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WHKW
WHKW (1220 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, featuring a Christian radio format known as "AM 1220 The Word". Owned by Salem Media Group, the station serves both Greater Cleveland and the Northeast Ohio region. WHKW's studios are located in the Cleveland suburb of Independence while its transmitter site is in neighboring Broadview Heights. A merger of two separate radio stations in Akron and Springfield that were moved into Cleveland in 1930, this station spent 60 years as the first radio home of WGAR. First under the ownership of George A. Richards' Goodwill Station group, it became a core affiliate of the CBS Radio Network, the originating station for '' Wings Over Jordan'' and an early home to comedian Jack Paar. Eventually owned by the forerunner to Nationwide Communications, WGAR transitioned into a personality-driven adult contemporary format in the early 1970s, headlined by personalities Don Imus, John Lanigan, Norm N. Nite and Chuck Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHK (AM)
WHK (1420 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, carrying a Conservative talk radio, conservative talk format known as "AM 1420 The Answer". Owned by the Salem Media Group, the station serves both Greater Cleveland and the Northeast Ohio region as an affiliate for the Salem Radio Network. WHK's studios are currently located in the Cleveland suburb of Independence, Ohio, Independence while the transmitter site resides in neighboring Seven Hills, Ohio, Seven Hills. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WHK is relayed over low-power Cleveland Broadcast relay station, translator W273DG () and is available online. Formally established in 1922 but borne out of experimental broadcasts by founder Warren R. Cox, WHK was the first licensed radio station to broadcast in Ohio and is the 15th oldest station still broadcasting in the United States. Operated by Cox and then the Radio Air Service Corporation, WHK spent the 1940s and 1950s as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wings Over Jordan
The Wings Over Jordan Choir was an African-American a cappella spiritual choir founded and based in Cleveland, Ohio. The choir was part of the weekly religious radio series, ''Wings Over Jordan'', created to showcase the group. Debuting over Cleveland radio station WGAR in 1937 as ''The Negro Hour'', the radio program was broadcast on the Columbia Broadcasting System from 1938 to 1947 and the Mutual Broadcasting System through 1949. ''Wings Over Jordan'' broke the color barrier as the first radio program produced and hosted by African-Americans to be nationally broadcast over a network. The program was the first of its kind which was easily accessible to audiences in the Deep South, featuring distinguished black church and civic leaders, scholars and artists as guest speakers. One of the highest-rated religious radio programs in the United States, it also had an international shortwave audience on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Voice of America (VOA), and Arme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKNR
WKNR (850 AM) – branded as ''850 ESPN Cleveland'' – is a commercial sports radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland. Owned by Good Karma Brands, WKNR is the Cleveland affiliate for ESPN Radio and the AM flagship station for the Cleveland Browns Radio Network; the Cleveland affiliate for the Ohio State Sports Network, and the radio home of Je'Rod Cherry and Tony Grossi. The WKNR studios are currently located in the East Bank of The Flats in Downtown Cleveland, while the transmitter resides in the Cleveland suburb of North Royalton. WKNR’s daytime signal can be heard as far as Mansfield, and even as far as Newark and Zanesville. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WKNR is available online. WKNR originated as WLBV in Mansfield in 1926. After adopting the WJW call letters in 1929, the station relocated twice, first to Akron in 1932 and again to Cleveland in 1943. During the early 1950s, disc jockey Alan Freed began to popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGAR-FM
WGAR-FM (99.5 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, featuring a country music format. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station serves Greater Cleveland and surrounding Northeast Ohio as the local affiliate for ''The Bobby Bones Show''. WGAR-FM's studios are located at the Six Six Eight Building in downtown Cleveland's Gateway District, and the station's transmitter is in nearby Parma. Along with a standard analog transmission, WGAR-FM broadcasts over one HD Radio channel and is available online via iHeartRadio. Signing on in 1952 as the FM extension of WGAR (), WGAR-FM mostly operated in obscurity until 1970, when owner Nationwide Communications instituted a progressive rock format as WNCR. Airstaff turnover, conflicts with management and increased competition from other rock stations led to a format change to Top 40 in 1973, country in 1974 and again to easy listening as WKSW in 1975. Returning to country in 1980, WKSW became WGAR-FM in 1984 in tandem with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCSO (AM)
WCSO was a radio station in Springfield, Ohio. First licensed in 1922, it was deleted in 1930, as part of a consolidation that created WGAR. History WCSO was first licensed, as WNAP, on October 13, 1922, to Wittenberg College in Springfield, operating on the standard "entertainment" wavelength of . As early as 1896, the college's physics department had experimented with radio transmissions, and a radio club composed of students was established in 1906. First receiving experimental license 8XAK earlier in 1922, Wittenberg professor E. O. Weaver and several of his students constructed the transmitter in advance of signing on, and programming was presented by the college's Speech and Drama Department. The station's frequency was reassigned in the fall of 1923 to , to in early 1924, and to at the end of the year. The station's call letters were changed to WCSO—for Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio—on March 6, 1925, and the station was reassigned to on June 15, 1927. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Collier
