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Wbti
WBTI is a Hot AC radio station licensed to Lexington, Michigan at 96.9 MHz on the FM dial, with an effective radiated power of 3,000 watts. WBTI covers Sanilac County, Michigan and Lambton County, Ontario as well as portions of Lapeer and St. Clair counties. The station is owned by Radio First and broadcasts from studios on Huron Avenue in Downtown Port Huron. WBTI's transmitter is located south of Lexington off Gardener Line Road in Sanilac County. WBTI provides a rimshot signal to most of Port Huron, Marysville, and Sarnia, Ontario. Programming WBTI broadcasts with a 2000's based, gold pop format, with select 90's and early 2010's as well and is positioned as "Port Huron's Hit Music". The format places WBTI between Canadian Top 40 station CFGX-FM and Port Huron mainstream AC station WGRT. WBTI for the past several years has flipped to a Christmas music format during the holidays. History WBTI went on the air in July 1991, owned by Timothy D. Martz of Mart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHLX
WHLX (1590 AM broadcasting, AM) is an Americana (music), Americana radio station licensed to Marine City, Michigan, with a power output of 1,000 watts day, 102 watts night. The station is owned by Radio First and broadcasts from studios on Huron Avenue in Downtown Port Huron. Its programming is also simulcasted on Broadcast relay station#United States, FM Translator W224DT, licensed to Port Huron, Michigan at 92.7 MHz, with an effective radiated power of 125 watts. The station currently brands itself as ''Country, Rock, and Folk 92.7 WHLX The Hills''. History The station started as WSDC in 1951, then WDOG and later became WSMA with country music. Early years The history of this station dates back to December 1947, when Radio St. Clair applied for a construction permit for the station to be built in Algonac, Michigan, about 8 miles south of Marine City, and to operate at a power of 500 watts. The permit was amended the following year to change its proposed city of license ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPHM
WPHM (1380 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Port Huron, Michigan. The station broadcasts a News/Talk/Sports radio format. It is owned by Radio First with studios on Huron Avenue in Downtown Port Huron. WPHM is powered at 5,000 watts. To protect other stations on 1380 AM from interference, it uses a directional antenna with a seven-tower array. The signal covers much of The Thumb area of Michigan. The transmitter is on Range Road in St. Clair, Michigan, near the St. Clair River. Programming includes a local morning talk show with syndicated news and sports programs the rest of the day. Local newscasts are branded as coming from the ''Blue Water News Network''. Most hours begin with an update from ABC News Radio. The station is also a partial affiliate of Fox Sports Radio. Play by play sports coverage includes the Detroit Tigers, Detroit Lions Radio Network, Detroit Lions, Detroit Pistons, Detroit Red Wings, and Michigan State Spartans. Programming Weekdays on WP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio First
Radio First (Liggett Communications, L.L.C.) is a privately held radio broadcasting company in Michigan owned by Victoria L. Liggett and James A. Jensen. Liggett Communications is headquartered in Port Huron where it owns five radio stations licensed to St. Clair and Sanilac Counties. These five stations operate under the brand name of ''Radio First'' where they serve listeners in the Thumb area of Michigan and Southwestern Ontario. History Liggett Broadcasting (1970-2000) The predecessor to the current company was called Liggett Broadcasting and was founded by Robert Liggett Jr. in 1971. His first station was WFMK in the Lansing, Michigan market. He then added more stations in Lansing, as well as the Grand Rapids, Flint, and Saginaw/Bay City Markets. Liggett Broadcasting at its peak operated radio stations in Michigan, New York, Minnesota, South Carolina, Ohio, and California. Liggett's stations were sold to Citadel Broadcasting in 2000, with Liggett becoming a member of Citad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Huron
Port Huron is a city in and seat of government of St. Clair County, Michigan, United States. The population was 28,983 at the 2020 census. The city is bordered on the west by Port Huron Township, but the two are administered autonomously. Port Huron is located along the source of the St. Clair River at the southern end of Lake Huron. The city is along the Canada–United States border and directly across the river from Sarnia, Ontario. The two cities are connected by the Blue Water Bridge at the eastern terminus of Interstate 69/Interstate 94. Port Huron has the easternmost point of land in the state of Michigan and is also one of the northernmost areas included in the Detroit–Warren–Dearborn Metropolitan Statistical Area (Metro Detroit). History This area was long occupied by the Ojibwa people. French colonists had a temporary trading post and fort at this site in the 17th century. In 1814, following the War of 1812, the United States established Fort Gratiot at the ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHLS
WHLS (1450 AM) is an alternative rock radio station licensed to Port Huron, Michigan, with a power output of 1,000 watts, covering much of St. Clair County, Michigan. It is the oldest continuously operating radio station serving St. Clair County. The station is owned by Radio First and broadcasts from studios on Huron Avenue in Downtown Port Huron. Its programming is also simulcasted on FM Translator W288BT, licensed to St. Clair, Michigan at 105.5 MHz, with an effective radiated power of 49 watts. Programming The station currently broadcasts an alternative format branded as ''Port Huron's Alternative - Rock 105.5''. Between 2000 and 2019, WHLS simulcasted its programming on sister station WHLX in Marine City, Michigan. That station is now known as ''92.7 WHLX The Hills'' and has an Americana format. Until July 2020, WHLS competed with CHKS-FM 106.3 MHz in Sarnia, Ontario. The station flipped to Classic Hits, leaving WHLS as the standalone active rock station in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSAQ
WSAQ (107.1 FM) is a country music radio station licensed to Port Huron, Michigan, with an effective radiated power of 6,000 watts. WSAQ covers St. Clair County, Michigan and Lambton County, Ontario as well as portions of Macomb, Lapeer, and Sanilac counties. The station is owned by Radio First and broadcasts from studios on Huron Avenue in Downtown Port Huron. Programming WSAQ has been broadcasting a mainstream country music format since 1982. The station features a heavy rotation of pop-country artists while also mixing in hits from the 1980s through the 2000s. Matt Markham is the station's program director and hosts the weekday morning show, which also includes local news and sports. Longtime Detroit radio personality Chuck Santoni hosts an afternoon show on WSAQ, with various other local personalities heard nights and weekends. On Sunday mornings, the station airs a classic country format. Leslie James hosts the "Sunday Morning Classics" in which she plays request from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martz Communications
Martz Communications Group is an American radio broadcasting company, which operates three radio stations in the St. Lawrence River area of New York and one in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company, which also operates under the names Radio Power and Cartier Communications, is co-based in Parishville, New York and San Francisco, California; with auxiliary offices in Reno, Nevada; Burlington, Vermont; and Pointe-Claire, Quebec. The company was founded in 1986 by Tim Martz, a native of Kitchener, Ontario who purchased radio stations WDHP and WFST in Presque Isle, Maine, taking advantage of the market across the border in New Brunswick, Canada without being required to submit to the rules of the CRTC. Its scope eventually expanded to target larger Canadian markets, such as Brockville, Cornwall, Ottawa and Montreal, which lay within the broadcast range of its stations. The Canadian company Slaight Communications is also a minority shareholder in Martz. Slaight's ownership stake in Mart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGRT
WGRT (102.3 FM) is an adult contemporary radio station in Port Huron, Michigan. It is owned by Port Huron Family Radio and broadcasts with a power of 3,000 watts. WGRT signed on in October 1991. The station airs a satellite-delivered AC format ("Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites") from Citadel Media. The station can be heard as far as Lapeer County and in parts of northern Macomb and southern Sanilac counties. The station is also heard as far east as Strathroy, Ontario; however, reception in the Canadian portion of WGRT's listening area, as well as areas closer to Detroit and Windsor, may be compromised, following the approval by the CRTC to upgrade the broadcast power of CHST-FM in London, Ontario ( east of Port Huron), increasing its maximum ERP from 12,100 to 100,000 watts; and the sign-on of CINA-FM in Windsor in 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFGX-FM
CFGX-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 99.9 FM broadcasting, FM in Sarnia, Ontario. The station broadcasts an adult top 40 format with the brand name ''The Fox'' and slogan ''Today's Best Music''. CFGX-FM can be heard in the eastern parts of Michigan as far west as Lapeer, Michigan, Lapeer and well into the Thumb region, and used to have a listenable signal in much of Macomb County before Detroit's WMUZ (AM), WCHB (now WMUZ) signed on an FM translator at 99.9 (which now relays WDMK-HD2). The station can be heard as far east as Strathroy (farther east, co-channel CHJX-FM in London interferes) and Chatham to the south. History The station was launched with the callsign CJFI on September 14, 1981 by Rogers Communications, the owner of the city's existing CHKS-FM, CKJD. CJFI featured easy listening music with some simulcasting of Top 40-formatted CKJD overnights. The station adopted its current call sign and format on February 26, 1988. CKJD and CJFI were sold to M ... [...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] |
WYSS
WYSS (99.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Branded as "99.5 Yes FM," the station has had a Top 40 (CHR) format since 1986. The station's slogans are "Sault Sainte Marie's Hit Music Station" and "All the Hits for Sault Sainte Marie." WYSS is currently by owned Sovereign Communications, who acquired it and fellow Sault stations WKNW and WMKD from Northern Star Broadcasting in 2010. Programming on WYSS includes '' The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show'', ''Liveline with Mason'' weeknights, ''American Top 40'' with Ryan Seacrest, ''Rick Dees Weekly Top 40'' and ''Open House Party'' on weekends. WYSS also carries Lake Superior State University Lakers hockey broadcasts, becoming the Lakers' official on-air home in 2009. History The station took to the air in July 1972 with 3,000 watts on 92.7 MHz as WSMM, owned by Lock City Broadcasting, becoming the first FM radio station in the Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan market, and the second radio station tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTGV-FM
WTGV-FM (97.7 MHz) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits/oldies format, serving Sandusky and the Thumb and Blue Water area of Michigan. WTGV is owned and operated by Sanilac Broadcasting. Programming WTGV features a satellite-fed Classic Hits format from Local Radio Networkshttps://localradionetworks.com/classic-hits/ consisting of hits from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. The station also features ABC News at the top of each hour, local news and weather, and play by play coverage of the Detroit Tigers, Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit. The Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, North division. The team plays their home game ... and local high school teams. History The station began broadcasting in 1971 under the WMIC-FM call sign, simulcasting WMIC-AM 1560 (now 660). WMIC-FM separated programming in 1977, switching to a beautiful mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
