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WIGX
WWSK (94.3 FM) is a mainstream rock formatted radio station, licensed to Smithtown, New York, and owned by Connoisseur Media. The station's studios are located at Airport Plaza in Farmingdale, New York, and its transmitter is located in Brentwood, New York. History What began as WQMF (1,000 watts; antenna ) came about in September 1961 when WGLI-FM (103.5 FM) changed its community of license from Babylon to Lake Success. Owner Friendly Frost, a Long Island–based appliance store chain, applied for another FM frequency to replace 103.5 in the Babylon area and WQMF was born. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules prohibited ownership of overlapping signals, but because the new WGLI-FM antenna was located on a tower (20 kW) outside the studio building visible from the Long Island Expressway its new signal did not cover Babylon (this would become an issue a few years later). WQMF was one of the first totally automated radio stations in the area and maybe the cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHLI
WHLI (1100 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Hempstead, New York, and serving Long Island. It is owned by Connoisseur Media and has an oldies radio format made up of hits from the 60s And 70s The station's studios and offices are located at Airport Plaza in Farmingdale, New York, and its transmitter is located off the Southern State Parkway at Milburn Avenue in Hempstead. WHLI broadcasts on 1100 AM, a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A WTAM in Cleveland. Because radio waves travel farther at night, WHLI must sign–off the air at sunset to protect WTAM. History Early years WHLI first signed on the air on July 15, 1947, along with FM sister station WHNY, licensed to Paul and Elias Godofsky, the owners of WLIB in New York City from 1942 to 1944. The station began broadcasting with a 250-watt non-directional signal, only heard in and around Nassau County, New York. In 1960, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave permission for WHLI to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKJY
WKJY (98.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Hempstead, New York, and serving Nassau County, New York. It broadcasts an adult contemporary music format and is owned by Connoisseur Media. WKJY's studios and offices are located at Airport Plaza in Farmingdale, New York, and its transmitter is located near the Southern State Parkway in Hempstead. History Early years The station first signed on the air on July 15, 1947, as WHNY. It was owned by the FM Broadcasting Company, along with AM sister station WHLI. In 1949 the call letters were changed to WHLI-FM. For its first two decades, the station mostly simulcast WHLI. Beautiful music In the late 1960s, the FCC was encouraging AM-FM combos to offer different programming. WHLI-FM began playing beautiful music while WHLI 1100 continued its middle of the road music format. Trying to carve out a separate identity, WHLI-FM changed its call letters in 1975 to WIOK. In 1980, it switched call signs again, this time to WKJY representing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smithtown (CDP), New York
Smithtown is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) within the Town of Smithtown in Suffolk County, New York. The population was 25,629 at the 2020 census. The hamlet includes the former Village of The Landing, which was dissolved in 1939.Leagle - Jennings vs. Kern, 1987 Retrieved June 14, 2015. Geography According to the , the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 4.00%, is water.Demographics As of the |
Babylon (village), New York
Babylon is a Administrative divisions of New York (state)#Village, village within the Babylon, New York, Town of Babylon in Suffolk County, New York. The population was 12,188 at the 2020 census. It is located approximately from New York City at the Queens border and approximately from Manhattan. Its official name is The Incorporated Village of Babylon. It is commonly referred to as Babylon Village, to distinguish it from the Babylon, New York, Town of Babylon, of which it is a part. History What is now Babylon, New York, Babylon Town and Village was originally part of Huntington, New York, Huntington Town and known as Huntington South. Lightly settled from 1689, its main industry, in common with much of the area along Great South Bay and South Oyster Bay (both actually lagoons), was the harvesting of salt hay, which was used as cattle feed and bedding. When a coherent community grew up in the area by 1803, prominent local citizens sought to adopt a new name. An influential lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy Listening
Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to the 1970s. It is related to middle of the road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non- rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs. It mostly concentrates on music that pre-dates the rock and roll era, characteristically on music from the 1940s and 1950s. It was differentiated from the mostly instrumental beautiful music format by its variety of styles, including a percentage of vocals, arrangements and tempos to fit various parts of the broadcast day. Easy listening music is often confused with lounge music, but while it was popular in some of the same venues it was meant to be listened to for enjoyment rather than as background sound. History The style has been synonymous with the tag "with strings". String instruments had been used in sweet bands in the 1930s and was the dominant s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huntington, New York
