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WBQH
WBQH (1050 AM) is a radio broadcasting station in the Washington, D.C. region, licensed to Silver Spring, Maryland. It broadcasts a regional Mexican format. It is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, and is leased to United Media Group LLC. WBQH programming is heard on FM translator W228DI (93.5), also in Silver Spring. WBQH by day broadcasts with power of 2,000 watts from the WFED transmitter site in Wheaton, Maryland. Because 1050 AM is a Mexican clear channel frequency reserved for XEG in Monterrey, WBQH reduces power to 41 watts at night to prevent interference. It also possesses pre-sunrise authorization for 500 watts from 6:00 a.m. to sunrise. History The station signed on December 7, 1946 as WGAY, airing a beautiful music format. The meaning of the call sign is unclear; one often-repeated claim is that WGAY was named for one-time owner Connie B. Gay, though Gay did not purchase the station until 1959. A second story purports that the station initially broadcast governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTOP-FM
WTOP-FM (103.5 FM) – branded "WTOP Radio" and "WTOP News" – is a commercial all-news radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C. Owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, the station serves the Washington metropolitan area, extending its reach through two repeater stations: WTLP (103.9 FM) in Braddock Heights, Maryland, and WWWT-FM (107.7) in Manassas, Virginia. The WTOP-FM studios, referred to on-air as the "WTOP Glass-Enclosed Nerve Center", are located on Wisconsin Avenue in the Washington D.C. suburb of Chevy Chase, Maryland, while the station transmitter is located on the American University campus. Besides a standard analog transmission, WTOP-FM broadcasts over three HD Radio channels, and is available online. WTOP-FM is the successor to the original WTOP, an AM station at 1500 kHz, which held the WTOP call sign from 1943 until 2006, and adopted an all-news format on March 9, 1969. Programming All-news radio accounts for all regular programming on WTOP-FM. Presented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSHE (AM)
WSHE (820 kHz HD Radio) is a commercial radio station, which transmits a digital-only signal on a standard AM band frequency. It is licensed to serve Frederick, Maryland, and owned by Hubbard Broadcasting through licensee Washington DC FCC License Sub, LLC. It simulcasts the freeform programming branded as ''The Gamut'' originating on the HD3 subchannel of sister station WTOP-FM. ''The Gamut'' programming is also available on the HD3 subchannels of sister stations WTLP and WWWT-FM, and in analog FM on translator W252DC (98.3 FM, Reston, Virginia). WSHE also carries Washington Capitals, Washington Nationals, and Navy Midshipmen sports programming originating on sister station WFED. Sunday syndicated programming on The Gamut includes ''Music and the Spoken Word'' (with WFED), '' Anything Anything with Rich Russo'' and '' Little Steven's Underground Garage''. As WWFD, it was the first licensed radio station in the United States to discontinue its traditional AM analog signal and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1050 AM
The following radio broadcasting, radio stations broadcast on AM broadcasting, AM frequency 1050 kHz: 1050 AM is a Mexican clear-channel frequency. XEG-AM, XEG in Monterrey (Guadalupe, Nuevo León) is the dominant list of broadcast station classes, Class A station on this frequency. See also List of broadcast station classes. In Argentina * General Güemes in Buenos Aires * LV27 Rural in San Francisco In Canada In Mexico Stations in bold are clear-channel stations. * XED-AM in Mexicali, Baja California - 10,000 watts days, 200 watts nights * XEG-AM in Monterrey, Nuevo León - 100,000 watts (daytime directional antenna, nighttime omnidirectional antenna). Transmitter located at * XEIP-AM in Urapan, Michoacán - 1,000 watts In the United States In Uruguay * CX 26 Radio Uruguay in Montevideo References {{DEFAULTSORT:1050 Am Lists of radio stations by frequency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubbard Broadcasting
Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. is an American television and radio broadcasting corporation based in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was founded by Stanley E. Hubbard. The corporation has broadcast outlets scattered across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Washington, Florida, and Washington, D.C. KSTP radio, KSTP-FM, KTMY, KSTP-TV, and KSTC-TV, which serve the Twin Cities region of Minnesota and western Wisconsin, are regarded as the company's legacy flagship stations. History KSTP has its origins in the Twin Cities radio station WAMD ("Where All Minneapolis Dances"), which started broadcasting live dance music from a local ballroom on February 13, 1925 with Stanley E. Hubbard as owner and station director. It was the first radio station to be completely supported by income generated by advertisements. In 1928, WAMD merged with KFOY (Kind Friends of Yours) radio (first broadcast: March 12, 1924) in St. Paul to become KSTP, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIHT
WIHT (99.5 FM broadcasting, FM) is a contemporary hit radio formatted radio station that serves the greater Washington, D.C. Washington metropolitan area, metropolitan area. Located on the fourth floor of 1801 Maryland Route 355, Rockville Pike in Rockville, Maryland, the station broadcasts 24 hours a day and is licensed to, and owned by, iHeartMedia. The transmitter is located on Maryland Route 190, River Road in Bethesda, Maryland. History Early years (1960s–1999) Long known as WGAY (named for its owner, Connie B. Gay, a well-known country music promoter) and located in Silver Spring, Maryland, the station ran a beautiful music format in the 1960s and 1970s, which evolved to an easy listening format by the 1980s (though it would initially air a country music format for a year when it signed on in 1960). During that era, WGAY-FM typically simulcast its AM sister station, 1050 WBQH, WQMR "Washington's Quality Music Radio," continuing the WQMR programming after the AM station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFED
