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WGNA-FM
WGNA-FM (107.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Albany, New York, and serving the Capital District. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and broadcasts a country music format. WGNA-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 12,500 watts. Its transmitter is in the Helderberg Escarpment tower farm in New Scotland. WGNA holds the distinction of having the longest unchanged format (in terms of commercial stations) in the Capital District, having been a country music station since its launch in November 1973, and being one of two commercial Albany FM radio stations to have never changed their call sign, with 92.3 WFLY as the other. History Christian radio WGNA originally was not slated to take the country format it has long dominated. The 107.7 frequency had been awarded to the owners of Christian radio station WHAZ. WGNA was due to sign on with an alternate Christian format. WHAZ would concentrate on Christian talk and teaching, while the FM station would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOPG (AM)
WOPG (1460 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Albany, New York, and serving the Capital District. It is owned by Pax et Bonum, Inc. (Peace and Goodness in Latin) and has a Christian radio format aimed at Roman Catholic listeners, with much of its programming coming from the EWTN Radio network. WOPG simulcasts with WOPG-FM (89.9) in Esperance, New York. WOPG operates with 5,000 watts of power non-directional by day, and employs a directional antenna at night to protect other stations on AM 1460. The transmitter site is on Kenwood Avenue in Delmar, New York. History According to FCC records, WOPG only dates back to October 21, 1947, when it was authorized, as WOKO, to replace an earlier WOKO whose license had been revoked. However, the 1947 authorization inherited its predecessor's call letters, as well as its frequency. For these reasons, it is almost universally recognized as a direct continuation of the original WOKO, which dated to 1924. This makes WOPG the oldest st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WQSH (FM)
WQSH (103.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Cobleskill, New York, and serving the Mohawk Valley and the western Capital District of New York. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and broadcasts a classic rock radio format, simulcasting WQBK-FM (105.7). The radio studios and offices are on Kings Road in Schenectady. WQSH has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts, the maximum for this section of the Northeastern United States. It transmits from a tower on Indian Road in Palatine, New York. History WQSH signed on in 1986 as WITU with an adult contemporary format. The call sign was changed to WACS-FM in 1988. The next year, WACS-FM was sold to the owners of WSHZ (98.3 FM) and began simulcasting that station's adult contemporary format, and later its oldies music, using the call letters WSHQ. The sale of WSHZ to the owners of WTRY (980 AM) in 1992 led to a return to adult contemporary music (albeit satellite fed) on 103.5 as a stop gap for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WQBK-FM
WQBK-FM (105.7 MHz "Q105.7/103.5") is a commercial radio station city of license, licensed to Malta, New York, and serving the Capital District, New York. The station is owned by Townsquare Media, and simulcasts a classic rock radio format with co-owned 103.5 WQSH (FM), WQSH in Cobleskill, New York, Cobleskill. Its studios are on Kings Road in Schenectady. In morning drive time, WQBK-FM carries the radio syndication, syndicated ''Free Beer and Hot Wings Show''. It also airs New York Jets NFL, football games. WQBK-FM's transmitter is on Bald Mountain tower, in the Town of Brunswick, New York. WQBK-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 7,100 watts.It broadcasts using HD Radio technology, with its HD2 digital subchannel carrying an urban contemporary format branded "Hot 99.1," which feeds 250-watt FM translator W256BU on 99.1 MHz. History WNYQ Queensbury After the passage of Federal Communications Commission Docket 80–90 in 1983, several broadcasters considered putt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPBZ-FM
WPBZ-FM (103.9 hertz, MHz, "Zoey 103.9") is a commercial radio, commercial FM broadcasting, FM radio station city of license, licensed to Rensselaer, New York, and serving the Capital District, New York, Capital District, including the Albany, New York, Albany–Schenectady–Troy, New York, Troy media market, radio market. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and airs a hot adult contemporary radio format. The radio studio, studios and offices are on Kings Road in Schenectady. WPBZ-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 6,000 watts, with its transmitter off Smultz Road in Glenmont, New York. History Early years On December 1, 1972, the station sign-on, signed on as WQBK-FM. It was owned by the People Communications Corporation and was the FM simulcast of WQBK 1300 AM (now WGDJ). WQBK was a daytimer, required to go off the air at night. WQBK-FM was able to continue the AM station's middle of the road (music), middle of the road programming after dark for listeners wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFLY
WFLY (92.3 FM, ''FLY 92.3'') is a contemporary hit radio station licensed to Troy, New York, and serving the Capital District. The station is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and is considered the company's flagship station. The radio studios and offices are at 6 Johnson Road in Latham. WFLY has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 17,000 watts. The transmitter is located on the Helderberg Escarpment antenna farm on Pinnacle Road in New Scotland, New York. WFLY is the oldest FM radio call sign currently in the Capital District, in use since 1948. History Rural Radio Network On August 18, 1948, WFLY first signed on as the radio station of '' The Troy Times Record'' newspaper. Its publisher was Frank Laurence York, from whose initials the station gets its call letters The station was originally experimental and intended to use an FM signal to broadcast a radio-facsimile image of that day's paper to subscribers with the equipment to receive it. When that technology proved unsucce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albany, New York
