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WZPL
WZPL (99.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Greenfield, Indiana, and serving the Indianapolis metropolitan area. The station airs a Top 40 (CHR) format. WZPL is owned by Cumulus Media. Its studios are located on North Shadeland Avenue on the city's east side, with its transmitter north of the Indianapolis World Sports Park on the east side of Indianapolis. History The station signed on as WSMJ on June 1, 1962 and remained as such until the spring of 1979 when WSMJ was sold to Heftel Broadcasting. They changed to a disco music format and adopted the call sign WIKS-FM, "Rock Kiss 99 FM", on April 14, 1979. Later, a contemporary hit radio format was adopted which, aside from a brief experiment playing classic rock in 1989, has continued to this day. The station was added to both Mediabase and Nielsen BDS Top 40/CHR reporting panels in November 2012. The station is anchored by The Smiley Morning Show, hosted by Dave Smiley. In the early 2000s, the station was known as "Z 99-5. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Smiley Morning Show
''The Smiley Morning Show'' is a morning radio program on radio station WZPL (99.5 FM - a Cumulus Media station) broadcasting from Indianapolis, Indiana. The show first aired in 2002 and is hosted by radio personality Dave Smiley and co-hosts Nikki Reed, Toni Williams, and Producer Will. The show is a talk/entertainment morning show that includes significant interaction with listeners. Each morning features Dave Smiley making various comments about the upcoming day, and features guest interviews with local Indiana celebrities, actors, comedians and musicians. Cast *Dave Smiley - Host of the show since 2002. Originally from Pella, Iowa where he started in radio as a teen at Valley High School's KWDM radio station. Smiley moved to the Indianapolis area in May 2002 after stints in New York, San Diego, California and Phoenix, Arizona. Smiley proposed to his girlfriend Sarah Brown on January 7, 2012 and is now married to her. They welcomed their first child in 2014. Smiley loves to trav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNDX
WNDX (93.9 Hertz, MHz) is a commercial radio, commercial FM radio, FM radio station, city of license, licensed to Lawrence, Indiana, and serving the Indianapolis metropolitan area. It is owned by Cumulus Media and airs a mainstream rock radio format, using the moniker 93-9X. The studios and offices are located on North Shadeland Avenue on the east side of Indianapolis. WNDX's transmitter is located off 38th Street, also on the east side of Indianapolis. It is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to broadcast in the HD Radio, HD (hybrid) format. History Easy listening (1993-1996) The station sign-on, signed on the air on February 12, 1993, as WXTZ, "Ecstasy 93.9." It was licensed to Fishers, Indiana, Fishers, and carried an easy listening format similar to the original WXTZ, which broadcast at 103.3 several years prior. Urban oldies (1996) The easy format lasted until January 15, 1996, when it was dropped in favor of Citadel Media, ABC Radio's now-defunct "Solid G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNTR
WNTR (107.9 FM) is a commercial radio station located in Indianapolis, Indiana. WNTR airs an adult contemporary format under the ownership of Cumulus Media. Its studios are located on North Meridian Street, and its transmitter tower is on the northwest side. History Prior use of 107.9 FM in Indianapolis Indiana Broadcasting Company was granted a construction permit to build a new radio station on 107.9 FM in Indianapolis on July 21, 1960. The station went on air October 22, 1961, as WISH-FM, a sister station to WISH (1310 AM) and WISH-TV (channel 8). In November 1963, owner Corinthian Broadcasting opted to focus on its television stations and sold the WISH radio stations to the Star Stations group, headed by Don Burden. Under Burden, WISH-AM-FM became WIFE-AM-FM. Lucky 13 WIFE was a Top 40 dynasty into the 1970s, while the FM operation was an automated beautiful music station. However, Burden ran afoul of the Federal Communications Commission for a number of serious violatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXNT
WXNT (1430 AM) is a commercial radio station in Indianapolis, Indiana. The station is owned by Cumulus Media, and carries an all-sports radio format, as an affiliate of the CBS Sports Radio Network. WXNT's schedule consists of CBS Sports Radio shows and live sporting events. WXNT studios and offices are located on N. Meridian Street, along with sister stations 99.5 WZPL and 107.9 WNTR. The transmitter and antenna are located off Knollton Road at West 46th Street, on the northwest side of Indianapolis. WXNT operates at 5000 watts around the clock, using a non-directional antenna by day. But at night a directional antenna is required to protect other stations on AM 1430 from interference. History WXNT first signed on as WKBF in 1926 at 1400 kHz. Eleven years later, the station changed its call letters to WIRE, as announced by the Federal Communications Commission on March 16, 1935. In 1941, the station moved to its current dial position at 1430 kHz, when th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Hit Radio
Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock, pop, or urban music. Used alone, ''CHR'' most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term ''contemporary hit radio'' was coined in the early 1980s by ''Radio & Records'' magazine to designate Top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into Adult contemporary, Urban contemporary, Contemporary Christian and other formats. The term "top 40" is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. The term has also been modified to describe top 50; top 30; top 20; top 10; hot 100 (each with its number of songs) and hot hits radio formats, but carrying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Hit Radio
Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock, pop, or urban music. Used alone, ''CHR'' most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term ''contemporary hit radio'' was coined in the early 1980s by ''Radio & Records'' magazine to designate Top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into Adult contemporary, Urban contemporary, Contemporary Christian and other formats. The term "top 40" is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. The term has also been modified to describe top 50; top 30; top 20; top 10; hot 100 (each with its number of songs) and hot hits radio formats, but carrying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entercom
