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CISN-FM (103.9 MHz, ''103.9 CISN Country'') is a radio station that broadcasts from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is owned by Corus Entertainment, which also operates CHED, CHQT and CKNG-FM. The station has a country format, playing both current hits and past favourites. CISN is one of the longest broadcasting FM stations in Edmonton. CISN's studios are located on 84th Street in downtown Edmonton, while its transmitter is located near Anthony Henday Drive in eastern Edmonton. As of 28 February 2021, CISN is the 7th-most-listened-to radio station in the Edmonton market according to a PPM data report released by Numeris. Rebroadcasters CISN also operates on a number of low-power FM transmitters in some areas of Canada. Alberta British Columbia Newfoundland and Labrador Awards CISN-FM was the winner of the Canadian Country Music Association's Annual Country Station of the Year (Major Market Category) five times since the award's 2000 creation, having won in 2003, 2004, 2009, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 In Radio
The year 1982 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history. Events * 19 January – It is announced that Watermark Inc., producer of American Top 40 with Casey Kasem, is being sold for approximately $5 million to ABC Radio. * 14 February – First broadcast of '' Dick Clark's Rock, Roll & Remember''. * 10 May – After 22 years as a Top 40 music station, WABC in New York City changes to talk radio. * 23 July – KDKA in Pittsburgh, becomes the first AM station to broadcast in Stereo sound. * 14 November – KBOX in Dallas, Texas drops its longtime call sign to become KMEZ and simulcast the beautiful music format of their sister station KMEZ-FM. * 15 November – KOST switches from beautiful music to Adult Contemporary. * KENR in Dallas, Texas drops country music for news/ talk as "The Radio Magazine." By November, the station would flip once again, this time to adult contemporary. * WBBM-FM Chicago debuts its long-running Top 40 format, beginning as ... [...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] |
Blue River, British Columbia
Blue River is a small community of 175 residents at the 2021 census in British Columbia, situated on Highway 5 about halfway between Kamloops and Jasper, Alberta It is located at the confluence of the Blue and North Thompson Rivers. The local economy is supported by logging, tourism and transportation industries. Geography Blue River lies in a wide, gravelly part of the North Thompson River valley. Its podzolic soils are strongly acidic and coarse, with abundant sand, gravel and stones. Drainage is not as rapid as would be expected from the soils' coarse texture because the subsoils tend to be cemented. The forests and mountains around Blue River have plentiful big game such as deer, moose, black and grizzly bears, and caribou. Birds include osprey, eagles, woodpeckers and ravens. The mountain pine beetle has become the area's most significant insect. Lodgepole pine is the most common tree at Blue River, with strong reproduction offsetting impacts from the mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avola, British Columbia
Avola is an unincorporated community in the Thompson region of eastern British Columbia. The former ferry site is on the west shore of the North Thompson River immediately north of the mouth of Avola Creek. Off BC Highway 5, the locality is by road about northeast of the Kamloops and south of Blue River. Name origin The general area, which stretched about , had been known as Stillwater Flat for 50 years prior to the new station being named in 1913 by the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) after the Sicilian town of Avola. Since the opening of the post office that year equally demanded a unique name to avoid confusion with the Stillwater one elsewhere, it is unclear who was the prime instigator of the new name. The earliest newspaper reference to the name was August 1913. Earlier community Harry F. Hardy, who arrived in the general area in 1909, drove the Chu Chua– Vavenby stage 1911–1913, which sometimes extended as far as Wire Cache. W.C. (Charlie) Fowler, who opened the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valemount, British Columbia
Valemount is a village municipality of 1,018 people in east central British Columbia, Canada, from Kamloops, British Columbia. It is between the Rocky, Monashee, and Cariboo Mountains. It is the nearest community to the west of Jasper National Park, and is also the nearest community to Mount Robson Provincial Park, which features Mount Robson, the tallest mountain in the Canadian Rockies. Outdoor recreation is popular in summer and winter—hiking, skiing, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, mountain biking and horseback riding are common activities. Valemount is one of 14 designated resort municipalities in British Columbia. The name ''Valemount'' was coined for the Canadian National Railway station there in 1927 from the words ''vale'' and ''mount''. History The land that would become Valemount is in the traditional territory of the Kootenai, Shuswap and Rocky Mountain Cree. Other first peoples with ties to the area included the Lheidli T’enneh and the Mountain Metis. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemano, British Columbia
Kemano was a settlement situated 75 km (47 mi) southeast of Kitimat in the province of British Columbia in Canada. It was built to service a hydroelectric power station, built to provide energy for Alcan to smelt aluminum from its ore. The Kemano Generating Station is built 427 m (1,400 ft) inside the base of Mt Dubose in a blasted cavern. It produces 896 MW of power from its eight generators, each of which has a capacity of 112MW. History The plant comprises a 16 km (9.9 mi) long tunnel, the width of a two-lane highway, drilled and blasted through the coastal mountains to carry water to the penstocks of the Kemano powerhouse. The water plunges 800 m (2,600 ft) to drive the generators. The two 287 kV power transmission lines travel 82 km (51 mi) from Kemano to Kitimat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McBride, British Columbia