WFED (1500 AM broadcasting, AM) is a 50,000-watt List of broadcast station classes, Class A radio station in Washington, D.C. The station owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, and branded "Federal News Network", broadcasts a news/talk format focused on issues and news pertaining to members and staff of the United States government. WFED's studios are located at Hubbard's broadcast complex in northwest Washington, while its transmitter site is located at a three-tower array in Wheaton, Maryland. The station transmits full-time with a power of 50,000 watts. A single transmitter tower, with a Omnidirectional antenna, non-directional signal, is used during the day. At night, all three towers are used for a directional antenna, directional pattern, with a null toward the west to protect KSTP (AM), KSTP in St. Paul, Minnesota. WFED's signal can be heard across most of the East Coast of the United States, Eastern Seaboard at night. WFED became a Primary Entry Point station for the Emergency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie B
Connie is a given name. It is often a pet form (hypocorism) of Concetta, Constance, Cornelia, Cornelius or Connor, Conrad, Constanza, Conception, Consuela, Consuelo, or Conner. Many Asian-American women were named after journalist Connie Chung in the 1980s even though the name was not otherwise popular at the time. Given name or nickname Women * Connie Achurra, Chilean chef * Connie Adam (1927–2021), English fencer * Connie Binsfeld (1924–2014), American politician * Connie Booth (born 1944), American actress and writer, former wife of John Cleese * Connie Britton (born 1967), American actress, singer and producer * Connie Brockway (born 1954), American historical and romance novelist * Connie Bush (1919-1997), Australian aboriginal health worker * Connie Carpenter-Phinney (born 1957), American retired cyclist and speed skater * Connie Chung (born 1946), American journalist * Constance Clayton (born 1933), American educator and civic leader * Connie Cody, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Theatre
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, American and British English spelling differences), many of the List of Broadway theaters, extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names. Many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also use the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional Theater (structure), theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End theatre, West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway thoroughfare is eponymous ... [...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] |
FM Stereo
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave. Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong, wide-band FM is used worldwide to transmit high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. FM broadcasting offers higher fidelity—more accurate reproduction of the original program sound—than other broadcasting techniques, such as AM broadcasting. It is also less susceptible to common forms of interference, having less static and popping sounds than are often heard on AM. Therefore, FM is used for most broadcasts of music and general audio (in the audio spectrum). FM radio stations use the very high frequency range of radio frequencies. Broadcast bands Throughout the world, the FM broadcast band falls within the VHF part of the radio spectrum. Usually 87.5 to 108.0 MHz is used, or some portion of it, with few exceptions: * In the former Soviet republics, and some former Eastern Bloc countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially Unincorporated area, unincorporated, it is an edge city with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the fifth-most-populous place in Maryland after Baltimore, Columbia, Maryland, Columbia, Germantown, Maryland, Germantown, and Waldorf, Maryland, Waldorf. Downtown Silver Spring, located next to the northern tip of Washington, D.C., is the oldest and most Urbanization, urbanized area of Silver Spring, surrounded by several inner suburban residential neighborhoods inside the Capital Beltway. Many mixed-use developments combining retail, residential, and office space have been built since 2004. Silver Spring takes its name from a mica-flecked spring discovered there in 1840 by Francis Preston Blair, who subsequently bought much of the area's surrounding land. Acorn Park, south of downtown, is be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Avenue
Georgia Avenue is a major north-south artery in Northwest, Washington, D.C., Northwest Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Maryland. In Washington, D.C., and for a short distance in Silver Spring, Maryland, Georgia Avenue is also U.S. Route 29. Howard University is located on Georgia Avenue. Geography Georgia Avenue begins north of Florida Avenue (Washington, D.C.), Florida Avenue, which was the boundary of the Old City, and is a continuation of 7th Street (Washington, D.C.), 7th Street. Traveling northward, the street passes Howard University and Fort Stevens (Washington, D.C.), Fort Stevens. At Eastern Avenue (Washington, D.C.), Eastern Avenue, the road crosses into Montgomery County and passes through Silver Spring, Maryland, Silver Spring. Where it crosses Colesville Road a mile into Maryland, Georgia Avenue splits off U.S. Route 29 and becomes Maryland State Highway 97. Georgia Avenue ends at the boundary with Howard County, Maryland, Howard County, where it becomes R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
