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WGER
WGER (106.3 FM, "106.3 The Core") is a radio station licensed to Saginaw, Michigan, broadcasting a classic alternative format. The station broadcasts from a transmitter southeast of I-675 Exit 6 (Tittabawassee Road) in Carrollton Township in Saginaw County. History Beginnings at 102.5 Established by James Gerity, a professional violinist who acquired WNEM-TV in 1961, WGER began broadcasting later that year at 102.5 MHz under the WNEM-FM calls and featured a Beautiful Music format for the first couple decades of its existence. The call letters were changed to WGER after Gerity sold the TV station in 1969. WGER's beautiful music format, programmed by TM Programming, achieved high ratings in adult demographics in both the Tri-Cities and Flint markets thanks to its 86,000-watt signal licensed to Bay City. At one point, in 1971, Arbitron research showed that WGER was the second highest-rated radio station in the nation. During this time, Gerity owned several other stations acro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIOG
WIOG (102.5 FM) is a radio station airing a Top 40 (CHR) format, licensed to Bay City, Michigan and serving the Greater Tri-Cities areas. History From the 1970s until September 1986, WIOG operated on 106.3 MHz licensed to Saginaw. 106.3 FM signed on in 1969 as WSBM, featuring a MOR/adult contemporary music format. Later in the 1970s the calls became WIOG (the calls resembled the number "106," as in its dial position) and the format shifted to AOR. In 1980, with the addition of some disco records to its AOR playlist, WIOG moved to a Top 40 format, eventually taking on the name "Hits 106" and becoming one of the most popular radio stations in the market. The 102.5 frequency was originally home to WNEM-FM (later WGER), a Beautiful Music station which was one of the pioneers of FM Stereo broadcasting in Michigan. With its big signal, WGER was one of the most successful easy-listening stations in Michigan; as late as 1985, when it was using TM Programming's beautiful-musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beautiful Music
Beautiful music (sometimes abbreviated as BM, B/EZ or BM/EZ for "beautiful music/easy listening") is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in North American radio from the late 1950s through the 1980s. Easy listening, elevator music, light music, mood music, and Muzak are other terms that overlap with this format and the style of music that it featured. Beautiful music can also be regarded as a subset of the middle of the road radio format. History Beautiful music initially offered soft and unobtrusive instrumental selections on a very structured schedule with limited commercial interruptions. It often functioned as a free background music service for stores, with commercial breaks consisting only of announcements aimed at shoppers already in the stores. This practice was known as "storecasting" and was very common on the FM dial in the 1940s and 1950s. Many of these FM stations usually simulcast their AM station and used a subcarrier (SCA) to transmit a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saginaw, Michigan
Saginaw () is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County, Michigan, Saginaw County. The city of Saginaw and Saginaw County are both in the area known as Mid-Michigan. Saginaw is adjacent to Saginaw Charter Township, Michigan, Saginaw Charter Township and considered part of Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City Metropolitan Area, Greater Tri-Cities region of Central Michigan. The Saginaw County Metropolitan statistical area, MSA had a population of 190,124 in 2020. The city is also the largest municipality in the Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City Metropolitan Area, with a combined population of 377,474 in the combined statistical area in 2020. The city proper had a population of 44,202 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Saginaw was a thriving lumber town in the 19th century and an important industrial city and manufacturing center throughout much of the 20th century. During the late 20th century, its industry and strong manufacturing presence declined, le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSGW (AM)
WSGW (790 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Saginaw, Michigan that broadcasts with 5,000 watts of power during the day and 1,000 watts at night. WSGW is owned by Alpha Media, the nation's fourth largest owner of radio stations. The radio station features a 24-7 local news department with talk shows of local and national interest, as well as play-by-play sports broadcasts. WSGW is an affiliate of CBS News Radio, the Compass Media Networks, Premiere Networks, Westwood One, Detroit Tigers baseball, Detroit Red Wings hockey, Saginaw Spirit hockey, and the Michigan Wolverines. The station first broadcast in 1950. WSGW has a sister station, WSGW-FM 100.5, which also has a news-talk format. The two stations simulcast WSGW's local morning programming until noon but carry different programming and sports coverage the rest of the day. The two stations identify themselves as 100.5 and 790 Newsradio WSGW. History WSGW's first broadcast was August 11, 1950 from their studios at Genesee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTLZ
WTLZ (107.1 FM, "Kiss 107.1") is a radio station licensed to Saginaw, Michigan broadcasting an urban adult contemporary format. WTLZ retains a strong signal south of Saginaw toward Flint, but moving eastward toward the Lapeer County area, WSAQ 107.1 "Q Country" signal tends to overpower WTLZ as they are both on the same frequency. History 107.1 FM signed on in October 1969 as WWWS "W3-Soul" with an ERP of 2,000 Watts. W3 Soul at the time played a mix of Jazz and R&B for the Tri-Cities. The studios were located on Bancroft at East Genesee in Saginaw. The station is the heritage African American-oriented radio station in the market and has featured some variation of urban format for decades. POWER 107 In September 1988 the calls were changed to WTLZ as "Power 107" adding Disco, and Rap throughout the 1990s, then would evolve into a Rhythmic Contemporary Hit Radio format then totally as Mainstream Urban. It was around 1989 when the owners wanted to market WTLZ towards Flint a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSGW-FM