Charles Collier (May 6, 1947September 22, 2011) was a radio personality, best known for his many years at radio stations WGAR (AM) and WGAR-FM in Cleveland, Ohio. Early life Collier was born on May 6, 1947, in Greenfield, Ohio, and as a boy moved to New Vienna, Ohio. He is a graduate of New Kenton High School and the University of Cincinnati. Career He began his broadcasting career shortly after college, bouncing between jobs in Cincinnati (WSAI), Dayton (WONE), and New York City (WCBS-FM). He came to Cleveland in 1970, where he worked for WGAR (1220 AM), and later its sister station, WGAR-FM (99.5 FM). He served the latter part of his tenure as music director/afternoon drive DJ. After 41 years in the Cleveland radio market, Collier died of a heart attack on September 22, 2011. In March 2009, Collier was inducted into the Country Radio Hall Of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee — one of only 60 personalities in the history of country radio to achieve this hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKLV-FM
WKLV-FM (95.5 FM broadcasting, FM) is a Non-commercial educational station, non-commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, airing a Christian contemporary format as the Cleveland affiliate for K-Love. Owned by Salem Media Group and operated by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), the station serves Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio. WKLV-FM's transmitter is located in Warrensville Heights. This station was built and signed on by Douglas G. Ovaitt Sr. and Jr. as WDGO in 1961. Sold twice in the following year, the second sale was to Cecil "Pat" Patrick and Robert Conrad, who relaunched the station in November 1962 as WCLV. Featuring a fine arts and classical music format, WCLV began originating live broadcasts of the Cleveland Orchestra in 1965, which it and its successor stations have continued in the years since. The station also launched an annual fundraising drive marathon for the Orchestra in 1970, which was soon imitated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state border. Cleveland is the most populous city on Lake Erie, the second-most populous city in Ohio, and the 53rd-most populous city in the U.S. with a population of 372,624 in 2020. The city anchors the Cleveland metropolitan area, the 33rd-largest in the U.S. at 2.18 million residents, as well as the larger Cleveland– Akron– Canton combined statistical area with 3.63 million residents. Cleveland was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve in modern-day Northeast Ohio by General Moses Cleaveland, after whom the city was named. The city's location on the river and the lake shore allowed it to grow into a major commercial and industrial metropolis by the late 19th century, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lanigan (broadcaster)
John Lanigan (born 1943 in Ogallala, Nebraska) is a radio and TV broadcaster primarily known for his work in Cleveland, Ohio, and as the longtime morning host at WMJI in Cleveland from 1985 to 2014 as well. Biography Early career Lanigan was born in Ogallala, Nebraska, in 1943. While in high school, he was a DJ at his high school's radio station. Throughout the 1960s, Lanigan bounced between jobs in Denver's KHOW and Colorado Springs, Colorado, at one point working in both cities simultaneously: Colorado Springs during the day, and Denver at night. While at KHOW, Lanigan also served as the station's program director. Additionally, Lanigan worked in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and at KRLD in Dallas, the latter in afternoon drive. WGAR (1971–84) Lanigan's Cleveland debut occurred at WGAR (1220 AM) in December 1971, taking over as that station's morning-drive host after the departure of Don Imus for WNBC (660 AM) in New York City. He was hired by WGAR general manager Jack G. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Imus
John Donald Imus Jr. ( ; July 23, 1940 – December 27, 2019), also known as Imus, was an American radio personality, television show host, recording artist, and author. His radio show '' Imus in the Morning'' was aired on various stations and digital platforms nationwide until 2018. Imus began his first radio job at KUTY in Palmdale, California in 1968. Three years later, he landed the morning broadcast position at WNBC in New York City. He was fired from WNBC in 1977, worked for a year at WHK in Cleveland, and was rehired by WNBC in 1979. He remained at WNBC until it left the air in 1988, at which time his show moved to WFAN, which took over WNBC's former frequency of 660 kHz. Howard Stern's success with national syndication led ''Imus in the Morning'' to adopt the same model in 1993. Imus was labeled a " shock jock" in his later career. He was fired by CBS Radio in April 2007 after describing the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos". In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationwide Communications
Nationwide Communications Inc., originally known as Peoples Broadcasting Corporation, was a media subsidiary of the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Nationwide Insurance Company, which operated from 1946 until 1997. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Nationwide Communications owned and operated a variety of radio and television stations across the United States until it sold off all its radio stations to Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati-based Jacor for a reported $620 million, and its television stations to Young Broadcasting. The service division was spun off and became Nationwide Communications Services L.L.C. in 1998. In 1946, the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation first got into broadcasting through a radio service for farmers on WRFD, Columbus, Ohio, an AM broadcasting, AM radio station. The Ohio Farm Bureau was dedicated to serving farmers in Ohio, but as its other pursuits (chiefly the Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Company) were increasingly made available to non-farmers, the Far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Paar
Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004) was an American talk show host, writer, radio and television comedian, and film actor. He was the second host of ''The Tonight Show'' from 1957 to 1962. ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine's obituary of Paar reported wryly, "His fans would remember him as the fellow who split talk show history into two eras: Before Paar and Below Paar." Early life and education Jack Harold Paar was born on May 1, 1918, in Canton, Ohio, Canton, Ohio, the son of Lillian M. (née Hein) and Howard Paar. He moved with his family to Jackson, Michigan, about south of Lansing, Michigan, Lansing. As a child, he developed a Stuttering, stutter, which he learned to manage. He contracted tuberculosis when he was 14 and left school at 16. Career Early career After dropping out of Jackson High School (Michigan), Jackson High School, Paar worked as a broadcaster for WIBM, a local radio station. He went on to work as a humorous disc jockey at other Midwest st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
