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WGRF
WGRF (96.9 FM broadcasting, FM) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station in Buffalo, New York, branded as "97 Rock". The station is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a classic rock radio format, mostly from the 1970s and 1980s. WGRF competes for classic rock listeners with cross-border rival 91.7 CIXL-FM. The radio studio, studios are on Buffalo's East Side, Buffalo, East Side. WGRF has an effective radiated power of 24,000 watts. The transmitter is off Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo. It uses a directional antenna to protect CHYM-FM in Kitchener, Ontario, which is on 96.7 MHz. History Beautiful music WGRF started as the FM sister station to WGR 550 AM. On , it sign-on, signed on the air as WGR-FM. At first, WGR-AM-FM mostly simulcast a full service radio, full service, middle of the road (music), middle of the road (MOR) format of popular adult music, talk and news. By the late 1960s, WGR-FM switched to beautiful music, playing quarter hour sweeps of soft, ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WEDG
WEDG (103.3 FM) is a commercial radio station in Buffalo, New York, serving Western New York. It is owned by Cumulus Media and calls itself "103.3 The Edge," broadcasting an alternative rock radio format. The studios and offices are on the east side of Buffalo on James E. Casey Drive. WEDG has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 49,000 watts, just short of the 50 kW maximum for most stations in New York. The transmitter is on Kensington Avenue, near the Kensington Expressway ( New York State Route 33). History WYSL-FM, WPHD, WUFX The station signed on the air in . WYSL-FM was the FM counterpart to WYSL 1400 AM, now known as WWWS. The station switched its call sign to WPHD in 1970. WPHD mostly simulcast WYSL but played free form underground music overnight. The rock format caught on with listeners, and by 1972, WPHD-FM had dethroned WKBW as Buffalo's most-listened-to station during the evening hours, the first time an FM station had achieved the feat in any daypar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHTT-FM
WHTT-FM (104.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Buffalo, New York, serving Western New York. It is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a classic hits format, simply calling itself "Classic Hits 104.1". The studios and offices are on James E. Casey Drive in Buffalo. WHTT has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts, the maximum for most of New York. The transmitter is off Dorrance Avenue in West Seneca, next to Abbott Road Plaza. Station history Early years The station signed on in . Its call sign was WWOL-FM, with its studios in Lackawanna. One of the station's early disc jockeys was Guy King, who later found fame under the name Tom Clay. Two others would start their own stations after runs at WWOL: Dan Lesniak launched WADV (now WYRK), while country musician Ramblin' Lou Schriver put 1300 WXRL on the air. Joey Reynolds also briefly worked at the station in the 1950s. The station also held the call letters WWOR and WACJ. It changed call signs t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHLD
WUSW (1270 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station city of license, licensed to Niagara Falls, New York, and serving the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. It is owned by Cumulus Media, with a sale to Buddy Shula pending, and simulcasts WECK. By day, WUSW is powered at 5,000 watts. But to protect other stations from interference, at night it reduces power to 1,000 watts. The transmitter is off Cloverbank Road at Sawgrass Court in Hamburg, New York, Hamburg. It uses a directional antenna with a five-tower array. The studios are on James E. Casey Drive in Buffalo along with its Cumulus Media sister stations. History Earl Clement Hull On , the station sign-on, signed on the air as WHLD, the call sign it would hold for its first 85 years of existence. It was owned by Earl Clement Hull of Niagara Falls, New York. The call sign represents the name of his second wife, Hilda Lewis Carpenter Hull, of Ontario, Canada. Earl Hull was a radio pionee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBBF
WBBF (1120 kHz, ''Hot 98.9'') is a commercial AM radio station in Buffalo, New York. It airs a contemporary hit radio format and is owned by Cumulus Media. The studios and offices are on James E. Casey Drive in Buffalo. WBBF broadcasts with a power of 1,000 watts as a daytimer. Its transmitter is on Dorrance Avenue at Onondaga Avenue in West Seneca, New York. Because AM 1120 is reserved for Class A, clear channel station KMOX in St. Louis, WBBF must leave the air at night to avoid interference. WBBF programming is heard around the clock on FM translator W255DH on 98.9 MHz. History WWOL, WHTT, WMNY The station signed on the air in September 1947, as WWOL. In 1954, its FM counterpart WWOL-FM (now WHTT-FM) signed on, simulcasting WWOL. In the 1970s, WWOL-AM-FM aired a country music format, later switching to oldies as WHTT and WHTT-FM. In the 1990s, WHTT (AM) broke away from its simulcast with WHTT-FM, as the AM station was sold to Mercury Communications and changed its format ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CIXL-FM
