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WCVR
WCVR (1320 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a hybrid country music format to Randolph, Vermont, United States. Established in 1968, the station is owned by Robert and John Landry, through licensee Sugar River Media. History WCVR went on the air November 26, 1968. The station was initially a daytimer with a middle-of-the-road music format that leaned country. The original owners were Frank Gilman and Nelson Crawford, businessmen from White River Junction. Their original general manager was the prominent Vermont radio-newspaper commentator Bob Smith, who staffed the station with a program director from Burlington (Gary D'Arcangelo) and a morning man, Gene Puffer, who had operated a general store in a neighboring town. Puffer later purchased a radio station in Wells River, WYKR (now WTWN). The station struggled to gain traction with the local business community. WCVR was sold during its first year in operation to Scott McQueen and Ted Nixon and Randy Odeneal, all Dartmout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVXR
WVXR (102.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Randolph, Vermont. The station is owned by Vermont Public. It is a classical music station, serving as the central Vermont outlet for Vermont Public Classical. History The station signed on October 25, 1982 as WCVR-FM. Originally owned by Stokes Communications and broadcasting at 102.3, the station carried a country music format, at times simulcast on sister AM station WCVR/WWWT. It moved to 102.1 in the early 1990s. Stokes sold WCVR-FM and WWWT to Excalibur Media in 1999; Excalibur, in turn, was sold to Clear Channel Communications the following year. Clear Channel dropped the country format on January 23, 2003, replacing it with a simulcast of classic rock station WCPV from the Champlain Valley The Champlain Valley is a region of the United States around Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York extending north slightly into Quebec, Canada. It is part of the St. Lawrence River drainage basin, drained northward by the Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCNL
WCNL is an AM radio station located at 1010 on the AM dial, licensed to Newport, New Hampshire. It was Newport's first radio station. The studios are located on Main Street in Newport, and its on-air slogan is ''Country 1010 WCNL-AM''. Translator History WCNL went on the air August 11, 1960, as a 250-watt daytimer on 1010, before moving up the dial with 10,000 watts of daytime power on 1020 and changing call letters to WNTK. WNTK became a stand-alone AM station when the original WCNL AM 1010 and WCNL-FM 101.7 were sold off to individual owners. WCNL-FM 101.7 became the original frequency for country formatted WXXK (Kixx). WNTK was fairly successful as a stand-alone AM talk signal. WNTK would eventually add a couple FM simulcast partners, with the first FM simulcast being on 100.5 FM then known as WNBX in Lebanon under a lease arrangement. WNTK received another simulcast partner, this time under the same ownership when the talk programming was broadcast over WNTK-FM 99.7 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randolph, Vermont
Randolph is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,774 at the 2020 census, making Randolph the largest town in Orange County. The town is a commercial center for many of the smaller, rural farming communities that surround it. When the area was originally settled there were three villages— Randolph Center, East Randolph and West Randolph—the current locations of the three fire departments. What is now Randolph, the primary village of the town, had previously been the village of West Randolph. History Vermont granted the town on November 2, 1780, when the New Hampshire settlers could not locate the original grantees, whose patents were issued by New York. It was chartered on June 29, 1781, to Aaron Storrs and 70 others, and was originally named "Middlesex".Randolph, Vermont, Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WUVR
WUVR (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to Lebanon, New Hampshire and serves the Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction area. It broadcasts a news/talk format and is owned by Robert and John Landry, through licensee Sugar River Media, LLC. History This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on September 2, 2004. The new station was assigned the WUVR call sign In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station. A call sign can be formally as ... by the FCC on September 20, 2004; it signed on November 19 as a simulcast of WNTK-FM (99.7). The station received its license to cover from the FCC on January 26, 2005. References External links * * * UVR Radio stations established in 2004 News and talk radio stations in the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNTK-FM
WNTK-FM (99.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a news/talk radio format. Licensed to New London, New Hampshire, the station serves the Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction area of New Hampshire and Vermont. The station is currently owned by Robert and John Landry, through licensee Sugar River Media, LLC, and features local morning programs, as well as nationally syndicated conservative talk shows. Much of the programming is also simulcast on co-owned WUVR (1490 AM) and its FM translator at 98.9 MHz in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Programming Weekdays begin with a local wake up news and information show. Afternoons feature two Boston-based shows, Grace Curley and Howie Carr. The rest of the schedule comes from national hosts from the Westwood One network: Chris Plante, Mark Levin, Jim Bohannon, ''Red Eye Radio'' and ''America in the Morning''. Weekends feature shows on money, health, home repair, cars, the law, travel, the outdoors, gardening, guns, and pets. We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTWN
