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KYFJ
KYFJ is a radio station serving the Lafayette and Baton Rouge areas. The station broadcasts at 93.7 MHz with 100 kW and is licensed to New Iberia, Louisiana. KYFJ is currently under ownership of Bible Broadcasting Network. It was previously held by The Last Bastion Station Trust, LLC, who picked up this station after its previous owner Citadel Broadcasting swapped the station for KNEK-FM. The station's transmitter is located in the Atchafalaya Basin area in rural St. Martin Parish. History Z-Rock, 1992 KRDJ signed on in June 1992 as KKZN, an affiliate of the Z-Rock satellite network. KKZN was a Cavaness Broadcasting station, co-owned with what was then KVOL and KVOL-FM as the first FM duopoly in the Lafayette market; Z-Rock 93.7 was effectively the replacement of the rock format previously heard on KVOL-FM before that station flipped to Urban AC in July 1992. At the time, KKZN was broadcasting with 34 kilowatts from a tower located off Highway 90 in southern Iber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KNEK-FM
KNEK-FM (104.7 Hertz, MHz, "Magic 104.7 KNEK") is an American radio station playing an urban adult contemporary format in the Lafayette, Louisiana metropolitan area, Lafayette metropolitan area. It broadcasts under ownership of Cumulus Media. Its studios are located on Galbert Road in Lafayette, Louisiana, and its transmitter is located south of Opelousas, Louisiana. The station used to be owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In 2007, Citadel transferred 11 of its radio stations (including KNEK-FM) to The Last Bastion Station Trust, LLC upon merger of many Citadel Media, ABC Radio stations. However, in January 2008, Last Bastion Station Trust transferred KNEK-FM back to Citadel Broadcasting, effectively placing it back into the Lafayette cluster. In exchange for KNEK-FM, the trust received KYFJ, KRDJ. Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011. KNEK-FM simulcasted their programing on AM 1190 KNEK (AM), KNEK until it left the air in May 2023 due to transmitter issues. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bible Broadcasting Network
The Bible Broadcasting Network (BBN) is a listener-supported global Christian Conservative Christian radio radio network, network staffed and headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was founded in 1971 by Lowell Davey, who was the network's president until his death in 2017. It remains under family control, with Davey's daughter Barbara Redemann and her husband Carl Redemann leading BBN. BBN's mission statement is "to get the Word of God into the hearts and minds of as many people as possible using the most efficient means" and its motto is "Giving the Winds the Bible Voice". Doctrinally, the programming is conservative in approach. Programming content consists of traditional Christian music, including vocalists, choirs, and instrumentalists; Bible teaching and sermons; prayer times; children's and teens' programs; and family guidance programs. Programs Among the notable ministries having long-running programs on the network are: ''Running to Win'' and Moody Church, ''Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Iberia, Louisiana
New Iberia (; ) is the largest city in and the parish seat of Iberia Parish, Louisiana, Iberia Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The city of New Iberia is located approximately southeast of Lafayette, Louisiana, Lafayette, and forms part of the Lafayette metropolitan area, Louisiana, Lafayette metropolitan statistical area in the region of Acadiana. The 2020 United States census tabulated a population of 28,555. New Iberia is served by New Iberia station, Amtrak’s ''Sunset Limited'', operating between Los Angeles and New Orleans. New Iberia has a major four lane highway, being U.S. 90 (future Interstate 49), and has its own general aviation airfield, Acadiana Regional Airport. Scheduled passenger and cargo airline service is available via the nearby Lafayette Regional Airport located adjacent to U.S. 90 in Lafayette. History New Iberia dates its founding to the spring of 1779, when a group of some 500 colonists (''Province of Málaga, Malagueños'') from Spain, led by Lie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glencoe, Louisiana
Glencoe is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 126 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Morgan City Micropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Glencoe is located at (29.80576, -91.66789). Louisiana Highway 83 passes throughout the entire community and heads 9 miles (14 km) east to the town of Baldwin. Louisiana Highway 318, which intersects with LA-83, heads 7 miles (11 km) northeast to intersect with Louisiana Highway 182 at the unincorporated community of Sorrel. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. Demographics Glencoe first appeared as a census designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ... in the 2010 U.S. Census. Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scorpions (band)