CIXL-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting in Welland, Ontario. It uses the on-air brand name ''Classic Rock 91.7 Giant FM'', and broadcasts a classic rock format at 91.7 MHz. It is one of the few commercial FM radio stations on its frequency that can be heard in the United States, where frequencies between 88.1 and 91.9 MHz are set aside for noncommercial stations (a stipulation not required in Canada, CIXL's originating country). CIXL's geographical position puts it in direct competition with WGRF Buffalo, CFLZ-FM Fort Erie, Stingray's CHBM-FM Toronto and WHTT Buffalo. Giant FM's studios are located on the Port Colborne - Welland border, on Forks Road, and its transmitter is located on Matthews Road in Welland History The station originally owned by Gordon W. Burnett's "Wellport Broadcasting Ltd." and was launched in June 1957 as CHOW (known on-air as "C-How,") located at 1470 Hertz, kHz on the AM dial. A daytimer when it was originally launched, the statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simulcast
Simulcast (a portmanteau of "simultaneous broadcast") is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one resolution, bitrate or medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously). For example, Absolute Radio is simulcast on both AM and on satellite radio. Likewise, the BBC's Prom concerts were formerly simulcast on both BBC Radio 3 and BBC Television. Another application is the transmission of the original-language soundtrack of movies or TV series over local or Internet radio, with the television broadcast having been dubbed into a local language. Yet another is when a sports game, such as Super Bowl LVIII, is simulcast on multiple television networks at the same time. In the case of Super Bowl LVIII, the game's main broadcast channel was CBS, but viewers could watch it on other CBS-owned television channels or streaming services as well; Nickelodeon and Paramount+ showed the English-language broadcast, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sign-on
A sign-on (or start-up in Commonwealth countries except Canada) is the beginning of operations for a radio or television station, generally at the start of each day. It is the opposite of a sign-off (or closedown in Commonwealth countries except Canada), which is the sequence of operations involved when a radio or television station shuts down its transmitters and goes off the air for a predetermined period; generally, this occurs during the overnight hours although a broadcaster's digital specialty or sub-channels may sign-on and sign-off at significantly different times than its main channels. Like other television programming, sign-on and sign-off sequences can be initiated by a broadcast automation system, and automatic transmission systems can turn the carrier signal and transmitter on/off by remote control. Sign-on and sign-off sequences have become less common due to the increasing prevalence of 24/7 broadcasting. However, some national broadcasters continue the pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Full Service Radio
Full-service radio is a type of radio format characterized by a mix of music programming and a large amount of locally-produced and hyperlocal programming, such as news and discussion focusing on local issues, news, sports coverage, interviews, call-in segments, and sometimes religious content. The aim of full service radio is to provide a one-stop shop for listening needs and serve a wider demographic. Music played may be a variety or catered to a certain demographic, usually by local DJs. Full service radio saw a decline after television became widespread in the 1950s. See also *Tradio Tradio is a type of phone-in radio program formatted to provide a venue for listeners to freely advertise items they have to sell or trade. The concept is analogous to classified ads in local newspapers and most prevalent in the south and midw ... References {{Radio-stub Radio formats ... [...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] |
Middle Of The Road (music)
Middle of the road (also known by its acronym MOR) is a commercial radio format. Music associated with this term is strongly melodic and uses techniques of vocal harmony and light orchestral arrangements. The format was similar to soft adult contemporary. In the mid-late 2000s the term "middle of the road" became used by journalists as a way to describe musicians and bands such as Train and Westlife who calibrated their musical appeal to commercial, popular music taste and avoided more innovative material. Etymology and usage According to music academic Norman Abjorensen, "middle of the road" has referred to a commercial radio format more often than a music genre, although "it has been used to describe a broad type of music" of numerous styles, usually characterized by vocal harmony techniques, prominent melodies, and subtle orchestral arrangements. Radio stations that played adult standards during the 1960s and 1970s were marketed as "MOR radio" in order to differentiate them fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
550 AM
The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 550 kHz, which the Federal Communications Commission classifies as a regional frequency. Argentina * La Primera in Neuquén, Neuquén. (still have no call sign assigned) Bolivia * CP 153 in La Paz Brazil * ZYI-797 in Garanhuns * ZYL-225 in Cataguazes * ZYL-263 in Montes Claros * ZYJ-331 in Curitiba * ZYK-287 in Santa Cruz do Sul * ZYK-578 in Cruzeiro * ZYK-696 in Sertaozinho * ZYK-902 in São Raimundo Nonato Chile * CD-055 in Angol Colombia * HJHF in Marinilla * HJR22 in Santa Marta * HJR36 in Mitú * HJZQ in Neiva Cuba * CMBV in Wajay El Salvador * YSFG in Sonsonate Guatemala (Channel 2) * TGRV in San Pedro Sacatepéquez Honduras * HRH in Tegucigalpa Jamaica * RJR in Montego Bay Ecuador * HJHF in Maranilla * HCGB1 in Quito Mexico * XEPL-AM in Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua * XEGNAY-AM in Tepic, Nayarit Nicaragua * YNR1 in Chichigalpa Paraguay * ZP48 in Marical Estigarribia * ZP 16 in Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
