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Victory Park, Dallas
Victory Park is a master planned development northwest of downtown Dallas, Texas ( USA) and north of Spur 366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway). It is along Interstate 35E, part of the Stemmons Corridor and Uptown. The US$3 billion project, at , is just north of the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas. When it is finished, the project will contain more than 4,000 residences and of office and retail space. History Victory Park was developed by Ross Perot, Jr., son of billionaire tycoon Ross Perot, who was a majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team. Perot envisioned Victory Park as an "urban lifestyle destination." Anchored by the American Airlines Center, home of the Mavericks, the entire development was planned at a very detailed level by its developers.Will DoigUrban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun Salon.com, May 19, 2012, accessed May 19, 2012. The development has been criticized as being a "collection of imposing hyper-modern mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, 2 United Nations General Assembly observers#Present non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and 11 other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (16 states, of which there are 6 UN member states, 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and 9 de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (2 states, both in associated state, free association with New Zealand). Compi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Perot, Jr
Henry Ross Perot Jr. (born November 7, 1958) is a real estate developer and American businessman who is best known for his development of Alliance, Texas, an inland port near Dallas–Fort Worth, and making the first circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter at the age of 23. Perot serves as the chairman for multiple companies including The Perot Group and Hillwood. He is the only son and eldest child of American billionaire businessman and former United States presidential candidate Ross Perot. Early life Perot was born and raised in Dallas, the son of Margot (née Birmingham) and Ross Perot. He graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1977. After graduating from Vanderbilt University, he served in the United States Air Force for eight and a half years. Career In 1982 Perot co-piloted the first flight by helicopter around the world. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBAP (AM)
WBAP () is an AM news/talk radio station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. WBAP is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts with from a transmitter site in the northwest corner of Mansfield. It is a Class A clear-channel station, using a non-directional antenna. Its nighttime signal can often be heard throughout the Southern, Central, and Midwestern states and Northern Mexico, while its daytime signal provides at least secondary coverage from Oklahoma City to Austin. The station's studios are located in the Victory Park district in Dallas just north of downtown. WBAP is one of the oldest radio stations in Texas, dating back to 1922, when stations in Texas were still given call signs beginning with "W" instead of "K." , WBAP remains a top-rated news/talk station. Emergency preparedness WBAP and sister station KSCS are responsible for activation of the North Texas Emergency Alert System when hazardous weather alerts, Disaster area de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTCK-FM
KTCK-FM (96.7 MHz, "The Ticket") is a commercial radio station licensed to Flower Mound, Texas, and serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. It simulcasts a sports radio format, along with sister station KTCK 1310 AM. KTCK-AM-FM are owned by Cumulus Media with studios on East Lamar Boulevard in Arlington. Weekdays feature local Dallas-based sports shows, while Fox Sports Radio is heard late nights and weekends. KTCK-AM-FM are the flagship stations for the Dallas Stars Radio Network. KTCK-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 90,000 watts. The transmitter is on Farm to Market Road in Rosston, Texas, about 35 miles northwest of Dallas. The signal extends into Oklahoma but may be hard to hear in some southern suburbs of Dallas and Fort Worth. History KDSQ/KSHN/Kick'm Country In , the station signed on as KDSQ. It was based in the Sherman- Denison area on 101.7 FM. Two years later, it changed its call sign to KSHN. And in 1975 it changed to KIKM-FM with a countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTCK (AM)
KTCK (1310 kHz; "SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket") is a commercial sports AM radio station licensed to Dallas, Texas, which serves the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW). Its daytime power is 25,000 watts, which is reduced to 5,000 watts at night. The station's studios are located in the Victory Park district in Dallas, just north of downtown, and the transmitter site is in Coppell. The station is currently owned by Cumulus Media. KTCK's programs are simulcast at 96.7 MHz over KTCK-FM, licensed to Flower Mound, Texas. KTCK's current call letters and format only date back to 1994. However it is one of the oldest radio stations, including the oldest in Texas, having received its first broadcasting license, as WRR, in March 1922. In addition, prior to its first broadcasting license, WRR was issued an initial transmitting authorization in the summer of 1921, and the station evolved from even earlier work conducted by the Dallas Police Department. Station origin The genesis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSCS
KSCS (96.3 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a hot country music radio format. The studios are in the Victory Park district in Dallas just north of downtown. KSCS and sister station WBAP are responsible for activation of the North Texas Emergency Alert System when hazardous weather alerts, disaster area declarations, and AMBER Alerts for child abductions are issued. KSCS has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The transmitter is off Mansfield Road in Cedar Hill, Texas, amid the towers for other FM and TV stations. KSCS uses HD Radio technology; its HD2 digital subchannel carries the news/talk programming of KLIF (570 AM). Programming KSCS is the home of ''Hawkeye In The Morning'', currently the longest-running morning radio show in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The show features Mark "Hawkeye" Louis and Michelle Rodriguez, who pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KPLX
