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WFLV
WFLV (90.7 FM) is a non-commercial contemporary Christian formatted radio station in West Palm Beach, Florida, owned by the Educational Media Foundation and branded ''K-Love''. WFLV airs Contemporary worship music on its HD2 subchannel, branded Air1, and a Christian radio format on its HD3 subchannel, branded Family Radio. History The station signed on in 1969 as WHRS-FM, an outreach of the School District of Palm Beach County to the large number of migrant families in the Palm Beaches. (Its calls represented one of its public schools, Hagen Road Elementary School.) It joined the then-new National Public Radio network in 1972. Originally airing a mix of classical music and fine arts programming with Spanish and bilingual programming in the mornings, it gradually evolved into a typical NPR classical music and fine arts station. In 1981, WHRS was sold to South Florida Public Telecommunications, the community group that owned the license for the area's new PBS station, WWPF-TV, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical South Florida
Classical South Florida was a radio network serving South Florida, owned by the American Public Media Group. Its stations carried classical music programming from American Public Media's Classical 24 service, as well as programs such as ''Performance Today'', ''SymphonyCast'', '' Pipedreams'', and ''Saint Paul Sunday''. Its stations were also affiliated with National Public Radio, carrying its hourly news bulletins. WPBI-HD2 and W270AD carried news and talk programming from NPR and other sources. Stations * WKCP 89.7 MHz, Miami, Florida (now WMLV) * WNPS 88.7 MHz, Fort Myers, Florida (now WDLV) * WPBI 90.7 MHz, West Palm Beach, Florida (now WFLV) ** W214BD 90.7 Gifford, Florida (Vero Beach, Florida) ** W270AD 101.9 MHz, West Palm Beach, Florida ''(relays WFLV-HD2 (WPBI-HD2), as "101.9 WPBI News")'' With insufficient funding, the entire network was purchased by Educational Media Foundation for programming the CCM format, K-Love in July 2015. However, NPR's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMLV
WMLV (89.7 FM), branded as "K-Love", is a contemporary Christian-formatted radio station in Miami, Florida, owned by Educational Media Foundation. This listener supported, nonprofit public radio station had been owned by American Public Media Group, the parent nonprofit support organization of Minnesota Public Radio. The station was operated by Classical South Florida, a Florida nonprofit corporation owned by the American Public Media Group. The station's primary transmitter is located at 17107 SW 248 Street, 4.5 miles north of downtown Homestead. WMLV's programming is simulcast on WFLV 90.7 (formerly WPBI) in West Palm Beach and WDLV in Fort Myers. WKCP originally used translator station W270AD at 101.9 FM, until that station adopted National Public Radio programming shortly after APM purchased WPBI from Barry Communications in May 2011. WFLV's main signal still runs NPR news briefs at the top of drive time hours, and its HD2 subchannel also carries NPR programming, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXEL-TV
WXEL-TV (channel 42) is a PBS member television station licensed to Boynton Beach, Florida, United States, serving the West Palm Beach area. Owned by South Florida PBS, it is a sister station to Miami-based flagship and fellow PBS member WPBT (channel 2) and low-power station WURH-LD (channel 13). The three stations share transmitter facilities on Northwest 199th Street in Andover; WXEL's studios are located on South Congress Avenue in Boynton Beach. WXEL, WPBT, and WURH-LD are also broadcast by a translator in Fort Pierce. The launch of a public television station to serve the West Palm Beach area gained steam in the late 1970s, after the Palm Beach County School Board abandoned its permit for channel 42. A group eventually known as South Florida Public Telecommunications won the construction permit in 1979 after a settlement with WPBT, which long claimed the Palm Beaches as part of its service area and had also sought channel 42. However, the construction process for w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLRN-FM
WLRN-FM (91.3 MHz) and WKWM (91.5 MHz) are non-commercial, listener-supported, public radio stations for South Florida and the Florida Keys. WLRN-FM is licensed to Miami and WKWM is licensed to Marathon. They are owned by Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The offices and studios are on NE 15th Street in Miami. WLRN-FM is a Class C1 station and WKWM is Class C3. WLRN-FM's transmitter is off SW 52nd Avenue in Pembroke Park. WKWM's transmitter is off Route A1A in Ramrod Key. Programming is also heard on four FM translators in South Florida. Programming WLRN-FM and WKWM are the flagship NPR member stations in South Florida. They air a news and information format during the day with jazz at night and the BBC World Service overnight. Weekday information shows include ''Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, 1A, Here and Now, The World'' and ''Marketplace''. There are two weekday evening music programs: ''Radyo Lekol'', a Haitian Creole show and ''We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDLV
WDLV (88.7 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station in Fort Myers, Florida. It airs a Christian Contemporary radio format and is part of the Educational Media Foundation's K-Love network. WDLV has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 75,000 watts. Programming is also heard on FM translator 90.5 W213BQ in Immokalee. History WAY-FM 88.7 FM was founded by Bob and Felice Augsburg as WAYJ, a Contemporary Christian music (CCM)-formatted station. It was a way to expand messages about Christianity to a younger audience, following the success of their weekly program for youth on another local Christian station, WSOR. WAYJ was first station and former flagship of the WAY-FM Network, after establishing additional stations, the WAY-FM group would relocate its corporate offices to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2001. Ownership changes On February 14, 2012, Classical South Florida said it was in the process of acquiring WAYJ from WAY-FM for $4.35 million. Followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry University
Barry University is a private Catholic university in Miami Shores, Florida. Founded in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican Sisters, it is one of the largest Catholic universities in the Southeast and is located within the Archdiocese of Miami. The university offers more than 100 degree programs, from bachelors to doctorate, in six schools and two colleges. Barry University has more than 7,000 students, a campus of 54 buildings, a branch campus in Tallahassee, a law school in Orlando, and 50,000 alumni. History Beginnings Barry College was founded as a women's college by a pair of siblings: Patrick Barry, Bishop of St. Augustine, and his sister, Mary Gerald Barry, OP, then prioress of the Adrian Dominican Sisters. The construction of what was then the Barry College for Women began in 1940, in what had previously been "a tract of tropical vegetation". The empty lot was soon transformed into the main campus in Miami Shores, Florida. The original campus consisted of five bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Pierce
Fort Pierce is a city in and the county seat of St. Lucie County, Florida, United States. The city is part of the Treasure Coast region of Florida’s Atlantic Coast. It is also known as the Sunrise City. Per the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 47,297. History The city was named after the Old Fort Pierce Park, Fort Pierce army post which was built nearby in 1838 during the Second Seminole War, and lasted until 1842. The military post had been named for Benjamin Kendrick Pierce, a career United States Army officer and the brother of President Franklin Pierce. The first permanent settlement of the current city was during the 1860s. In 1901, the city was officially incorporated as a municipality. It was the largest city on Florida's Atlantic Coast between Daytona Beach, Florida, Daytona Beach and West Palm Beach, Florida, West Palm Beach until 1970, when it was surpassed by Melbourne, Florida, Melbourne. Lincoln Park The neighborhood of Lincoln Park, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLIW (TV)
WLIW (channel 21) is a secondary PBS member television station licensed to Garden City, New York, United States, serving the New York City television market. It is owned by The WNET Group alongside the area's primary PBS member, Newark, New Jersey–licensed WNET (channel 13); two Class A television service, Class A stations, WNDT-CD (channel 14) and WMBQ-CD (channel 46, which frequency sharing, shares spectrum with WLIW); and WLIW-FM (88.3) in Southampton (village), New York, Southampton. Through an outsourcing agreement, The WNET Group also operates New Jersey's PBS state network NJ PBS and the website NJ Spotlight. WLIW and WNET share studios at One Worldwide Plaza in Midtown Manhattan with an auxiliary street-level studio in the Lincoln Center complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side. WLIW's transmitter is located at One World Trade Center; the station also maintains a production studio at its former transmitter site in Plainview, New York. WLIW's Multiplex (television), multip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is the public school district serving Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in the U.S. state of Florida. Founded in 1885, it is the largest school district in Florida, the largest in the Southeastern United States, and the List of the largest school districts in the United States by enrollment, fourth-largest in the United States with a student enrollment of 356,589 . The district includes all of Miami-Dade County. It is managed by the School Board of Miami-Dade County, which appoints a superintendent to head the administrative portions of the district. Dr. Jose Dotres has been Superintendent since February 2022. Miami-Dade County Public Schools is one of a few public school districts in the U.S. to offer optional international studies programs and bilingual education. Bilingual education is offered in Spanish language, Spanish, French language, French, German language, German, Haitian Creole, and Mandarin Chinese. M-DCPS is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, internet, wi-fi, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security. The FCC was established pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the previous Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. The FCC also provides varied degrees of cooperation, oversight, and leadership for similar communications bodies in other countries in North America. The FCC is funded entirely by regulatory fees. It has an estimated fiscal-2022 budg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Radio Stations/History Cards
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is an affinity group for contributors with shared goals within the Wikimedia movement. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sibling projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
