing on in 1947. In its first decade much of its programming came from the ABC Radio Network. Subsequently, it was also an affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System. It operated as a Top 40 station in the 1970s before being sold to R. Lamar Trammell, who renamed it WWNT in 1979 and changed its format to Christian radio in 1981. Trammell converted the station to a news/talk format in 1992, with Williams (known on air as Larry McKee) as a local host. Williams bought the station in 2000 and retained the news/talk format until 2014, when it flipped to oldies as WDYG. The WDIG call sign returned to Dothan in 2019 when it became available. History WDIG began broadcasting on April 30, 1947. It was owned by Houston Broadcaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAGF-FM
WAGF-FM (101.3 FM, "101.3 The Touch") is a radio station broadcasting an Urban Adult Contemporary music format. Licensed to Dothan, Alabama, United States, the station is currently owned by Wilson Broadcasting Co., Inc. WAGF-FM features programming from ABC Radio. Notable programming on the station includes the ''Tom Joyner Morning Show'' and Mel Devon's ''Late Night Love Music''. In addition to its music programming, WAGF-FM is also the University of Alabama Crimson Tide sports affiliate, which consists of football, basketball, baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ..., and ''Tide Talk''. References External links * AGF-FM Urban adult contemporary radio stations in the United States Gospel radio stations in the United States AGF-FM Radio stations e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJJN (FM)
WJJN (92.1 MHz, "Blazin' 92.1") is an FM radio station licensed to serve Columbia, Alabama, United States. It serves Columbia-Dothan- Enterprise- Ozark. The station is owned by Wilson Broadcasting Co., Inc. It broadcasts an urban contemporary music format to the Dothan, Alabama, area. The station broadcasts some programming from Premiere Networks. Former notable programming included the syndicated ''Rickey Smiley Morning Show''. History This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on November 3, 1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The .... The new station was assigned the call letters WJJN by the FCC on February 1, 1996. WJJN received its license to cover from the FCC on April 15, 1996. References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJJN-LD
WJJN-LD, UHF digital channel 20 ( virtual channel 49), is a low-powered independent television station licensed to Dothan, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Wilson Broadcasting, and has been on the air since 1995. The station carries a mixture of sports, religious programming, and reruns of classic sitcoms. Until May 2006, WJJN-LD was affiliated with Urban America Television Urban America Television (UATV) was an over-the-air television broadcast network in the United States targeted towards Black Americans. According to the company's website, the network had 70 affiliate stations. UATV claimed to have had a reach o ..., which folded that month. Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: References External links * JJN-LD 1995 establishments in Alabama Television channels and stations established in 1995 Low-power television stations in Alabama {{Alabama-tv-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dothan, Alabama
Dothan () is a city in Dale, Henry, and Houston counties and the Houston county seat in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is Alabama's eighth-largest city, with a population of 71,072 at the 2020 census. It is near the state's southeastern corner, about west of Georgia and north of Florida. It is named after the biblical city where Joseph's brothers threw him into a cistern and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Dothan is the principal city of the Dothan, Alabama metropolitan area, which encompasses all of Geneva, Henry, and Houston counties; the small portion in Dale County is part of the Ozark Micropolitan Statistical Area. Together they form the Dothan-Ozark Combined Statistical Area. Coffee County and its Enterprise micropolitan area was originally combined as a statistical area with both Dothan and Ozark as well, but is now split off as its own statistical area by the US Census Bureau. Together they form the Wiregrass region, of which Dothan is the Alabama portion's largest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Edwards
Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 – October 13, 1990) was an American radio and television newscaster and correspondent who worked for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) for more than four decades. After six years on CBS Radio in the 1940s, Edwards was among the first major broadcast journalists to move into the rapidly expanding medium of television. He is also generally recognized as the first presenter or "anchor" of a nationally televised, regularly scheduled newscast by an American network. Edwards presented news on CBS television every weeknight for 15 years, from March 20, 1947 until April 16, 1962."Celebrating Douglas Edwards, a CBS legend" CBS News (Manhattan, New York), July 13, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2021. Initially aire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Sharpton
Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, talk show host and politician. Sharpton is the founder of the National Action Network. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, '' Keepin' It Real'', and he makes frequent appearances on cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's '' PoliticsNation'', a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings. In October 2020, ''PoliticsNation'' was rescheduled to Saturdays and Sundays, airing at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time both days. Early life Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. was born in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, to Ada (née Richards) and Alfred Charles Sharpton Sr. The family has some Cherokee roots. He preached his first sermon at the age of four and toured with gospel singer Mahalia Jackson. In 1963, Sharpton's father l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) is an American academic, author, ordained minister, and radio host. He is a professor in the College of Arts and Science and in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. Described by Michael A. Fletcher as "a Princeton Ph.D. and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two", Dyson has authored or edited more than twenty books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Marvin Gaye, Barack Obama, Nas's debut album ''Illmatic'', Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur and Hurricane Katrina. Early life and education Dyson was born on October 23, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Addie Mae Leonard, who was from Alabama. He was adopted by his stepfather, Everett Dyson. He attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on an academic scholarship but left and completed his education at Northwestern High School.Michael A. Fletcher (Spring 2000)"Michael Eric Dyson: A Scholar and a Hip-Hop Preacher." ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security. The FCC was formed by the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. The FCC also provides varied degrees of cooperation, oversight, and leadership for similar communications bodies in other countries of North America. The FCC is funded entirely by regulatory fees. It has an estimated fiscal-2022 budget of US $388 million. It has 1,482 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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