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WNOB
WNOB (93.7 FM) is an adult hits formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Chesapeake, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads and Northeastern North Carolina. WNOB is owned and operated by Sinclair Telecable, Inc. WNOB's studios are located on Waterside Drive in Norfolk, while its transmitter is located on Route 168 in Moyock, North Carolina, just south of the Virginia/North Carolina state line. History The station started in 1973 as AOR/Top 40 hybrid station WMYK ''"The New K94"'', and would later shift to a New Wave/"Rock of the 80s" format in 1982. In 1984, WMYK became ''"The Rhythm of the City. K94!"'' with an UC/ CHR A.K.A. Crossover format. From 1988 to 1990 WMYK was known as ''"Power 94"'', later it became ''"WMYK-94FM"''. At 3 p.m. on June 21, 1991, after stunting with a loop of "My Prerogative" by Bobby Brown, "Joy" by Satellite Orchestra, "God Bless The U.S.A." by Lee Greenwood, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones, and "Every Little Step" by Bobb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNOB
WNOB (93.7 FM) is an adult hits formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Chesapeake, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads and Northeastern North Carolina. WNOB is owned and operated by Sinclair Telecable, Inc. WNOB's studios are located on Waterside Drive in Norfolk, while its transmitter is located on Route 168 in Moyock, North Carolina, just south of the Virginia/North Carolina state line. History The station started in 1973 as AOR/Top 40 hybrid station WMYK ''"The New K94"'', and would later shift to a New Wave/"Rock of the 80s" format in 1982. In 1984, WMYK became ''"The Rhythm of the City. K94!"'' with an UC/ CHR A.K.A. Crossover format. From 1988 to 1990 WMYK was known as ''"Power 94"'', later it became ''"WMYK-94FM"''. At 3 p.m. on June 21, 1991, after stunting with a loop of "My Prerogative" by Bobby Brown, "Joy" by Satellite Orchestra, "God Bless The U.S.A." by Lee Greenwood, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones, and "Every Little Step" by Bobb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WUSH
WUSH (106.1 FM) is a country music formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Poquoson, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads. WUSH is owned and operated by Sinclair Telecable, Inc. WUSH is licensed by the FCC to broadcast in the HD radio format. History The 106.1 frequency was formerly a translator for WROX-FM to service signal dropouts in Downtown Norfolk. This signed on in 1995 and was turned off in 2003. In April 2001, a full-powered frequency signed on the air at 106.1 as WEXM, serving the Eastern Shore of Virginia (with a city of license of Exmore), and simulcasting WKOC. The simulcasting would be discontinued in March 2004, as 106.1 would relocate their tower to Hampton and be re-licensed to Poquoson. On March 7, 2004, the 106.1 signal would debut as Adult Hits WPYA "106.1 Bob-FM". This format was very popular with listeners, and fared much better than sister station WKCK (now WNOB)'s Country format. The two stations swapped signals, formats and call letters, and beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WROX-FM
WROX-FM (96.1 Hertz, MHz) is an alternative rock formatted Broadcasting, broadcast radio station licensed to Exmore, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads and the Eastern Shore of Virginia. WROX-FM is owned and operated by Sinclair Telecable, Inc. WROX's studios are located on Waterside Drive in Downtown Norfolk, and its transmitter is located in Cape Charles, Virginia, Cape Charles. History The station signed on in 1986. Though it initially was planned to be a classical music station as WWGH, it instead signed on as WIAV, "Wave 96", with a Top 40/Contemporary hit radio, CHR format. It was then co-owned with WVAB (1550 AM). Bishop L.E. Willis later bought the two stations and then bought 92.1, later spinning off WVAB. It then shifted to a dance-leaning CHR as WKSV, "Kiss 96", in December 1988. Six months later, in May 1989, it flipped to Contemporary Christian music, Christian after WNOH, WXRI was sold. On June 21, 1991, WKSV adopted WNOB, WMYK's urban format as 'Touch 96' and adop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNIS
WNIS (790 AM) is a commercial radio station in Norfolk, Virginia, and serving the Hampton Roads radio market. WNIS is owned and operated by Sinclair Telecable, Inc. It airs a talk radio format. WNIS has studios and offices on Waterside Drive in Norfolk. Its transmitter is off Hall Road in Hampton. It transmits with 5,000 watts around the clock, using a directional antenna with a three-tower array. Weekdays, WNIS has local morning drive time talk and information shows called "Marcrini's Morning News" and the “Karen and Mike Show.” Other weekday hours feature nationally syndicated shows from Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, "Clay Travis & Buck Sexton," Mark Levin, "Coast to Coast AM with George Noory" and "This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal." Weekends feature shows on money, health, cars and fishing, with syndicated hosts including Kim Komando, Guy Benson, Rudy Maxa, Mike Imprevento, " Live on Sunday Night, It's Bill Cunningham" and " Somewhere in Time with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTAR
WTAR (850 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, and serving the Hampton Roads (Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News) radio market. WTAR is owned and operated by Sinclair Telecable, Inc. It broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format as "96.5 Lucy FM". Until September 1, 2022, the station aired a sports radio format, carrying the Fox Sports Radio Network most of the day, with a local afternoon drive time show. The syndicated Dan Patrick Show was heard in late mornings. WTAR was part of the Washington Commanders Radio Network. WTAR's studios and offices are on Waterside Drive in Norfolk. The transmitter is off Track Lane in Smithfield, Virginia. WTAR runs at 50,000 watts by day, the highest power permitted by the Federal Communications Commission for commercial AM stations. At night, to reduce interference to other stations on AM 850, mainly Class A KOA in Denver, Colorado, WTAR reduces power to 25,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna at all t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream Top 40
