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United Stations Radio Networks
United Stations Radio Networks (United Stations) is a radio network that provides a variety of radio programs and programming services for radio stations throughout the United States and elsewhere. It is based in New York City. History The company was founded in February 1994 by pop icon Dick Clark and radio veterans Nick Verbitsky and Ed Salamon. Verbitsky continued to serve as the company's CEO, while Andy Denemark serves as the Vice President of Programming and plays a large role in company contributions. The similarly named "United Stations Radio Network" (singular), also founded by Clark, Verbitsky, and Salamon in 1980, bought the RKO Radio Networks in 1985 and eventually merged with CBS Radio and the original incarnation of Westwood One. In 2023, Gemini XIII, a company established by executives formerly with Dial Global and Cadence13, agreed to purchase United Stations. Programming United Stations's entertainment program offerings include '' Rewind with Gary Bryan'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcast Syndication
Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast their content to other television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air it on. It is common in the United States where broadcast programming is scheduled by television networks with local independent Network affiliate, affiliates. Syndication is less widespread in the rest of the world, as most countries have centralized networks or television stations without local affiliates. Shows can be syndicated internationally, although this is less common. Three common types of syndication are: ''first-run'' syndication, which is programming that is broadcast for the first time as a syndicated show and is made specifically for the purpose of selling it into syndication; ''Off-network'' syndication (colloquially called a "rerun"), which is the licensing of a program whose first airing was on stations inside the Television broadcaster, television network that prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Kent
Thomas Kent Newton (August 6, 1954 – June 24, 2024) was an American radio personality and label executive. As the head of the ''Tom Kent Radio Network'', Kent hosted and produced syndicated daily, weekend and, 24/7 programming each week on approximately 600 stations. The majority of Kent's programming was centered on classic hits and adult contemporary music formats, with selected programming made available to stations of any music format. There were 24 different syndicated radio products on TKRN heard in seven different formats. Biography Prior to becoming syndicated, Kent worked on the air and in programming at the top 40 radio station WLS in Chicago. Kent also worked on the air at KFJZ Ft. Worth, KLIF in Dallas, WIBG Philadelphia, WGCL and WIXY in Cleveland, WMXJ in Miami, WAVA-FM in Washington, D.C., where he was also the Program Director, and WBZZ (B-94) in Pittsburgh. In addition, Kent worked in the music industry as a promotion executive for Elektra En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBGB (FM)
WBGB (103.3 MHz) – branded as Big 103 – is a commercial adult hits FM radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station serves Greater Boston. The WBGB studios are located in the Boston neighborhood of Brighton, while the station's transmitter resides in nearby Newton. Besides a standard analog transmission, WBGB broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online via Audacy. History WEEI-FM (103.3) The station signed on the air in July 1948 as WEEI-FM, under the ownership of CBS. In its early years, it mainly simulcast co-owned WEEI (590 AM). Beginning in 1965, WEEI-FM began carrying "The Young Sound", an easy listening format focusing on instrumental versions of recent pop tunes, which aired on many of CBS's FM owned-and-operated stations. By 1969, "The Young Sound" had evolved to an automated Top 40/ AOR hybrid format, with voice tracked announcements by Dick Provost. In late 1972, WEEI-FM flipped to adult contemporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Football
College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur Student athlete, student-athletes at universities and colleges. It was through collegiate competition that gridiron football American football in the United States, first gained popularity in the United States. Like gridiron football generally, college football is most popular in the United States and Canada. While no single governing body exists for college football in the United States, most schools, especially those at the highest levels of play, are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA. In Canada, collegiate football competition is governed by U Sports for universities. The Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (for colleges) governs soccer and other sports but not gridiron football. Other countries, such as Organización Nacional Estudiantil de Fútbol Americano, Mexico, American football in Japan, Japan and Korea American Football Association, South Korea, also host colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Roker
Albert Lincoln Roker Jr. (born August 20, 1954) is an American weather presenter, journalist, television personality, and author. He is the weather anchor on NBC's ''Today'', and occasionally co-hosts '' 3rd Hour Today''. He has a lapsed American Meteorological Society (AMS) Television Seal of Approval (#238). Early life Roker was born in the borough of Queens, New York City, the son of Isabel, of Jamaican descent, and Albert Lincoln Roker Sr., a bus driver of Bahamian descent. He initially wanted to be a cartoonist. He was raised Catholic, his mother's faith, and graduated from Xavier High School in Manhattan. He attended the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego where he received a B.A. in communications in 1976. Career Early career (1974–95) Roker worked as a weather anchor for CBS affiliate WHEN-TV (now WTVH) in Syracuse, New York from 1974 until 1976, while he was enrolled at SUNY Oswego. During his time in Oswego, he also DJ'd at the campus radio station, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AccuWeather
AccuWeather, Inc. is a private-sector American media company that provides commercial weather forecasting services. AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers. The company adopted the name 'AccuWeather' in 1971. AccuWeather is headquartered in Ferguson Township, just outside of State College, Pennsylvania, with offices at 80 Pine Street in Manhattan's Financial District in addition to Wichita, Kansas, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Internationally, AccuWeather has offices in Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, and Mumbai. The business model of the company is to take statistics and weather data compiled by federal agencies and federal government satellites and sell it to users in a more user-friendly, consumable format. AccuWeather has lobbied the US government to stop providing services for free to the public and to privatize the National Weather Service, thus enabling AccuWeather to provide those services at a charge instead. Company profile AccuWeather provides weather fore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloomberg Radio
