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Multimedia Broadcasting
Multimedia, Inc. was a media company that owned 12 daily newspapers, 49 weekly newspapers, two radio stations, five television stations, and a cable television system division. The company was headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. History Multimedia's origins can be traced to December 1932, when the News-Piedmont Company of Greenville, which published the ''Greenville News'' and ''Greenville Piedmont'' newspapers, acquired radio station WFBC, only weeks after the station relocated to Greenville from Knoxville, Tennessee. In November 1953 the News-Piedmont Co. acquired majority ownership of the ''Asheville Citizen'' and ''Asheville Times'' and its wholly owned radio station, WWNC. WFBC-TV, the ''News'' and ''Piedmonts television station, signed on from Greenville at the end of 1953. The News-Piedmont Co. would expand its broadcast holdings with the acquisitions of WBIR-AM- FM- TV in Knoxville in 1961, and of the Southeastern Broadcasting Company, which owned WMAZ-AM- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. ( ) is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. It owns the national newspaper ''USA Today'', as well as several local newspapers, including the ''Austin American-Statesman;'' ''Detroit Free Press''; ''The Indianapolis Star''; ''The Cincinnati Enquirer''; ''The Columbus Dispatch''; ''The Florida Times-Union'' in Jacksonville, Florida; Tallahassee Democrat, ''The Tallahassee Democrat'' in Tallahassee, Florida; ''The Tennessean'' in Nashville, Tennessee; ''The Daily News Journal'', in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; ''The Courier-Journal'' in Louisville, Kentucky; the ''Democrat and Chronicle'' in Rochester, New York; ''The Des Moines Register''; the ''El Paso Times''; ''The Arizona Republic'' in Phoenix, Arizona;'' The News-Press'' in Fort Myers, Florida; the'' Milwaukee Journal Sentinel''; the ''Argus Leader''; ''the Pueblo Chieftain''; and the ''Great Fall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenville News
''The Greenville News'' is a daily morning newspaper published in Greenville, South Carolina. After ''The State'' in Columbia and Charleston's ''The Post and Courier'', it is the third largest paper in South Carolina. History ''The Greenville News'' started off as a four-page publication in 1874 by A.M. Speights. For a one-year subscription, the cost was eight dollars. After five different owners and many editors, the Peace family under the leadership of Bony Hampton Peace bought the paper in 1919 from Ellison Adger Smyth, around the same time that Greenville was becoming known as "The Textile Center of the South." The Peace family acquired the evening paper ''The Piedmont'' in 1927. In 1965 both papers helped to form Multimedia Inc. Then in 1995, the smaller afternoon paper and the larger morning paper merged to become ''The News-Piedmont.'' In December 1985 Gannett purchased Multimedia, changing the newspaper name back to ''The Greenville News.'' Today ''The News'' prints ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spartanburg Herald
The ''Spartanburg Herald-Journal'' is a daily newspaper, the primary newspaper for Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. History The origins of the paper lie with ''The Spartan'', a weekly paper reportedly first printed in about 1842–43. In 1844, this was renamed ''The Carolina Spartan''. In about 1900, the paper was reportedly bought by The Journal Publishing Company, which renamed it ''The Spartanburg Journal''. In 1872 (or perhaps 1875), ''The Spartanburg Herald'' began publishing. It began daily publication in 1890; the ''Journal'' followed suit in 1903. The ''Herald'' purchased the ''Journal'' in 1914. The ''Herald'' was a morning paper, while the ''Journal'' covered evenings, with joint editions published on the weekend. Though under common ownership, the ''Herald'' and ''Journal'' did not completely merge into one paper until October 1982. In 1929, owner The Herald-Journal Publishing Company sold the papers to its paper distributor, the International Paper an ... [...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] |
Macon, Georgia
Macon ( ), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. Situated near the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is southeast of Atlanta and near the state's geographic center—hence its nickname "Central Georgia, The Heart of Georgia". Macon's population was 157,346 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Macon Metropolitan Statistical Area, Macon metropolitan statistical area, which had 234,802 people in 2020. It also is the largest city in the Macon–Warner Robins combined statistical area (CSA), which had about 420,693 residents in 2017, and adjoins the Atlanta metropolitan area to the northwest. Voters approved the consolidation of the City of Macon and Bibb County, Georgia, Bibb County governments in a 2012 referendum. Macon became the state's fourth-largest city (after Augusta, Georgia, Augusta) when the merger became official on January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMAZ-TV
WMAZ-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Macon, Georgia, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. The station is owned by Tegna Inc., and maintains studios on Gray Highway on the northeast side of Macon; its transmitter is located on GA 87/ US 23/ 129 ALT (Golden Isles Highway) along the Twiggs– Bibb county line. History The station first signed on the air on September 27, 1953. It was the second TV station in Macon. WETV, later WNEX-TV and WOKA (channel 47), had begun operation on August 25, 1953, co-owned by WBML (1240 AM) and WNEX (1400 AM). However, in the 1950s, few people had TVs that received UHF channels; after being sold while indebted, it ended operations in May 1955. WMAZ-TV was originally owned by the Southeastern Broadcasting Company and took its calls from co-owned WMAZ radio (940 AM, now WMAC, and 99.1 FM, now WLXF at 105.5). WMAZ-TV is the fourth-oldest television station in the state of Georgia and the oldest outside of Atlanta, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDEN-FM
