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KZKX
KZKX (96.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Seward, Nebraska, United States, the station serves the Lincoln area. The station is currently owned by Alpha Media Alpha Media LLC is a radio broadcasting company based in Portland, Oregon, and led by Bob Proffitt. The group does business under the Alpha Media name. It was formed from the merger of Alpha Broadcasting, L&L Broadcasting, and Main Line Broadc .... Studios are located on Cornhusker Highway in Northeast Lincoln, while its transmitter is located near Valparaiso. References External links * ZKX {{Nebraska-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpha Media
Alpha Media LLC is a radio broadcasting company based in Portland, Oregon, and led by Bob Proffitt. The group does business under the Alpha Media name. It was formed from the merger of Alpha Broadcasting, L&L Broadcasting, and Main Line Broadcasting on July 1, 2014. At its formation, it owned 68 radio stations in 12 markets, along with two theatres (in Portland and San Antonio) and a digital marketing firm in Peoria, Illinois. Alpha Broadcasting Alpha Broadcasting was founded in 2009 in Portland, Oregon by Larry Wilson, arising from the sale of stations formerly a part of the CBS Radio Portland cluster with those of Rose City Radio. On April 17, 2014, L&L Broadcasting announced that it has agreed to merge with Alpha, while purchasing the stations of Main Line Broadcasting. The combined entity became known as Alpha Media. L&L Broadcasting The broadcasting group was sometimes referred to as Live and Local. L&L was formed in 2012 to buy all but two of the radio stations of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFOR (AM)
KFOR (1240 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Lincoln, Nebraska. It broadcasts a talk radio format and is owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha 3E Licensee LLC. The studios are on Cornhusker Highway ( U.S. Route 6) in Northeast Lincoln. KFOR is a Class C station. It is powered at 1,000 watts using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is on Vine Street east of downtown Lincoln. Programming is also heard on 130-watt FM translator K268DF at 101.5 MHz. Programming Weekdays on KFOR begin with ''Lincoln's Morning News'', hosted by Chris Schmidt and Carol Turner, with news and sports from Jeff Motz. KFOR also has a local talk show in late morning and a local sports show in late afternoons. The rest of the weekday schedule is nationally syndicated talk programs: '' The Dan Bongino Show, The Joe Pags Show, The Ben Shapiro Show, The Ramsey Show with Dave Ramsey, Bloomberg Daybreak, America in the Morning, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory'' and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFRX
KFRX (106.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a contemporary hit radio format. Licensed to Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, the station serves the Lincoln area. The station is currently owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha 3E License, LLC. KFRX's studios are located on Cornhusker Highway in Northeast Lincoln, while its transmitter is located at the master antenna farm at South 84th Street and Yankee Hill Road in the far southeast part of Lincoln with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. KFRX also broadcasts in HD Radio. History One of the longest-lived FM signals in Lincoln, the station started as KECK-FM (calls that were shared with its AM counterpart, which has since gone dark). It switched to the name KHAT in the mid-1970s. For much of the decade, it sported a country music and "progressive" country music format as KHAT. In the early 1980s, KHAT switched to an adult contemporary format. In July 1990, after a weekend of stunting with all-Phil Collins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KIBZ
KIBZ (104.1 FM, "104.1 The Blaze") is a commercial radio station licensed to Crete, Nebraska, and serving the Lincoln metropolitan area. It airs an active rock radio format and is owned by Alpha Media. KIBZ's studios are on Cornhusker Highway ( U.S. Route 6) in Northeast Lincoln. KIBZ is a Class C2 station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 31,000 watts. The transmitter is off SW 29th Road near West Gage Road in Hallam. History Early years The station signed on the air on . The original call sign was KTAP, targeting Saline County. It was owned by Airwaves Broadcasting Service and it originally broadcast on 103.9 FM, a Class A frequency with only 3,000 watts of power. In 1986, the call letters changed to KBVB. In January 1989, after the station was sold to new owners, KBVB moved to 104.1 FM, which allowed it to increase its power as a Class C2 station. After an 82-hour stunting with a loop of " Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets, on January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KLMS
KLMS (1480 AM) was a commercial radio station in Lincoln, Nebraska. It is owned by Alpha Media and it features an adult hits radio format, switching to Christmas music for much of November and December. KLMS is a Class B station. By day, it transmitted with 1,000 watts; to avoid interference to other stations on 1480 AM, at night it reduced power to 750 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a five-tower array. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator K277CA on 103.3 MHz. History Early years On June 28, 1946, the Lincoln Broadcasting Corporation applied to build a new radio station in Lincoln, to broadcast on 1480 kHz day and night with 1,000 watts. ( Guide to reading History Cards) The corporation was headed by Howard A. Shuman, formerly of KFOR; Shuman had helped put that station on the air from David City in 1924. The application was granted on October 16, 1947, and the company began work on a five-tower array for transmitting. With independent pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTGL
KTGL (92.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format. Licensed to Beatrice, Nebraska, United States, the station serves the Lincoln area. The station is currently owned by Alpha Media Alpha Media LLC is a radio broadcasting company based in Portland, Oregon, and led by Bob Proffitt. The group does business under the Alpha Media name. It was formed from the merger of Alpha Broadcasting, L&L Broadcasting, and Main Line Broadc .... KTGL's studios are located on Cornhusker Highway in Northeast Lincoln, while its transmitter is located near Cortland. References External links * TGL Classic rock radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1977 {{Nebraska-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing Narrative, stories about Working class in the United States, working-class and blue-collar worker, blue-collar American life. Country music is known for its ballads and dance tunes (i.e., "Honky-tonk#Music, honky-tonk music") with simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies generally accompanied by instruments such as banjos, fiddles, harmonicas, and many types of guitar (including acoustic guitar, acoustic, electric guitar, electric, steel guitar, steel, and resonator guitar, resonator guitars). Though it is primarily rooted in various forms of American folk music, such as old-time music and Appalachian music, many other traditions, including African-American, Music of Mexico, Mexican, Music of Ireland, Irish, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seward, Nebraska
Seward is a city in and the county seat of Seward County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 7,643 at the 2020 census. Seward is part of the Lincoln, Nebraska metropolitan area. History Seward was platted in 1868. It was named from Seward County. The railroad was built through Seward in 1873. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Climate Demographics 2020 census The 2020 United States census counted 7,643 people, 2,672 households, and 1,705 families in Seward. The population density was 1,713.7 per square mile (662.3/km). There were 2,824 housing units at an average density of 633.2 per square mile (244.7/km). The racial makeup was 93.31% (7,132) white, 0.94% (72) black or African-American, 0.3% (23) Native American, 0.39% (30) Asian, 0.04% (3) Pacific Islander, 1.06% (81) from other races, and 3.95% (302) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 3.0% (213) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska. The city covers and had a population of 291,082 as of the 2020 census. It is the state's List of cities in Nebraska, second-most populous city and the List of United States cities by population, 72nd-most populous in the United States. The county seat of Lancaster County, Nebraska, Lancaster County, Lincoln is the economic and cultural anchor of the Lincoln, Nebraska metropolitan area, home to approximately 345,000 people. Lincoln was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster on the wild inland salt marsh, salt marshes and arroyos of what became Lancaster County. Renamed after President Abraham Lincoln, it became Nebraska's state capital in 1869. The Bertram G. Goodhue–designed Nebraska State Capitol, state capitol building was completed in 1932, and is the nation's second-tallest capitol. As the city is the seat of government for the state of Nebraska, the state and the U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of Power (physics), power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantification (science), quantify the rate of Work (physics), energy transfer. The watt is named in honor of James Watt (1736–1819), an 18th-century Scottish people, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved the Newcomen engine with his own Watt steam engine, steam engine in 1776, which became fundamental for the Industrial Revolution. Overview When an object's velocity is held constant at one meter per second against a constant opposing force of one Newton (unit), newton, the rate at which Work (physics), work is done is one watt. \mathrm. In terms of electromagnetism, one watt is the rate at which electrical work is performed when a current of one ampere (A) flows across an electrical potential difference of one volt (V), meaning the watt is equivalent to the vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, internet, wi-fi, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security. The FCC was established pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the previous Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. The FCC also provides varied degrees of cooperation, oversight, and leadership for similar communications bodies in other countries in North America. The FCC is funded entirely by regulatory fees. It has an estimated fiscal-2022 budg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FM Broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave. Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong, wide-band FM is used worldwide to transmit high fidelity, high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. FM broadcasting offers higher fidelity—more accurate reproduction of the original program sound—than other broadcasting techniques, such as AM broadcasting. It is also less susceptible to Electromagnetic interference, common forms of interference, having less static and popping sounds than are often heard on AM. Therefore, FM is used for most broadcasts of music and general audio (in the audio spectrum). FM radio stations use the very high frequency range of radio frequency, radio frequencies. Broadcast bands Throughout the world, the FM broadcast band falls within the VHF part of the radio spectrum. Usually 87.5 to 108.0 MHz is used, or some portion of it, with few exceptions: * In the Commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
