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Press Communications
Press Communications Radio, LLC is a broadcasting company in the American state of New Jersey which owns six radio stations. The company is owned by Robert E. McAllan, and is a sister entity to PMCM TV, LLC. It traces its roots back to 1895, and entered radio broadcasting in 1947 by launching the first FM station entirely in the Garden State, WBAB-FM in Atlantic City, New Jersey (at the time, owned by its subsidiary, Press-Union Newspapers), simulcasting WBAB, later falling silent. While no longer in the newspaper business, the company has a formal business partnership with the Gannett-owned Asbury Park Press. PMCM TV PMCM TV, LLC was founded in 2008 in Wall Township, New Jersey to purchase KJWY from Sunbelt Communications Company and KVNV from Valley Broadcasting Company. After the sale closed in 2009, the stations were moved to Wilmington, Delaware (to serve the Philadelphia market) and Middletown Township, New Jersey (to serve the New York City market) respectively ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limited Liability Company
A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company. It is a business structure that can combine the pass-through taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the limited liability of a corporation. An LLC is not a corporation under the laws of every state; it is a legal form of a company that provides limited liability to its owners in many jurisdictions. LLCs are well known for the flexibility that they provide to business owners; depending on the situation, an LLC may elect to use corporate tax rules instead of being treated as a partnership, and, under certain circumstances, LLCs may be organized as not-for-profit. In certain U.S. states (for example, Texas), businesses that provide professional services requiring a state professional license, such as legal or medical services, may not be allowed to form an LLC but may be required to form a similar entity called a professional limited liability company (PLLC). An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJLP
WJLP (channel 33) is a television station licensed to Middletown Township, New Jersey, United States, broadcasting the classic television network MeTV to the New York City area. It is owned and operated by network parent Weigel Broadcasting alongside Bridgeport, Connecticut–licensed MeTV Plus station WZME (channel 43) and Story Television outlet WNWT-LD (channel 37, officially a low-power station, operating under a channel sharing arrangement with WJLP). WJLP and WNWT-LD share studios in Freehold Township, New Jersey, and transmitter facilities at 4 Times Square in midtown Manhattan. History Origins in Ely, Nevada (2001–2014) Founded in 1998 by Harris Broadcasting, the station went on the air two and a half years later. The station was originally located in Ely, Nevada and signed on July 9, 2001, as KBJN, a satellite of KVBC (now KSNV), the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas. Harris Broadcasting soon sold it to KVBC owner Valley Broadcasting Company. The call letters were chang ... [...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] |
WKMK
WKMK(106.3 FM broadcasting, FM ''Thunder 106'') is a country music formatted radio station, licensed to Eatontown, New Jersey and serving Monmouth County, New Jersey, Monmouth and Middlesex County, New Jersey, Middlesex counties. WKMK programming is simulcast on WTHJ (106.5 FM) Bass River Township, New Jersey, which serves Ocean County, New Jersey, Ocean, Burlington County, New Jersey, Burlington, and Atlantic County, New Jersey, Atlantic counties. The stations are owned by Press Communications with studios located in Neptune Township, New Jersey, Neptune, New Jersey. WKMK's transmitter is located at exit 105 of the Garden State Parkway in Tinton Falls. WTHJ's transmitter is located on the tower of Philadelphia television station WWSI, located in Tuckerton. History WHTG history WHTG-FM first signed on at the 105.5 MHz frequency on October 11, 1961, as the sister station of WHTG (1410 AM). The station was named for Harold and Theo Gade, its first owners and operators. Eventua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWZY
WWZY ("107.1 The Boss") is a classic rock- formatted radio station licensed to Long Branch, New Jersey, and serving the Northern Jersey Shore. It is owned by Press Communications and is simulcast on co-owned 99.7 WBHX in Tuckerton, New Jersey. Its studios and offices are on West Bangs Avenue in Neptune City, New Jersey. WWZY is a Class A station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 5,000 watts. Its transmitter tower is on Broadway at Memorial Parkway in Long Branch. History 1960–1981 WWZY first went on the air on June 1, 1960, as WRLB "Radio Long Branch". At the time, the station's owner was afforded the possibility of broadcasting with 50,000 watts, but he declined, thinking that FM radio had limited potential. Therefore, the station signed on with 3,000 watts from a tower located in Long Branch, New Jersey. The studios were located adjacent to the tower. WWZY still uses the tower site, although the studios are now in Neptune City. When the Long Branch 107.1 did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Rock
