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WFAD
WFAD (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Middlebury, Vermont, United States. The station is owned by Radio Broadcasting Services, Inc. and is part of The Point, a network of five FM stations and one AM station, as well as four associated FM translators, carrying an adult album alternative format. History On the air, off and on again Frank Alvin Delle, Jr., and Donald G. Fisher were initially granted on April 20, 1966, a construction permit for a new 1,000-watt radio station on 1490 kHz in Middlebury, for which they had filed more than four years prior. The station signed on shortly before noon on July 22, 1966, airing a full-service format and became affiliated with CBS. The studio facilities were so small that the Associated Press teletype machine was in the bathroom. Almost immediately after the station opened, however, a legal problem emerged. WIPS, a radio station on 1250 kHz at Ticonderoga, New York, appealed the grant of the permit to Delle and Fisher. WIPS cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Point (radio Network)
The Point ("Independent Radio, The Point") is a radio network operating in the state of Vermont. The station first signed on as a single frequency local Montpelier station (WNCS) in 1977. It was started by Jeb Spaulding who later served as Chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges, State Treasurer of Vermont, and Secretary of Administration under Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin. Although at that time there was no designated Adult Album Alternative format, The Point's programming format has been solidly Adult album alternative/ progressive rock for its entire history. The Point has won numerous national awards over the course of its history, including trade publication Radio and Records' AAA Station of the Year (markets 101+) in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, which was the publication's final year of operation. In 2008, The Point was inducted into the trade publication F.M.Q.B.'s Hall Of Fame for AAA Stations in markets 51 and smaller, and in 2013 The Point was named F.M.Q.B.'s AAA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIFY
WIFY (93.7 FM) is an adult album alternative formatted radio station that is part of The Point radio network. Licensed to Addison, Vermont, United States, the station serves the Middlebury, Vermont, Burlington, Vermont-Plattsburgh, New York area. The station is owned by Radio Broadcasting Services, Inc. History The station was assigned call sign WWFY on October 18, 1996. On December 8, 1997, the station changed its call sign to WWFY. On April 30, 1999, the call letters changed to WRRO. When the station launched, it went by the name "The Arrow" and broadcast a Classic rock format. The station changed calls & formats again on April 23, 2001 to WXAL-FM with a Hot Adult Contemporary format as Alice. Around 2003, the station began putting a simulcast on WLKC (now WWMP 103.3), changing from Hot Adult Contemporary (this caused rival WEZF changing back to Adult Contemporary, even though they have never changed formats since 2003). By 2005, WLKC & WXAL-FM changed formats t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWFY
WWFY (100.9 FM, "Froggy 104.3 & 100.9") is a radio station licensed to serve Berlin, Vermont. The station is owned by Great Eastern Radio. It airs a country music format. The station has been assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since May 21, 1999. In the 1990s, the station, as WGTK, aired a classic rock format under the name "K101". They marketed themselves as "The Champlain Valley's classic rock station". In 1999, K101, while keeping the classic rock format, switched frequencies to 93.7, and became WRRO "The Arrow". While WWFY has broadcast to the Barre- Montpelier area since October 2000, the 100.9 frequency was originally allocated over the mountains in Middlebury, where the station signed on as WCVM-FM on April 2, 1975. WCVM-FM was a sister to WFAD (1490 AM) in Middlebury, and operated as a class A facility at 3000 watts. At its sign-on, WCVM-FM carried an automated oldies format which lasted for several years. The current air st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIXM
WIXM (102.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Grand Isle, Vermont, and serves the Burlington-Plattsburgh area. The station is owned and operated by Radio Broadcasting Services, Inc. It airs a hot adult contemporary music format known as "The New Mix 102.3". WIXM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 20,000 watts. While the station is licensed to a community in Vermont and has its studios and offices on Watertower Circle in Colchester, its transmitter is on Beartown Road in Beekmantown, New York, about ten miles north of Plattsburgh. History Early years as WWSR-FM "Stereo 102" & WLFE-FM country format The station first signed on in April 1970 as WWSR-FM, the sister station of 1420 WWSR. Its format was adult contemporary music using the automated "Hit Parade" service, calling itself Stereo 102. In the late 1970s, it dropped AC in favor of country music, using the call letters WLFE. Active rock format and call letter change to WIER (2008-2012) The station flipped from coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRSA (AM)
WRSA (1420 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to the City of St. Albans, Vermont. It is owned by Steven Silberberg's Northeast Broadcasting Company, through licensee Radio Broadcasting Services, Incorporated. It airs a hot adult contemporary format, simulcasting sister station WIXM. There is an unrelated WRSA-FM/96.9 in Huntsville, Alabama. WRSA's transmitter is off Lower Newton Road (Route 38) in the Town of St. Albans. It broadcasts at 1,000 watts by day, but to protect other stations on AM 1420, it reduces power at night to 107 watts. A non-directional antenna is used at all times. WRSA had a construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission to build a 145-watt FM translator station, 100.3 MHz W262DH in St. Albans. History WRSA is Vermont's fourth oldest radio station, and the first north of Burlington. On June 19, 1941, the station first signed on as WWSR at 1390 kilocycles. But with the enactment of the North American Regional Broadcasting Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford and its most populous city is Bridgeport. Historically the state is part of New England as well as the tri-state area with New York and New Jersey. The state is named for the Connecticut River which approximately bisects the state. The word "Connecticut" is derived from various anglicized spellings of "Quinnetuket”, a Mohegan-Pequot word for "long tidal river". Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutchmen who established a small, short-lived settlement called House of Hope in Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut Rivers. Half of Connecticut was initially claimed by the Dutch colony New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers, although the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPTZ-TV
