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KIKX (defunct)
KIKX was a radio station on 580 kHz in Tucson, Arizona, which operated from April 10, 1947, until closing on July 18, 1982. The station lost its FCC license due to a 1974 kidnapping hoax involving one of the station's disc jockeys. History As KCNA and KTAN The Catalina Broadcasting Corporation signed on KCNA at 1340 kHz on April 10, 1947. It broadcast with 250 watts from a transmitter located at Cherry Avenue and 16th Street, using an RCA transmitter that was boasted to be the largest ever shipment in that company's history, and at the time, it was Tucson's only locally owned radio station. KCNA initially presented popular and classical music, along with hourly news reports. On November 8, 1951, KCNA relocated to 580 kHz, where it was able to raise daytime power to 5,000 watts and operate at night with 500 watts; its transmitter moved to a three-tower site along Swan Road, and that same year, the station became the broadcaster of the University of Arizona Wildcats foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilohertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), often described as being equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second. The hertz is an SI derived unit whose formal expression in terms of SI base units is 1/s or s−1, meaning that one hertz is one per second or the reciprocal of one second. It is used only in the case of periodic events. It is named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), the first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves. For high frequencies, the unit is commonly expressed in multiples: kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), gigahertz (GHz), terahertz (THz). Some of the unit's most common uses are in the description of periodic waveforms and musical tones, particularly those used in radio- and audio-related applications. It is also used to describe the clock speeds at which computers and other electronics are driven. The units are sometimes also used as a representation o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Arizona Daily Star
The ''Arizona Daily Star'' is an American daily newspaper based in Tucson, Arizona, and owned by Lee Enterprises. It serves Tucson and surrounding districts of Southern Arizona in the United States. History 1877–1925 L. C. Hughes was the Arizona Territory governor and founder of the ''Arizona Star'', in 1877. The precursor to the Arizona Daily Star was The Bulletin, the first daily newspaper published in Tucson. It was started March 1, 1877 by L.C. Hughes and Charles Tully, later publishers of The Star. The Bulletin was succeeded by The Arizona Tri-Weekly Star, under the same ownership March 29, 1877. The Arizona Weekly Star was established June 28, 1877. A.E. Fay became co-editor with L.C. Hughes July 5, 1877, and on Aug. 23 of the same year Fay became the sole proprietor. Hughes returned to The Star in January, 1879, first as co-publisher with Fay and a few months later as sole owner. On June 26 of the same year, The Arizona Daily Star was started. The first edition had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations Established In 1947
Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to an antenna which radiates the waves. They can be received by other antennas connected to a radio receiver; this is the fundamental principle of radio communication. In addition to communication, radio is used for radar, radio navigation, remote control, remote sensing, and other applications. In radio communication, used in radio and television broadcasting, cell phones, two-way radios, wireless networking, and satellite communication, among numerous other uses, radio waves are used to carry information across space from a transmitter to a receiver, by modulating the radio signal (impressing an information signal on the radio wave by varying some aspect of the wave) in the transmitter. In radar, used to locate and track objects like air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marana, Arizona
Marana () is a List of municipalities in Arizona, town that mostly lies in Pima County, Arizona, Pima County with a small portion in Pinal County, Arizona, Pinal County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located northwest of Tucson, Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the town was 51,908. History Archaeologists found evidence of about 4,200 years of continuous human settlement in the vicinity of Marana and in the middle of Santa Cruz Valley. Many significant archaeological sites have been found near Marana. * Las Capas, a large, early agricultural site, is related to the nearby Costello-King site near present-day Ina Road and the Interstate 10 interchange. It was occupied from 4,200 to 2,500 years ago. It is the site of the oldest-known cemetery in the American Southwest and the oldest-known canals in North America. The oldest tobacco pipes in the world were found here. * Marana Mound, dating between 1150 and 1300 A.D. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSAZ (AM)
KSAZ (580 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Marana, Arizona, and broadcasting to the Tucson metropolitan area. It is owned by KASA Radio Hogar, Inc. KSAZ airs a Spanish-language Christian talk and music format. Most of the day, it carries brokered programming, where hosts buy time on the air and may use their programs to seek donations to their ministries. By day, KSAZ is powered at 5,000 watts non-directional. At night, to protect other stations on 580 AM, it reduces power to 390 watts and switches to a directional antenna with a three-tower array. History KJMM signed on in 1987. It was owned by Elliott-Phelps Broadcasting Corporation and used the facilities of the former KIKX, a noted Top 40 station on 580 AM in Tucson. KIKX signed off the air five years earlier after its license was revoked. In 1990, KJMM became KSAZ and relocated to Marana. Prior to March 1, 2009, it was airing country music format courtesy of ABC Radio's Real Country satelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTKT
KTKT (990 AM) – branded ''La Buena 94.3FM & 990AM'' – is a commercial Spanish language adult hits radio station licensed to serve Tucson, Arizona. Owned by Lotus Communications, the covers the Tucson metropolitan area and Southern Arizona. The KTKT studios and transmitter are both located in northwest Tucson; in addition to a standard analog transmission, KTKT is simulcast over low-power Tortolita translator K232FD (94.3 FM), and is available online. History Early years In December 1949, KTKT first signed on at 1490 AM. The station's construction permit was originally granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to Thomas J. Wallace Sr., Tom Breneman Sr., and Art Linkletter in 1948; the two "T's" in KTKT were for the two Toms, and the K was part of Linkletter's last name. Linkletter himself would go on to become a popular network television personality in the 1950s and 60s. The station has kept the same call sign for its seven decades on the air. After Brenema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Santa Cruz is a County (United States), county in southern Arizona, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population is 47,669. The county seat is Nogales, Arizona, Nogales. The county was established in 1899. It borders Pima County, Arizona, Pima County to the north and west, Cochise County, Arizona, Cochise County to the east, and the Mexican state of Sonora to the south. Santa Cruz County includes the Nogales, Arizona Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Tucson, Arizona, Tucson-Nogales, Arizona Combined Statistical Area. History Santa Cruz County, formed on March 15, 1899, out of what was then Pima County, Arizona, Pima County, is named after the Santa Cruz River (Arizona), Santa Cruz River. The river originates in the Canelo Hills in the eastern portion of the county, crosses south into Mexico near the community of Santa Cruz, Sonora, and then bends northwards returning into the United States (and Santa Cruz County) e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pima County, Arizona
Pima County ( ) is a County (United States), county in the south central region of the U.S. state of Arizona, one of 15 List of counties in Arizona, counties in the state. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 1,043,433, making it Arizona's second-most populous county. The county seat is Tucson, Arizona, Tucson, where most of the population is centered. The county is named after the Pima people, Pima Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans, also known as Akimel O'odham, who are indigenous to this area. Pima County includes the entirety of the Tucson Metropolitan Statistical Area, and it is the third largest metropolitan area in the Southwestern United States. Pima County contains parts of the Tohono O'odham Nation, as well as all of the San Xavier Indian Reservation, the Pascua Yaqui Indian Reservation, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Ironwood Forest National Monument and Saguaro National Park. The vast majority of the coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emergency Broadcast System
The Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), sometimes called the Emergency Action Notification System (EANS), was an Emergency population warning, emergency warning system used in the United States. It was the most commonly used, along with the Local Access Alert, Emergency Override system. It replaced the previous CONELRAD system and was used from 1963 to 1997, at which point it was replaced by the Emergency Alert System. Purpose The system was established to provide the president of the United States with an expeditious method of communicating with the American public in the event of war, threat of war, or grave national crisis. It was modeled after Civ-Alert, an emergency warning system in Hawaii. The Emergency Broadcast System replaced CONELRAD on August 5, 1963. In later years, it was expanded for use during peacetime emergencies at the state and local levels. Although the system was never used for a national emergency, it was activated more than 20,000 times between 1976 and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Bruce
William Edwin Bruce Jr. (December 29, 1939 – January 8, 2021) was an American country music songwriter, singer, and actor. He was known for writing the 1975 song "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and recording the 1982 country number-one hit "You're the Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had". He also co-starred in the television series ''Bret Maverick'' with James Garner during the 1981–1982 season. Early life Bruce was born in Keiser, Arkansas, United States, and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1957, at the age of 17, he went to see Jack Clement, a recording engineer for Sun Records. Bruce caught the attention of Sun owner Sam Phillips, for whom he wrote and recorded "Rock Boppin' Baby" (as "Edwin Bruce"). 1960s In the early 1960s, Bruce recorded for RCA Records, RCA and some smaller labels such as Wand Records, Wand/Scepter Records, Scepter, singing rockabilly music, as well as country material and pop material such as "See the Big Man Cry". In 1962, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCUB (AM)
KCUB (1290 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station located in Tucson, Arizona. KCUB is owned by Cumulus Media and airs a sports radio format. Its studios, offices and transmitter are co-located on Oracle Road in Tucson, north of downtown. KCUB serves as the flagship radio station for University of Arizona Wildcats football and basketball games via IMG Sports. KCUB was the former Tucson-area affiliate of the NFL's Arizona Cardinals (Cardinals games are now heard on KTZR). Its studios and transmitter are co-located on Oracle Road in Tucson, north of downtown. The format includes programming from Infinity Sports Network, including the syndicated '' Jim Rome Show'', as well as local host Rich Herrera, who, in October 2020, began hosting the station's weekday afternoon show. History In August 1929, KCUB was founded as KVOA. It was originally on 1260 kilocycles, with 500 watts, and owned by the Arizona Broadcasting Company. KVOA was Tucson's second radio station, goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
