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NAB Marconi Radio Award
:''"Marconi Award" links here. Note that in the Netherlands, the radio academy awards are also called Marconi Awards.'' The Marconi Radio Awards are presented annually by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) to the top radio stations and on-air personalities in the United States. The awards are named in honor of Guglielmo Marconi, the man generally credited as the "father of wireless telegraphy". NAB member stations submit nominations. A task force determines the finalists and the Marconi Radio Award Selection Academy votes on the winners, who receive their awards in the fall. Marconi Radio Awards for 2024 Legendary Station * KYGO-FM, Denver, CO Legendary Station Manager of the Year * Bennett Zier, Audacy, VA Network/Syndicated Personality of the Year * Erica Campbell, Reach Media/Urban One, Dallas, TX Best Radio Podcast of the Year * "El Bueno, La Mala y El Feo", Univision Radio, Los Angeles, CA Stations of the Year by market size * Major Market: KTCK-AM, Dallas, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands consists of Provinces of the Netherlands, twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south, with a North Sea coastline to the north and west. It shares Maritime boundary, maritime borders with the United Kingdom, Germany, and Belgium. The official language is Dutch language, Dutch, with West Frisian language, West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland. Dutch, English_language, English, and Papiamento are official in the Caribbean Netherlands, Caribbean territories. The people who are from the Netherlands is often referred to as Dutch people, Dutch Ethnicity, Ethnicity group, not to be confused by the language. ''Netherlands'' literally means "lower countries" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAJI
WAJI (95.1 FM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a hot adult contemporary format. Licensed to Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, the station is owned by Bloomington–based Sarkes Tarzian, Inc. WAJI broadcasts in HD, with its HD2 channel simulcasting sister station WGBJ. Its HD3 channel used to broadcast a "Top 20" CHR format The HD3 channel has since been turned off. History WAJI was known as WPTH throughout the 1960s and 1970s as a sister station to WPTA television, and in the summer of 1974 branded themselves as "Rock 95", using TM Productions' "Stereo Rock" Top 40 reel to reel automation package. The station went live in 1979, and changed calls in 1981 to WFWQ (95Q), continuing to do battle with 97.3 WMEE for the Top 40 audience in Fort Wayne. The station mellowed to Adult Contemporary, eventually changing to its current WAJI calls and imaging in 1985. "Majic 95" soon once again became one of Fort Wayne's top-rated stations, reaching #1 in the market several ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCBS (AM)
KCBS (740 kHz) is an all-news AM radio station located in San Francisco, California. It is owned by Audacy, Inc. (formerly Entercom), which took over after its merger with CBS Radio. KCBS formerly shared its Battery Street studios with CBS owned-and-operated television station KPIX-TV 5. The transmitter site is located in Novato. Its programming is simulcast on co-owned 106.9 KFRC-FM plus that station's HD1 digital sub-channel. It is Northern California's primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System. KCBS operates with a transmitter output of 50,000 watts, and during the daytime can be regularly received as far north as Red Bluff and Hopland and south as far as San Luis Obispo. In good conditions it is also heard as far north as Redding and south to Santa Maria. At night, the station employs a directional antenna, primarily sending its signal to the southeast, in order to protect CFZM in Toronto, the dominant Class A station on the 740 kHz c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBTJ
WBTJ (106.5 FM) – branded as 106.5 The Beat – is a commercial urban contemporary radio station licensed to serve Richmond, Virginia. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station services the Greater Richmond Region and the Petersburg area. The WBTJ studios are located just north of Richmond proper in unincorporated Henrico County, while the station transmitter resides in the Richmond suburb of Bon Air. Besides a standard analog transmission, WBTJ broadcasts using HD Radio technology, and is available online via Audacy. History WRFK-FM In December 1956, the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia applied for a new noncommercial station; five months later, WRFK-FM 91.1 signed on, presenting classical music programming as well as religious and educational programs during its four-hour broadcast day. The call letters were the initials of the force behind the seminary's efforts to start a radio station, Robert Fitzgerald Kirkpatrick. He ran the UTS audiovisual center, operating a tape du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KKFN
KKFN (104.3 FM broadcasting, FM, "Denver Sports 104.3 The Fan") is a commercial radio station serving the Denver-Boulder, Colorado, Boulder media market, market. Owned and operated by Salt Lake City–based Bonneville International, KKFN airs a sports radio, sports radio format. The station is city of license, licensed in Longmont, Colorado. Its studios are located in Greenwood Village, Colorado, Greenwood Village, and the transmitter is in Lakewood, Colorado, Lakewood on Green Mountain (Lakewood, Colorado), Green Mountain. KKFN runs local sports shows days and evenings, and carries ESPN Radio programming late nights and weekends. History Middle of the road (1964–1986) In September 1964, KLMO-FM first sign-on, signed on, a sister station to KLMO (then at 1050 AM, now KRCN at 1060 AM). Powered at 28,000 watts with a tower only 88 feet tall, unable to be heard throughout the Denver region, the station targeted Longmont, Boulder and the suburbs north of Denver. KLMO-FM simu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLZL
