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WWYY
WWYY (107.1 FM broadcasting, FM) is a List of broadcast station classes, class A radio station licensed to Belvidere, New Jersey. It serves The Poconos and Lehigh Valley regions. The station is currently owned by Cumulus Media, through licensee Radio License Holding CBC, LLC, and airs a country music radio format known as "Cat Country 96", simulcasting on WCTO 96.1 FM in Easton, Pennsylvania. History Early years On October 15, 1992, WWYY began operation as WRNJ-FM under the co-ownership of Norman Worth and Larry Tighe, who still retain the call sign WRNJ (formerly on 1000 kHz, now on 1510 kHz). WRNJ-FM offered a country music format to the northwestern New Jersey and Pocono Mountains, Poconos. Except for the Lehigh Valley, which had a Philadelphia-based country/western music station, most of this region was without its own country music station after WIXL, now WNNJ, dropped country music in May 1988. For a few months, northwestern New Jersey and the Poconos could get c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Country Y-107
New Country Y-107 was a radio station simulcast on as many as four FM stations all on 107.1 MHz around New York City. Airing a country music format, the stations targeted a primarily suburban audience. Owned by Big City Radio, New Country Y-107 broadcast from 1996 to 2002; the simulcast then flipped to contemporary Spanish music as "Rumba 107" before being broken up after it was sold in 2003. The station was based at the headquarters of Big City Radio in Hawthorne, New York, moving to Manhattan in 2001. Stations New Country Y-107 debuted on three stations, later expanded to four in 1998. History Building the quadcast On December 5, 1996, two stations on 107.1 MHz recently purchased by Odyssey Communications, alternative-formatted WXPK, WRGX—licensed to Briarcliff Manor, New York, and serving Westchester County—and WWZY, WZVU, a rock outlet in Long Branch, New Jersey, became a simulcast of a country music format. They were joined a month later by WLIR-FM, WWHB i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCTO
WCTO (96.1 FM broadcasting, FM, "Cat Country 96 & 107") is a radio station licensed to Easton, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and serves the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Cat Country 96.1 is simulcast on 107.1 WWYY-FM in Belvidere, New Jersey, to cover western New Jersey and the Pocono Mountains, Poconos in Northeastern Pennsylvania, The station offers a country music format, playing country music from the 1980s through to the present, and is part of the Philadelphia Eagles radio network. History 96.1 FM began in 1947 as WEST-FM. For decades, the station simulcast WEST's middle of the road popular music format. In 1973, though, 96.1 became WLEV and began offering a soft rock/adult contemporary format that was very automated. It played the softer rock hits of the 1960s and 1970s, along with a lot of current music. It was known as "Hit Parade Music" at one point. The station was owned by Sound Media and then by Telemedia Group. Through the 1970s and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WODE-FM
WODE-FM (99.9 FM, "99.9 The Hawk") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Easton, Pennsylvania. The station's service contour covers the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The station is owned by Cumulus Media, through licensee Radio License Holding CBC, LLC, and broadcasts a classic rock radio format, playing rock hits from the 1960s into the early 1990s. WODE-FM's transmitter, studios, and offices are on Paxinosa Road West in Easton. The station is frequently at or near the top of the ratings in the Allentown-Easton-Bethlehem radio market. WODE-FM broadcasts using HD Radio, and simulcasts the sports programming of sister station 1230 AM WEEX on its HD2 subchannel. History WEEX-FM The station began operations on 98.3 FM as a stand-alone FM station. It got its construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission in 1948, and signed on the air in June 1950. Its call letters stood for the '' Easton Express'', Easton's daily newspaper a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WEEX
WEEX (1230 AM) is a radio station in Easton, Pennsylvania, owned by Cumulus Media through licensee Radio License Holding CBC, LLC. The station airs a sports radio format branded as "Fox Sports Lehigh Valley", carrying the Fox Sports Radio network. It is also the flagship radio station for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs Minor League Baseball team, the Triple-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies, and Lehigh Mountain Hawks athletics. History 20th century On May 10, 1956, WEEX first signed on with a popular music format, simulcast from WEEX-FM (99.9 FM). It is one of the few AM stations to sign on after its FM sister station, which went on the air in 1948. WEEX-AM-FM were owned locally by Easton Publishing Company, which also owned the '' Easton Express'' newspaper. WEEX and WEEX-FM evolved into a Top 40 music format in the early 1960s. WEEX 1230 was only powered at 250 watts at the time and served listeners who only had an AM radio and could not receive WEEX-FM. In the early 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRNJ
WRNJ (1510 AM) is a commercial radio station in Hackettstown, New Jersey. It broadcasts an adult contemporary radio format and is owned locally by WRNJ Radio, Inc. The studios and offices are on U.S. Route 46 in Hackettstown. By day, WRNJ is powered at 2,000 watts. But because AM 1510 is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A WLAC in Nashville, WRNJ must reduce power at night to 230 watts. Programming is also heard on FM translators on 92.7, 104.7 and 105.7 MHz. History AM 1000 in Dover WRNJ began operation on AM 1000 on . It was a daytime only station with no pre-sunrise or post-sunset authorization, except for local emergencies. The original city of license was Dover, New Jersey. WRNJ employed a full-service adult contemporary format with an emphasis on local news, with national news supplied by the Mutual Broadcasting System. WRNJ also had local talk shows featuring local leaders and volunteers. Larry Tighe originally owned the radio station. For many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLEV
