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WHAL-FM
WHAL-FM is a radio station in Memphis, Tennessee broadcasting an urban gospel format. The iHeartMedia, Inc. outlet is licensed to nearby Horn Lake, Mississippi. The station's studios are located in Southeast Memphis, and the transmitter site is in the city's Midtown district. WHAL-FM broadcasts in HD. History Prior to the switch to urban gospel, it has most recently carried an oldies format as "Oldies 95.7", WOTO, until 2003. From December 1993 until April 1, 1999, 95.7 ran an alternative rock Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s w ... format as "96X", WRXQ.https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1999/RR-1999-04-09.pdf The Alternative format was later revived at WMFS in 2000 as "93X", and then again at WIVG in 2012, which also brought back WRXQ's "Never Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHRK
WHRK (97.1 MHz "K97") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Memphis, Tennessee. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and it airs an urban contemporary radio format. The station carries the nationally syndicated weekday morning show, ''The Breakfast Club'', from co-owned Premiere Networks and based at WWPR-FM in New York City. The rest of the schedule is hosted by local DJs. WHRK's studios and offices are located on Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Southeast Memphis. The transmitter site is off Benjestown Road in North Memphis. WHRK broadcasts in the HD Radio format, with its HD-2 subchannel carrying The Beat Top 20. History Classical WMPS-FM On December 2, 1959, the station first signed on as WMPS-FM. It was the FM counterpart to WMPS (now WMFS) and ran at only 6,600 watts, a fraction of its power today. WMPS-AM-FM were owned by the Plough Corporation, a pharmaceutical firm founded in Memphis that also had a radio division, with stations in Chicago, Atlanta, Boston an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Mississippi
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Mississippi, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WAKK * WCBI * WCMR-FM * WCSA * WEPA * WETX * WGRM * WHLV * WHSY (1230 AM) * WIGG * WILU-LP * WJNS * WKOR * WKOZ * WKXG * WLGD * WMLC * WMOX * WNBN * WOKJ * WQBC * WQMA * WQST * WSAO * WSWG * WXAB * WZHL * WZRX See also * Mississippi media ** List of newspapers in Mississippi ** List of television stations in Mississippi ** Media of locales in Mississippi: Biloxi, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Jackson References Bibliography * * External links * (Directory ceased in 2017) Mississippi Association of Broadcasters Images File:The Morning Crew on ROCK104.jpg, DJs of WXRR, Hattiesburg, 2002 File:FEMA - 16859 - Photograph by Nicolas Britto taken on 10-07-2005 in Mississippi.jpg, K-106 FM radio station, McComb, Miss., 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KJMS
KJMS (101.1 FM) is an urban adult contemporary radio station in Memphis Tennessee, and serving the Mid-South, area, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station's studios are located in southeast Memphis, and the transmitter site is in north Memphis. KJMS broadcasts in HD. History KLYX and KWAM-FM KWAM, Incorporated, filed a construction permit for a new FM radio station in Memphis on September 12, 1963. The Federal Communications Commission approved the application on January 24, 1964. The station took the call letters KLYX before signing on March 10, 1965. After four years, the call letters were changed to KWAM-FM. (While the station has always been licensed east of the Mississippi River, KWAM had been founded in West Memphis, Arkansas.) KRNB as Majic 101 On January 4, 1982, KWAM flipped to an CHR/urban contemporary ("churban") as "Majic 101". The station was the fourth urban outlet in the Memphis market, competing with WHRK. Soon changing its call letters to KRNB, the new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KWNW
KWNW (101.9 FM) - branded as "101.9 Kiss FM - is a radio station broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format serving the Memphis, Tennessee, area. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia and is licensed to Crawfordsville, Arkansas. The station's studios are located in Southeast Memphis, and the transmitter site is in West Memphis, Arkansas. History The station was previously licensed in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and was a longtime adult contemporary station since KBTM. On April 28, 1988, after playing " '65 Love Affair" by Paul Davis, the station flipped from adult contemporary to Top 40 as "Superhits 102". A year later in 1989, the branding was changed to "Power 102". The frequency was previously located in the Jonesboro market (where it had the call letters KIYS). The station relocated to Crawfordsville where it began to target the Memphis area on September 10, 2010. While located in Jonesboro, the station was Top 40 (CHR) as "Kiss FM", owned by Clear Channel Communications (no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDIA
WDIA (1070 AM) is a radio station based in Memphis, Tennessee. Active since 1947, it soon became the first radio station in the United States that was programmed entirely for African Americans. It featured black radio personalities; its success in building an audience attracted radio advertisers suddenly aware of a "new" market among black listeners. The station had a strong influence on music, hiring musicians early in their careers, and playing their music to an audience that reached through the Mississippi Delta to the Gulf Coast. The station started the WDIA Goodwill Fund to help and empower black communities. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., the station's studios are located in Southeast Memphis, and the transmitter site is in North Memphis. History WDIA went on the air June 7, 1947, from studios on Union Avenue. The owners, John Pepper and Bert Ferguson, were both white, and the format was a mix of country music, country and western and Middle of the road (music), light pop, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WEGR
