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WFUN-FM
WFUN-FM (96.3 MHz) is a radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. The station airs an urban adult contemporary radio format branded as "96.3 The Lou". Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station's studios are located on Olive Street in St. Louis, while its transmitter is located off Watson Road in Shrewsbury. WFUN-FM has two HD Radio channels: *96.3-HD2 airs a classical music format operated by the non-profit Radio Arts Foundation, branded as "Classic 107.3" (relayed on FM translator K297BI 107.3 FM) *96.3-HD3 airs a Classic Rock format as "WAR-FM Weber Automotive Rocks". History Early Years The 96.5 frequency originally signed on the air on December 22, 1959 as KADI, the sister station to AM 1460 KADY in St. Charles. The stations were owned by William R. Cady (hence the KADI call letters); KADI-FM, the first new commercial FM in St. Louis since 1955, mostly simulcasted the AM station's programming. In 1965, as KADY failed due to financial difficulties, KADI was sold to Vanguard Broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KXBS
KXBS (95.5 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station licensed to Bethalto, Illinois, and serving Greater St. Louis. It is owned by Gateway Creative Broadcasting and broadcasts a Christian Rhythmic Contemporary radio format known as "Boost 95.5." The radio studios for KXBS and sister station KLJY are in Des Peres. KXBS has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 10,500 watts. The transmitter is on DeBaliviere Avenue in St. Louis, just north of Forest Park. History WXJO The station signed on in 1987 as WXJO. It was originally an Adult Standards outlet broadcasting with 6,000 watts. In 1989, Bob Cox negotiated a package to take over operation of the station, changing the format to children's radio. It was called ''The Imagination Station, Radio Just For Kids''. Inadequate advertisement revenues combined with a pending lawsuit from the original trademark holder of the name The Imagination Station forced Cox into a position where he could not maintain the lease o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFTK-FM
KFTK-FM (97.1 MHz) is a commercial talk radio station licensed to Florissant, Missouri. Owned by Audacy, Inc., KFTK-FM services the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area, and is the local affiliate for several nationally syndicted programs: '' The Brian Kilmeade Show''; '' The Dana Loesch Show''; ''Coast to Coast AM with George Noory'' and ''This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal''. Most hours begin with an update from Fox News Radio. The KFTK-FM studios are on Olive Street in St. Louis, while the station transmitter is in nearby O'Fallon. Besides a standard analog transmission, KFTK-FM broadcasts using HD Radio technology, carrying CBS Sports Radio on its HD2 digital subchannel. KFTK is available online via Audacy. History Early years The station originally signed on the air in 1977, as KSCF. The call letters stood for St. Charles and Florissant. The station featured a middle of the road/easy listening format. One of the original owners was Harlan "Grant" Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K297BI
K297BI (107.3 FM) is a radio station in St. Louis, Missouri, branded as "Classic 107.3" and owned and operated by the nonprofit Radio Arts Foundation–St. Louis. The station's studios are located in Clayton, Missouri. The station is dedicated to the classical music format and its hosts include Kathy Lawton Brown, Tom Sudholt, and Julie Schuster. Classical programming on K297BI is also broadcast on the HD Radio channel 96.3 WFUN-FM-HD2, also operated by the Radio Arts Foundation. History KFUO-FM 99.1, which had broadcast classical music to St. Louis since 1948, was owned by the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and became available for sale in 2009. In the name of the Radio Arts Foundation, Jim Connett, program director at KFUO, and Michael Neidorff, CEO of the Centene Corporation, made a purchase proposal for KFUO that was rejected by the synod board member and paid negotiator Kermit Brashear. The foundation immediately began plans for a new classical station, even before the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KADY (Missouri)
KADY was a commercial daytime-only radio station that was licensed to St. Charles, Missouri, and served Greater St. Louis. It broadcast on from April 3, 1958, to January 20, 1965. History KADY signed on at 1 p.m. on April 3, 1958. The station broadcast with 5,000 watts during the day from a tower along State Highway 94 in Boschertown. Within three months of signing on, William R. Cady, Jr., an advertising executive, bought out majority shareholder Harman Moseley. The remaining shares were owned by Jack Chenoweth, the chief engineer at KETC television, and the Schnatmeier family. KADY quickly expanded to FM. In May 1959, it filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to build a new FM radio station in St. Louis. KADI 96.5 hit the air on December 22, duplicating KADY's programming and broadcasting after sunset; in 1964, it duplicated 63 percent of the AM outlet's programming. The combination of KADY and KADI promoted itself as "The KADY Twins" and used a ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHHL
WHHL (104.1 FM "HOT 104-1") is an urban contemporary radio station serving the Greater St. Louis area. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. WHHL broadcasts with an ERP of 50 kW and is licensed to Hazelwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Its transmitter is located in St. Louis, just outside Forest Park, and operates from offices and studios in Downtown St. Louis. History 1978-1994: Country The station signed on in 1978 as WJBM-FM, airing a full service country format targeting the more Northern areas of the St. Louis metropolitan area, as well as the Metro East area, with its city of license being Jerseyville. The station's transmitter at the time was located north of the city (near Jerseyville), which was a partial hindrance to any chance for success in the market for the next 2 decades, despite later moving to a tower on Douglas Road in Florissant, Missouri. They began targeting St. Louis in September 1985 as country music station WKKX ("Kix 104 FM"), and owned by S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSIV (AM)