WYKR-FM (101.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Haverhill, New Hampshire. It airs a country music format. WYKR-FM's programming is also heard on daytime-only station WTWN (1100 AM) and FM translator W286DE (105.1) in Wells River, Vermont. Both WYKR-FM and WTWN are owned by Joshua Smith's Yankee Kingdom Media Corp. WYKR began broadcasting in 1976 over the AM station in Wells River, which operated at 1490 kHz until 1987. WYKR-FM was added in 1990. WYKR AM became WTWN in 1999, and aired Christian radio programming during the 2000s before returning to the WYKR-FM simulcast. The Puffer family owned the stations from 1976 until 2023, when they were acquired by Yankee Kingdom Media Corp. History WYKR went on the air October 3, 1976, under the ownership of Eugene and Harold Puffer, doing business as the Puffer Brothers. The station's studios were located in the former Wells River Graded School. Harold Puffer left the station in 1981 to return to the insurance business; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCFR
WCFR is an AM radio station licensed to Springfield, Vermont. It broadcasts a classic hits format with 5,000 watts during the day. Programming is also simulcast on Broadcast translator, translator W293BH, 106.5 FM. The station carries Boston Red Sox baseball from the Red Sox Radio Network, and the Boston Bruins Radio Network. History WCFR was started in 1954 as WNIX. It was purchased by Vermont broadcasting legend Carlos Zezza in the 1950s, renaming the station for the first initials of Zezza's three children in 1957. WCFR enjoyed many years as a successful music station. Zezza sold WCFR to Sconnix in 1974, who changed the format from Top-40 to adult contemporary. Zezza's son Frank led a group that purchased the station back from Sconnix in the early 1980s. By this time, WCFR's popularity waned in favor of its FM sister station, WCFR-FM. The 1990s saw several changes in ownership and WCFR carried various formats through the decade. In September 1998, WCFR changed from adult stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adult Contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence. Adult contemporary is generally a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of pop/rock music. Adult contemporary tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener's attention, abstains from profanity or complex lyricism, and is most commonly used as background music in heavily-frequented family areas such as supermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, or restaurants. Like most of pop music, its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a verse–chorus structure. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTSL
WTSL (1400 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. It airs an adult hits radio format and serves the Lebanon-Hanover- White River Junction area. The station is owned by Great Eastern Radio, LLC. WTSL also broadcasts Dartmouth College Big Green football and hockey games. Listeners can also hear WTSL programming on FM translator stations W248DA at 97.5 MHz in Hanover and W269DI at 101.7 in Claremont, as well as on the second HD subchannel of WHDQ. The stations call themselves "The Penguin". History In October 1950, WTSL first signed on. It was owned by Granite State Broadcasters and was powered at only 250 watts, a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System. In 1961, the daytime power was increased to 1,000 watts. In the 1980s, the nighttime power was also boosted to 1,000 watts. In June 1970, the station was acquired by Tri City Broadcasting from Knight Quality Stations. Sound Citizens Communications bought th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutland (city), Vermont
Rutland is the only city in and the county seat, seat of Rutland County, Vermont, Rutland County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the city had a total population of 15,807. It is located approximately north of the Massachusetts state line, west of New Hampshire state line, and east of the New York (state), New York state line. Rutland is the List of municipalities in Vermont, third largest city in the state of Vermont after Burlington, Vermont, Burlington and South Burlington, Vermont, South Burlington. Rutland City is completely surrounded by Rutland (town), Vermont, Rutland Town, which is a separate municipality. The Rutland Downtown Historic District, downtown area of the city is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. History The town of Rutland was chartered in 1761 and named after John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland. It was settled in 1770 and served as one of the capitals of the Vermont Republi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSYB
WSYB (1380 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Rutland, Vermont. Established in 1930, the station is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and broadcasts a classic hits radio format as "100.1 WSYB". Local high school and college sports coverage include football, basketball, and hockey. WSYB is one of the oldest affiliates on the Boston Red Sox Radio Network. By day, WSYB is powered at 5,000 watts non-directional; to protect other stations on 1380 AM from interference, it reduces power at night to 25 watts. The transmitter and studios are on Dorr Drive in Rutland, near Otter Creek. Programming is also heard on 250 watt FM translator W261DE at 100.1 MHz; the station's branding reflects this. History The station signed on the air on December 10, 1930. It is the second oldest radio station in Vermont, after WVMT in Burlington. WSYB was launched by Henry Seward and Philip Weiss, owners of a music store at 33 Center Street in Rutland. The station broadcast on 1500 kilohertz at 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