McBride is a village in the Robson Valley region of British Columbia, Canada. The village is located southeast of Prince George, British Columbia, and west of Jasper, Alberta. Incorporated in 1932, McBride is located in the Robson Valley surrounded by the Rocky Mountains and Cariboo Ranges. History McBride was founded in 1913 as Mile 90 of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The village was named after the serving premier, Sir Richard McBride. McBride's early industries were rail, shipping, forest harvesting and the agricultural development of the valley. In 1970 access to McBride changed with the opening of Highway 16 (Yellowhead), which enabled vehicles to travel through the valley. McBride is rich in farmland in the valley bottom, with a mix of forest and alpine surrounding the valley. This unique mixture allows McBride to be a prime location for many industries. Current industries for McBride are railroad, forestry, tourism, small businesses and agriculture. Barley, oats, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort St
A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin ("strong") and ("to make"). From very early history to modern times, defensive walls have often been necessary for cities to survive in an ever-changing world of invasion and conquest. Some settlements in the Indus Valley Civilization were the first small cities to be fortified. In ancient Greece, large cyclopean stone walls fitted without mortar had been built in Mycenaean Greece, such as the ancient site of Mycenae. A Greek '' phrourion'' was a fortified collection of buildings used as a military garrison, and is the equivalent of the Roman castellum or fortress. These constructions mainly served the purpose of a watch tower, to guard certain roads, passes, and borders. Though smaller than a real fortress, they acted as a border ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chetwynd, British Columbia
Chetwynd is a district municipality located in the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains, in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Situated on an ancient floodplain, it is the first town eastbound travellers encounter after emerging from the Rockies along Highway 97, and acts as the gateway to the Peace River Country. The town developed during the construction of infrastructure through the Rocky Mountains in the 1950s; additionally, it was used as a transshipment point during the building of hydroelectric dams, in the 1960s and 1970s, and the new town of Tumbler Ridge, in the early 1980s. Home to approximately 2,600 residents, the town’s population has increased little—if at all—since the 1980s, but is significantly younger than the provincial average. Once known as Little Prairie, the community adopted its name in honour of provincial politician Ralph Chetwynd, just prior to its incorporation, in 1962. The municipality consists of the town, a community fores ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald, British Columbia
Donald is an unincorporated community in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. This almost ghost town is on the northeast shore of the Columbia River immediately southeast of the mouth of Marl Creek. The locality, on BC Highway 1, is by road about northwest of Golden and northeast of Revelstoke. Name origin During railway construction, a lively canvas town with numerous stores and saloons existed. The place was known as Columbia Crossing, First Crossing, or Third Siding. Numbered west from Golden, these sidings housed a section crew. On completion of the railway, the station was named after Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) director Donald A. Smith. Railway At Donald, CP received a grant and purchased a further . By November 1884, the westward advance of the CP rail head had passed through Donald and reached Beavermouth. That winter, Donald remained the terminus for rail service. Donald became a divisional point on the boundary between the Western and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainbow Lake, Alberta
Rainbow Lake is a town in Northern Alberta, northwest Alberta, Canada. It is west of High Level, Alberta, High Level at the end of Alberta Highway 58, Highway 58, in Mackenzie County. The town carries the name of the nearby lake, formed on the Hay River (Canada), Hay River, that was so called due to its curved shape. The town was established to service the industry of the nearby oil field, discovered in 1965. Demographics In the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town of Rainbow Lake had a population of 495 living in 204 of its 352 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 795. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the Canada 2016 Census, 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town of Rainbow Lake recorded a population of 795 living in 303 of its 475 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 870. With a land area of , it had a po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luscar, Alberta
Luscar is a ghost town in west-central Alberta, Canada that was once a coal mining community. It was in the foothills of the Northern Rockies about northwest of Cadomin along the Bighorn Highway (Highway 40), at the end of the CN Railway line. History Luscar lies in an area known as the Alberta Coal Branch, which has a long history of coal mining. The original underground mine at Luscar opened in 1921, and by 1922 the community consisted of about 25 or 30 homes, a small cottage hospital, a school, a general store, and other shops. The mine worked the strongly folded Jewel Seam and produced steam coal, primarily for railroad markets. Surface mining began in 1945 and underground mining had ceased by 1954. Fire destroyed the briquette plant in 1956 and later that year all mining ceased due to lack of markets for steam coal, after which the community was abandoned. In 1970, the old Luscar townsite became the headquarters for an open-pit coal mine owned jointly by Luscar Ltd. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