KPLX (99.5 Hertz, MHz, "99.5 The Wolf") is a commercial radio, commercial FM radio, FM radio station broadcasting a gold-based country radio, mainstream country radio format. It is city of license, licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, and serves the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. KPLX is owned by Cumulus Media, with radio studio, studios and offices in the Victory Park, Dallas, Victory Park district in Dallas, just north of Downtown Dallas, downtown. Cumulus owns two FM country stations in the media market, radio market, but both KPLX and KSCS maintain separate staffs and musical directions. KPLX has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The transmitter is off West Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill, Texas, amid the towers for other FM and TV stations. KPLX broadcasts using HD Radio technology. The HD-2 digital subchannel carries the talk radio, talk format of sister station WBAP (AM), WBAP (820 AM). History The station first sign-on, signed on in 1962 as KXOL-FM. It operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KLIF-FM
KLIF-FM (93.3 MHz, "''Hot 93.3''") is a commercial radio station licensed to Haltom City, Texas, and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The station is owned by Cumulus Media, and the broadcast license is held by Radio License Holding SRC LLC. It broadcasts a hot adult contemporary radio format, mainly focusing on hits from the 1990s and 2000s while also playing some songs from the 1980s, 2010s and today. The studios and offices are in the Victory Park district in Dallas just north of downtown. The KLIF call sign has a long history of being associated with CHR/Top 40 music; the original KLIF (at 1190 AM) was Dallas/Fort Worth's most popular Top 40 music station in the 1960s and 1970s. KLIF-FM's transmitter site is on Singleton Boulevard in West Dallas near the I-30/ Loop 12 interchange. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts, with its tower at 120 meters (394 ft) in height above average terrain (HAAT). This gives KLIF-FM a limited signal, with m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KLIF (AM)
KLIF () is a commercial AM radio radio station licensed to Dallas, Texas. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a talk radio format to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The studios are in the Victory Park district in Dallas, just north of downtown. KLIF broadcasts at by day, but decreases its power to at night to protect other stations on 570 AM. Its transmitter is shared with co-owned KTCK, on Ledbetter Road in Irving. It uses a directional antenna at all times, with a two-tower array. Programming is also heard on the HD Radio digital subchannel of co-owned 96.3 KSCS-HD2. KLIF is one of the two talk stations owned by Cumulus in the Dallas Metroplex. Sister station WBAP has mostly local hosts while much of KLIF's schedule is made up of nationally syndicated talk shows. KLIF's sole local weekday program is a morning news and information show co-hosted by Dave Williams and Amy Chodroff. The rest of the day, KLIF carries Glenn Beck, "Markley, Van Camp, & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumulus Media
Cumulus Media, Inc. is an American broadcasting company and is the third largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States behind Audacy and iHeartMedia. As of June 2019, Cumulus lists ownership of 428 stations in 87 media markets. It also owns and operates Westwood One. Its headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia. Its subsidiaries include Cumulus Broadcasting LLC, Cumulus Licensing LLC and Broadcast Software International Inc. Company history Origins Cumulus Media was established in August 1998 by radio consultant Lewis Dickey Jr. and media and technology entrepreneur Richard Weening. The Telecommunications Act of 1996, among other legislation, relaxed media ownership restrictions, allowing a single owner to possess or control an unprecedented number of radio stations per market and nationwide. Dickey, then a nationally known radio programming consultant, was acting as a consultant to a small radio group in which Weening had a personal investm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFAA
WFAA (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex as an affiliate of American Broadcasting Company, ABC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Decatur, Texas, Decatur-licensed Estrella TV affiliate KMPX (channel 29), which provides a full-market high-definition television, high definition simulcast of WFAA's main channel on its ultra high frequency, UHF physical channel assigned to channel 8.8, due to long-term issues involving WFAA's digital very high frequency, VHF signal. WFAA maintains studio facilities and business offices at the WFAA Communications Center Studios on Young Street in downtown Dallas (next to the offices of its former sister newspaper under the ownership of former parent company Belo Corporation, Belo, ''The Dallas Morning News''); sister station KMPX maintains separate facilities on Gateway Drive in Irving, Texas, Irving. WFAA's transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas. WFAA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maverick Excitement (Dallas) Vojir
Maverick, Maveric or Maverik may refer to: History * Maverick (animal), an unbranded range animal, derived from U.S. cattleman Samuel Maverick Aviation * AEA Maverick, an Australian single-seat sportsplane design * General Aviation Design Bureau T-32 Maverick, a Ukrainian ultralight trike design * I-Fly Maverick, a US powered-parachute flying vehicle under development by the Indigenous People's Technology and Education Center * Murphy Maverick, a Canadian light aircraft design * AGM-65 Maverick, a US guided air-to-surface missile * Airbus MAVERIC (Model Aircraft for Validation and Experimentation of Robust Innovative Controls), a European sub-scale blended wing body prototype Computing * Maverick Framework, a model-view-controller framework for Java * Maverick Meerkat, the version 10.10 of Ubuntu * OS X Mavericks, the tenth major release of Apple's OS X operating system Film and television * '' The Maverick'', a 1952 Western film starring Wild Bill Elliott * ''Maverick'' (TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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