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WVAO-LP (105.9 FM) is a community radio station licensed to Athol, Massachusetts and serves the Athol/Orange area. Its broadcast license is held by Athol Orange Community Television, Inc. History This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on February 19, 2014. The new station was assigned the WVAO-LP call sign by the FCC on February 26, 2014. The station received its license to cover from the FCC on July 27, 2015. It signed on August 20, 2015. The station primarily broadcasts local information and the audio of Athol Orange Community Television programming; when local programming is not being aired, the station carries radio reading service programming from the Talking Information Center in Marshfield. See also *List of community radio stations in the United States This is a list of FCC-licensed community radio stations in the United States. See also List of Pacifica Radio stations and affiliates This article p ...
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Athol, Massachusetts
Athol is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,945 at the 2020 census. History Originally called Pequoiag when settled by Native Americans, the area was subsequently settled by five families in September 1735. When the township was incorporated in 1762, the name was changed to Athol. John Murray, one of the proprietors of the land, chose the name which traditionally was believed to mean "new Ireland" although some, including historian James E. Fraser, dispute this definition. Early residents subsisted on agriculture and hunting. By 1791, Athol had four gristmills, six sawmills, a fulling mill, and a shop with a trip hammer, all of which were operated by water power. The Athol Cotton Factory, built in 1811, was one of the first industries to serve a market beyond the local one. Through the 1800s, textile, leather, wood, and metal industries further expanded the market for goods produced in Athol. The construction of the Vermont and ...
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Radio Stations In Massachusetts
The following is a list of the FCC-licensed radio stations in the United States Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct *WDIS * WFNX *WGAJ * WGI *WGTR * WJDF * WJXP * WMAF *WNEK-FM *WNMH *WNYW *WPAA *WPEP *WPNI * WREB * WRSB * WWQZ *WWTA * WXLJ-LP * WYAJ * WYOB-LP See also * List of radio stations in North America by media market * List of United States radio networks * List of television stations in Massachusetts References {{DEFAULTSORT:Radio Stations In Massachusetts Massachusetts Radio 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 transmit ...
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List Of Community Radio Stations In The United States
This is a list of FCC-licensed community radio stations in the United States. See also List of Pacifica Radio stations and affiliates This article provides a list of Pacifica Radio owned and operated stations, associated stations, and affiliate stations. Radio Stations Pacifica Stations Affiliates Western U.S. Affiliate Stations Eastern U.S. Affiliate Stations In ... References {{reflist C ...
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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 ...
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Community Radio Stations In The United States
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, town, or neighbourhood) or in virtual space through communication platforms. Durable good relations that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties also define a sense of community, important to their identity, practice, and roles in social institutions such as family, home, work, government, society, or humanity at large. Although communities are usually small relative to personal social ties, "community" may also refer to large group affiliations such as national communities, international communities, and virtual communities. The English-language word "community" derives from the Old French ''comuneté'' (Modern French: ''communauté''), which comes from the Latin ''communitas'' "community", "public spirit" (from Latin ''communis'', "commo ...
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Radio Stations Established In 2015
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 and ...
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Athol Daily News
The ''Athol Daily News'' is a small, six-day daily (Monday through Saturday) newspaper in north central Massachusetts. Based in the town of Greenfield, the newspaper covers the towns of Athol, Erving, New Salem, Orange, Petersham, Phillipston, Royalston, Warwick Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined with Leamington Spa and Whi ..., and Wendell, Massachusetts. History There have been four owners in the history of the ''Athol Daily News'', the last three representing generations of the same family. The ''Athol Daily News'' was founded in 1934 when Lincoln O'Brien merged two weeklies, the ''Athol Chronicle'' and ''Athol Transcript''. O'Brien sold the paper to Edward T. Fairchild in 1940. On January 1, 1982, Richard J. Chase Sr. bought the newspaper from Fairchild, his father-in-law. The ''Bost ...
