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Whack
WACK (1420 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a full service format and licensed to Newark, New York, United States. The station is owned by Waynco Radio, Inc., and features programming from CBS News Radio, Premiere Networks, SportsMap, and Westwood One. WACK is the station where Lowell Paxson, later the founder of Home Shopping Network and PAX TV, began his broadcasting career. He and Joseph “Bud” Sova bought the radio station in 1962. Programming heard on WACK includes ''National Farm Report with Orion Samuelson'', ''Farming America with Steve Alexander'', ''America in the Morning'', a classic hits-formatted local morning show hosted by Dean Amsler, ''The Glenn Beck Program'', Chris Plante, '' The Dave Ramsey Show'', ''The Sean Hannity Show'', a regionally syndicated program hosted by Andrew Hollister, ''On the House with the Carey Brothers'', and ''American Standards By the Sea''. Any time slots not filled by programming are filled with SportsMap. The combination o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newark, New York
Newark ( ) is a Administrative divisions of New York#Village, village in Wayne County, New York, United States, south east of Rochester, New York, Rochester and west of Syracuse, New York, Syracuse. The population was 9,017 at the 2020 census. The Village of Newark is in the south part of the Arcadia, New York, Town of Arcadia and is in the south of Wayne County. It is the most populous community in Wayne County. History The current village includes the former "Miller's Basin" and "Lockville" prior to its own incorporation in 1839. The Village of Newark was incorporated in 1853. It was in Newark, New York that Jackson & Perkins Company, famous for its roses, was founded in 1872 by Albert Jackson and his son-in law Charles H. Perkins."About Us" Jackson and Perkins. Jackson and Perkins, n.d. Web. December 8, 2015.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Station
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting 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 station, while in '' satellite radio'' the radio waves are broadcast by a satellite in Earth orbit. To receive the content the listener must have a broadcast radio receiver (''radio''). Stations are often affiliated with a radio network that provides content in a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast, or both. The encoding of a radio broadcast depends on whether it uses an analog or digital signal. Analog radio broadcasts use one of two types of radio wave modulation: amplitude modulation for AM radio, or frequency modulation for FM radio. Newer, digital radio stations transmit in several different digital audio standards, such as DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting), HD radio, or DRM ( Digital Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Miller
Dennis Michael Miller (born November 3, 1953) is an American political commentator, stand-up comedian, talk show host, writer, actor and former sportscaster. Miller was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1985 to 1991, and he subsequently hosted a string of his own talk shows on HBO, CNBC, and also in syndication. From 2007 to 2015, Miller hosted a daily, three-hour, self-titled talk radio program, nationally syndicated by Westwood One. On March 9, 2020, ''Dennis Miller + One'' show, launched on RT America. It ran twice-weekly and featured celebrity interviews. Miller is listed as 21st on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time, and he was ranked as the best host of ''SNL''s ''Weekend Update'' by ''Vulture''. Early life Miller was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in the suburb of Castle Shannon. He is of Scottish descent. Miller's parents separated and he was raised by his mother, Norma who was a dietitian at a Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Radio Factor
''The Radio Factor'' is a US nationally syndicated talk radio program, which aired from 2002 to 2009 and was hosted mainly by Bill O'Reilly. Show The program, which featured host commentary with a mix of listener call-in and guest segments, was broadcast live every weekday from the Fox News Channel studios in New York City from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (total runtime approximately 120 minutes, less 34 for commercials) and was distributed by Westwood One in conjunction with Fox News Radio. Bill O'Reilly was the host of the program from Monday through Thursday and was joined by co-host Lis Wiehl two days in the week. E.D. Hill was a former co-host as well. On Fridays, the show was usually hosted by a guest host; the most recent rotation included Michael Smerconish, Dom Giordano (Both from CBS Radio's Philadelphia Station, WPHT-AM) and Doug McIntyre (Tony Snow also was a regular substitute for this show until his 2008 death). The show launched on May 8, 2002 on 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sean Hannity Show
''The Sean Hannity Show'' is a conservative talk radio show hosted by Sean Hannity. The program is broadcast live every weekday, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET. The show is produced in the New York City studios of radio station WOR and is transmitted via ISDN from Hannity's home in Florida, or on location if Hannity's commitments to Fox News Channel take him out of the New York area. The show is now syndicated by Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, on terrestrial radio affiliates across the United States, on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125. and on American Forces Network's AFN 360 PowerTalk and The Voice channels. The primary focus of the program is the politics of the day, with interviews of liberal and conservative commentators. After conservative radio show '' The Rush Limbaugh Show'' ended its run following Limbaugh's 2021 death, ''The Sean Hannity Show'' became the most-listened-to commercial radio talk show with an estimated 16.25 million listeners. Syndication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dave Ramsey Show (radio Program)
''The Ramsey Show'' (formerly known as ''The Dave Ramsey Show'' and ''The Money Game'') is an American self-syndicated radio program hosted by finance author Dave Ramsey and a rotating group of co-hosts, that airs Monday through Friday from 2:00–5:00 P.M. ET. It is broadcast from the headquarters of Ramsey's company, Ramsey Solutions, in Franklin, Tennessee. Besides terrestrial radio and podcast outlets,''The Ramsey Show'' is also available on its own channel on iHeartRadio and Sirius XM. As of 2025, ''The Ramsey Show'' is among the most-listened-to radio shows in the United States according to ''Talkers Magazine.'' History The show began in June of 1992, when Dave Ramsey was invited to appear as a guest on WTN 99.7 FM in Nashville, Tennessee, to promote his self-published book, ''Financial Peace''. His live personal finance advice on listener call-ins proved popular with the audience. At the time, the station was undergoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. When the regular host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Plante