Pop Airplay (also called Mainstream Top 40, Pop Songs, and Top 40/contemporary hit radio, CHR) is a 40-song music chart published weekly by Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' Magazine that ranks the most popular songs of pop music being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States. The rankings are based on radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (Nielsen BDS), a subsidiary of the U.S.' leading marketing research company. Consumer researchers, Nielsen Audio (formerly ''Arbitron''), refers to the format as contemporary hit radio (CHR). The current number-one song as of the chart dated December 24, 2022 is "Anti-Hero (song), Anti-Hero" by Taylor Swift. History The chart debuted in Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' Magazine in its issued date October 3, 1992, with the introduction of two Top 40 airplay charts, Mainstream and Rhythmic (chart), Rhythm-Crossover. Both Top 40 charts measured "actual monitored airplay" from data compile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Wave Music
New wave is a loosely defined music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the late 1970s and the 1980s. It was originally used as a catch-all for the various styles of music that emerged after punk rock, including punk itself. Later, critical consensus favored "new wave" as an umbrella term involving many popular music styles of the era, including power pop, synth-pop, ska revival, and more specific forms of punk rock that were less abrasive. It may also be viewed as a more accessible counterpart of post-punk. Common characteristics of new wave music include a humorous or quirky pop approach, the use of electronic sounds, and a distinctive visual style in music videos and fashion. In the early 1980s, virtually every new pop/rock act – and particularly those that employed synthesizers – were tagged as "new wave". Although new wave shares punk's do-it-yourself philosophy, the artists were more influenced by the styles of the 1950s along with the lighter s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Contemporary
Urban contemporary music, also known as urban music, hip hop, urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of Black genres such as R&B, pop-rap, quiet storm, urban adult contemporary, hip hop, Latin music such as Latin pop, Chicano R&B and Chicano rap, and Caribbean music such as reggae and soca. Urban contemporary was developed through the characteristics of genres such as R&B and soul. Because urban music is a largely US phenomenon, virtually all urban contemporary formatted radio stations in the United States are located in cities that have sizeable African-American populations, such as New York City, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Montgomery, Memphis, St. Louis, Newark, Charleston, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, Oakland, Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesapeake, Virginia
Chesapeake is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 249,422, it is the second-most populous independent city in Virginia, tenth-largest in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 90th most populous city in the United States. Chesapeake is included in the Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News metropolitan area. One of the cities in the South Hampton Roads, Chesapeake was organized in 1963 by voter referendums approving the political consolidation of the city of South Norfolk with the remnants of the former Norfolk County, which dated to 1691. (Much of the territory of the county had been annexed by other cities.) Chesapeake is the second-largest city by land area in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the 17th-largest in the United States. Chesapeake is a diverse city in which a few urban areas are located; it also has many square miles of protected farmland, forests, and wetlands, including a substantial portion o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and South Carolina to the south, and Tennessee to the west. In the 2020 census, the state had a population of 10,439,388. Raleigh is the state's capital and Charlotte is its largest city. The Charlotte metropolitan area, with a population of 2,595,027 in 2020, is the most-populous metropolitan area in North Carolina, the 21st-most populous in the United States, and the largest banking center in the nation after New York City. The Raleigh-Durham-Cary combined statistical area is the second-largest metropolitan area in the state and 32nd-most populous in the United States, with a population of 2,043,867 in 2020, and is home to the largest research park in the United States, Research Triangle Park. The earliest evidence of human occupation i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Hit Radio
Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock, pop, or urban music. Used alone, ''CHR'' most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term ''contemporary hit radio'' was coined in the early 1980s by ''Radio & Records'' magazine to designate Top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into Adult contemporary, Urban contemporary, Contemporary Christian and other formats. The term "top 40" is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. The term has also been modified to describe top 50; top 30; top 20; top 10; hot 100 (each with its number of songs) and hot hits radio formats, but carrying more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Prerogative
"My Prerogative" is a song by American singer Bobby Brown from his second studio album, ''Don't Be Cruel (album), Don't Be Cruel'' (1988). It was released on October 11, 1988, as the second single from the album. After recording sessions were completed, Brown and producer Gene Griffin traveled to New York City, since he felt something was "missing" from the record. "My Prerogative" was written by Brown as a response to the criticism he received for his departure from New Edition. He explained the song was about making decisions in one's life and not caring about other people's judgment. "My Prerogative" is often considered as new jack swing. The song was positively received by critics and was nominated for a Soul Train Music Award in the category of Best R&B Urban Contemporary Single. It was also commercially successful, reaching number one in ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard''s Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts. "My Prerogative" also reached top ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
