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Virgin Radio
Virgin Radio is a branding of radio stations broadcast in Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. As of April 2024, there were over 40 stations globally. The stations in each country are owned and operated locally and independently of each other and the Virgin Group, which licenses the Virgin Radio brand and provides support services. Stations References External links Virgin Radio International {{Virgin Group Franchised radio formats Bell Media Lagardère Active News UK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CJCH-FM
CJCH-FM (101.3 Hertz, MHz) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The station broadcasts a Contemporary hit radio, Top 40/CHR radio format, format branded on-air as ''101.3 Virgin Radio'', and is owned by Bell Media. CJCH's studios and offices are located at the intersection of Russell and Agricola streets in Halifax (behind TV sister station CJCH-DT). The transmitter is located on Washmill Lake Drive in Clayton Park, Nova Scotia, Clayton Park. History AM early years (1944–1978) The station was established on November 14, 1944 by ''The Chronicle Herald, The Halifax Chronicle'' at 1320 AM. It was the second radio station to sign on in Halifax, after CHNS-FM, CHNS, which was founded in 1926. In 1945, CJCH was authorized to increase output power and move to a lower frequency on the AM dial (920 kHz). By the 1960s, CJCH was broadcasting with 10,000 watts by day and 5,000 watts at night. In 1961, it put a TV station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Radio Lebanon
Virgin Radio Lebanon is part of the Virgin Radio chain launched by Richard Branson which is also part of the Virgin Group Virgin Group Ltd is a British multinational venture capital conglomerate founded by Richard Branson and Nik Powell in February 1970. Virgin Group's date of incorporation is listed as 1989 by Companies House, who class it as a holding compa ..., operated in Lebanon by Levant Media Hub SAL. Its official launch was on 15 May 2013. On September 1, 2019, Virgin Radio Stars Lebanon was launched on FM 89.7, alongside its sister radio station Virgin Radio Lebanon on FM 89.5. References External linksVirgin Radio Lebanon and Virgin Radio Stars Lebanon official website {{coord missing, Lebanon 2013 establishments in Lebanon Radio stations established in 2013 Radio stations in Lebanon Mass media in Beirut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CHBE-FM
CHBE-FM (107.3 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Victoria, British Columbia. The station is owned by Bell Media and broadcasts a Top 40/CHR format. The radio studios and offices are on Broad Street in Victoria. CHBE has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 20,000 watts horizontal polarization only. The transmitter is on Claudette Court in Victoria. CHBE broadcasts using HD Radio technology. The HD-2 digital subchannel carries the talk format on co-owned CFAX. The HD3 subchannel rebroadcasts the comedy format heard on CKST. History CFEX (2000–2004) The station received approval in October 1999. It originally launched in May 26, 2000 as CFEX, a modern rock station branded as ''Extreme 107.3''. It was owned by Seacoast Communications, which also owned CFAX in the city. On August 16, 2002, at 1:07 p.m., it changed to adult hits as ''B107.3''. Kool FM (2004–2019) CFAX and CHBE were acquired by CHUM Limited in November 2004. On the 19th of that month, CHBE bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Metro Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada#List, third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over , and the fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most Ethnic origins of people in Canada, ethnically and Languages of Canada, linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 47.8 percent are native speakers of nei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Radio Turkey ...