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Marshfield, Massachusetts
Marshfield is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on Massachusetts's South Shore. The population was 25,825 at the 2020 census. It includes the census-designated places (CDPs) of Marshfield, Marshfield Hills, Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, and Cedar Crest, and shares the Green Harbor CDP with the town of Duxbury. History Geography Marshfield is located on the South Shore, about where Cape Cod Bay meets Massachusetts Bay. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 31.74 square miles (82.2 km), of which 28.46 square miles (73.7 km) is land and 3.28 square miles (8.5 km) (10.33%) is water. Marshfield is bordered by Massachusetts Bay to the east, Duxbury to the south and southeast, Pembroke to the west, Norwell to the northwest, and Scituate to the north and northeast. Marshfield is east of Brockton and southeast of Boston. Marshfield is named for the many salt marshes which border the salt and brackis ...
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WRRS (FM)
WRRS (88.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Bayview, Massachusetts. WRRS is owned by Holy Family Communications and airs a Catholic religious format as part of The Station of the Cross. WRRS is an affiliate of EWTN radio. History Academy of the Immaculate applied for a construction permit for a new station in Bayview, Massachusetts, near New Bedford, in a late 2007 window for new noncommercial radio stations. The new station, which took on the call sign WPMW, would be operated by the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, and intended to carry programming from EWTN Radio, Relevant Radio, and Ave Maria Radio WDEO is a radio station broadcasting on 990 kilohertz in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Broadcasting Catholic programming, WDEO is operated by Ave Maria Radio. Some programming is locally produced, and some is simulcast from EWTN's "Global Catholic Radio .... Test broadcasts began in December 2010; WPMW, branded "Radio CorMariae", would formally launch on March 25, 2011, p ...
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Radio Reading Service
A radio reading service or reading service for the blind is a public service of many universities, community groups and public radio stations, where a narrator reads books, newspapers and magazines aloud for the benefit of the blind and vision-impaired. It is most often carried on a subcarrier, with radio receivers permanently tuned to a given station in the area, or an HD Radio subchannel of the offering station. Some reading services use alternative methods for reaching their audiences, including broadcasting over SAP, streaming Internet radio, cable TV, or even terrestrial TV. The International Association of Audio Information Services (IAAIS) serves as the primary member organization for radio reading services, and has member services or has consulted with and assisted local organizations in Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Panama, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. The first radio reading service ...
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2014 In Radio
The following is a list of events affecting radio broadcasting in 2014. Events listed include radio program debuts, finales, cancellations, and station launches, closures and format changes, as well as information about controversies. Notable events January February March April May June July August September October November December Debuts Closings Deaths *January 17: Larry Monroe, 29-year veteran with KUT radio in Austin, Texas *February 6: Ralph Kiner, 91. Radio and television commentator for the New York Mets. *February 15: Angelo Henderson, 51. Radio host at WCHB and minister. *February 25: Jim Lange, 81. Radio host ( KGO, KFRC, KABL and KSFO/San Francisco, KMPC/Los Angeles, KKSJ/San Jose) and TV host. *March 1: Porky Chedwick, 96. Longtime Pittsburgh-area rhythm and blues radio host. *March 5: Geoff Edwards, 83. Radio host ( KFMB, KFI, KMPC, KSUR) and TV host. *March 25: Ralph Wilson, 95. Radio station owner in the 1950s and 1960s; better kn ...
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Orange, Massachusetts
Orange is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 7,569 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. Part of the town is included in the census-designated place of Orange. History Orange was first settled by Europeans in 1746, created from lands in the towns of Royalston, Warwick and Athol. The lands were not fully settled until the latter parts of the century, becoming the District of Orange in 1783, and finally being incorporated as a town in 1810. It was named for William, Prince of Orange. In 1790, the Millers River was dammed within town, and industry began in the former farming community. Small industry grew within the town, with the town being considered more of a mill town by 1840. By the late nineteenth century the New Home Sewing Machine Company was the largest industry in town, putting out 1.2 million machines at its peak in 1892. In 1900, it was home to the pioneer automobil ...
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