Scorpions are a German hard rock band formed in Hanover in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker. The longest-running and most successful line-up of the band included Schenker, Klaus Meine (vocals), Matthias Jabs (lead guitar), Francis Buchholz (bass), and Herman Rarebell (drums), and lasted from 1978 to 1992. The band's only continuous member has been Schenker, although Meine has been with the band continuously since 1969, while Jabs has been a consistent member since 1978 and bassist Paweł Mąciwoda and drummer Mikkey Dee have been in the band, since 2003 and 2016, respectively. The band's debut album, ''Lonesome Crow'' (1972), featured Schenker's younger brother Michael Schenker, Michael on lead guitar, before he departed to join UFO (band), UFO. He was replaced by Uli Jon Roth, who played with the band on their next four studio albums, ''Fly to the Rainbow'' (1974), ''In Trance'' (1975), ''Virgin Killer'' (1976) and ''Taken by Force'' (1977), and their first live album ''Tokyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazareth (band)
Nazareth are a Scottish hard rock band formed in Dunfermline in 1968 that had many hit singles and albums in Canada, the United Kingdom, and a number of other European countries beginning in the early 1970s. The breadth of their popularity expanded internationally, including in the United States, with their 1975 album ''Hair of the Dog (album), Hair of the Dog'', which featured their hits "Hair of the Dog (song), Hair of the Dog" and a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts#Nazareth version, Love Hurts". They have continued to record and tour internationally for more than 50 years. Career Nazareth formed in December 1968 in Dunfermline, Scotland, from the remaining members of semi-professional local group the Shadettes (formed in 1961) by vocalist Dan McCafferty, guitarist Manny Charlton, bassist Pete Agnew, and drummer Darrell Sweet. They were inspired by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Nazareth took their name from Nazareth, Pennsylvania, which is cited in the first line of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hair Of The Dog (song)
"Hair of the Dog" is a song by Scottish rock band Nazareth, released on their 1975 studio album, '' Hair of the Dog''. The song, alongside "Love Hurts", remains their most successful and popular. A tribute came in 1993 when Guns N' Roses covered Nazareth's "Hair of the Dog" on ''"The Spaghetti Incident?"''; consolation after they turned down Axl Rose's request for the group to play at his wedding. "Axl really made me more aware of Nazareth…" recalled GNR guitarist Slash, "because he can sing like that McCafferty guy, and really dug his voice. And so I remember listening to Nazareth a lot at one point." Personnel Nazareth * Dan McCafferty – vocals, talk box * Manny Charlton – guitars, synthesizer * Pete Agnew – bass, backing vocals * Darrell Sweet – drums, cowbell, tambourine, backing vocals Cover versions Guns N' Roses version American hard rock band Guns N' Roses covered the song on their 1993 album, ''"The Spaghetti Incident?"''. This version features the sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KQXL
KQXL-FM (106.5 MHz, "Q106.5") is an urban adult contemporary music formatted radio station serving the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, area. The Cumulus Media station operates with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50 kW and is licensed to New Roads, Louisiana. Its studios are located downtown and the transmitter tower is located just north of Baton Rouge between the suburbs of Baker and Zachary. It is one of the highest rating radio stations in Baton Rouge. History KQXL, which signed on as a Mainstream Urban in 1979 and was originally at 106.3 until a power upgrade in 1988, began its evolution into its current format in 1997 after it was paired with former competitor WEMX-FM. Former on-air staff *Isiah Carey currently works as a reporter for KRIV, channel 26, in Houston, Texas Houston ( ) is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the G ... [...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] |
Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge ( ; , ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It had a population of 227,470 at the 2020 United States census, making it List of municipalities in Louisiana, Louisiana's second-most populous city. It is the county seat, seat of Louisiana's most populous List of parishes in Louisiana, parish, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish, and the center of Louisiana's second-largest metropolitan area, Baton Rouge metropolitan area, Greater Baton Rouge, which had 870,569 residents in 2020. Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, the Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural cliff, bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. This allowed the development of a business quarter safe from seasonal flooding. In addition, it built a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maringouin, Louisiana
Maringouin is a town in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,098 at the 2010 census, down from 1,262 at the 2000 census. At the 2020 population estimates program, its population was 966. It is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area. Etymology The name, which is Louisiana Creole in origin and means "mosquito", is pronounced ''mah-ring-gwin''. Geography Maringouin is located in northern Iberville Parish. Its northern border is the Pointe Coupee Parish line, and its eastern border is Bayou Grosse Tete. Louisiana Highway 77 passes through the center of the town, leading north to Livonia and southeast along Bayou Grosse Tete to Rosedale. Louisiana Highway 76 leads south from Maringouin along Bayou Maringuoin to Interstate 10 at Ramah. According to the United States Census Bureau, Maringuoin has a total area of , all of it recorded as land. The town is part of the French speaking Acadiana region of Louisiana. Demographics As o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