WLEV (100.7 FM, "100.7 WLEV") is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Allentown, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Cumulus Media, Inc, through licensee Radio License Holding CBC LLC, and broadcasts an adult contemporary music radio format. The station covers the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. The station's antenna is located on the WFMZ-TV broadcast tower on South Mountain south of Allentown. History 100.7 frequency The station began operation in 1947 as WFMZ. On November 1, 1947, it moved from 105.1 MHz to 95.9 MHz concurrent with an increase in power to 1 kW. The station originally played classical and jazz music at various times of the day. Following this, in the 1950s, the station began playing blocks of instrumental easy listening music as well. In 1965, the station was sold to a Christian local group called Maranatha Broadcasting. At that point, WFMZ flipped to a religious/easy listening format. For many hours daily, the station sold bloc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lehigh Valley
The Lehigh Valley () is a geography, geographic and urban area, metropolitan region formed by the Lehigh River in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Northampton counties in eastern Pennsylvania. It is a component valley of the Great Appalachian Valley bounded to its north by Blue Mountain (Pennsylvania), Blue Mountain, to its south by South Mountain (Eastern Pennsylvania), South Mountain, to its west by Lebanon Valley, and to its east by the Delaware River and Warren County, New Jersey. The Lehigh Valley is about long and wide. The Lehigh Valley's largest city is Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown, the third-largest city in Pennsylvania and the county seat of Lehigh County, with a population of 125,845 residents as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Allentown–Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Bethlehem–Easton, Pennsylvania, Easton metropolitan area, which includes the Lehigh Valley, is Pennsylvania's Pennsylvania metropolitan a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Broadcast Station Classes
This is a list of broadcast station classes applicable in much of North America under international agreements between the United States, Canada and Mexico. Effective radiated power (ERP) and height above average terrain (HAAT) are listed unless otherwise noted. All radio and television stations within of the US-Canada or US-Mexico border must get approval by both the domestic and foreign agency. These agencies are Industry Canada/ Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in Canada, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US, and the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) in Mexico. AM Station class descriptions All domestic (United States) AM stations are classified as A, B, C, or D. * A (formerly I) — clear-channel stations — 10 kW to 50 kW, 24 hours. **Class A stations are only protected within a radius of the transmitter site. **The old Class I was divided into three: Class I-A, I-B and I-N. NARBA distingu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blairstown, New Jersey
Blairstown is a Township (New Jersey), township in Warren County, New Jersey, Warren County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 5,704, a decrease of 263 (−4.4%) from the 2010 United States census, 2010 census count of 5,967, which in turn reflected an increase of 220 (+3.8%) from the 5,747 counted in the 2000 United States census, 2000 census. The area had been known as Smith's Mill and was later called Butts Bridge (variously spelled as "Butt's Bridge" and "Butts' Bridge"), named for a family that owned the eponymous crossing of the Paulins Kill. Blairstown was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 14, 1845, from portions of Knowlton Township, New Jersey, Knowlton Township, based on the results of a referendum held that day.Snyder, John P''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968'' Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 245. Accessed Sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKTU
WKTU (103.5 FM broadcasting, FM) is a rhythmic adult contemporary formatted radio station city of license, licensed to Lake Success, New York, a suburb of New York City. WKTU is owned by iHeartMedia and broadcasts from studios at 125 West 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan; its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. History WGLI-FM–WTFM (1958–1982) In 1958, 103.5 MHz was assigned to Babylon (village), New York, Babylon, New York for WGLI-FM, simulcasting sister station WGLI (New York), WGLI (1290 AM). William Reuman, the founder and owner of WWRL in New York City, was the owner of WGLI. 103.5 MHz had previously been assigned to WPAT-FM (1949–1951), WPAT-FM in Paterson, New Jersey, which went on the air as WNNJ in 1949, and was deleted in early 1951. In March 1960, Friendly Frost Inc. (a Long Island-based appliance store chain) acquired WGLI Inc. from Reuman and his partners. In November 1961, Friendly Frost moved the station from Babylon to Lake Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WQHT
WQHT (97.1 FM broadcasting, FM, ''Hot 97'') is a commercial radio station, licensed to New York, New York, which broadcasts an urban contemporary music format. The station is owned by Mediaco Holding, a subsidiary of the Standard General hedge fund. WQHT's studios are located in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, and its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. History WQHT began as an experimental station, W2XWG, licensed to the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and located at the Empire State Building in New York City. W2XWG started operations in April 1939, initially as an Apex (radio band), "Apex" station, used for determining the coverage area of transmitting frequencies higher than those used by the standard AM broadcast band."NBC New York FM Station to go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
