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WQVR
WQVR (940 AM; "The Lake") is a 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 ... broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Webster, Massachusetts, United States, the station serves the Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester area. The station is owned by Kurt Jackson, through licensee Quinebaug Valley Broadcasting, LLC. WQVR serves Southern Worcester County, Massachusetts, Worcester County, Northern Rhode Island and Northeastern Connecticut. WQVR also provides the area with local high school sports coverage. History Lakeview Broadcasting Company was granted a construction permit for a new station on 940kHz in Webster, Massachusetts, on March 5, 1979; two months later, on May 7, the call sign WGFP was issued. The call sign stood for Gilbert Francis Perry, a relativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webster, Massachusetts
Webster is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,776 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Named after statesman Daniel Webster, the town was founded by industrialist Samuel Slater, and was home to several early American textile mills. It is home to the Chaubunagungamaug Reservation of the Nipmuc, as well as Lake Chaubunagungamaug, the third largest body of freshwater, and largest natural lake, in Massachusetts. History The area that is now Webster was the ancestral home of the Nipmuc people for thousands of years. It was first settled by Europeans in 1713 and was officially incorporated on March 6, 1832. The area forming the town had previously been divided among the town of Dudley, Massachusetts, Dudley, the town of Oxford, Massachusetts, Oxford and an unincorporated Gore (surveying), gore. The primary founder was the manufacturer Samuel Slater, who came to the area after his celebrated activ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
