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K273BH
K273BH (102.5 FM, "Hot 102.5") is a translator broadcasting the mainstream urban format of the HD3 subcarrier of iHeartMedia's KTCZ-FM. Licensed to Fridley, Minnesota, it serves the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area inside the I-494/I-694 beltway. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, through licensee iHM Licenses, LLC. All the offices and studios are located in St. Louis Park and the transmitter is atop the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis. History In 2010, the translator signed on carrying KDWB-FM's HD2 sub-channel, which aired a dance music format known as "The Party Zone." In 2013, this would be dropped for a relay of the Air 1 network, which was carried on KTCZ-HD2 at the time. The relay would move to W225AP (92.9 FM) and K249ED (97.7 FM). On June 5, 2015, at 3 p.m., after stunting for an hour with songs with the word "hot" in the name, KTCZ-HD3/K273BH launched with a classic hip hop format, branded as "Hot 102.5". The format would shift to urb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTCZ-FM
KTCZ-FM (97.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 429,954 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the state's List of cities in Minnesota, most populous city. Locat ... and serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul media market, radio market and Western Wisconsin. KTCZ airs a hybrid modern adult contemporary radio format. The station is owned and operated by iHeartMedia and has radio studio, studios and offices on Utica Avenue South in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, St. Louis Park. KTCZ's transmitter is located on the KMSP Tower located off Ramby Avenue near Interstate 694 in Shoreview, Minnesota, Shoreview. KTCZ broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format. The HD2 subchannel carries contemporary Christian music from the K-Love network, and feeds four FM translator stations, while the HD3 subchannel carries an urban contemp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KDWB-FM
KDWB-FM (101.3 MHz) is an commercial radio station broadcasting in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ..., city of license, licensed to suburban Richfield, Minnesota, Richfield. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, and airs a contemporary hit radio format. KDWB has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. KDWB's transmitter broadcasts from the KMSP Tower in Shoreview. KDWB has an auxiliary transmitter with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 32,540 watts located at the IDS Center in Downtown Minneapolis. Studios are located in St. Louis Park. History Between its AM and FM frequencies, KDWB has been an uninterrupted Top 40 outlet since 1959. Originally starting out at 630 kHz, in 1976 the station's owner, Doubleday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
W227BF
W227BF (93.3 FM broadcasting, FM) is a broadcast translator, translator broadcasting Black Information Network programming from the HD Radio, HD2 subcarrier of iHeartMedia's KQQL. City of license, Licensed to Shoreview, Minnesota, it serves the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area inside the I-494/I-694 beltway. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. All the offices and studios are located in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, St. Louis Park and the transmitter is atop the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis. History On April 25, 2006, Clear Channel announced that KQQL's HD2 subchannel will carry a format focusing on hit music from the 1980s. The HD2 station, called Kool 1-0-80s, showcased every song to ever hit the Top 40 in the 1980s. During summer 2011, the HD2 subchannel changed programming to a simulcast of AM radio station KFXN (AM), KFXN ('The Score'). On September 8, 2011, the "Score" sports format began airing exclusively on KQQL-HD2 as their former s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K244FE
K244FE (96.7 FM, "KFAN Plus") is a translator broadcasting the sports talk format of the HD3 subcarrier of iHeartMedia's KQQL. Licensed to Minneapolis' "Calhoun Beach" neighborhood, it serves the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area inside the I-494/I-694 beltway. The station is owned by Educational Media Foundation. All the offices and studios are located in St. Louis Park and the transmitter is atop the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis. History As of October 2, 2014, KQQL's ''Kool 1-0-80s'' format was being broadcast on KQQL's HD3 channel and on translator W244CS (96.7 FM) in the Southeast metro. On June 12, 2015, KQQL-HD3 and W244CS flipped to ''96.7 Pride Radio'', a Dance/CHR format targeting the Twin Cities' LGBT community. On August 27, 2018, the station flipped to sports talk as ''KFAN Plus'', an extension of sister station KFXN-FM that airs the national Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports Radio is an Radio in the United States, American Sports radio, sports radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTLK (AM)
KTLK (1130 kHz) – branded ''News/Talk AM 1130 and FM 103.5'' – is a commercial radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota. It broadcasts a conservative talk radio format to the Twin Cities radio market and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios are on Utica Avenue South in St. Louis Park. By day, KTLK is powered at the maximum for AM stations, 50,000 watts, and uses a directional antenna at all times. At night, to avoid interference with other stations on 1130 AM, it reduces power to 25,000 watts and uses a nine- tower array. The transmitter is on Flag Trail at Prairie Hills Lane in Prior Lake. Programming is also heard on 175-watt FM translator K278BP at 103.5 MHz in Cottage Grove. It is also simulcast over an HD Radio subchannel of 100.3 KFXN-FM. History Early years KTLK is the second-oldest continuously operating station in Minnesota. It signed on the air on . Dr. George W. Young was the founder of the station, first using the sequentia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IDS Center
The IDS Center is an office skyscraper located at 80 South 8th Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Completed in 1973, it is the tallest building in Minneapolis, and the tallest building in the state at a height of . It originally stood , though a garage for window washing equipment was added between 1978 and 1979. The structure rises to when including communications spires on the roof, indisputably the highest points in the city. The IDS was constructed as the headquarters of Investors Diversified Services, Inc.—now Ameriprise Financial. It also housed the headquarters of Dayton Hudson Corporation (now Target Corporation) from 1972 until 2001. The complex consists of five parts: the 57-story IDS Tower itself at 8th Street & Nicollet Mall, an eight-story annex building along Marquette Avenue, the 19-story Marquette Hotel at 7th Street & Marquette Avenue, and a two-story retail building that was originally dominated by Woolworth's. These four buildings are joined by the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KQQL