WLZL (107.9 FM, "El Zol 107.9 FM") is a commercial radio station licensed to serve College Park, Maryland. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. through licensee Audacy License, LLC and broadcasts a Spanish hits format. Studios are located in Washington, D.C. while the station's broadcast tower is located east of Crofton, Maryland at (). WLZL broadcasts using HD Radio. History The station signed on for the first time on May 16, 1960, with the call sign WANN-FM. WANN-FM was the sister station to A.M. daytimer WANN/1190. WFSI was owned by Family Radio and aired a Christian radio format. On November 16, 2011, CBS Radio announced plans to acquire WFSI from Family Radio, with the intention of moving WLZL's Spanish Tropical format and ''El Zol'' branding from 99.1 to 107.9, with a new all-news format to be launched on 99.1. The format change occurred on December 1, when both stations began simulcasting El Zol programming. WFSI also swapped call signs with WBGR, a Family Radio-o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNNL
WNNL (103.9 FM) is an urban gospel formatted station serving the Raleigh–Durham metropolitan region. Owned by Radio One with WQOK and WFXC/ WFXK, the station is home to the Yolanda Adams morning show. Its studios are located in Raleigh and its transmitter site is in Fuquay-Varina, the station's city of license. WNNL broadcasts two channels in the HD Radio format. History WAKS-FM was a country station in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, and sister station to WAKS (1460 AM) when it signed on in 1981. In 1987 the station became easy listening WAZZ. In 1989 the station moved to Cary, North Carolina, and began playing smooth jazz as WNND "The Wind". After financial problems, WNND was sold to Clear Channel and switched to a classic hits format, with the call letters WZZU, previously used by what is now WNCB. The current format began in October 1997 on WZZU and WDUR WDUR (1490 AM) is an Indian/South Asian radio station in Durham, North Carolina, owned by Ravi Cherukuri, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KDKA (AM)
KDKA () is a list of North American broadcast station classes, class A, clear channel, AM radio station, licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. Its radio studios are located at the combined Audacy Pittsburgh facility in the Foster Plaza on Holiday Drive in Green Tree, and its transmitter site is at Allison Park. The station's programming is also carried over 93.7 KDKA-FM's HD Radio, HD2 digital subchannel, and is simulcast on FM translator W261AX at 100.1 MHz. KDKA features a news/talk radio format. Operating with a transmitter power of omnidirectional antenna, non-directional, the station can be heard during daylight hours throughout central and western Pennsylvania, along with portions of the adjacent states of Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland and New York State, plus the southernmost part of the Canadian province of Ontario. KDKA can be heard throughout the state of Pennsylvania and much of the Eastern United States and Eastern Canada at night. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXTU
WXTU (92.5 FM broadcasting, FM) is a commercial radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Owned by Beasley Broadcast Group, the station broadcasts a country music format. Its studios and offices are located at 1 Bala Plaza on East City Avenue in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, while its transmitter is located in the Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Roxborough section of the city. WXTU broadcasts in HD Radio, HD; its HD2 sub-channel airs a contemporary country format known as "NuTune Country". History Early years The first Philadelphia FM station on 92.5 was Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Westinghouse-owned KYW-FM, the sister station to KYW (AM), KYW. In 1942, Westinghouse put the station on the air in the old FM band and in 1948 moved it to 92.5 MHz. The development of FM radio in the post-war years was slow and Westinghouse decided not to continue operating KYW-FM, relinquishing its license in 1955. The 92.5 frequency stayed empty for three years. In Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBLI
WBLI (106.1 FM) is a commercial radio station owned by Cox Radio and licensed to Patchogue, New York. It airs a contemporary hit radio format. The station mainly serves Suffolk County, New York on Long Island. Its studios and offices are located on Sunrise Highway (NY 27) in West Babylon, New York. WBLI is a Class B FM station with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 49,000 watts, the highest powered station on Long Island. To protect two adjacent channel stations from interference, WQXR-FM in Newark, New Jersey and WHCN Hartford, Connecticut (both on 105.9 FM), WBLI uses a directional antenna. The station's transmitter is located in Farmingville, New York. History Early years The station signed on the air on December 13, 1957, as WPAC-FM, the FM counterpart to WPAC. The two stations were owned by the Patchogue Broadcasting Company. Because WPAC was a daytimer, WPAC-FM simulcast its programming in the daytime and continued it after WPAC signed off the air at sunset. At first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPSC-FM
WPSC-FM (88.7 FM) – branded ''Brave New Radio'' – is William Paterson University's non-commercial radio station, broadcasting an alternative hip hop format. Licensed to Wayne, New Jersey, the station serves the north Jersey and western New York City area. In 2012, 2013, 2017 and, most recently, March 2018, the station was named Best College Radio Station (with over 10K students enrolled) by the Intercollegiate Broadcast System. Brave New Radio serves as the founding headquarters for World College Radio Day, an annual event created by the station's former general manager. In 2011, WPSC was one of the top 25 stations nominated for the mtvU Woodie Award for Best College Radio Station. The station is staffed almost entirely by students, with a paid faculty advisor serving as the general manager. All programming, music, promotions, and creative decisions are made by students, a point of pride for the station that has been a staple in the North Jersey radio landscape for decade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