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the early-1990s, primarily focusing on commercially successful blues rock and hard rock popularized in the 1970s AOR format.Pareles, Jon (June 18, 1986)"Oldies on Rise in Album-Rock Radio" ''The New York Times''. Retrieved April 19, 2019. The radio format became increasingly popular with the baby boomer demographic by the end of the 1990s. Although classic rock has mostly appealed to adult listeners, music associated with this format received more exposure with younger listeners with the presence of the Internet and digital downloading. Some classic rock stations also play a limited number of current releases which are stylistically consistent with the station's sound, or by Heritage act (music), heritage acts which are still active and producing new music."New York Radio Guide: Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBHX
WBHX (99.7 FM, "The Boss") is a commercial radio station licensed to Tuckerton, New Jersey. It is owned by Press Communications and it is simulcast with co-owned WWZY 107.1 FM in Long Branch. The two stations air a classic rock format known as "The Boss." (Popular Jersey Shore musician Bruce Springsteen is often called "The Boss.") The studios and offices are on West Bangs Avenue in Neptune City, New Jersey. WBHX is a Class A station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 1000 watts. The transmitter tower is on Hartley Lane in Little Egg Harbor Township. History Classic Rock The station signed on the air on .Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2010', Broadcasting & Cable, 2010. p. D-364. Retrieved September 27, 2018. It aired a mostly automated classic rock format. Two live DJs were heard: "Radio Rohn" in mornings and Mike Jarmus in afternoons, including his "Woodstock Lunch" show featuring music from the Woodstock Festival period. Specialty shows included "The Dead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuckerton, New Jersey
Tuckerton is a Borough (New Jersey), borough situated on the Jersey Shore, within Ocean County, New Jersey, Ocean County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 3,577, its highest United States census, decennial count ever and an increase of 230 (+6.9%) from the 3,347 recorded at the 2010 United States census, 2010 census, which in turn had reflected a decline of 170 (−4.8%) from the 3,517 counted in the 2000 United States census, 2000 census. Tuckerton was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 18, 1901, from portions of Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, Little Egg Harbor Township.Snyder, John P''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968'' Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 205. Accessed May 30, 2024. The borough is surrounded by Little Egg Harbor Township, but is politically independent. Because Tuckerton and Little Egg Harbor sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Hit Radio
Contemporary hit radio (CHR, also known as contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 Record chart, music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock music, rock, pop music, pop, or Urban contemporary, urban music. Used alone, ''CHR'' most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term ''contemporary hit radio'' was coined in the early 1980s by ''Radio & Records'' magazine to designate Top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into Adult contemporary music, adult contemporary, Urban contemporary music, urban contemporary, Contemporary Christian music, contemporary Christian and other formats. The term "top 40" is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. The term has also been modifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBBO
WBBO (98.5 FM broadcasting, FM, "B98-5") is a radio station broadcasting a contemporary hit radio format. Licensed to Ocean Acres, New Jersey, it serves Ocean County, New Jersey, Ocean & Burlington County, New Jersey, Burlington counties in New Jersey. It first started broadcasting on March 10, 1993, under the callsign (radio), call sign WQNJ, but more recently operated under WKMK. The station is currently owned by Press Communications.http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WKMK FCC FM Query Coverage Area 98.5's signal blankets Ocean County, New Jersey, Ocean and Burlington County, New Jersey, Burlington in New Jersey as well as the New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The station can be heard from Atlantic City, New Jersey, Atlantic City to the South, Belmar, New Jersey, Belmar to the North, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia to the West. The WBBO antenna is co-located with WVBH (FM), WVBH and W265CS on a tower located near the intersection of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