KQQL (107.9 FM broadcasting, FM, "KOOL 108") is a commercial radio, commercial radio station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul media market, radio market and is city of license, licensed to suburban Anoka, Minnesota, Anoka. It plays classic hits and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The radio studio, studios and offices are on Utica Avenue South in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, St. Louis Park. KQQL's has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 95,000 watts (100,000 with beam tilt). The transmitter is off St. Francis Boulevard NW in Nowthen, Minnesota. It broadcasts digital radio using iBiquity's HD Radio format, with the HD2 subchannel airing the African-American-oriented Black Information Network service. The HD3 subchannel carries a sports radio service known as "KFAN Plus". FM translator W227BF (93.3 FM) is fed by the HD2 subchannel, while K244FE (96.7 FM) is fed by the HD3 subchannel. Programming KQQL broadcasts a classic hits radio format known as "Kool 108". KQQL mainly plays mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFXN-FM
KFXN-FM (100.3 Hertz, MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, broadcasting a sports talk radio format, format. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, and serves the Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Twin Cities market. KFXN-FM's transmitter is located in the suburb of Shoreview, Minnesota, Shoreview on KMSP-TV's tower. Its effective radiated power is 100,000 watts (including beam tilt). The station's main studios are in St. Louis Park. KFXN-FM is the flagship (radio), flagship station of the Minnesota Lynx, Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Vikings, Minnesota Wild, and Minnesota Golden Gophers football. At midnight on August 15, 2011, iHeartMedia (then known as Clear Channel Communications) swapped the formats of KTLK (AM), KFAN (1130 AM broadcasting, AM), and 100.3 FM's former conservative Talk radio, news/talk format KTLK-FM. The new KFXN-FM call sign, shared with former AM KFXN (AM), sister station KFXN, was adopted the same day. History WCTS-FM The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KEEY-FM
KEEY-FM (102.1 MHz, "K102") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to St. Paul, Minnesota, and serving the Minneapolis-Saint Paul radio market. It broadcasts a country music radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The radio studios and offices are on Utica Avenue South in St. Louis Park. KEEY-FM carries two syndicated programs from co-owned Premiere Networks: '' CMT Nights with Cody Alan'', heard overnight, and '' The Bobby Bones Show'', heard Sunday evenings. KEEY-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The transmitter is on Ramby Avenue in Shoreview, near Interstate 694. KEEY-FM broadcasts using HD Radio technology; the HD3 subchannel simulcasts the Hmong language format originating on WIXK (1590 AM); the HD3 sub-channel feeds FM translator K294AM (106.7 MHz). History KSTP-FM The 102.1 FM frequency was originally home to KSTP-FM, which launched in 1947. The station was the FM counterpart of Hubbard Broadcasting's AM 1500 K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of License
In U.S., Canadian, and Mexican broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator. In North American broadcast law, the concept of ''community of license'' dates to the early days of AM radio broadcasting. The requirement that a broadcasting station operate a ''main studio'' within a prescribed distance of the community which the station is licensed to serve appears in U.S. law as early as 1939. Various specific obligations have been applied to broadcasters by governments to fulfill public policy objectives of broadcast localism, both in radio and later also in television, based on the legislative presumption that a broadcaster fills a similar role to that held by community newspaper publishers. United States In the United States, the Communications Act of 1934 requires that "the Commission shall make such distribution of licenses, frequenci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minneapolis–Saint Paul
Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a metropolitan area in the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States centered around the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi, Minnesota River, Minnesota, and St. Croix River (Wisconsin–Minnesota), St. Croix rivers in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is commonly known as the Twin Cities after the area's two largest cities, Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, Saint Paul. Minneapolis sits mostly on the west side of the Mississippi River on lake-covered terrain. Although most of the city is residential neighborhoods, it has a business-dominated Central, Minneapolis, downtown area with some historic industrial areas, the Mill District, Minneapolis, Mill District and the North Loop, Minneapolis, North Loop area. Saint Paul, which is mostly on the east side of the river, has a smaller business district, many tree-lined neighborhoods, and a large collection of late-Victorian architecture. Both cities, and the surrounding smaller cities, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream Urban
Mainstream may refer to: Film * ''Mainstream'' (film), a 2020 American film Literature * ''Mainstream'' (fanzine), a science fiction fanzine * Mainstream Publishing, a Scottish publisher * ''Mainstream'', a 1943 book by Hamilton Basso * ''Mainstream: On the Global Culture War'', a 2013 book by Frédéric Martel * the concept of mainstream fiction Music * Mainstream jazz, a term coined in the 1950s to describe the form of jazz which was a continuation of the Swing era * ''Mainstream'' (band), a late-1990s British shoegazer band, or their first album * ''Mainstream'' (Fullerton College Jazz Band album), 1994 * ''Mainstream'' (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album), 1987 * ''Mainstream'' (Quiet Sun album), 1975 * '' Mainstream EP'', by Metric, 1998 * Mainstream Records, an American record label * "Mainstream", a song by Thea Gilmore from the 2003 album ''Avalanche'' See also * Mainstreaming (other) *Mainline Protestant The mainline Protestants (sometimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
