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KDGE
KDGE () is a commercial radio, commercial radio station dually city of license, licensed to both Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas. Star 102.1 airs an adult contemporary radio format, switching to Christmas music for much of November and December, and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station's studios are located along Dallas North Tollway, Dallas Parkway in Farmers Branch, Texas (although it has a Dallas address), and its transmitter site is off West Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill, Texas, Cedar Hill. KDGE broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its HD2 digital subchannel carries a bilingual AC format, known as "Magic". History Easy listening format The station was authorized by the Federal Communications Commission in 1960 to broadcast as KFMF, but it was not immediately built. KJIM (870 AM; now KFJZ) purchased the KFMF broadcasting construction permit, construction permit and it sign-on, signed on the air on April 10, 1962, as KJIM-FM. At first, KJIM-FM simulcast the daytimer, dayt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KEGL
KEGL (97.1 FM broadcasting, FM) is an iHeartMedia commercial radio station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The station's studios are located along Dallas North Tollway, Dallas Parkway in Farmers Branch, although it has a Dallas address. KEGL has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The transmitter site is in Cedar Hill, Texas, Cedar Hill. KEGL broadcasts using HD Radio technology. KEGL's HD-2 subchannel carries an alternative rock format known as “The Edge”. History Rock/Top 40 era The station sign-on, signed on the air on June 7, 1959. In its early years, it used several call signs, beginning with KFJZ-FM, then KWXI, then back to KFJZ-FM. When it was KWXI, it used the moniker "Quicksie," borrowed from WSTR (FM), WQXI Atlanta. As KFJZ-FM, it called itself "Z97, The Texas Music Star" and "Texas FM 97". In 1981, it took the call letters KEGL. It was one of three album rock stations in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metropl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KDMX
KDMX () is a radio station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex in Texas. It is currently owned and operated by iHeartMedia, and airs a hot adult contemporary format. The station's studios are located along Dallas Parkway in Farmers Branch (although it has a Dallas address), and the transmitter site is in Cedar Hill. History Classical (1959–1965) This station first began broadcasting as KQRO on October 15, 1960 (although license was granted on July 2, 1959). It went silent a year later, then returned to the airwaves in 1962. For that time, KQRO's format consisted mostly of classical and orchestral music. Middle of the Road (1965–1971) In 1965, the callsign was changed to KEIR after being purchased by trade school Elkins Institute of Radio and Electronics. The station was used for training by Elkins with a two-room studio and transmitter located in the Life Building on Jackson Street in downtown Dallas, although the school was located near Love Field on Inwood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFXR (AM)
} KFXR (1190 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Dallas, Texas, and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned by iHeartMedia and airs a Conservative talk radio format. Its studios and offices are located along Dallas Parkway in Farmers Branch (with a Dallas address). KFXR is a Class B station. By day, it is powered at , the maximum for commercial AM stations. Its daytime transmitter is in Irving, using a directional antenna with a four-tower array. At night, to avoid interfering with other stations on 1190 AM, it reduces power to . Its nighttime transmitter is in Rockwall, using a twelve-tower array directional antenna. Programming While it is owned by iHeartMedia, KFXR does not have access to two of the most popular talk programs syndicated by iHeart's Premiere Networks. ''The Sean Hannity Show'' and ''Coast to Coast AM with George Noory'' are found on KLIF (570 AM). KFXR does carry three Premiere Networks weekday talk shows, ''The Glenn Beck Radio Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KKGM
KKGM (1630 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The station simulcasts an African American-targeted news format along with sister station KHVN 970 AM. KKGM and KHVN are affiliates of the Black Information Network (BIN) and are owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios are along Dallas Parkway in Farmers Branch, using a Dallas address. By day, KKGM is powered at 10,000 watts, non-directional. To protect other stations on 1630 AM from interference, at night power is reduced to 1,000 watts. The transmitter is on Trinity Boulevard at House Anderson Road in Fort Worth. Programming is also heard on FM translator K248DS at 97.5 MHz. History Expanded Band KKGM originated as the expanded band "twin" of an existing station on the standard AM band. On March 17, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that 88 stations had been given permission to move to newly available "expanded ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex
The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, officially designated Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States, encompassing 11 counties. Its historically dominant core city, core cities are Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth. It is the economic and cultural hub of North Texas. Residents of the area also refer to it as DFW (the IATA airport code, code for Dallas Fort Worth International Airport) or the Metroplex. The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, Texas, Arlington metropolitan statistical area's population was 7,637,387 according to the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and the List of metropolitan areas in the Americas by population, eleventh-largest in the Americas. In 2016, the Dallas– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KZPS
