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KOHT
KOHT (98.3 FM) is an urban-leaning rhythmic contemporary station serving Tucson, Arizona, and is licensed to Marana, (a northwestern suburb of Tucson). It has been owned by since July 30, 2001 and broadcasts with an ERP of 6 kW. The station's playlist is primarily Rhythmic Top 40, hip hop and R&B. Its studios are located north of downtown Tucson along Oracle Road, while the transmitter site is near the Tortolita Mountains in unincorporated Pima County. History KOHT has been a Rhythmic Top 40 station since the '80s. It was first sold to Art Laboe in the '90s and functioned in a rhythmic/urban format along with an occasional mix of Mexican hits. Laboe owned KOHT until 2001 when Clear Channel Communications purchased the station. It maintains an exclusive rhythmic/urban format today although no longer includes Mexican hits as it previously did. Longtime program director and air talent R Dub! announced he was leaving the station in February 2007 to move to Recife, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday Night Slow Jams
''Sunday Night Slow Jams'' is an American weekly syndicated radio program dedicated to slow jams music. Created on 24 July 1994, it is directed and presented by creator R Dub!, and broadcast on more than 200 radio stations in 17 countries as of May 2023. Format ''Sunday Night Slow Jams'' is broadcast weekly on Sundays, from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. on most stations. Listeners can send in "Oral Expressions" expressing their love for someone. History Randy Williams, presenter of ''Sunday Night Slow Jams'', was hired for his first professional job in radio when he was 16; he was hired to work for KXCI in Tucson, Arizona after having previously enrolled in a disc jockey (DJ) class there. He presented a slow jam show called ''Nyte Flyte'' once a week. His second job was at KFFN, then-branded as Power 1490, where, on 24 July 1994, he would premiere the first edition of ''Sunday Night Slow Jams''—at this point called ''Sunday Nite Slow Jams''. He also renamed himself R Dub!, a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R Dub!
Randy Williams, better known by the stage name R Dub!, is an American DJ and radio host. He is best known as the host and creator of ''Sunday Night Slow Jams'', which he created on 24 July 1994. A program director of XHRM-FM and XHITZ-FM, ''Sunday Night Slow Jams'' is broadcast on more than 200 radio stations. Williams also serves as the self-proclaimed sultan of his own micronation, the Republic of Slowjamastan, located in Imperial County, Southern California, which he founded on 1 December 2021. Additionally, he is also noted to have visited all 193 United Nations member states, making him one of at least 250 people to do so. Early life Randy Williams was born near Chicago, Illinois, and lived there until he was three when his parents divorced. He moved to Los Angeles, California with his mother, and resided there for the next ten years until she remarried and moved back to Chicago. Williams chose to live with his father in Orlando, Florida for the next three years. Dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHUD
KHUD (92.9 FM broadcasting, FM) is a country music, country radio station in Tucson, Arizona. It is owned by . The radio studios and offices are located north of downtown Tucson along Oracle Road. On weekdays, KHUD carries two radio syndication, nationally syndicated country music shows from co-owned Premiere Networks: ''The Bobby Bones Show'' in morning drive time and ''Granger Smith, After Midnite with Granger Smith'', heard overnight. KHUD has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 93,000 watts. The transmitter site is in the Tucson Mountains, west of the city. The radio masts and towers, tower is on West Hidden Canyon Drive in Tucson Estates. KHUD broadcasts using HD Radio technology. History Rock (1970–1983) Alvin Korngold, owner of KEVT 690 (now KCEE) was granted the construction permit for a new FM station in Tucson on August 6, 1969. The station would broadcast on 92.9 MHz and was assigned the KWFM call sign in October. After it was built, it sign-on, signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KMMA (FM)
KMMA (97.1 FM) is an commercial American radio station licensed to Green Valley, Arizona and serving the Tucson metropolitan area. It carries a Spanish contemporary hit radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia. The studios are on North Oracle Road. KMMA has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 25,000 watts. The transmitter is on Pima Mine Ranch Road, southeast of Tucson, near the Pima County Fairgrounds. Because of the transmitter location, the station is hard to pick up in most northern suburbs of Tucson, but is easy to receive in central and southern communities. KMMA broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its HD2 digital subchannel formerly carries the iHeartRadio Love Songs format. The HD2 subchannel has since been turned off. History Christian music (1990–2001) The station signed on the air on . The call sign was KGMS, which represented letters in the name of the owner, Good Music, Inc. KGMS was a Christian contemporary station that played Christian pop, rock, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWPR-FM
WWPR-FM (105.1 FM) is an urban contemporary music radio station licensed to New York, New York. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and broadcasts from studios located at 125 West 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan, while its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. WWPR-FM is the flagship station of the nationally syndicated morning show, '' The Breakfast Club''. History WWRL-FM and WRFM (1953–1985) The station first signed on the air on December 14, 1953, as WWRL-FM. The station was co-owned with WWRL (1600 AM) by radio enthusiast William Reuman, studios were in Woodside, Queens. The call sign was changed to WRFM in October 1957, breaking away from the AM simulcast with a diversified and classical music format. Bonneville International, the broadcast arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, purchased WRFM in 1967. The following year, WRFM, billing itself as "Stereo 105", adopted a beautiful music format that was developed by program director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTZR (AM)