WPTZ (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Plattsburgh, New York, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Burlington, Vermont–Plattsburgh, New York market. It is owned by Hearst Television alongside Montpelier, Vermont–licensed CW affiliate WNNE (channel 31). WPTZ and WNNE share studios on Community Drive in South Burlington, Vermont, with a secondary studio and news bureau on Cornelia Street in Plattsburgh; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WPTZ's spectrum from an antenna on Vermont's highest peak, Mount Mansfield. History Early years The station signed on the air on December 8, 1954, as WIRI, originally licensed to the hamlet of North Pole, New York. It was owned by the Great Northern Broadcasting Company along with Plattsburgh's WIRY radio (1340 AM). The station's first studio facilities were located on Cornelia Street/ Route 3 in Plattsburgh; the transmitter was located on Terry Mountain in Peru, New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Kaufman
Jeff Kaufman (born July 6, 1955) is an American film producer, director, writer, and illustrator. Kaufman produced, wrote, and directed the documentaries '' Every Act of Life,'' ''The State of Marriage,'' ''Father Joseph,'' ''The Savoy King: Chick Webb and the Music That Changed America,'' ''Brush With Life: The Art of Being Edward Biberman,'' and ''Education Under Fire''. He also directed and produced episodes for ''Unsolved History'', a Discovery Channel documentary television series, and the Discovery Channel special ''WTC 9/11: Stories from the Ruins''. His other documentary films include ''40 Million'', which featured Nasrin Sotoudeh and other Iranian women's rights activists. Kaufman has contributed cartoons to '' The New Yorker'', as well as illustrations to ''The Los Angeles Times'' and ''The New York Times''. Kaufman is married to Marcia Ross, a casting director and documentary producer. Radio Kaufman hosted the radio talk show "The Talk of Vermont" in Vermont for fiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addison County, Vermont
Addison County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Vermont. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 37,363. Its shire town (county seat) is the town of Middlebury (town), Vermont, Middlebury. History Iroquois settled in the county before Europeans arrived in 1609. French settlers in Crown Point, New York extended their settlements across Lake Champlain. A few individuals or families came up the lake from Canada and established themselves at Chimney Point, Vermont, Chimney Point in 1730. In 1731, Fort St. Frédéric, Fort Frederic was erected at Cross Point. In 1759, Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, General Amherst occupied Cross Point and British settlers came in. The Battle of Bennington in Bennington, fought on August 16, 1777, brought a turning point for the American independence against British. Addison County was established by act of the Legislature October 18, 1785, during the period of Vermont Republic. In 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rush Limbaugh Show
''The Rush Limbaugh Show'' is an American conservative talk radio show hosted by Rush Limbaugh. Since its nationally syndicated premiere in 1988, ''The Rush Limbaugh Show'' became the highest-rated talk radio show in the United States. At its peak, the show aired on over 650 radio stations nationwide. Unbeknownst at the time, Limbaugh hosted the show for the last time on February 2, 2021. On February 17, 2021, Limbaugh's widow Kathryn announced on that day's broadcast that he had died at the age of 70, one year after being diagnosed with lung cancer. After Limbaugh's death, clip shows with guest hosts (referred to as "guide hosts") were heard in the Limbaugh time slot for four months, until June 18th. '' The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show'' premiered on Premiere Networks on June 21, 2021, from 12 to 3 p.m. ET. Show airtime and format ''The Rush Limbaugh Show'' had a format that it retained until Limbaugh's death. The program aired live and consisted primarily of Limbau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Henry, New York
Port Henry is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,194 at the 2010 census. Port Henry lies on the eastern side of the town of Moriah and is approximately one hour's drive (52 miles or 84 km)Google Maps south of Plattsburgh. It is by road south-southwest of Burlington, Vermont, north of Albany and south of Montreal, Quebec. History Port Henry is in a tract of land set aside by the British Crown for veterans of the Seven Years' War (also known as the French and Indian War). Although a mill was built in 1765, no other European-American settlers arrived until 1785, after the American Revolutionary War. The Iroquoian-speaking Mohawk and Oswegatchie, members of the Seven Nations of Canada, were still living in the town until after 1800. Most of the Iroquois from the territory of New York had been resettled in Canada, forced out of New York and the United States due to their alliance with the British dur ... [...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 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, and is inoffensive and pleasurable enough to work well as background music. Like most of pop music, its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a verse–chorus structure. The format is heavy on romantic sentimental ballads which mostly use acoustic instruments (though bass guitar is usually used) such as aco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