Christopher Plante (born 1959) is an American talk radio host and journalist currently hosting a syndicated radio program heard on Westwood One and a nightly TV talk show on Newsmax TV. Early life Plante was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Jules and Barbara (née Barnes) Orteig. His maternal grandfather Pat Barnes was a Chicago-based radio host and World War I veteran. After his father Jules died in 1960, his mother Barbara re-married in 1965 to journalist Bill Plante. The family later moved to the Chicago area; Chris Plante later lived in Glenview and Winnetka, Illinois and graduated from New Trier West High School. He later attended Santa Barbara City College and the University of California, Santa Barbara but withdrew before graduating in order to work full-time in news. Career CNN Plante worked at CNN from 1988 to 2005, mostly covering The Pentagon and U.S. Military. At various times at CNN, he was a Pentagon correspondent, senior producer for national security a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Beck Radio Program
''The Glenn Beck Radio Program'' is an American conservative talk radio show, hosted by commentator Glenn Beck on over 400 radio stations across America, his company's own TheBlaze Radio Network, with a live television simulcast weekdays on TheBlaze TV. Since its inception as a nationally syndicated show in 2002, the program has become one of the highest rated radio programs. Furthermore, it led to television shows on CNN and the Fox News Channel, six ''New York Times'' bestselling books (five of which debuted at No. 1), a magazine, and a stage tour. In 2009, many editorials, such as those on ''The Huffington Post'', singled out Glenn Beck's radio and television programs for raising issues which led to the resignation of Obama advisor Van Jones. History In 2000, ''The Glenn Beck Program'' began airing on WFLA (AM) 970 in Tampa, Florida. He inherited the 18th-placed position at WFLA and quickly gained popularity in its afternoon slot. Within one year of doing his first talk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
America In The Morning
''America in The Morning'' is a news program airing on numerous talk radio stations, syndicated by Westwood One, a subsidiary of Cumulus Media. The one-hour live program airs weekdays at 5:00 a.m. Eastern Time and is hosted by John Trout. The show features reports from AP Radio News, as well as a national forecast from AccuWeather, a look ahead to the day on Wall Street from CNBC, and the short-form feature ''Offbeat''. ''America in The Morning'' originally debuted on the Mutual Broadcasting System The Mutual Broadcasting System (commonly referred to simply as Mutual; sometimes referred to as MBS, Mutual Radio or the Mutual Radio Network) was an American commercial radio network in operation from 1934 to 1999. In the Golden Age of Radio, ... on September 17, 1984. Jim Bohannon hosted the broadcast from its inception until December 2015. At that point, Trout took over the hosting chores after Bohannon decided to cut back his schedule, concentrating on his nigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orion Samuelson
Orion Samuelson ( ; born March 31, 1934) is a retired American broadcaster, known for his agriculture broadcasts and his ability to explain agribusiness and food production in an understandable way. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2003. Career Samuelson was born on a dairy farm in Ontario, Wisconsin, near LaCrosse. Growing up on the farm Samuelson was expected to take over the family business, but a leg disease made it impossible to do heavy work. He considered becoming a Lutheran pastor before deciding on six months of radio school. His early work was based in Wisconsin, at WKLJ in Sparta, WHBY in Appleton, and WBAY-TV/ AM in Green Bay. Samuelson was heard on WGN radio in Chicago for sixty years as the station's head agriculture broadcaster from 1960 through 2020, getting the job after his predecessor Norm Kraft abruptly resigned from his position on-air. In May 1960, one of Mr. Samuelson's first assignments for WGN was to emcee the ''National Barn Dance'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Television
Ion Television (referred to on-air as simply Ion) is an American broadcast television network and FAST television channel owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 31, 1998, as Pax TV, focusing primarily on family-oriented entertainment programming. It rebranded as i: Independent Television (commonly referred to as "i") on July 1, 2005, converting into a general entertainment network featuring recent and older acquired programs. The network adopted its identity as Ion Television on January 29, 2007. For many years, Ion has focused primarily on off-network reruns of existing series, with most of its current schedule devoted to marathon blocks of procedural dramas, along with occasional broadcasts of films (including television films during the Christmas season). In the past, Ion had acquired first-run airings of Canadian series not picked up by other American networks and had also been infamous f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Shopping Network
HSN, Inc. an initialism of its former name Home Shopping Network, is an American free-to-air television network owned by the QVC Group (formerly Qurate Retail Group), which also owns Catalog merchant, catalog company Cornerstone Brands. It is based in West Chester, Pennsylvania. As of July 2014, Joy Mangano holds the record for most units sold in a day with 216,000 units of pillow sets. History The forerunner of HSN was launched by Bud Paxson, Lowell Paxson (who later established Ion Television, PAX-TV, which is now Ion Television) and Roy Speer in 1982 as the Home Shopping Club, a local cable channel seen on Bright House Networks, Vision Cable and Bright House Networks, Group W Cable in Pinellas County, Florida. It expanded into the first national shopping network three years later on July 1, 1985, changing its name to the Home Shopping Network, and pioneering the concept of a televised sales pitch for consumer goods and services. Its competitor and future owner QVC was lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