WSGW-FM (100.5 MHz), branded FM Talk & Sports 100.5, is a radio station broadcasting a news, talk, and sports format to the Greater Tri-Cities area of Michigan. Licensed to Carrollton, Michigan, it first began broadcasting in 1989 under the WCWK call sign. It is sister station of, and shares some local programming with, WSGW-AM 790. The station is owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. Programming News/Talk WSGW-FM features a local morning news program, national news shows '' America in The Morning'' and '' Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb''; hourly updates from CBS News Radio; conservative talk programming such as ''The Sean Hannity Show'' and the ''Glenn Beck Program''; and the overnight paranormal activity/conspiracy theory talk show ''Coast to Coast AM''. Sports Local sports programming includes Michigan Wolverines football and men's basketball, the Ontario Hockey League's Saginaw Spirit and Saginaw Valley State Cardinals college football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNEM-TV
WNEM-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Bay City, Michigan, United States, serving northeastern Michigan as an affiliate of CBS and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Gray Television, the station maintains studios on North Franklin Street in downtown Saginaw, with a second newsroom in downtown Flint. Its transmitter is located on Becker Road in Robin Glen-Indiantown, in Buena Vista Township, east of Saginaw. History NBC affiliate On the week before May 5, 1952, Goodwill Stations, owner of WJR radio in Detroit, announced the intent of applying for four station licenses which would operate as a regional network—UHF channel 50 in Detroit, channel 11 in Toledo, Ohio, channel 12 in Flint and channel 5 in Bay City. WNEM-TV was founded by the Northeastern Michigan Corporation, hence the call letters, on February 16, 1954, as an NBC affiliate. Originally, its main studios were located on rented space at Bishop International Airport in Flint with auxiliary studios in its city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCEN-FM
WCEN-FM (94.5 MHz, "The Moose") is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. WCEN has been licensed in Hemlock, Michigan since 2001. It first began broadcasting in 1959 and was originally licensed in Mount Pleasant, Michigan (though the tower location and signal pattern have not changed since the city of license change, and the station still has a local-grade signal in Mount Pleasant). The station has been playing country music since 1969 and as a full-time format since 1980. Early history and AM frequency On October 16, 1948, Paul A. Brandt, a Mount Pleasant, Mich., businessman, applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a broadcast station construction permit. On April 21, 1948, the FCC granted a construction permit for station WCEN and building began. On August 8, 1949, WCEN-AM went on the air for the first time as a 500-watt, AM daytime only station on 1150 kHz. The studios were located in downtown Mount Pleasant at 112½ E. Broadway, above Voisin's J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tri-Cities, Michigan
The name Tri-Cities refers to two regions in the U.S. state of Michigan. Both are located in the Lower Peninsula. The Greater Tri-Cities Region The larger and more well known Tri-Cities is the region surrounding the cities of Saginaw, Michigan, Saginaw, Bay City, Michigan, Bay City, and Midland, Michigan, Midland. This region, which is also considered to be part of the Central Michigan, includes much of Bay County, Michigan, Bay County, Saginaw County, Michigan, Saginaw County, and Midland County, Michigan, Midland County. These three counties make up the Greater Tri Cities, a common term describing this region of Michigan. As of recently, the region also goes by the name of the Great Lakes Bay Region. Statistically, the region is known as the Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City Metropolitan Area, a combined statistical area composed of Saginaw, Midland, and Bay counties. The combined population of these three counties was 391,569 as of the United States Census, 2010, 2010 census, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinconning, Michigan
Pinconning is a city in Bay County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,307 at the 2010 Census. It is included in the Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area. The city is locally noted for its former production of cheese and cheese products, especially Pinconning cheese. History The name, "Pinconning," comes from the Ojibwe ''Opinikaaning'' ( syncope as ''Pinkaaning''; recorded as "o-pin-nic-con-ing"), which translates into English as, "potato place.".Pinconning Township Main Page http://bjmi.us/bay/pinconning/index.html The community is named after the Pinconning River, which flows through the community. The town was first settled in 1872 by George VanEtten and Henry Kaiser as a lumber settlement along the Pinconning River. The post office in Pinconning opened on January 29, 1873. In 1907 a man named William Reid moved to Pinconning, and started Pinconning Creamery. A gravel road between Pinconning and neighboring Standish was built in 1918, the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midland, Michigan
Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Michigan. The city's population was 42,547 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Midland Micropolitan Statistical Area, part of the larger Saginaw-Midland-Bay City Combined Statistical Area. History By the late 1820s, Midland was established as a fur trading post of the American Fur Company supervised by the post at Saginaw. Here agents purchased furs from Ojibwe trappers. The Campau family of Detroit operated an independent trading post at this location in the late 1820s. Dow Chemical Company was founded in Midland in 1897, and its world headquarters are still located there. Through the influence of a Dow Chemical plant opening in Handa, Aichi, Japan, Midland and Handa have become sister cities. Dow Corning was also headquartered in Midland. In 1969, the city unilaterally defined a Midland Urban Growth Area (MUGA), a two-mile territory around the city limits, in an attempt to control urban spra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Hit Radio
Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock, pop, or 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, Urban contemporary, 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 modified to describe top 50; top 30; top 20; top 10; hot 100 (each with its number of songs) and hot hits radio formats, but carry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