KSIV (1320 AM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Clayton, Missouri, and serving the Greater St. Louis region. KSIV airs the Christian talk and teaching programming of the Bott Radio Network and is one of the network's two stations in St. Louis, alongside KSIV-FM (91.5). KSIV's AM transmitter site is located along Deer Creek in Webster Groves, near Brentwood. In addition to a standard analog transmission, KSIV is relayed over low-power FM translator K240ES () in St. Louis, broadcasting from the master FM tower in Crestwood. History KXLW 1320 AM went on the air at noon on January 1, 1947, as KXLW. Owned by the Saint Louis County Broadcasting Company, the station was conceived as a voice for the events and happenings of St. Louis County. Its programming included a daily farm almanac, "Women's Hour" with society and fashion news, and a noon news/sports hour; general manager Guy Runnion had previously been a newsreader at KMOX. The original tower in Olivette was order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KEZK-FM
KEZK-FM (102.5 Hertz, MHz) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station licensed to St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. It broadcasts an adult contemporary radio format and is owned by Audacy, Inc. From mid-November through the Christmas holiday, KEZK switches to an all-Christmas music format. The radio studio, studios and offices are on Olive Street in Downtown St. Louis. KEZK has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for non-grandfather clause, grandfathered FM stations, covering parts of Missouri and Illinois. The transmitter is in Resurrection Cemetery in Shrewsbury, Missouri, Shrewsbury. KEZK broadcasts using the HD radio hybrid format. The HD2 digital subchannel simulcasts talk radio, News/Talk sister station KMOX (1120 AM). The HD3 subchannel airs "Channel Q," Audacy's talk radio, Talk/electronic dance music, EDM service for the LGBT, LGBTQ community. History KDNA and easy listening The 102.5 frequency in St. Louis had originally been the ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KMOX
KMOX (1120 AM) is a commercial radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it is a 50,000 watt Class A clear-channel station with a non-directional signal. The KMOX studios and offices are on Olive Street at Tucker Boulevard in the Park Pacific Building in St. Louis. KMOX refers to itself as "NewsRadio 1120 - The Voice of St. Louis." It is considered the first U.S. station to program all talk shows around the clock. KMOX's transmitter is located off Route 162 in Pontoon Beach, Illinois. With a good radio, KMOX's nighttime signal can be heard in most of the Central United States and into Mexico and Canada. Its daytime signal provides at least secondary coverage to most of Eastern Missouri and much of Southern Illinois. The station is also heard on KEZK's HD2 subchannel and translator 98.7 K254CR. Along with WIL-FM, KMOX is responsible for the activation of the Greater St. Louis Emergency Alert System for hazardous weather, disaster declarations, etc. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KYKY
KYKY (98.1 FM) is a commercial radio station in St. Louis, Missouri, serving the Greater St. Louis region of Missouri and Illinois. KYKY airs a Hot AC radio format and is owned by Audacy, Inc. KYKY operates from offices and studios located on Olive Street in Downtown St. Louis. Its transmitter is on a TV/FM radio tower off Mackenzie Road in Shrewsbury. KYKY broadcasts three HD Radio signals, with the first airing its main hot AC format. Its HD2 signal carries a sports gambling format. History On April 2, 1960, KSTL-FM first signed on as the FM counterpart to daytime-only KSTL (690 AM), owned by Radio St. Louis, Inc. KSTL-FM was sold in 1967 to Foreground Music, Inc., and changed its call sign to KRCH. It aired a more uptempo easy listening format than competing beautiful music stations. In 1972, the station was purchased by Bartell Media Corporation, the owner of legendary AM Top 40 stations KCBQ in San Diego and WOKY in Milwaukee, and was enjoying high ratings with WDRQ in D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clayton, Missouri
Clayton is a city in and the seat of St. Louis County, Missouri. It borders the independent city of St. Louis. The population was 17,355 at the 2020 census. Organized in 1877, the city was named after Ralph Clayton, who donated the land for the St. Louis County courthouse. Geography Cityscape The architecture of central Clayton reflects its economic activity and eras of growth. An impressive collection of mid-century modern low and high rise structures contrast with earlier mansions, stores and flats. Its surrounding residential neighborhoods maintain a dense, walkable character and were largely developed in the prewar era. These neighborhoods consist of brick walkups, apartment buildings, mansions and modest single family homes centered around several small business districts. Neighborhoods Claverach Park Claverach Park is a residential neighborhood bounded by Wydown Boulevard on the north, Ridgemoor Drive and Big Bend Boulevard on the east, Clayton Road on the south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Call Sign
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station. A call sign can be formally assigned by a government agency, informally adopted by individuals or organizations, or even cryptographically encoded to disguise a station's identity. The use of call signs as unique identifiers dates to the landline railroad telegraph system. Because there was only one telegraph line linking all railroad stations, there needed to be a way to address each one when sending a telegram. In order to save time, two-letter identifiers were adopted for this purpose. This pattern continued in radiotelegraph operation; radio companies initially assigned two-letter identifiers to coastal stations and stations onboard ships at sea. These were not globally unique, so a one-letter company identifier (for instance, 'M' and two letters as a Marconi station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister Station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio or television stations operated by the same company, either by direct ownership or through a management agreement. Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and sometimes one station is on the AM band while another is on the FM band. Conversely, several types of sister-station relationships exist in television; stations in the same city will usually be affiliated with different television networks (often one with a major network and the other with a secondary network), and may occasionally shift television programs between each other when local events require one station to interrupt its network feed. Sister stations in separate (but often nearby) cities owned by the same company may or may not share a network affiliation. For example, WNYW and WWOR-TV, in New York City and Secaucus, New Jersey, are both owned by Fox Corporation. WNYW is a Fox owned-and-operated station; WWOR-TV is a MyNetworkTV own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
