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WOKY
WOKY (920 kHz, "Fox Sports 920") is a commercial AM radio station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. It is one of two sports radio stations owned by iHeart in Milwaukee. WRNW focuses on Wisconsin-based sports shows, while WOKY mostly airs national programs from Fox Sports Radio, including Dan Patrick and Colin Cowherd. WOKY's studios and offices, which became the home of all iHeart Milwaukee stations in 2000 after a building expansion, are on West Howard Avenue in Greenfield. By day, WOKY is powered at 5,000 watts. To protect other stations on 920 AM from interference, it reduces power at night to 1,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array. The transmitter site is behind the studios in Greenfield. WOKY broadcasts using HD Radio technology. History WEXT The history of WOKY can be traced back to WEXT, a 1,000-watt daytimer radio station at 1430 kHz in Milwaukee. It was founded by what would become the Bartell Group: Lee, Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartell Group
The Bartell Group, later known as Bartell Broadcasters, Bartell Family Radio, Macfadden-Bartell, and the Bartell Media Corporation, was a family-owned company that owned a number of radio stations in the United States during the 1940s through the 1960s. Family members involved in the radio operations included five siblings, Gerald "Jerry" Bartell, Melvin Bartell, Lee Bartell, David Bartell, Rosa Bartell Evans, and one sibling-in-law, Ralph Evans. Several of them got their start in while attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Wisconsin and participating in the operations of university-owned station WHA (AM), WHA. They entered the radio business with Milwaukee station WOKY#Beginnings: WEXT, WEXT in 1947, on the belief that between them they had expertise in law, engineering, music, writing, and acting, all of which would prove useful in the field. Some of the more well-known stations the Bartell Group owned include WOKY#WOKY, The Mighty 92, WOKY in Milwaukee, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRIT-FM
WRIT-FM (95.7 MHz "BIG FM") is a radio station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. It carries a classic hits radio format, switching to Christmas music for much of November and December. The rest of the year, WRIT focuses on hits from the 1980s and 1990s, along with a few '60s, '70s and early 2000s titles. WRIT is used as an overflow for sports coverage when there are conflicts on co-owned sports radio station WRNW. WRIT-FM is a Class B FM station, with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 34,000 watts. Its transmitter is on West Capitol Drive near North Port Washington Avenue in Glendale. The studios are on Howard Avenue in the Milwaukee suburb of Greenfield. History The station signed on the air on May 10, 1961, as WMIL-FM. It initially aired a country music–polka format, simulcasting full-time with sister station WMIL (1290 AM). Following the purchase of both stations by Malrite Broadcasting, on May 12, 1968, the ethnic and polka music programming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRNW
WRNW (97.3 FM) is a commercial radio station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, known as "97.3 The Game". It airs a sports radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios are on West Howard Avenue in Greenfield. WRNW is a Class B FM station with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 15,500 watts. The transmitter is atop the WISN-TV tower in Lincoln Park, near the Milwaukee River. WRNW broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its HD2 digital subchannel carries talk radio programming from co-owned WISN (1130 AM); WISN-TV is owned by Hearst Television and outside its tower lease, has no other connection to WISN radio and WRNW. Programming On weekdays, WRNW features local sports shows during the day and evening. Steve Czaban and Brian Butch are heard in morning drive time. He is followed by Bill Schmid and Armen Saryan from 9am-noon. In afternoons, Mike Heller, Nick Bruesewitz, Drew Olson, Kevin Brandt, Hunter Baumgardt, Tim Allen, Matt Schneidman, and Doug Russell ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMIL-FM
WMIL-FM (106.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Waukesha, Wisconsin, and serving the Greater Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin radio market. It carries a country music radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios and offices are on West Howard Avenue in the Milwaukee suburb of Greenfield. WMIL-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 12,000 watts. The transmitter site is in Milwaukee's North Side off Humboldt Boulevard near Estabrook Park and the Milwaukee River. WMIL-FM broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format. The HD2 digital subchannel formerly aired alternative rock from the 1990s and 2000s as "Alt 2K". History WAUX-FM, WAUK-FM On January 1, 1962, the station signed on as WAUX-FM, the FM sister station to WAUX (1510 AM). The stations were owned by the Waukesha Broadcasting Company. At the time, WAUX-FM’s effective radiated power was 3,800 watts, a fraction of its current output. Because WAUX was a daytimer, the two stations si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKKV-FM
WKKV-FM (100.7 MHz), also known as ''V-100.7'', is an urban contemporary radio station owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. serving the Milwaukee area. The station broadcasts with an ERP of 50 kW and is licensed to Racine, Wisconsin. Its studios are located in the Milwaukee suburb of Greenfield. The playlist of ''V-100.7'' consists of primarily current hip-hop and R&B as well as some older Hip Hop and R&B from the 2010s. At 50,000 watts, WKKV's signal is one of the strongest in the area, and can travel over Lake Michigan into the state of Michigan. V-100.7 can be heard reliably as far west as Madison, north to Sheboygan, south into the Chicago suburbs, and beyond depending on conditions. Due to its tower lying in close proximity to the open waters of Lake Michigan, both its analog signal can periodically travel with local quality in excess of 120 miles to the east along the Michigan shoreline without interference, this is most common in the summer months when warm air temperatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WISN (AM)
