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WPAP (FM)
WPAP (92.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station located in Panama City, Florida. WPAP airs a country music format. History WPAP began broadcast on March 7, 1967, as WDLP-FM, which was an FM translation of the popular AM station WDLP, with an ERP of 39 kW. On May 24, 1968, an application for assignment of the licences of both the FM and AM station were filed by a "Miracle Radio, Inc.". The station fell into their ownership later that year. In March 1969, the station was renamed WPAP-FM. To celebrate the new radio station, a concert was held at the City Auditorium on 4 April of that year, and featured Wilma Burgess, Archie Campbell, Lorene Mann, and Ray Pillow. Along with the call sign change, WPAP also became the first stereo FM station in the Florida Panhandle, thanks to strengthened equipment. On January 10, 1975, at 6:21 p.m., WPAP switched transmitters, increasing their power to 100,000 watts. From 1981 until 1984, it was marketed as "North Florida's Country M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panama City, Florida
Panama City is a city in and the county seat of Bay County, Florida, United States. Located along U.S. Highway 98 (US 98), it is the largest city between Tallahassee and Pensacola. It is the more populated city of the Panama City–Lynn Haven, Florida metropolitan statistical area. Panama City was severely damaged when Hurricane Michael made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane on October 10, 2018. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,392, down from the figure of 36,484 at the 2010 census. When Panama City was incorporated in 1909, its original city limits were 15th Street (Hwy 98) on the north, Balboa Avenue on the west and Bay Avenue on the east. Name The development in this once unincorporated part of Northwest Florida had previous names such as Floriopolis, Park Resort, and Harrison. In 1906, the development was named Panama City and it was first incorporated as Panama City in 1909. When Panama City was incorporated, its original city limits were 15th Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Broadcasting
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 station, while in satellite radio the radio waves are broadcast by a satellite in Earth orbit. To receive the content the listener must have a broadcast radio receiver (''radio''). Stations are often affiliated with a radio network which provides content in a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both. Radio stations broadcast with several different types of modulation: AM radio stations transmit in AM ( amplitude modulation), FM radio stations transmit in FM (frequency modulation), which are older analog audio standards, while newer digital radio stations transmit in several digital audio standards: DAB (digital audio broadcasting), HD radio, DRM ( Digital Radio Mondiale). Television broadcasting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations Established In 1967
Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to an antenna which radiates the waves, and received by another antenna connected to a radio receiver. Radio is very widely used in modern technology, in radio communication, radar, radio navigation, remote control, remote sensing, and other applications. In radio communication, used in radio and television broadcasting, cell phones, two-way radios, wireless networking, and satellite communication, among numerous other uses, radio waves are used to carry information across space from a transmitter to a receiver, by modulating the radio signal (impressing an information signal on the radio wave by varying some aspect of the wave) in the transmitter. In radar, used to locate and track objects like aircraft, ships, spacecraft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Radio Stations In The United States
A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. For example, the country of Japan is an independent, sovereign state, while the country of Wales is a component of a multi-part sovereign state, the United Kingdom. A country may be a historically sovereign area (such as Korea), a currently sovereign territory with a unified government (such as Senegal), or a non-sovereign geographic region associated with certain distinct political, ethnic, or cultural characteristics (such as the Basque Country). The definition and usage of the word "country" is flexible and has changed over time. ''The Economist'' wrote in 2010 that "any attempt to find a clear definition of a country soon runs into a thicket of exceptions and anomalies." Most sovereign states, but not all countries, are members of the United Nations. The largest country by area is Russia, while the smallest i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Florida
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Florida, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WAGE * WAXA * WBFT-LP * WCFI * WCFQ-LP * WCNU * WDDV * WEAG * WEKJ-LP * WFAB * WFHA-LP * WFLA (Boca Raton, Florida) * WFBO-LP * WFJV-LP * WFLP-LP * WFLU-LP * WFSH * WFSX * WFTI-FM * WGAG-FM * WGRV-LP * WHBT * WHTR-LP * WINV * WKGC * WKIZ * WKJO-LP * WLAS-LP * WLMS * WLVF (AM) * WMJX * WNOG * WNPL * WNRG-LP * WORZ-LP * WPCU-LP * WPLP * WRAP * WREH * WSBR * WSUN * WSVE * WTHA-LP * WVFP-LP * WVOI * WVST * WWSD * WYFR * WZRO-LP See also * WRMI, a shortwave radio station that broadcasts from Okeechobee, Florida * Florida media ** List of newspapers in Florida ** List of television stations in Florida ** Media of cities in Florida: Fort Lauderdale, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Key West, Lakeland, Miami, Orlando, St. Petersb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Pillow
