WFAN People

	WFAN People WFAN may refer to: * WFAN (AM), 660 kHz, a sports radio station in New York City. * WFAN-FM, 101.9 MHz, a New York City station that simulcasts WFAN's sports radio format. * Women, Food and Agriculture Network, an Iowa-based advocacy group. WFAN also refers to three former radio stations in the Washington, D.C., area: * WFAN, now WYCB. * WFAN-FM, now WBIG-FM. * WFAN-TV, now WFDC-DT WFDC-DT (channel 14) is a television station licensed to Arlington, Virginia, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision and UniMás networks to the Washington, D.C., area. Owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision, the station mai ... . {{Disambiguation, callsign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	WFAN (AM) WFAN (660 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York, with a sports radio format, branded "Sports Radio 66 AM and 101.9 FM" or "The Fan". Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station serves the New York metropolitan area, while its 50,000-watt clear channel signal can be heard at night throughout much of the eastern United States and Canada. WFAN's studios are located in the Hudson Square neighborhood of lower Manhattan and its transmitter is located on High Island in the Bronx. The current WFAN, and its sports format, is the second New York City station with that call sign and programming. The original WFAN was launched on July 1, 1987, on , as the world's first radio station to adopt the sports radio format around-the-clock. The WFAN call letters and sports format were moved to the former WNBC at 660 kHz on October 7, 1988. WNBC's history dated to 1922, when it began operation as WEAF, licensed to Western Electric. Purchased by the Radio Corporation of Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	WFAN-FM WFAN-FM (101.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station simulcasts a sports radio format known as "Sports Radio 66 AM and 101.9 FM", or "The FAN", along with co-owned WFAN (660 AM). Its studios are in the Audacy facility in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. WFAN-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 6,000 watts, transmitting from atop the Empire State Building. WFAN-FM broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its HD digital subchannels carry Audacy's national sports networks, Infinity Sports Network and BetQL. History Early years The station traces its origin to an experimental Apex band radio station, W2XWF on 42.18 MHz, which was authorized in 1940 and licensed to radio engineer William G. H. Finch. In May 1940, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the establishment, effective January 1, 1941, of an FM radio band operating on 40 channels spanning 42–50 MHz. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Women, Food And Agriculture Network Women, Food and Agriculture Network (WFAN) is a non-profit organization that provides networking, education and leadership development for women in sustainable agriculture and food systems development. Programming focused mainly in the Midwest, such as an Iowa program called "Women Caring for the Land".Temra Costa, ''Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat'' (Gibbs Smith, 2010), , pp. 130-136.Excerpts availableat Google Books. Founders Its founders, Denise O'Brien and Kathy Lawrence, wanted to remedy the absence of women's voices in food and agricultural policy-making. Organization Women, Food and Agriculture Network started as an organization in 1997. Its establishment grew out of concerns about systemic rural, agricultural, and environmental problems and gender relations in these domains. Growth Since that time, WFAN has grown to a community of more than 1,200 women and men worldwide who share information and support each other's work through a listserv The term Listser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	WYCB WYCB (1340 AM) is a radio station in Washington, D.C., featuring an urban gospel format known as "Spirit 1340 AM". Owned by Urban One, its studios are in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the transmitter site is in Capitol Heights, Maryland. WYCB is the oldest gospel radio station in Washington; it was also the first contemporary gospel outlet in the United States. History Challenging WOOK's license The Washington Community Broadcasting Company filed on August 31, 1966, for a construction permit for a new radio station in Washington, D.C., as a challenge to the license of WOOK, an African American outlet which went on the air in 1940. Washington Community Broadcasting also sought to operate the companion television station, WOOK-TV (channel 14, later WFAN-TV), for which it was one of two challengers to the license. Washington Community's vice president was journalist Drew Pearson; other principals in the challenger included Pearson's friend Jack Anderson, a newscaster for WTO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	WBIG-FM WBIG-FM (100.3 MHz), branded as Big 100, is a commercial radio station licensed to Washington, D.C. It has a classic rock radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios and offices are in Rockville, Maryland. WBIG-FM has an effective radiated power of 50,000 watts. Its transmitter is off Tower Street in Falls Church, Virginia, unusually within a dense residential neighborhood with single-family housing surrounding it on all sides. Besides a standard analog transmission, WBIG broadcasts using HD Radio technology, and is also available online via iHeartRadio. The station is the official radio partner of the NFL's Washington Commanders. History WOOK-FM, WFAN The station first broadcast on 95.9, signing on the air in 1948. It was owned by the United Broadcasting Company and had the call sign WOOK-FM, as the companion to WOOK (1340 AM). The two stations largely simulcast their programming. The FM station soon changed call signs to WFAN, apparently to emphasize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]