WISN (1130 Hertz, kHz) is a commercial radio, commercial AM broadcasting, AM radio station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It broadcasts a news/talk radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios are on Howard Avenue in the Milwaukee suburb of Greenfield, Wisconsin, Greenfield. By day, WISN runs the maximum power for commercial AM stations, 50,000 watts. To protect other stations on 1130 AM, a clear channel station, clear channel frequency, it reduces power at night to 10,000 watts and uses a directional antenna at all times. Its nine-tower array is located at 21423 Bennett Road in Dover, Racine County, Wisconsin, Dover, off U.S. Route 41 in Wisconsin, U.S. Route 41. WISN is also heard on the HD Radio, HD 2 digital subchannel of sister station WRNW (97.3 FM). Programming WISN airs a mix of local hosts and radio syndication, syndicated conservative talk shows from Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia. An hour of news, the ''Morning Briefing'', starts off the week ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
920 AM
The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 920 kHz: 920 AM is a Regional In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and ... broadcast frequency. Canada Mexico * XELCM-AM in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán * XELE-AM in Tampico, Tamaulipas * XELT-AM in Huentitan el Bajo (Guadalajara), Jalisco * XERE-AM in Ojo Seco, Guanajuato * XESTRC-AM in Tenabo, Campeche * XEZAR-AM in San Bernardino Tlaxcalancingo, Puebla Paraguay * ZP1 at Asunción. United States References {{DEFAULTSORT:920 Am Lists of radio stations by frequency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Sports Radio
Fox Sports Radio is an Radio in the United States, American Sports radio, sports radio network. Based in Los Angeles, California, the network is operated and managed by Premiere Networks in a content partnership with Fox Corporation's Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports division and iHeartMedia, parent company of Premiere Networks. With studios also in New York City, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Tampa, Florida, Tampa, Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tulsa, Cincinnati, and Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio is broadcast on more than 400 stations, as well as FoxSports.com on MSN and iHeartRadio. Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) sold its stake in Sirius XM Radio in the second quarter of fiscal year 2013. As a result, nine of Clear Channel's eleven XM Satellite Radio stations, including Fox Sports Radio, ceased broadcast over XM on October 18, 2013. Fox Sports Radio returned to the Sirius XM radio lineup on January 20, 2017. The Sirius XM feed contains some l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milwaukee Admirals
The Milwaukee Admirals are a professional ice hockey team based in Milwaukee. They are the American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Nashville Predators. They play their homes games at the UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Panther Arena. The team has been playing since 1970, originally as an amateur team called the Milwaukee Wings, but were renamed as the Admirals after their first season. They played an independent schedule until joining the semiprofessional United States Hockey League (USHL) in 1973. In 1977, the Admirals joined the International Hockey League (1945–2001), International Hockey League (IHL) when the USHL transitioned to a Junior ice hockey, junior league. When the IHL ceased operations in 2001, the Admirals joined the AHL. History Independent era The Admirals first took to the ice in the winter of 1970 as an amateur club known as the Milwaukee Wings. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Citizens Benefit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of Power (physics), power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantification (science), quantify the rate of Work (physics), energy transfer. The watt is named in honor of James Watt (1736–1819), an 18th-century Scottish people, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved the Newcomen engine with his own Watt steam engine, steam engine in 1776, which became fundamental for the Industrial Revolution. Overview When an object's velocity is held constant at one meter per second against a constant opposing force of one Newton (unit), newton, the rate at which Work (physics), work is done is one watt. \mathrm. In terms of electromagnetism, one watt is the rate at which electrical work is performed when a current of one ampere (A) flows across an electrical potential difference of one volt (V), meaning the watt is equivalent to the vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Radio
Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sport, sporting events. A widespread programming genre that has a narrow audience appeal, sports radio is characterized by an often-low comedy, boisterous on-air style and extensive debate and analysis by both :wikt:host, hosts and caller (telecommunications), callers. Many sports talk stations also carry play-by-play (live commentary) of local sports teams as part of their regular programming. History In 1955, WHN New York launched the first regular sports talk program featuring a broadcaster/journalist roundtable that aired before and after Brooklyn Dodgers games. By the early 1960s, sports talk content, ranging from individual commentary to roundtable discussions, began appearing in major US markets, initially tied to play-by-play broadcasts but gradually developing unique styles and characters. Art Rust Jr. launched New York’s first interactive call-in show (WMCA) in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daytimer
A clear-channel station is a North American AM radio station that has the highest level of protection from interference from other stations, particularly from nighttime skywave signals. This classification exists to ensure the viability of cross-country or cross-continent radio service enforced through a series of treaties and statutory laws. Known as Class A stations since the 1983 adoption of the Regional Agreement for the Medium Frequency Broadcasting Service in Region 2 (Rio Agreement), they are occasionally still referred to by their former classifications of Class I-A (the highest classification), Class I-B (the next highest class), or Class I-N (for stations in Alaska too far away to cause interference to the primary clear-channel stations in the lower 48 states). The term "clear-channel" is used most often in the context of North America and the Caribbean, where the concept originated. Since 1941, these stations have been required to maintain a transmitter power output ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
