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WXRD
WXRD (103.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format using the station name X-Rock 103.9. Licensed to Crown Point, Indiana, United States, it serves Northwest Indiana and Chicago's south suburbs. The station is currently owned by Adams Radio Group, LLC, through licensee Adams Radio of Northern Indiana, LLC. The station also features national and local newscasts. History The station began broadcasting November 10, 1972, holding the call sign WFLM, and airing an easy listening format, as the "World's Finest Listening Music".History Cards for WXRD fcc.gov. Retrieved July 29, 2018.Ghrist, John R. (1996). ''Valley Voices: A Radio History''. Crossroads Communications. p. 252-257. The station was originally owned by John Meye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwest Indiana
Northwest Indiana, nicknamed The Region after the Calumet Region, comprises Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton and Jasper counties in Indiana. This region neighbors Lake Michigan and is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. According to the 2020 Census, Northwest Indiana has a population of 831,080 and is the state's second largest urban area after the Indianapolis Metropolitan Area. It is also the home of the Indiana Dunes, parts of which have been preserved through conservation efforts. The town of Ogden Dunes houses the Hour Glass, a museum showcasing the ecological and conservation efforts of O. D. Frank. The region's largest city is Hammond, followed closely by Gary. Other municipalities in Northwest Indiana include Burns Harbor, Chesterton, Crown Point, DeMotte, Dyer, East Chicago, Griffith, Highland, Hebron, Hobart, Kentland, Lake Station, La Porte, Lowell, Merrillville, Michigan City, Munster, Portage, Rensselaer, Schererville, St. John, Cedar Lake, Valparai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WZVN (FM)
WZVN (107.1 FM, "Z-107.1") is an American radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary music format. Licensed to Lowell, Indiana, United States, it serves Northwest Indiana and Chicago's south suburbs. The station is currently owned by Adams Radio Group, LLC, through licensee Adams Radio of Northern Indiana, LLC. The station also features national and local newscasts. The WZVN tower is located on Indiana State Road 55 just north of Indiana State Road 2. History The station began broadcasting on November 24, 1972, and held the call sign WLCL-FM, which stood for Lowell and Cedar Lake.WZVN The Indiana Radio Archive. Retrieved March 20, 2019. WLCL was owned by William J. Dunn and aired a form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adams Radio Group
Adams Radio Group is a radio broadcasting company focused on medium to small markets in the United States. Adams began in the early 1980s with radio stations in several markets across the country. The original market stations were all sold by 1996. The radio station groups in this article were formed in 1996. Markets and radio stations Fort Wayne *WBTU in Kendallville, Indiana *WJFX in New Haven, Indiana *WWFW in Fort Wayne, Indiana *WXKE in Churubusco, Indiana * W245CA in Fort Wayne, Indiana * W277AK in Fort Wayne, Indiana Northwest Indiana * WLJE in Valparaiso, Indiana * WXRD in Crown Point, Indiana * WZVN in Lowell, Indiana Las Cruces * KGRT in Las Cruces, New Mexico * KHQT in Las Cruces, New Mexico * KSNM in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico * KWML in Las Cruces, New Mexico Tallahassee *WHTF in Havana, Florida *WQTL in Tallahassee, Florida *WWOF in Tallahassee, Florida *WXTY WXTY (99.9 FM) is an adult hits radio station in the Tallahassee, Florida Tallahassee ( ) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLJE
WLJE (105.5 FM) is a radio station that has been broadcasting a country music format for over 35 years. Licensed to Valparaiso, Indiana, United States, it serves Northwest Indiana. The station is currently owned by Adams Radio Group, LLC, through licensee Adams Radio of Northern Indiana, LLC, and features local programming along with the syndicated Nights with Elaina country music program via Westwood One. The station also features national and local newscasts. The station began broadcasting on October 6, 1967, and originally held the call sign WAKE-FM, sister station to AM 1500 WAKE.1971 Broadcasting Yearbook', Broadcasting, 1971. p. B-74. Retrieved June 7, 2021.History Cards for WLJE fcc.gov. Retrieved June 7, 2021. Its call sign was changed to WLJE on May 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Indiana ...
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Indiana, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct References {{Navboxes , title = Indiana radio station regional navigation boxes , list = {{Bloomington IN Radio {{Cincinnati Radio {{Evansville Radio {{Ft. Wayne Radio {{Indianapolis Radio {{Lafayette IN Radio {{Louisville Radio {{Muncie-Marion Radio {{Northwest Indiana Radio {{South Bend Radio {{Terre Haute Radio Indiana 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 transmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAWY
WAWY (103.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Dundee, Illinois, which serves the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. Its transmitter is located in Gilberts, Illinois. The station is owned by Educational Media Foundation, and is an affiliate of its Air1 contemporary worship music network. History WVFV The station began broadcasting on June 8, 1967, holding the call sign WVFV,History Cards for WAWY fcc.gov. Retrieved June 22, 2018. as the "Voice of the Fox Valley".Ghrist, John R. (1996). ''Valley Voices: A Radio History''. Crossroads Communications. p. 123-127. The new station was the creation of Jim French, who operated out of a space above Cardunal Savings and Loans in |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries. It is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance languages, Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television are named), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. It had the sixth-highest circulation for American newspapers in 2017. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century under Medill's grandson, Robert R. McCormick, it achieved a reputation as a crusading paper with a decidedly more American-conservative anti-New Deal outlook, and its writing reached other markets through family and corporate relationships at the ''New York Daily News'' and the ''Washington Times-Herald.'' The 1960s saw its corporate parent owner, Tribune Company, rea ... [...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] |
Woodstock, Illinois
Woodstock is a city in (and the county seat of) McHenry County, Illinois, McHenry County, Illinois, United States. It is located 45 miles northwest of Chicago, making it one of the city's outer-most suburbs. Per the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 25,630. The city's historic downtown district and turn-of-the-century town square is anchored by the landmark Woodstock Opera House and the Old McHenry County Courthouse. In 2007 Woodstock was named one of the nation's Dozen Distinctive Destinations by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. History Early days, Centerville Woodstock was originally known as Centerville because of its location at the geographic center of McHenry County. It was chosen as the county seat on September 4, 1843. Early settler Alvin Judd developed a plat for the town, which incorporated a two-acre public square, near which a 2-story frame courthouse and jail were constructed the following year by George C. Dean and Daniel Blai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real Country
Real Country is a 24-hour radio format produced by Westwood One. Real Country is marketed at the demographic of men aged 35 to 64. Its programming consists of a fairly broad playlist of "Today's Stars and the Legends." Classic country is the station's primary core, with frequent airplay of artists such as George Jones and Johnny Cash, while the station also plays newer hits, particularly by established neotraditional country artists such as George Strait and Alan Jackson. More contemporary artists can be heard on Westwood One's other country format, Best Country Today. Its direct competitor was " True Country" by Dial Global. "Real Country" was established in 1988 as a partnership between Satellite Music Network and radio station owner and country music legend Buck Owens, with operations based at Owens-owned KCWW (now KQFN) in Tempe, Arizona. SMN and Owens sold the station and network to The Walt Disney Company in 1998, who operated the network as part of the ABC Radio Networks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
