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WJCI
WJCI is an FM radio station located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The station operates on the FM radio frequency of 102.9 MHz. It broadcasts a Christian radio format and is an affiliate of Calvary Radio Network. History The station signed on as WEXI on September 1, 1965, originally at 103.1 FM, and licensed to nearby Roanoke. Ed Hughes was the owner/manager of WHUZ from 1979 to 1984, as it operated as a Top 40 station. The station was purchased by Price Communications in 1985, and renamed WIOE-FM "Commercial Free 103," targeting teen listeners in Fort Wayne. After nearly a year of commercial-free operation, the station eventually began running commercials. The station flipped to a simulcast with sister station WOWO in 1988, still on 103.1 and renamed WOWO-FM. Eventually, the frequency was changed to 102.9 FM and the station adopted the call letters WXKE, which had been used for many years on a rock/classic rock format at 103.9 FM. In February 2004, WXKE dropped its simulcast with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGL (AM)
WGL (1250 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Fort Wayne, Indiana, and owned by Brian R. Walsh. The station broadcasts an All-news radio, All-news format, branded as "WGL Newsradio 1250 and 105.5". WGL is one of the oldest stations in the Fort Wayne, IN Metropolitan Statistical Area, Fort Wayne metropolitan area. Studios are located on Cass Street and the transmitter site is located in Fort Wayne's East Central neighborhood in a facility also used by WIOE. WGL simulcasts over Fort Wayne translator W288EI (105.5 FM), which was added on March 5, 2021. High school football and basketball, primarily Bishop Luers High School, Bishop Luers and Bishop Dwenger High School, Bishop Dwenger, began on August 15, 2021. University of Saint Francis (Indiana), University of Saint Francis football and basketball will be added in the fall of 2022. History WGL was first licensed, with the sequentially issued call sign, call letters WHBJ, to the Lauer Auto Company at 2109 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvary Radio Network
Calvary Radio Network is a network of Christian radio stations in the Midwestern United States, broadcasting Christian talk and teaching programs as well as contemporary Christian music. The network is based in Valparaiso, Indiana. History In 2008, Calvary Radio Network purchased 26 full powered stations, 27 translators, and one construction permit from CSN International. These stations were sold to Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa later that year.Transactions , ''Radio Business Report''. Volume 25, Issue 238. December 8, 2008. Retrieved October 27, 2020. The network purchased 11 full powered stations and 20 translators back from Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa in 2010. In 2021, Calvary Radio Network sold WCJL (90.9 FM) at Morgantown, Indiana, Morgantown to the Educational Media Foundation for $250,000; it is now WBKC. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huntington, Indiana
Huntington, known as the "Lime City", is the largest city in and the county seat of Huntington County, Indiana, Huntington County, Indiana, United States. It is in Huntington Township, Huntington County, Indiana, Huntington and Union Township, Huntington County, Indiana, Union townships. It is also part of Fort Wayne, Indiana's metropolitan area. The population was 17,022 at the 2020 United States census, down from 17,391 in the 2010 United States census. History Name Huntington was named by Captain Elias Murray, a member of the legislature. The name ''Huntington'' is derived from Samuel Huntington (statesman), Samuel Huntington, a judge, politician, and patriot in the American Revolution. Samuel Huntington is also known for being the third governor of Connecticut and the seventh president of the Continental Congress. Being a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Huntington took part in voting for and signing the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRDF
WRDF (106.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Columbia City, Indiana located near Fort Wayne, Indiana. The station offers a Catholic radio format branded as "Relevant Radio". The station is owned by Fort Wayne Catholic Radio Group, Inc. History and programming The station signed on in October 1968 as WFDT, featuring a MOR music format. After a time as a soft AC station with the WKSY calls, the station changed to CHR/Top 40 in the late 1980s as WZRQ, but financial problems paired with low ratings eventually led to the station going off the air in August 1988. On September 26, 1990, 106.3 returned to the air as WBBE, known on air as ''"The Killer Bee, The All New B-106 FM"''. The call letters were later changed to WDJB on November 1, 1990. During The Killer Bee era, the station competed strongly with WMEE for all hit music listeners in Fort Wayne. At its peak, it was one of the market's most popular radio stations. This format would remain until April 1997. In April 1997, WD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIOE (AM)
WIOE (1450 AM) is a commercial oldies radio station licensed to serve Fort Wayne, Indiana. Owned by Brian Walsh, the station services the Fort Wayne Metropolitan Area and much of surrounding Northeastern Indiana as a full-power simulcast of WIOE (101.1 FM), licensed to nearby South Whitley. WIOE also simulcasts over Fort Wayne translator W282CH (104.3 FM). The WIOE studios are located in both Warsaw, and Fort Wayne, while WIOE's transmitter resides in Fort Wayne's East Central neighborhood along with W282CH's transmitter of Fort Wayne. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WIOE broadcasts under the C-QUAM AM stereo standard, and is available online. History WIOE has a rich history since its beginnings in 1948. The station was originally assigned the call letters WANE, and was owned by the Indiana Broadcasting Company, later known as Corinthian Broadcasting. In 1956, it acquired a sister television station, WANE-TV channel 15. In the mid-1960s, the radio station was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWFW
WWFW (103.9 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It airs a classic hits radio format and is owned by the Adams Radio Group. The studios are on Lower Huntington Road in Fort Wayne. WWFW is a Class A station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 1,600 watts directional with a null to the northwest. The transmitter tower is off Hillegas Road in Fort Wayne, near Interstate 69. History WXKE, WYLT and WWFW The station signed on the air on . The original call sign was WXKE. In 1983, a group of 5th grade students from Huntertown Elementary requested that the DJ play "Behind Blue Eyes" by the Who every day for 21 days in a row until the request was finally fulfilled. The group would later be known as the OSGG. For four years, 2002 to 2006, it changed its call sign to WYLT when it aired a "Lite" music format. It returned to its original call sign from 2006 to 2014. The station was owned by Summit City. In March 2014, the Adams Radio Group entered an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Some Nights (song)
"''Some Nights''" is a song by American pop rock band Fun (band), Fun. It was released on June 4, 2012, as the second single from their Some Nights (album), second studio album of the same name. The song was written by Jeff Bhasker, Nate Ruess, Andrew Dost, and Jack Antonoff. Musically "Some Nights" is an alternative rock song with elements of power pop and progressive pop while the lyrics depict the protagonist having an existential crisis. In the United States, "Some Nights" was a sleeper hit, spending approximately seven months on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 before reaching a peak of number three for six non-consecutive weeks beginning the week of September 29, 2012. The song became Fun's second single to enter the chart's top ten, as well as their second song to be certified platinum in the U.S., after their previous single, "We Are Young". "Some Nights" was successful around the world, topping the singles charts of Australia, Israel and New Zealand, and it rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Fort Wayne, Indiana
Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to an antenna which radiates the waves. They can be received by other antennas connected to a radio receiver; this is the fundamental principle of radio communication. In addition to communication, radio is used for 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 air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiographical songwriting, artistic versatility, and Cultural impact of Taylor Swift, cultural impact, Swift is one of the Best selling artists, world's best-selling artists, the List of highest-grossing live music artists, highest-grossing performer, the List of music artists by net worth, richest female musician, and the first billionaire with music as the main income. Swift signed to Big Machine Records in 2005, debuting as a Country music, country singer with the albums ''Taylor Swift (album), Taylor Swift'' (2006) and ''Fearless (Taylor Swift album), Fearless'' (2008). The singles "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Love Story (Taylor Swift song), Love Story", and "You Belong with Me" found Crossover music, crossover success on Country radio, country and Contemporary hit radio, pop radio formats. She incorporated Rock music, rock on ''Speak Now'' (2010) and Electronic music, electronic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as Cultural impact of Elvis Presley, one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Presley's sexually provocative performance style, combined with a mix of influences across color lines during a civil rights movement, transformative era in race relations, brought both great success and Cultural impact of Elvis Presley#Danger to American culture, initial controversy. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi; his family relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, when he was 13. He began his music career in 1954 at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. Presley, on guitar and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, Backbeat (music), backbeat-driven fusion of country music and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don McLean
Donald McLean III (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Known as the "American Troubadour" or "King of the Trail", he is best known for his 1971 hit "American Pie (song), American Pie", an eight-and-a-half-minute folk rock song that has been referred to as a "cultural touchstone". His other hit singles include "Vincent (Don McLean song), Vincent", "Dreidel", "Castles in the Air (song), Castles in the Air", and "Wonderful Baby", as well as renditions of Roy Orbison's "Crying (Roy Orbison song)#Don McLean version, Crying" and the Skyliners' "Since I Don't Have You". McLean's song "And I Love You So (song), And I Love You So" has been recorded by Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, Glen Campbell, and others. In 2000, Madonna had a hit with a rendition of "American Pie (song)#Madonna version, American Pie". In 2004, McLean was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In January 2018, BMI Foundation, BMI certified that "American Pie" had reache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