Albany ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It is located on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River. Albany is the oldest city in New York, and the county seat of and most populous city in Albany County, New York, Albany County. Albany's population was 99,224 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census and estimated at 101,228 in 2023. The city is the economic and cultural core of New York State's Capital District (New York), Capital District, a metropolitan area including the nearby cities and suburbs of Colonie, New York, Colonie, Troy, New York, Troy, Schenectady, New York, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs, New York, Saratoga Springs. With a population of 1.23 million in 2020, the Capital District is the third-most populous metropolitan region in the state. The Hudson River area was originally inhabited by Algonquian languages, Algonquian-speaking Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helderberg Escarpment
The Helderberg Escarpment, also known as the Helderberg Mountains, is an escarpment in eastern New York (state), New York, United States, roughly west of the city of Albany, New York, Albany. The escarpment is the northeastern extremity of the Allegheny Plateau. It rises steeply from the Hudson Valley below, with an elevation difference of approximately 700 feet (from 400 to 1,100 feet) over a horizontal distance of approximately 2,000 feet. Much of the escarpment is within John Boyd Thacher State Park, and has views of the Hudson Valley and the Capital District, New York, Capital District. Geology The escarpment is part of the Onondaga Escarpment and is geologically related to the Niagara Escarpment, and the Black River Escarpment (Ontario), Black River Escarpment. The rocks exposed in the escarpment date back to the Middle Ordovician to Early Devonian. In 1934 the ''Schenectady Gazette'' described how the Tory Cave (Albany, New York), Tory Cave, one of the Solutional cave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effective Radiated Power
Effective radiated power (ERP), synonymous with equivalent radiated power, is an IEEE standardized definition of directional radio frequency (RF) power, such as that emitted by a radio transmitter. It is the total power in watts that would have to be radiated by a half-wave dipole antenna to give the same radiation intensity (signal strength or power flux density in watts per square meter) as the actual source antenna at a distant receiver located in the direction of the antenna's strongest beam (main lobe). ERP measures the combination of the power emitted by the transmitter and the ability of the antenna to direct that power in a given direction. It is equal to the input power to the antenna multiplied by the gain of the antenna. It is used in electronics and telecommunications, particularly in broadcasting to quantify the apparent power of a broadcasting station experienced by listeners in its reception area. An alternate parameter that measures the same thing is eff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transmitter
In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter (often abbreviated as XMTR or TX in technical documents) is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna (radio), antenna with the purpose of signal transmission to a radio receiver. The transmitter itself generates a radio frequency alternating current, which is applied to the Antenna (radio), antenna. When excited by this alternating current, the antenna Electromagnetic radiation, radiates radio waves. Transmitters are necessary component parts of all electronic devices that communicate by radio communication, radio, such as radio broadcasting, radio (audio) and television broadcasting stations, cell phones, walkie-talkies, Wireless LAN, wireless computer networks, Bluetooth enabled devices, garage door openers, two-way radios in aircraft, ships, spacecraft, radar sets and navigational beacons. The term ''transmitter'' is usually limited to equipment that generates radio waves fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 assigned by a government agency, informally adopted by individuals or organizations, or even cryptographically encoded to disguise a station's identity. The use of call signs as unique identifiers dates to the landline railroad telegraph system. Because there was only one telegraph line linking all railroad stations, there needed to be a way to address each one when sending a telegram. In order to save time, two-letter identifiers were adopted for this purpose. This pattern continued in radiotelegraph operation; radio companies initially assigned two-letter identifiers to coastal stations and stations on board ships at sea. These were not globally unique, so a one-letter company identifier (for instance, 'M' and two letters as a Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Scotland, New York
New Scotland is a town in Albany County, New York, United States. The population was 9,096 at the 2020 census. The town is southwest of Albany, New York, the state capital. New Scotland is centrally located in the county. History The town was settled around 1660. New Scotland was founded in 1832 from the west part of the town of Bethlehem. The Bennett Hill Farm, Presbyterian Church in New Scotland and the New Scotland Cemetery, and Onesquethaw Valley Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (0.57%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 8,626 people, 3,341 households, and 2,509 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 3,470 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 98.17% White, 0.28% African American, 0.20% Native American, 0.50% Asian, 0.20% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commercial Radio
Commercial broadcasting (also called private broadcasting) is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media, as opposed to state sponsorship, for example. It was the United States' first model of radio (and later television) during the 1920s, in contrast with the public television model during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, which prevailed worldwide, except in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil, until the 1980s. Features Advertising Commercial broadcasting is primarily based on the practice of airing radio advertisements and television advertisements for profit. This is in contrast to public broadcasting, which receives government subsidies and usually does not have paid advertising interrupting the show. During pledge drives, some public broadcasters will interrupt shows to ask for donations. In the United States, non-commercial educational (NCE) television and radio exist in the form of community radio; however, premium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