Herbert Raymond "Ray" Pillow (born July 4, 1937) is an American country music singer who has also worked as a Music publisher (popular music), music publisher and A&R, artists and repertoire (A&R) representative. In his career, he has charted 18 times on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' country singles chart, with his highest-peaking song being the number 9 "I'll Take the Dog", a duet with Jean Shepard. After charting for the last time in 1981, Pillow founded Sycamore Records with Larry McFadden, and later worked in the A&R department of Capitol Records. Today, Pillow continues to perform as a member of the Grand Ole Opry and on popular classic country television programs such as ''Country's Family Reunion'', which airs regularly in the United States on RFD-TV network. Through his record label, Pillow has released two albums, including ''Ray Pillow Live'' and his recent studio effort containing new material, ''Country Class''. Pillow has been a member of the Grand Ole Opr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorene Mann
Lorene Mann (born Lillian Lorene Mann; January 4, 1937 – May 24, 2013) was an American country music singer and songwriter. She is known for her duets with Justin Tubb and Archie Campbell. Biography Mann was born January 4, 1937, in Huntland, Tennessee, as the youngest of ten children. After moving to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1956, Mann wrote "Left to Right", a top 10 hit by Kitty Wells in 1960. She also wrote "Don't Go Near the Indians" by Rex Allen (#4, 1962), "Something Precious" by Skeeter Davis (#23, 1962), and "My Wife's House" by Jerry Wallace (#9, 1974). Between 1965 and 1969, Mann recorded for RCA Victor. She recorded two duet albums, ''Together and Alone'' with Justin Tubb in 1966, and ''Tell It Like It Is'' with Archie Campbell in 1968. Singles from the albums entered the Hot Country Songs chart. "Hurry, Mr. Peters", a duet with Tubb, was an answer song to " Yes, Mr. Peters" by Roy Drusky and Priscilla Mitchell. Her only solo album, ''A Mann Named Lorene'', was rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Campbell (comedian)
Archie Campbell (November 7, 1914 – August 29, 1987) was an American comedian, writer, and star of ''Hee Haw'', a country-flavored network television variety show. He was also a recording artist with several hits for RCA Victor in the 1960s. Biography Early career Born in Bulls Gap, Tennessee, Campbell studied art at Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, North Carolina, after which he began a radio career at WNOX in Knoxville. After a year alongside Roy Acuff on their ''Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round'', he relocated to WDOD in Chattanooga, where he stayed until joining the United States Navy in 1941. At the end of World War II, Campbell returned to WNOX. He left that station for rival WROL where he helped start Knoxville's first country music television show (on WROL-TV), ''Country Playhouse'', that premiered in 1952 and ran until 1958. At the close of that show, he moved to Nashville to replace Rod Brasfield on the nationally syndicated Prince Albert segment of the Grand Ole Opry. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilma Burgess
Wilma Burgess (born Wilma Charlene Burgess; June 11, 1939 – August 26, 2003) was an American country music singer. She rose to fame in the mid-1960s and charted fifteen singles on the ''Billboard'' C&W charts between 1965 and 1975. Background Wilma Burgess was born and raised in Orlando, Florida, United States. Following high school graduation she proceeded to Stetson University in DeLand, Florida studying physical education. She had no interest in a musical career - although she had displayed her natural talent performing as a pop singer on local television - until hearing Eddy Arnold in concert awakened her passion for country music. In 1960, a songwriter friend of Burgess persuaded her to go to Nashville to record some demos of his compositions. One of the publishers Burgess sang for asked to manage her singing career and Burgess cut her first single in 1962 for the United Artists label. Eventually Burgess came to the attention of Owen Bradley, who heard in Burgess' voice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDIZ (Panama City, Florida)
WDIZ (590 AM) was a radio station broadcasting an active rock format. Licensed to Panama City, Florida, United States, the station was last owned by iHeartMedia. The station went on the air as WDLP in 1940, and operated until May 2020; its license was surrendered, under the WDDV call sign that had never been used on the air, that August. History In 1939, three businessmen, William J. Cook, Phil Roll, and Ed DeWitt, founded the Panama City Broadcasting Company. In June 1939, Cook put in an application for the construction of a 250-watt-day, 100-watt-night radio station on West Beach Drive, transmitting on 1200 kHz. After it was approved, the station was assigned the call sign WRSR, which was never used. The station's owner, John H. Perry (owner of WJAX, WCOA, and later the ''Panama City News-Herald'') changed the call letters to WDLP, after his wife Dorothy Lilly Perry. Personnel at the time of launch included Braden L. Ball (general manager), Fred Phillips ( program director), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
