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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] |
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] |
WKSE
WKSE (98.5 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Niagara Falls, New York, serving the Buffalo metropolitan area and Western New York. It has a contemporary hit radio format and is owned by Audacy, Inc., with studios on Corporate Parkway in Amherst, New York. It calls itself ''Kiss 98.5''. WKSE has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 46,000 watts. The transmitter is off Staley Avenue on Grand Island, New York. Its signal extends into the Niagara Region of Ontario as well as Hamilton and Toronto. WKSE broadcasts using HD Radio technology; its HD2 digital subchannel simulcasts country music sister station WLKK, while the HD3 subchannel simulcasts co-owned WBEN news/talk programming, and the HD4 subchannel simulcasts co-owned WGR's sports radio programming. History On , the station signed on as WHLD-FM. It was the FM counterpart to WHLD and largely simulcast the AM station's programming in its early years. In the late 1960s, it switched to a beautiful music format ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WECK
WECK (1230 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Cheektowaga, New York and serving the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Area. The station airs a locally produced and locally hosted oldies music format. The studios, offices and transmitter are located on Genesee Street in suburban Cheektowaga. WECK's programming is simulcast on three FM translator stations on 100.1, 100.5, and 102.9 MHz. The station is owned by Radio One Buffalo, LLC, headed by William Ostrander, also known as Buddy Shula. History Early years In August 1956, the station first signed on as WNIA. The call letters referred to nearby Niagara Falls. The station was founded by Gordon P. Brown, who also owned WSAY (now WXXI) in Rochester, New York. At both Brown's stations, in Buffalo and Rochester, the on-air personalities were assigned stage names. Those names stayed the same, although the talent, typically less experienced broadcasters, came and went. Names like Mike Melody, Tom Thomas and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niagara Falls, New York
Niagara Falls is a City (New York), city in Niagara County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a total population of 48,671. It is adjacent to the Niagara River, across from the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and named after the famed Niagara Falls which they share. The city is within the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area and the Western New York region. While the city was formerly inhabited by Native Americans, Europeans who migrated to the Niagara Falls in the mid-17th century began to open businesses and develop infrastructure. Later in the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists and businessmen began harnessing the power of the Niagara River for electricity and the city began to attract manufacturers and other businesses drawn by the promise of inexpensive hydroelectric power. After the 1960s, however, the city and region experienced an economic decline. As industries left the region, affluent and middle-class families ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Bradley (pianist)
James Harold Bradley (March 4, 1906 – November 10, 1984), was a pianist and the Founder and Principal of the Bradley Institute for Music Education Research. Early life Bradley was the only son of James Clark Bradley, a grocery store owner in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, and his wife, Madge Marsland Bradley. As a boy, Harold worked in his father's grocery store and played baseball, where he earned the lifelong nickname "Scoop". His father was a well-known baseball player, and determined that a professional baseball career was best for Bradley. At the age of 16, he was taken to Toronto by Harold "Touch" Wood, who assured him a professional contract at the end of his first year in college. He attended Simcoe Street Public School and Niagara Falls Collegiate and Vocational Institute. His career in music began at the age of 12, when he got his first job playing the organ in the Anglican Church in the village of Chippawa, Ontario, and later playing jazz with a dance orchestra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
Sister Station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio or television stations operated by the same company, either by direct ownership or through a management agreement. Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and sometimes one station is on the AM band while another is on the FM band. Conversely, several types of sister-station relationships exist in television; stations in the same city will usually be affiliated with different television networks (often one with a major network and the other with a secondary network), and may occasionally shift television programs between each other when local events require one station to interrupt its network feed. Sister stations in separate (but often nearby) cities owned by the same company may or may not share a network affiliation. For example, WNYW and WWOR-TV, in New York City and Secaucus, New Jersey, are both owned by Fox Corporation. WNYW is a Fox owned-and-operated station; WWOR-TV is a MyNetworkTV ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be #Relationship to other music traditions, distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" can also be applied to List of classical and art music traditions, non-Western art musics. Classical music is often characterized by formality and complexity in its musical form and Harmony, harmonic organization, particularly with the use of polyphony. Since at least the ninth century, it has been primarily a written tradition, spawning a sophisticated music notation, notational system, as well as accompanying literature in music analysis, analytical, music criticism, critical, Music history, historiographical, musicology, musicological and Philosophy of music, philosophical practices. A foundational component of Western culture, classical music is frequently seen from the perspective of individual or com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
