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WHRV is a Public Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads. It is the flagship National Public Radio member station for Hampton Roads, and is a sister station to the area's PBS member, WHRO-TV. It airs a mix of NPR news and talk programming, jazz, blues, and folk music. It is owned by the Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association, a consortium of 19 Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore school districts. Studios are located at the Public Telecommunications Center for Hampton Roads on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk. The transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia. WHRV broadcasts in the HD Radio (hybrid) format. History The station first signed on in 1973 as WTGM, owned by the Virginia Cultural Foundation. Within only two years, however, the station ran into severe financial straits, forcing HRETA (then known as the Hampton Roads Educational Television Association) to step in and rescue the station. H ...
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WHRV HD
WHRV is a Public Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads. It is the flagship National Public Radio member station for Hampton Roads, and is a sister station to the area's PBS member, WHRO-TV. It airs a mix of NPR news and talk programming, jazz, blues, and folk music. It is owned by the Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association, a consortium of 19 Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore school districts. Studios are located at the Public Telecommunications Center for Hampton Roads on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk. The transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia. WHRV broadcasts in the HD Radio (hybrid) format. History The station first signed on in 1973 as WTGM, owned by the Virginia Cultural Foundation. Within only two years, however, the station ran into severe financial straits, forcing HRETA (then known as the Hampton Roads Educational Television Association) to step in and rescue the station. H ...
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WHRL
WHRV is a Public Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads. It is the flagship National Public Radio member station for Hampton Roads, and is a sister station to the area's PBS member, WHRO-TV. It airs a mix of NPR news and talk programming, jazz, blues, and folk music. It is owned by the Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association, a consortium of 19 Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore school districts. Studios are located at the Public Telecommunications Center for Hampton Roads on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk. The transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia. WHRV broadcasts in the HD Radio (hybrid) format. History The station first signed on in 1973 as WTGM, owned by the Virginia Cultural Foundation. Within only two years, however, the station ran into severe financial straits, forcing HRETA (then known as the Hampton Roads Educational Television Association) to step in and rescue the station. HR ...
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WHRX
WHRX is a Public Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Nassawadox, Virginia, serving Accomac and Accomack County, Virginia. WHRX is owned and operated by Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc. and is a repeater station of WHRV WHRV is a Public Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads. It is the flagship National Public Radio member station for Hampton Roads, and is a sister station to the area's PBS member, WHRO-TV. I .... References External links WHRV Online* 2005 establishments in Virginia Public radio stations in the United States NPR member stations Radio stations established in 2005 HRX {{Virginia-radio-station-stub ...
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WFOS
WFOS is a Variety formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Chesapeake, Virginia, serving the Southside of Hampton Roads. WFOS is owned by Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association. History On May 2, 1955, WFOS signed on the air as a 10-watt operation at the old Oscar Smith High School in South Norfolk, Virginia. WFOS started with the help of the widow of the school's namesake, who made a donation to the school for an antenna bought from a station down in Florida and other equipment. They wanted the station's call-sign to be WOFS, for Oscar Frommel Smith, but those were taken. They settled for WFOS. The idea was that running the station would allow students to learn the ins and outs of broadcasting and see if they were interested in radio as a career. The city of South Norfolk merged with Norfolk County to form the city of Chesapeake in 1963, resulting in the present city of license; at the same time, Chesapeake Public Schools replaced the South Norfolk sch ...
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WHRO-FM
WHRO-FM is a Public Radio broadcast radio station, broadcasting a classical music format. WHRO is licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads. WHRO-FM is owned and operated by the Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association. As early as 1983, a feasibility study indicated that Hampton Roads could support a second public radio station alongside HRETA's existing station, WHRO-FM at 89.5. However, it took until 1989 to obtain a construction permit for the second frequency, on 90.3. The new station signed on in 1990 and took all classical music programming from 89.5, as well as the WHRO-FM call letters. NPR programming remained on 89.5 under new calls, WHRV. Radio reading service WHRO Voice, a radio reading service for the blind, is broadcast on a subcarrier of WHRO. In addition, WHRO Voice is streamed online. WHRO HD Radio As of June 2021, WHRO-HD2 broadcasts the Time Machine Radio Network, a channel dedicated to early-20th century Dixieland, swing, blues, ...
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Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association
The Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association (HRETA) is a consortium of public school districts in southeastern Virginia that holds the licenses for the public television and radio stations in the Hampton Roads television market. It is headquartered at the Public Telecommunications Center for Hampton Roads on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk. It presently comprises 20 school districts in Hampton Roads and the Eastern Shore of Virginia: Accomack, Gloucester, Isle of Wight, Mathews, Middlesex, Sussex, Southampton, Northampton and York counties, Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools, and the independent cities of Norfolk, Hampton, Franklin, Newport News, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Suffolk and Poquoson. The stations under its umbrella are Hampton Roads' PBS member station, WHRO-TV (channel 15, Hampton/Norfolk), NPR news/talk/jazz/folk station WHRV (89.5 FM, Norfolk) and all- classical music WHRO-FM (90.3 FM, Norfolk). They ...
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WHRO-TV
WHRO-TV, virtual channel 15 (ultra high frequency, UHF digital terrestrial television, digital channel 31), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) network affiliate#Member stations, member television station city of license, licensed to both Hampton, Virginia, Hampton and Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Owned by the Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association (HRETA), a consortium of 20 Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore of Virginia, Eastern Shore school systems, it is sister station, sister to public radio stations WHRV (89.5 FM) and WHRO-FM (90.3). The stations share studios at the Public Telecommunications Center for Hampton Roads next to the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, while WHRO-TV's transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia. History The station signed on September 27, 1959 as the first educational station licensed in Virginia. The channel 15 position was previously occupied by then-NBC and now current American Broadcasting Company, ABC affili ...
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WHRF
WHRF is a Public Radio-formatted broadcast radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ... licensed to Belle Haven, Virginia, serving Accomac and Accomack County, Virginia. WHRF is owned and operated by Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc. and is a repeater station of WHRO-FM. References External links WHRO-FM Online* 2010 establishments in Virginia Public radio stations in the United States Classical music radio stations in the United States NPR member stations Radio stations established in 2010 HRF {{Virginia-radio-station-stub ...
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Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk ( ) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1705, it had a population of 238,005 at the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, and the 94th-largest city in the nation. Norfolk holds a strategic position as the historical, urban, financial, and cultural center of the Hampton Roads region, which has more than 1.8 million inhabitants and is the thirty-third largest Metropolitan Statistical area in the United States. Officially known as ''Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA'', the Hampton Roads region is sometimes called "Tidewater" and "Coastal Virginia"/"COVA," although these are broader terms that also include Virginia's Eastern Shore and entire coastal plain. Named for the eponymous natural harbor at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Hampton Roads has ten cities, including Norfolk; seven counties in Virginia; and two counties in No ...
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Nielsen Holdings
Nielsen Holdings plc is an American information, data and market measurement firm. Nielsen operates in over 100 countries and employs approximately 44,000 people worldwide. The company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and used to be a component of the S&P 500. History Formation Nielsen was founded in 1923 by Arthur C. Nielsen, Sr., who invented an approach to measuring competitive sales results that made the concept of "market share" a practical management tool. The company was originally incorporated in the Netherlands and later was purchased on May 24, 2006, by a consortium of private equity firms. Merger and listing In January 2011, Nielsen consummated an initial public offering of common stock and, subsequently, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “NLSN”. On August 31, 2015, Nielsen N.V., a Dutch public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, merged with Nielsen Holdings plc, by way of a cross-border merger under th ...
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ...
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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 ...
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