KTZR (1450 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station located in Tucson, Arizona. KTZR airs a sports radio format. Its studios are located north of downtown Tucson along Oracle Road, while the transmitter site is southeast of downtown. History For many years, the station played an oldies format that played rock and roll hits of the 1950s and 1960s as "Cool 1450". This station became "Funny 1450", as a comedy station, at 10a.m. on January 26, 2011. The last song on "Cool" was "Hello, Goodbye" by The Beatles. On November 28, 2011, KWFM changed their format to Spanish adult hits, branded as "" under new calls, KTZR. On September 25, 2016, iHeartMedia announced that KTZR would flip to news/talk the following day. The new “Talk Of Tucson” duplicated some of the programming of sister station KNST in different timeslots. The ''Glenn Beck Radio Program'' added a live clearance on KTZR while continuing on KNST on a delay. Other shows that aired on KTZR included ''Trending Today wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KXEW
KXEW (1600 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to South Tucson, Arizona, and broadcasting to the Tucson metropolitan area. KXEW airs a Tejano music format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. Its studios are north of downtown Tucson along North Oracle Road. It is known as "Radio Tejano 1600." KXEW is powered at 1,000 watts. By day, its signal is non-directional. But at night, to protect other stations on 1600 AM, it uses a directional antenna with a two-tower array. The transmitter is on West El Puente Lane near South Santa Cruz Lane in Tucson. History KXEW signed on the air on . It was a daytimer station, required to go off the air at night. The call sign was inspired Mexico City's most powerful radio station, 900 XEW. KXEW was owned and operated by Pan American Radio Corporation; J. Carlos McCormick was its president, CEO and majority shareholder. The Spanish-language format featured traditional Mexican and Latin American music, with hourly newscasts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KRQQ
KRQQ (93.7 FM) is a commercial radio station in Tucson, Arizona, known as "93.7 KRQ". It airs a Top 40 (CHR) radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. Its studios are located north of downtown Tucson along Oracle Road. KRQQ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 93,000 watts. Its transmitter is atop Tucson Mountain on West Hidden Canyon Drive in Tucson Estates. KRQQ broadcasts using HD Radio technology. The HD-2 digital subchannel formerly rebroadcast co-owned KMMA's Spanish-language Contemporary Hits format. The HD-3 subchannel formerly carried classic hip hop from iHeartRadio's "Fly Nation Radio" service. The HD2 and HD3 subchannels has since been turned off. History The station signed on the air on . Its original call sign was KXEW-FM, the sister station to KXEW 1600 AM, owned by Radio Fiesta, Inc. The two stations served Tucson's Latino community, airing a mix of Regional Mexican music and bilingual programming, especially in the evenings. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KNST
KNST (790 AM) is a commercial radio station in Tucson, Arizona, airing a news/talk radio format. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and serves Greater Tucson, including the suburbs of Marana, Oro Valley, Green Valley, Sahuarita, Sierra Vista, and Vail. KNST's studios and offices are on Oracle Road, north of Downtown Tucson. By day, KNST is powered at 5,000 watts. But to minimize interference to other stations on 790 AM, KNST uses a directional antenna at all times and reduces its power to 500 watts at night. The transmitter site is in West Tucson, off North Silverbell Road near North Grant Road. Programming KNST's lineup parallels most iHeart talk stations. Weekdays begin with a simulcast of KFYI's news and information show, ''The Conservative Circus with James T. Harris''. That's followed by nationally syndicated talk programs including '' The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Mark Levin Show, The Glenn Beck Radio Program, Coast to Coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Laboe
Art Laboe (born Arthur Egnoian; August 7, 1925 – October 7, 2022) was an American radio host, songwriter, record producer, and radio station owner. He was generally credited with coining the term "Oldies but Goodies". Early life and education Laboe was born to parents Hosanna (née Kezerian) and John Egnoian in Murray, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, on August 7, 1925. His parents were Armenian immigrants and observant Mormons; his father, John, came to the United States from the Ottoman Empire. When Laboe was 13, his parents divorced, whereupon he moved to South-Central Los Angeles to live with his sister. He attended George Washington High School and in 1938 began to experiment with amateur radio from his bedroom. After graduating from high school, Laboe studied at Stanford University, then joined the United States Navy during World War II. He was stationed at Naval Station Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. Career Laboe made his professional radio debut in 1943 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu ( ; ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, located in the Pacific Ocean. It is the county seat of the Consolidated city-county, consolidated City and County of Honolulu County, Hawaii, Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island of Oahu, Oʻahu, and is the westernmost and southernmost major U.S. city as well as westernmost and southernmost U.S. state capital. It is also a major hub for business, finance, hospitality, and military defense in both the state and Oceania. The city is characterized by a mix of various Asian culture, Asian, Western culture, Western, and Oceanian culture, Pacific cultures, reflected in its diverse demography, cuisine, and traditions. is Hawaiian language, Hawaiian for "sheltered harbor" or "calm port"; its old name, , roughly encompasses the area from Nuʻuanu Avenue to Alakea Street and from Hotel Street to Queen Street, which is the heart of the present dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