WDEN-FM (99.1 MHz, "#1 Country FM 99 WDEN") is a commercial radio station licensed to Macon, Georgia. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and the broadcast license is held by Cumulus Licensing, LLC. WDEN airs a country music radio format. The studios and offices are on Mulberry Street. WDEN-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum permitted for non- grandfathered FM stations. It uses a tower that is 177 meters (581 feet) in height above average terrain (HAAT). The transmitter is off Ocmulgee East Boulevard (Route 87), near Interstate 16 in Macon. Programming WDEN-FM's parent company, Cumulus Media, has renamed most of the country music stations in its chain "Nash FM." But over the years, WDEN-FM developed its own identity so it continues to be called "#1 Country FM 99 WDEN." Two nationally syndicated Cumulus and Westwood One shows are carried weekday evenings on WDEN-FM: "Nights With Elaina" and "Picklejar Up All Night With Patrick Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMAC
WMAC (940 AM, "News Talk 940") is a commercial Class B radio station in Macon, Georgia. It is owned by Cumulus Media and airs a news/talk format. The studios and offices are on Mulberry Street in Macon. It is one of the oldest radio stations in Georgia. WMAC is a primary entry point for the Emergency Alert System (EAS). WMAC is a Class B radio station, powered at 50,000 watts by day with a non-directional signal. It can be heard from Albany to the suburbs of Atlanta. But because it broadcasts on AM 940, a clear channel frequency reserved for XEQ in Mexico City, WMAC reduces its power at night to 10,000 watts, and uses a directional five- tower array, concentrating the signal in Central Georgia. The transmitter is located on Forsyth Road ( U.S. Route 41) in Macon. Programming Much of WMAC's schedule is made up of nationally syndicated conservative talk radio shows, most of them from the co-owned Westwood One Network. Weekdays begin with two information shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBIR-TV
WBIR-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with NBC. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on Bill Williams Avenue in Knoxville's Belle Morris section, and its transmitter is located on Sharp's Ridge in North Knoxville. History WBIR-TV signed on the air on August 12, 1956, as a CBS affiliate, taking that affiliation away from WTVK (channel 26, now WVLT-TV on channel 8). During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. WBIR-TV was originally owned by a consortium headed by J. Lindsay Nunn and his son, Gilmore Nunn, owners of WBIR radio (1240 AM, now WIFA; and FM 103.5, now WIMZ-FM). The station's call letters come from Jesse W. "Jay" Birdwell, who founded WBIR radio in 1941; Birdwell sold the AM radio station to the Nunns in 1944. The Nunns shared ownership with WBIR general manager John P. Hart; Knoxville residents Robert and Martha Ashe, and the Taft family of Cinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIMZ-FM
WIMZ-FM (103.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Knoxville, Tennessee, serving East Tennessee. It is owned by Midwest Communications and broadcasts a classic rock radio format. The studios and offices are on Sharps Ridge Memorial Park Drive in Knoxville. Weekday mornings begin with '' The John Boy and Billy Show'' syndicated by Premiere Networks from WRFX Charlotte. Local DJs are heard the rest of the day. On weekends, WIMZ carries ''The House of Hair with Dee Snider'' and ''Time Warp with Bill St. James''. The station is heard on the iHeartRadio website and app. Tower The WIMZ tower is tall. It is a guy-wired aerial mast, designed for broadcasting Channel 10 WBIR-TV, originally the CBS Network affiliate for Knoxville (geographical coordinates: ). The tower was completed during September 1963 and at the time was the tallest structure in the world. It is currently owned by South Central Communications. WIMZ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 79,000 watts, amo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIFA (AM)
WIFA (1240 AM, "Faith 1240 AM") is a commercial radio station in Knoxville, Tennessee. It airs a mix of Christian Contemporary music and Christian talk and teaching shows. It is owned by Progressive Media, Inc. WIFA is powered at 1,000 watts, using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is on Painter Avenue SW near South Concord Street. Programming WIFA plays Christian Contemporary music part of the day. It also carries preaching programs from national religious leaders, including Adrian Rogers, Joyce Meyer, Tony Evans, Jim Daly and Jay Sekulow. In afternoon drive time, WIFA carries the syndicated comedy and talk show '' Rick & Bubba''. It also airs the 6pm newscast from Knoxville NBC network affiliate WBIR-TV. WIFA is affiliated with the Salem Radio Network. History The station signed on the air on . Its original call sign was WBIR. The station's call letters came from Jesse W. "Jay" Birdwell, who founded the station. Birdwell sold WBIR in 1944. In 1949, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWNC
WWNC (570 kHz) is a commercial radio station in Asheville, North Carolina. It broadcasts a talk format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station's studios and transmitter site are on Summerlin Road in Asheville. WWNC's programming features Glenn Beck and ''The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show'' in middays, ''The Sean Hannity Show'' in afternoons, ''The Ramsey Show'' in evenings and ''Coast to Coast AM'' in overnights. Mark Starling hosts a local program in mornings. History Early years WWNC is Asheville's oldest radio station, and among the oldest in North Carolina. It was first licensed, as WABC, on June 24, 1925, to the Asheville Battery Company at 19 Haywood Street. As of June 30, 1926, the station was listed on 1180 kHz with a transmitter power of 20 watts. In late 1926, it was announced that an application had been filed to transfer ownership of WABC to the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, and change its call sign to WWNC, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