This is a list of the radio stations in Turkey. References External links Radio stations in Istanbul - frequencies, transmitters and live streaming {{List of radio stations in Europe Turkey Radio stations Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio signal, 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 lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Radio Romania
Virgin Radio Romania is a Romanian national radio station with coverage in almost all the cities of the country. Virgin Radio started broadcasting in Romania on 9 January 2017. Virgin Radio Romania is part of a media group that also operates Europa FM and Vibe FM. Created as Romania's interactive radio station for youngsters, Virgin Radio Romania is the place for new music and innovation. It is the only Romanian radio station that became the official partner for Tomorrowland Tomorrowland may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Tomorrowland (Disney Parks), a theme land at a number of Disney theme parks around the world * Tomorrowland (festival), an annual electronic dance music festival in Boom, Belgium * ''Tom ..., as well as for major festivals which took place locally and across Europe. Virgin Radio Romania is broadcasting 24/7 hip hop, r&b and new music. In the past years, it has generated one of the most engaging contests and campaigns on air and on line. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediaset
Mediaset S.p.A. is an Italian mass media and television production and distribution company that is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country. The company is controlled by the holding company MFE – MediaForEurope (the original iteration of Mediaset S.p.A., the Mediaset Group), which is majority-owned by the Berlusconi family's Fininvest Group. Stemming from a business founded in 1987 by entrepreneur and later Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, Mediaset competes primarily against the public broadcaster RAI, the privately owned La7 and (through Sky Group Limited) Comcast's Sky Italia. Mediaset's headquarters are in Milan, Lombardy. Many of its studios are located in the Milano 2 area of Segrate, a municipality bordering Milan, where broadcasts of local station TeleMilano (now airing nationally as Mediaset's Canale 5) began in 1978. After merging with various local broadcasters to form the Canale 5 syndication, much production was moved to Cologno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Radio Italia
Virgin Radio is a music-based Italian radio station, which started nationwide broadcasting on 12 July 2007 at 12:00 AM (with the song " What a Wonderful World" by Joey Ramone). It is owned by Mediaset and the programming consists of rock music (rockabilly, hard rock, punk rock, rock and roll Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, and rock 'n' roll) is a Genre (music), genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It Origins of rock and roll, originated from African ... and more). Virgin Radio TV Virgin Radio TV was an Italian music television channel, launched on 30 November 2010. Freely available on selected local digital terrestrial television networks in Italy and on Hotbird 8, feature a separate programming and music playlist from his radio counterpart. On 1 August 2012 it ceased broadcasting only in digital terrestrial television. References External links * * Mass media in Milan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espace Group
Espace Group is a French media company established in 1987, based at Lyon and which engages in mainly radio publishing. Between 1993 and 2009, the Espace Group was allowed to broadcast the Swiss radio station Couleur 3 in France, until all French frequencies were taken over completely by Virage Radio in June 2009. Operations Radio stations Espace Group is currently owning and broadcasting the following stations: * Alpes 1 (Grenoble, Gap) : since 1999 * Générations (Paris) : since 1992 * Jazz Radio (Lyon) : since 1996 (formerly ''Fréquence Jazz'') * Là la Radio (Briançon) * La Radio Plus (Thonon-les-Bains) : since 1982 (formerly: ''Radio Thollon'') * M Radio (Lyon) : since 1981 (formerly: ''Radio Montmartre'', ''Montmartre FM'', ''MFM Radio'') * ODS Radio (Annecy) : since the 1980s * Radio Espace (Lyon) : since 1995 * Radio RVA (Clermont-Ferrand) : since the 1990s * Radio Sun (Lyon) : since 1993 * Virage Radio (Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CKMM-FM
CKMM-FM (103.1 MHz) is a Top 40/CHR radio station owned by Bell Media, branded as ''103.1 Virgin Radio''. The station broadcasts from 1445 Pembina Highway, Winnipeg, Manitoba, with sister station CFWM-FM, while its transmitter is located at Duff Roblin Provincial Park. History On March 13, 1979, Armadale Communications was awarded a license for a new FM station in Winnipeg, to broadcast on 103.1 MHz. On February 14, 1980, the station signed on air as CKWG-FM, with a near freeform format. On August 21, 1989, the station flipped to adult contemporary. The following year, the station was sold to Western World Communications. The call signs have changed quite a bit over the years, from CHZZ-FM (''Z103'') to CKLU-FM (''103 U FM'', then briefly ''Mix 103'') and then finally to CKMM-FM. The General Manager of "Mix" was Jim Millican - who, at one time, was tour manager of famed Winnipeg band, The Guess Who. Barry Horne was Program Director under Millican. Toronto jock and voiceo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Manitoba. It is centred on the confluence of the Red River of the North, Red and Assiniboine River, Assiniboine rivers. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,607 and a metropolitan population of 834,678, making it Canada's List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, sixth-largest city and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, eighth-largest metropolitan area. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Cree language, Western Cree words for 'muddy water' – . The region was a trading centre for Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples long before the European colonization of the Americas, arrival of Europeans; it is the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe (Ojibway), Ininew (Cree), Oji-Cree, Dene, and Dakota people, Dakota, and is the birthplace of the Métis people in Canada, Métis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