KZPS (92.5 FM) is an iHeartMedia classic rock formatted commercial radio station licensed to Dallas, Texas, and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Its studios are located along Dallas Parkway in Farmers Branch (although it has a Dallas address). KZPS has an effective radiated power (ERP) of . The transmitter site is off West Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill, amid the towers for other Dallas-area FM and TV stations. The station uses HD Radio technology, although it currently offers no separate digital subchannels. History KRLD-FM (1948–1972) The station first signed on the air on April 1, 1948 with the KRLD-FM call sign. (That callsign is currently used on a sports radio station owned by Audacy, KRLD-FM.) The original KRLD-FM initially simulcast co-owned KRLD. KRLD-AM-FM were owned by the Times Herald Printing Company, along with daily newspaper The '' Dallas Times Herald''. A TV station was added the following year, KRLD-TV (now KDFW). KRLD-FM was one of onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHKS
KHKS (106.1 FM broadcasting, FM) is a contemporary hit radio station city of license, licensed to Denton, Texas. Branded "KISS-FM (brand), KISS-FM" the station serves the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, and is owned by iHeartMedia. The station is flagship of the radio syndication, nationally syndicated ''The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show, Kidd Kraddick Morning Show''. Its studios are on Dallas North Tollway, Dallas Parkway in Farmers Branch. KHKS has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for most U.S. FM stations. Its transmitter site is on West Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill, Texas, Cedar Hill. History Early years KDNT-FM was established in June 1948, at 106.3 on the FM dial and moved to the current 106.1 frequency in 1962. The station was a simulcast of KEXB (AM), KDNT (AM) during its early years. KDNT-FM went through a number of different formats during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including a Top 40/oldies hybrid, disco music, rock music, and country m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHVN
KHVN (970 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. It airs an African American targeted all-news radio format, simulcast with co-owned KKGM 1630 AM, affiliates of the national Black Information Network. By day, KHVN is powered at 1,000 watts. But to avoid interference with other stations on 970 AM, it reduces power to 270 watts at night. The transmitter is on Kimbo Road near Mesquite Road in Fort Worth. Programming is also heard on 150 watt FM translator K237HD in Fort Worth. History Early years This station started out as daytimer, daytime-only KWBC on December 6, 1946. It had an Ethnic and Variety format with mostly local, amateur, and public service programming under the ownership of Associated Broadcasters. In 1950, J. Dean McClain joined the station with his hour-long ''Blues at Sunrise'' program. The blues music program proved to be quite popular and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedar Hill, Texas
Cedar Hill is a city in Dallas and Ellis counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located approximately southwest of downtown Dallas and is situated along the eastern shore of Joe Pool Lake and Cedar Hill State Park. Per the 2020 United States census, the population was 49,148. Cedar Hill is a suburb of the city of Dallas and is part of the Best Southwest area, which includes the nearby cities of DeSoto, Duncanville, and Lancaster. Early in its history, Cedar Hill lay along a branch of the Chisholm Trail and served as the temporary county seat of Dallas County. In 1856, a tornado swept through the town, killing nine people and destroying most of its buildings. The seat of the county was moved to Dallas not long after. History Cedar Hill was founded ''circa'' 1846 by a small group of settlers from the Peters Colony. They came from Kentucky, Alabama, and surrounding areas to arrive in the Dallas area of North Texas; 197 families and 184 single men settled in what is now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HD Radio
HD Radio (HDR) is a trademark for in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio broadcast technology. HD radio generally simulcast, simulcasts an existing analog radio station in digital format with less noise and with additional text information. HD Radio is used primarily by FM broadcasting, FM radio stations in the United States, U.S. Virgin Islands, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines, with a few implementations outside North America. HD Radio transmits the digital signals in unused portions of the same band as the analog AM and FM signals. As a result, radios are more easily designed to pick up both signals, which is why the HD in HD Radio is sometimes referred to stand for "hybrid digital", not "high definition". Officially, HD is not intended to stand for any term in HD Radio, it is simply part of iBiquity's trademark, and does not have any meaning on its own. HD Radios tune into the station's analog signal first and then look for a digital signal. The European DRM system shares c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a method of transmitting more than one independent program stream simultaneously from the same digital radio or television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual program stream, and multiplexing to combine them into a single signal. The practice is sometimes called " multicasting". ATSC television United States The ATSC digital television standard used in the United States supports multiple program streams over-the-air, allowing television stations to transmit one or more subchannels over a single digital signal. A virtual channel numbering scheme distinguishes broadcast subchannels by appending the television channel number with a period digit (".xx"). Simultaneously, the suffix indicates that a television station offers additional programming streams. By convention, the suffix position ".1" is normally used to refer to the station's main d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilingual
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. When the languages are just two, it is usually called bilingualism. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all Europeans claim to speak at least one language other than their mother tongue; but many read and write in one language. Being multilingual is advantageous for people wanting to participate in trade, globalization and cultural openness. Owing to the ease of access to information facilitated by the Internet, individuals' exposure to multiple languages has become increasingly possible. People who speak several languages are also called '' polyglots''. Multilingual speakers have acquired and maintained at least one language during childhood, the so-called first language (L1). The first language (sometimes also referred to as the mother tongue) is usually acquired without formal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