Bloomberg Radio is a radio service of Bloomberg L.P. that provides global business news programming 24 hours a day. The format is general and financial news, offering local, national and international news reports along with financial market updates and interviews with corporate executives, economists and industry analysts. On off hours, local stations may preempt with local sports play-by-play coverage such as college basketball, tennis and other sports coverage. Bloomberg Radio is broadcast on radio stations around the United States, and directly operates four radio stations: * WBBR (1130 AM) in New York City. * WBOS (92.9 FM) in Brookline–Boston and WNBP (1450 AM) in Newburyport. * WDCH-FM (99.1) in Bowie, Maryland, serving Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. In 1992, Bloomberg purchased the first of these, WBBR (1130 AM) in New York (at the time using the call sign WNEW), for $13.5 million. Bloomberg took over the operation of WXKS (1200 AM) in Newton, Massachuset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IHeartMedia
iHeartMedia, Inc., or CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc., formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc., a company founded by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs in 1972, and later taken private by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners in a leveraged buyout in 2008. As a result of the 2008 buyout, Clear Channel Communications, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of CC Media Holdings, Inc. On September 16, 2014, CC Media Holdings, Inc. was rebranded iHeartMedia, Inc., and Clear Channel Communications, Inc., became iHeartCommunications, Inc. Overview iHeartMedia, Inc. specializes in radio broadcasting, podcasting, Digital media, digital and live events through Division (business), division iHeartMedia (sans "Inc." suffix; formerly Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, Clear Channel Radio, et al.) and subsidiary iHeartMedia and Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Clear Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Clark's Rock, Roll & Remember
Dick Clark's Rock, Roll and Remember (sometimes shortened to ''Rock, Roll and Remember'') was a weekly American rock and roll radio documentary show hosted by Dick Clark featuring oldies music. It was broadcast on United Stations Radio Networks and its predecessors between 1982 and 2004, with reruns continuing until August 2020. History It was first broadcast on February 14, 1982 and originally hosted by Gene Weed. The next year Clark and Mark Elliot became co-hosts. By 1985 Clark became the sole presenter. The show was written by Pam Miller and produced by Frank Furino. and named after the autobiography Clark co-wrote with Richard Robinson in 1976. In each episode Clark profiled a different rock 'n' roll artist from the 1950s and 1960s. He also counted down the top four songs that week from a certain year in the 1950s, 1960s or early 1970s. In 2004, when Clark suffered a stroke and was no longer able to speak clearly, production of the show ended. Beginning in 2009, Clark' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HardDrive (radio Show)
{{Use mdy dates, date=March 2025 ''hardDrive with Lou Brutus'' is a two-hour, weekly rock radio show hosted by rock radio veteran Lou Brutus. It is syndicated by United Stations Radio Networks and broadcasts on over 90 stations nationwide. Music industry veteran Roxy Myzal produced both hardDrive, since its early upbringings in 1996, until her retirement at the end of 2017.United StationsROXY MYZAL TO RETIRE Producer Roxy Myzal has won four RadioContraband Rock Radio Awards for "Non-traditional Programmer of the Year" in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Lou Brutus won a RadioContraband Rock Radio Award for "Disc Jockey of the Year" in 2013 and "Syndicated DJ of the Year" 2014 hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus ''hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus'' is the weeknight expansion of radio show ''hardDrive with Lou Brutus''. The program is five hours long and airs Monday thru Friday nights. It is syndicated by United Stations Radio Networks United Stations Radio Networks (United Stations) is a rad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Brutus
Lou Brutus (born November 10, 1962) is an American radio personality, program director, voice-over talent, musician, and photographer. He is best known as the host of the nationally syndicated rock radio programs '' hardDrive with Lou Brutus'' and ''hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus'', as well as his work at Sirius XM Radio. Radio overview As host of '' hardDrive with Lou Brutus'' and ''hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus'', as well as through his music programming for Sirius XM Radio, he has assisted in breaking many rock bands in the active rock radio format notably Slipknot, Stone Sour, Avenged Sevenfold, Godsmack, Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch, Sevendust and Halestorm among others. He was an early hire for XM Satellite Radio, later merged with Sirius Satellite Radio to form Sirius XM Radio, where he has acted as program director, senior program director, disc jockey, interviewer and voice-over talent. Brutus' voiceovers there include acting as the primary voice of the '40s on 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Bartley's Classic Hits
''Dick Bartley's Classic Hits'' was a syndicated weekly, four-hour, classic hits program written, produced and hosted by Radio Hall-of-Fame broadcaster Dick Bartley. It was syndicated across the country by United Stations Radio Networks and internationally via Radio Express. Twenty featured songs from a particular month — alternating between 1970s and 1980s from week to week — were featured and played countdown-style, from No. 20 to No. 1. The ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart is the standard for this ranking. ''Dick Bartley's Classic Hits'' was based upon two previous oldies programs Bartley hosted, the countdown series ''Classic Countdown'' (previously known as ''American Gold'') and the live request series ''Rock and Roll's Greatest Hits''. In July 2017, the programs were combined, taking on its latest name. The program was pre-recorded (''Rock & Roll's Greatest Hits'', while live for most of its run, had transitioned to being pre-recorded shortly after joining United Statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
