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WHQG
WHQG (102.9 FM, "102.9 The Hog") is a commercial radio station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It airs a mainstream rock radio format and is owned by Saga Communications, operating as part of its Milwaukee Radio Group. WHQG is a Class B FM station, with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts, the maximum for most Milwaukee-area stations. The studios, which are shared with WHQG's four sister stations, along with the transmitter tower, are on West McKinley Avenue, on the city's west side. History Top 40 and soft AC (1962–1972) The station signed on the air on April 22, 1962, as WRIT-FM, co-owned with WRIT (1340 AM, now WJOI). The stations simulcasted a Top 40 format. In 1971, 102.9 split from the simulcast, becoming WFWO-FM ("For Women Only"). WFWO played soft adult contemporary music. Country (1972–1987) The station flipped to country music as WBCS on October 1, 1972. WBCS found success with the format, as they were the only country station in the market at the ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJOI
WJOI (1340 AM) is a commercial radio station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is known on-air as "Joy 1340/98.7". WJOI is owned by Saga Communications, and operates as part of its Milwaukee Radio Group, with radio studios and offices on Milwaukee's West Side. The transmitter is on West Martin Drive in Milwaukee. Programming is also heard on 99-watt FM translator W254CU at 98.7 MHz. WJOI has a Christian talk and teaching radio format most of the day. On weekdays it largely broadcasts national religious leaders including Chuck Swindoll, David Jeremiah, Joyce Meyer, Jim Daly and Alistair Begg. Some hours of the night and weekends, WJOI carries "Today's Christian Music" from the Salem Radio Network. Sunday hours also include brokered ethnic programming, largely German Polish, including Polka music. The station also airs Slovene and Croatian programming. History The station signed on the air as WEMP on October 14, 1935. WEMP was Milwaukee's third radio station (after WI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRXS
WRXS (106.9 FM; "Pure Oldies 106.9") is a commercial radio station licensed to Brookfield, Wisconsin, and serving the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The station is owned by Saga Communications, and operates as part of its Milwaukee Radio Group. It broadcasts an oldies radio format, known as "Pure Oldies", concentrating on 1950s, 1960s and 1970s hits. It switches to Christmas music during the holiday season. WRXS has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 4,400 watts. The transmitter and radio studios are on Milwaukee's West Side, off West McKinley Avenue. History Smooth jazz (1995–1997) On February 10, 1993, a construction permit was granted for a new FM station, with the call sign WLJU. The original permittee, Tran Broadcasting in Milwaukee sold it to Harris Classical Broadcasting, which also owned Milwaukee's heritage classical music station, WFMR, before it went on the air. It formally signed on for the first time in August 1995, as WFMI, playing a satellite-fed smooth ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLDB
WLDB (93.3 FM broadcasting, FM "B93.3 FM") is a commercial radio, commercial radio station in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is owned and operated by the Milwaukee Radio Alliance, a partnership between Times-Shamrock Communications and Willie Davis (defensive end), All Pro Broadcasting. WLDB airs an adult contemporary radio format, switching to Christmas music for much of November and December. Its radio studio, studios are on Good Hope Road in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Menomonee Falls. WLDB has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 16,000 watts. The transmitter site is in Milwaukee's North Side off Humboldt Boulevard near Estabrook Park and the Milwaukee River. History Early years (1958–1973) In 1958, WQFM sign-on, signed on the air. The station had various formats in its early years, including classical music, big band music, jazz and ethnic programming, before the station tried an broadcast automation, automated Top 40 format. Rock (1973–1996) Starting in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJMR-FM
WJMR-FM (98.3 MHz) is an urban adult contemporary radio station serving the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, area. They are known on-air as ''"Jammin' 98.3"'', and are licensed to Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Under ownership of Saga Communications, its studios (which are shared with the other four stations in Saga's Milwaukee Radio Group) and transmitter are located in Milwaukee's West Side. History 98.3 FM history The 98.3 frequency was home for many years to WZMF, which signed on the air in July 1966. At its inception, the station aired a MOR format. WZMF was located in a small house on Shady Lane in Menomonee Falls. WZMF's pop music programming eventually became more experimental, and the station evolved into a freeform progressive rock format by October 1968, one of the first stations to do so in the midwest. The station was moderately successful with the format for the next eleven years, pushing rival WTOS into a different format and staying competitive with leading rocker WQFM. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMIL-FM
WMIL-FM (106.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Waukesha, Wisconsin, and serving the Greater Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin radio market. It carries a country music radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios and offices are on West Howard Avenue in the Milwaukee suburb of Greenfield. WMIL-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 12,000 watts. The transmitter site is in Milwaukee's North Side off Humboldt Boulevard near Estabrook Park and the Milwaukee River. WMIL-FM broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format. The HD2 digital subchannel formerly aired alternative rock from the 1990s and 2000s as "Alt 2K". History WAUX-FM, WAUK-FM On January 1, 1962, the station signed on as WAUX-FM, the FM sister station to WAUX (1510 AM). The stations were owned by the Waukesha Broadcasting Company. At the time, WAUX-FM’s effective radiated power was 3,800 watts, a fraction of its current output. Because WAUX was a daytimer, the two stations si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKLH
WKLH (96.5 FM) is a classic rock-formatted radio station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The station is owned by Saga Communications, and operates as part of the Milwaukee Radio Group. Its studios are located on Milwaukee's West Side, and the transmitter is on the MPTV tower in Shorewood. WKLH broadcasts in the digital hybrid HD Radio format. History Classical (1956–1983) The station received its Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license on November 30, 1955. They signed on the air as WFMR on June 26, 1956, with a classical music format from the Bayshore Shopping Center in Glendale, with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 24.5 kilowatts and an antenna height of above average terrain (HAAT). They began broadcasting in stereo in 1962. In June 1969, it boosted its power to 40 kW, becoming the most powerful FM station in Milwaukee at that time. They got another power upgrade in July 1974, this time to 50 kW. Adult contemporary (1983–1986) In January 1983, ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
Top 40
In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre. It is the best-selling or most frequently broadcast popular music. Record charts have traditionally consisted of a total of 40 songs. "Top 40" or " contemporary hit radio" is also a radio format. History According to producer Richard Fatherley, Todd Storz was the inventor of the format, at his radio station KOWH in Omaha, Nebraska. Storz invented the format in the early 1950s, using the number of times a record was played on jukeboxes to compose a weekly list for broadcast. The format was commercially successful, and Storz and his father Robert, under the name of the Storz Broadcasting Company, subsequently acquired other stations to use the new Top 40 format. In 1989, Todd Storz was inducted into the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. The term "Top 40", describing a radio format, appeared in 1960. The Top 40, whether surveyed by a radio station or a p ... [...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] |
List Of Broadcast Station Classes
This is a list of broadcast station classes applicable in much of North America under international agreements between the United States, Canada and Mexico. Effective radiated power (ERP) and height above average terrain (HAAT) are listed unless otherwise noted. All radio and television stations within of the US-Canada or US-Mexico border must get approval by both the domestic and foreign agency. These agencies are Industry Canada/ Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in Canada, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US, and the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) in Mexico. AM Station class descriptions All domestic (United States) AM stations are classified as A, B, C, or D. * A (formerly I) — clear-channel stations — 10 kW to 50 kW, 24 hours. **Class A stations are only protected within a radius of the transmitter site. **The old Class I was divided into three: Class I-A, I-B and I-N. NARBA distingu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