WEGR is a classic rock FM radio station in Memphis, Tennessee. It is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and serves the Memphis metropolitan area, including sections of Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and Mississippi. WEGR broadcasts at 102.7 MHz and on the air it calls itself Rock 103. The station's studios are located in Southeast Memphis, and the transmitter site is in Bartlett, Tennessee. WEGR broadcasts at 100,000 watts. WEGR broadcasts in the HD Radio format. History The station first signed on in March 1967 as WREC-FM, sister to WREC 600 AM. Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 In December 1975, the station went to an automated Country music format with the call letters WZXR. On September 25, 1977, the station switched to AOR (Album Oriented Rock). Except for a brief flirtation with Top 40 in 1985 and 1986, the station has played some form of rock ever since. Known as "Rock 103," WEGR has been consistently programmed with a classic rock format for more than 40 years. Its mascot is a wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the County seat, seat of Shelby County, Tennessee, Shelby County in the southwest part of the state; it is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the List of municipalities in Tennessee, second-most populous city in Tennessee, after Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville. Memphis is the fifth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, the nation's List of United States cities by population, 28th-largest overall, as well as the largest city bordering the Mississippi River. The Memphis metropolitan area includes West Tennessee and the greater Mid-South (region), Mid-South region, which includes portions of neighboring Arkansas, Mississippi and the Missouri Bootheel. One of the more historic and culturally significant cities of the Southern United States, Memphis has a wide variety of landscapes and List of neighborhoods in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WREC
WREC (600 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Memphis, Tennessee. It broadcasts a talk radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios and offices are on Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Memphis. WREC is West Tennessee's primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System. WREC is powered at 5,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a two-tower array. The transmitter is on North Watkins Street, near Interstate 40 in Memphis. Programming is simulcast on 250-watt FM translator W221CR at 92.1 MHz. The station is also heard on an HD radio digital subchannel of co-owned 102.7 WEGR. Programming Talk shows WREC airs mostly nationally syndicated shows from Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of parent company iHeartMedia. Weekdays start with ''This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal'' followed by two hours of '' The Ben Ferguson Show''. Ferguson is also heard for an hour in the afternoon. Also on the schedule are ''The Sean Hannity Show, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HD Radio
HD Radio (HDR) is a trademark for an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio broadcast technology. It generally simulcasts an existing analog radio station in digital format with less noise and with additional text information. HD Radio is used primarily by AM and FM radio stations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with a few implementations outside North America. The term "on channel" is a misnomer because the system actually broadcasts on the ordinarily unused channels adjacent to an existing radio station's allocation. This leaves the original analog signal intact, allowing enabled receivers to switch between digital and analog as required. In most FM implementations, from 96 to 128 kbps of capacity is available. High-fidelity audio requires only 48 kbps so there is ample capacity for additional channels, which HD Radio refers to as "multicasting". HD Radio is licensed so that the simulcast of the main channel is royalty-free. The company makes its mone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIVG
WIVG (96.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Tunica, Mississippi, serving the Memphis, Tennessee area with EMF's Air 1 worship music format. Owned by Flinn Broadcasting, the station's studios are located in Southeast Memphis, and the transmitter site is in Coldwater, Mississippi near Arkabutla Lake. History Adult alternative (2004-2010) From 2004-2010, the station aired an adult album alternative Adult album alternative (also triple-A, AAA, or adult alternative) is a radio format. See pages 9 and 10Mills, Joshua. "A New Radio Music Format: Rock for Prosperous Adults" New York Times, Feb 28 1994, p. 2. ProQuest. Web. Accessed September 4, 2 ... format called "The Pig." It previously aired on the stronger 107.5 FM. In 2020, "The Pig" moved again, this time to 87.7 FM. Top 40/CHR (2010-2013) From 2010-2013, the station simulcasted WHBQ-FM and its Top 40/CHR format. Alternative (2012-2019) On April 11, 2013, WIVG split from its simulcast with WHBQ-FM and began stunting with a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMFS-FM
WMFS-FM (92.9 MHz) is a United States commercial sports radio radio station in Bartlett, Tennessee, broadcasting to the Memphis, Tennessee area, owned by Audacy, Inc. WMFS is the radio home for the Memphis Grizzlies. The station's studios are in Southeast Memphis, and the transmitter tower is in Northeast Memphis. WMFS-FM broadcasts in the HD Radio HD Radio (HDR) is a trademark for an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio broadcast technology. It generally simulcasts an existing analog radio station in digital format with less noise and with additional text information. HD Radio is used ... format. History Rock (1995-2009) Originally launched in 1995 by fledgling Belz Broadcasting under the "Solid Rock 92.9 MFS!" slogan, WMFS was acquired by Infinity Broadcasting and rebranded "93X" in 2001. The station was purchased by Entercom Communications in 2006. The first song played on WMFS when the station debuted was " Rock You Like a Hurricane" by the Scorpions. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge, shoegaze, and Britpop subgenres in the United States and United Kingdom, respectively. During this period, many record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s were beginning to grow stale throughout the music industry. The emergence of Generation X as a cultural force in the 1990s also contributed greatly to the rise of alternative rock. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or commercial rock or pop. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise—The History of Alternative Rock Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
