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WAXQ
WAXQ (104.3 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York. It airs a classic rock format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. WAXQ's studios are at 125 West 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan. DJs heard on WAXQ include radio veterans Carol Miller and Jim Kerr. The station's transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. History WFDR (1949–1952) A station signed on the air on the 104.3 frequency in 1949. Its call sign was WFDR, a non-profit FM station owned by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. The call letters referred to the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a hero to the labor movement. However, few people owned FM receivers in that era. Like many early FM stations, WFDR lost money, and the station ceased operations in 1952. WNCN (1956–1974) A new FM station began broadcasting on the 104.3 frequency on . Its call sign was WFMX. Within a year, it adopted the call letters WNCN, standing for "New York Concert Network." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Miller (DJ)
Carol Miller is an American radio personality and disc jockey. She has been a steady presence on Rock music, rock radio stations in the New York metropolitan area since 1973. She began her broadcasting career at WMMR in Philadelphia as an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. She later hosted radio shows at WPLJ and WNEW-FM. She has been heard most recently on WAXQ ("Q-104.3") and Sirius XM Radio, Sirius XM. Miller is an ardent champion of classic rock music. In addition to her live radio program, she hosts the nightly Led Zeppelin tribute show, ''Get the Led Out'', which has been in Broadcast syndication, syndication since 1984 and is at 8:00 pm every weekday on Q-104.3. Her autobiography, ''Up All Night: My Life and Times in Rock Radio'', was published in 2012. Early life and education Miller was born in 1950, in Queens, New York City. At the age of 10, she and her family moved to New Hyde Park, New York, New Hyde Park on Long Island, where she attended Herri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOR (AM)
WOR () is a 50,000-watt class A clear-channel AM radio station owned by iHeartMedia and licensed to New York, New York. The station airs a mix of local and syndicated talk radio shows, primarily from co-owned Premiere Networks, including '' The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show'', '' The Sean Hannity Show'', and '' Coast to Coast AM with George Noory''. '' CBS Eye on the World'' with John Batchelor, from CBS News Radio is heard at night. Since 2016, the station has served as the New York outlet for co-owned NBC News Radio. The station's studios are located at 125 West 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan, with its transmitter in Rutherford, New Jersey. WOR began broadcasting on Wednesday, February 22, 1922, and is one of the oldest continuously operating radio stations in the United States with a three–letter call sign, characteristic of a station dating from the 1920s. WOR is the only New York City station to have retained its original three-letter call sign, making those ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLTW
WLTW (106.7 MHz) is an adult contemporary radio station licensed to New York, New York and serving the New York metropolitan area. WLTW is owned by iHeartMedia and broadcasts from studios located at 125 West 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan, while the station's transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. History The station first went on the air on January 1, 1961, as non-commercial WRVR, originally owned by the Riverside Church. WRVR played classical music and some jazz, along with religious programming and public affairs, broadcasting from an antenna atop the church's bell tower. As time went on, WRVR was a full-time jazz station with a strong audience following but low ratings. In mid-1974 Riverside Church looked to cut its losses and sell WRVR, but with a preferred condition that the station's jazz format be preserved. At the same time, classical music-formatted WNCN (104.3 FM, now sister station WAXQ) was in the process of a controversial format change to Alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story, Art Deco-style supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from "Empire State", the List of U.S. state nicknames, nickname of New York state. The building has a roof height of and stands a total of tall, including its antenna (radio), antenna. The Empire State Building was the world's tallest building until the first tower of the World Trade Center (1973–2001), World Trade Center was Construction of the World Trade Center, topped out in 1970; following the collapse of the World Trade Center, September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was once more New York City's tallest building until it was surpassed in 2012 by One World Trade Center. , the building is the List of tallest buildings in New York City, eighth-tallest building in New York City, the List of tallest buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWPR-FM
WWPR-FM (105.1 FM) is an urban contemporary music radio station licensed to New York, New York. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and broadcasts from studios located at 125 West 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan, while its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. WWPR-FM is the flagship station of the nationally syndicated morning show, '' The Breakfast Club''. History WWRL-FM and WRFM (1953–1985) The station first signed on the air on December 14, 1953, as WWRL-FM. The station was co-owned with WWRL (1600 AM) by radio enthusiast William Reuman, studios were in Woodside, Queens. The call sign was changed to WRFM in October 1957, breaking away from the AM simulcast with a diversified and classical music format. Bonneville International, the broadcast arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, purchased WRFM in 1967. The following year, WRFM, billing itself as "Stereo 105", adopted a beautiful music format that was developed by program director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHTZ
WHTZ (100.3 FM) is a commercial contemporary hit radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, and broadcasting to the New York metropolitan area. It is owned by iHeartMedia. WHTZ is the flagship station for ''Elvis Duran and the Morning Show''. WHTZ's studios are located at 125 West 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan, while the station's transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WHTZ broadcasts in the HD Radio format, and streams online via iHeartRadio. From 2001 to June 18, 2020, the station was additionally simulcast on SiriusXM satellite radio channel 12; the station remained available on its streaming service until 2022. History Prior use of 100.3 MHz in New York City The first station to operate on 100.3 MHz was New York's fourth FM radio station, which signed on the air June 1, 1942, as W63NY at 46.3 MHz in the old FM band. The station, which had become WHNF when it moved to 100.3, was co-owned w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) was a labor union for employees in the women's clothing industry in the United States. It was one of the largest unions in the country, one of the first to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s. The union, generally referred to as the "ILGWU" or the "ILG", merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in the 1990s to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees ( UNITE). UNITE merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) in 2004 to become UNITE HERE. The two unions that formed UNITE in 1995 represented 250,000 workers between them, down from the ILGWU's peak membership of 450,000 in 1969. The union published its official newspaper, ''Justice'', in Jersey City, New Jersey. Early history The ILGWU was founded on June 3, 1900, in New York City by seven local unions, with a few thousand members between the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWRL
WWRL (1600 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to New York, New York, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station airs an all-news radio format as an network affiliate, affiliate of the Black Information Network (BIN). Founded in 1926, WWRL originally had a multi-lingual format serving the various New York City ethnic enclaves, ethnic communities of New York City. The station took on a mostly Spanish identity in the 1950s, then became primarily oriented towards African Americans in New York City, African Americans in the mid-1960s, under the direction of news director Dick London, who invited community leaders to voice their concerns publicly on air, as the station became an advocate for legislative change. The music and news advocacy was an integral part of the Black American community. WWRL played R&B music from 1964 to 1982, before changing to urban contemporary gospel music and Christian radio, religious programming from 1982 to 1997. After a brief return to R&B in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKTU
WKTU (103.5 FM broadcasting, FM) is a rhythmic adult contemporary formatted radio station city of license, licensed to Lake Success, New York, a suburb of New York City. WKTU is owned by iHeartMedia and broadcasts from studios at 125 West 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan; its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. History WGLI-FM–WTFM (1958–1982) In 1958, 103.5 MHz was assigned to Babylon (village), New York, Babylon, New York for WGLI-FM, simulcasting sister station WGLI (New York), WGLI (1290 AM). William Reuman, the founder and owner of WWRL in New York City, was the owner of WGLI. 103.5 MHz had previously been assigned to WPAT-FM (1949–1951), WPAT-FM in Paterson, New Jersey, which went on the air as WNNJ in 1949, and was deleted in early 1951. In March 1960, Friendly Frost Inc. (a Long Island-based appliance store chain) acquired WGLI Inc. from Reuman and his partners. In November 1961, Friendly Frost moved the station from Babylon to Lake Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan, serving as the city's primary central business district. Midtown is home to some of the city's most prominent buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Hudson Yards, Manhattan, Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, the headquarters of the United Nations, Grand Central Terminal, and Rockefeller Center, as well as several prominent tourist destinations, including Broadway theatre, Broadway, Times Square, and Koreatown, Manhattan, Koreatown. New York Penn Station, Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan is the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere. Midtown Manhattan is the largest central business district in the world, and has been ranked as the densest central business district in the world in terms of employees, at . Midtown also ranks among the world's most expensive locations for real estate; Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan has commanded the world's high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transmitter
In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter (often abbreviated as XMTR or TX in technical documents) is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna (radio), antenna with the purpose of signal transmission to a radio receiver. The transmitter itself generates a radio frequency alternating current, which is applied to the Antenna (radio), antenna. When excited by this alternating current, the antenna Electromagnetic radiation, radiates radio waves. Transmitters are necessary component parts of all electronic devices that communicate by radio communication, radio, such as radio broadcasting, radio (audio) and television broadcasting stations, cell phones, walkie-talkies, Wireless LAN, wireless computer networks, Bluetooth enabled devices, garage door openers, two-way radios in aircraft, ships, spacecraft, radar sets and navigational beacons. The term ''transmitter'' is usually limited to equipment that generates radio waves fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York, New York
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises boroughs of New York City, five boroughs, each coextensive with List of counties in New York, a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global city, global center of financial center, finance and Economy of New York City, commerce, Culture of New York City, culture, high technology, technology, The Entertainment Capital of the World, entertainment and Media in New York City, media, Academy, academics, and List of cities by scientific output, scientific output, the The arts, arts and fashion capital, fashion, and, as hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