Audacy, Inc. is an American broadcasting company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1968 as Entercom Communications Corporation, it is the second largest radio company in the United States, owning 235 radio stations across 48 media markets. In November 2017, the company merged with CBS Radio. The transaction was structured as an exchange offer whereby owners of CBS Corporation common shares (i.e., not the multiple-voting shares held by National Amusements) at the time of the merger could elect to exchange their shares for Entercom shares corresponding to a 72% stake in the combined company. It is not clear how many CBS shareholders retained these Audacy shares, and the present-day Paramount Global has never held any ownership in the company. History Final logo used under the Entercom brand Joseph M. Field founded the company as Entertainment Communications (which would later be shortened to Entercom) on October 21, 1968, on the conviction that FM broadcasting, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFMS
WFMS (95.5 MHz) is a commercial country music FM radio station. It is owned by Cumulus Media and is licensed to Fishers, Indiana, while serving the Indianapolis metropolitan area. Its studios and offices are located on North Shadeland Avenue east of Indianapolis, and its transmitter is off Burk Road. The station has won several awards from the Country Music Association as large market station of the year. WFMS is licensed to broadcast in the hybrid HD Radio format. History WFMS first signed on Signing may refer to: * Using sign language * Signature, placing one's name on a document * Signature (other) * Manual communication, signing as a form of communication using the hands in place of the voice * Digital signature A di ... the air on March 15, 1957, and originally it was licensed to Indianapolis. It became a country music station in October 1976, and has stayed in the same format since then. Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 p. C-71 References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJJK
WJJK (104.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Noblesville, Indiana, and broadcasting to the Indianapolis metropolitan area. It is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a classic hits radio format. The studios and offices are on North Shadeland Avenue on the east side of Indianapolis. WJJK has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts, the maximum for most stations in Indiana. The transmitter is on Bulldog Road, near the athletic fields for Butler University, which once owned the station. WJJK is licensed to broadcast in the HD radio (hybrid) format. History On , the station signed on the air. It began as WAJC, with the call letters standing for Arthur Jordan College of Music. It was originally a non-commercial, college radio station at 91.3 MHz. It moved to its current frequency of 104.5 MHz in 1956, as the Butler University radio station. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Rock
Classic rock is a US radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid 1990s, primarily focusing on commercially successful blues rock and hard rock popularized in the 1970s AOR format.Pareles, Jon (June 18, 1986)"Oldies on Rise in Album-Rock Radio" ''The New York Times''. Retrieved April 19, 2019. The radio format became increasingly popular with the baby boomer demographic by the end of the 1990s. Although classic rock has mostly appealed to adult listeners, music associated with this format received more exposure with younger listeners with the presence of the Internet and digital downloading. Some classic rock stations also play a limited number of current releases which are stylistically consistent with the station's sound, or by heritage acts which are still active and producing new music."New York Radio Guide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 In Radio
The year 1989 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting. __TOC__ Events * KMEZ breaks away from its FM sister station to adopt a business-oriented news/talk format as KDBN. * ABC Radio has acquired Satellite Music Network. This division is now known as "ABC Music Radio". *The NBC Radio Network ceases to operate as a separate programming service; owner Westwood One merges it with the Mutual Broadcasting System, moving the networks' news and engineering departments from New York to Mutual's facilities in Arlington. The lone non-news program that remains on NBC Radio, the Sunday-morning religious program '' The Eternal Light'', is also canceled. *January – KSTT (1170 AM) of Davenport, Iowa switches from a solid gold oldies format (which had been in place since 1986) to simulcasting WXLP (96.9 FM), in addition to increasing its sports broadcasts. *January 19 – WIOQ in Philadelphia switches from oldies to a Top 40 format becomes Q102. *March 17 – 100.3 FM in Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediabase
Mediabase is a music industry service that monitors radio station airplay in 180 US and Canadian markets. Mediabase publishes music charts and data based on the most played songs on terrestrial and satellite radio, and provides in-depth analytical tools for radio and record industry professionals. Mediabase charts and airplay data are used on many popular radio countdown shows and televised music awards programs. Music charts are published in both domestic and international trade publications and newspapers worldwide. Mediabase is a division of iHeartMedia. History Mediabase was founded in 1985 by Nancy and Rich Deitemeyer (a.k.a. Rich Meyer). Originally known as Mediascan, the company changed its name to Mediabase in 1987. Mediabase became the industry's first mass-airplay monitoring company in late 1987. After its inception, Mediabase was purchased by a private equity group based in Detroit, Michigan, then acquired by California-based Premiere Radio Networks, Jacor Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