Huntington is one of ten Administrative divisions of New York#Town, towns in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, New York (state), New York, United States. The town's population was 204,127 at the time of the 2020 census, making it the 11th most populous city/town in the state. Founded in 1653, the Town of Huntington is located on the North Shore (Long Island), North Shore of Long Island in northwestern Suffolk County, with the Long Island Sound to its north and Nassau County, New York, Nassau County adjacent to the west. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. History In 1653, three men from Oyster Bay, New York, Oyster Bay – Richard Holbrook, Robert Williams, and Daniel Whitehead – purchased a parcel of land from the Matinecock (tribe), Matinecock tribe. This parcel has since come to be known as the "First Purchase" and included land bordered by Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Cold Spring Harbor on the west, Northport, New York, Northport Harbor on the east, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNYH
WNYH (740 AM) is a radio station licensed to Huntington, New York, it serves the Long Island area and broadcasts brokered programming. The station is owned by Win Radio Broadcasting Corporation. Since 740 AM is a Canadian clear-channel frequency, WNYH reduces its broadcast power to 43 watts at sunset in order to protect CFZM in Toronto. This results in a limited, approximately 20 square-mile coverage area centered upon Huntington Station for the station at night. History The station signed on as WGSM on September 1, 1951, with studios originally in the Sammis Building on New York Avenue in Huntington. Edward J. Fitzgerald founded the station and Jack Ellsworth (WALK, WLIM) was the original program director. In early 1968, the station moved its studios and offices to 900 Walt Whitman Road (Rt. 110) in Melville, New York near the Northern State Parkway. In autumn 1968, Bill Ayres ( WABC, WPLJ) and Pete Fornatale (WFUV, WNEW-FM, 92.3 K-Rock) hosted a religious show aimed at you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Media
Greater Media, Inc., known as Greater Media, was an American media company that specialized in radio stations. The markets where they owned radio stations included Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia, Charlotte, and the state of New Jersey. The company was formed in 1956 in Southbridge, Massachusetts, and its headquarters were located in Braintree, Massachusetts. Greater Media also published several weekly newspapers in Central New Jersey. The newspaper group won 12 Suburban Newspapers of America awards for 2006. On November 12, 2007, Greater Media announced it was buying three stations in Charlotte, North Carolina from Lincoln Financial Media-- WBT, WBT-FM, and WLNK. The deal was finalized on January 31, 2008. On July 19, 2016, Beasley Broadcast Group announced that it would acquire Greater Media's radio stations for $240 million. The FCC approved the sale on October 6, and the sale closed on October 29. The Greater Media newspapers were sold to the Newspaper Media Group. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan
Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, largest, and average area per state and territory, smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the state, Manhattan constitutes the center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area. Manhattan serves as New York City's Economy of New York City, economic and Government of New York City, administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, Media in New York City, media, and show business, entertainment capital of the world. Present-day Manhattan was originally part of Lenape territory. European settlement began with the establishment of a trading post by Dutch colonization of the Americas, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is a , Art Deco skyscraper in the East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Located at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, it is the tallest brick building in the world with a steel framework. It was both the world's first supertall skyscraper and the world's tallest building for 11 months after its completion in 1930. , the Chrysler is the 12th-tallest building in the city, tied with The New York Times Building. Originally a project of real estate developer and former New York State Senator William H. Reynolds, the building was commissioned by Walter Chrysler, the head of the Chrysler Corporation. The construction of the Chrysler Building, an early skyscraper, was characterized by a competition with 40 Wall Street and the Empire State Building to become the world's tallest building. The Chrysler Building was designed and funded by Walter Chrysler personally as a real estate investment for his childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Construction Permit
Planning permission or building permit refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation), and sometimes for demolition, in some jurisdictions. House building permits, for example, are subject to building codes. There is also a "plan check" (PLCK) to check compliance with plans for the area, if any. For example, one cannot obtain permission to build a nightclub in an area where it is inappropriate such as a high-density suburb. The criteria for planning permission are a part of urban planning and construction law, and are usually managed by town planners employed by local governments. Failure to obtain a permit can result in fines, penalties, and demolition of unauthorized construction if it cannot be made to meet code. Generally, the new construction must be inspected during construction and after completion to ensure compliance with national, regional, and local building codes. Since building permits usually precede outlay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGLI (New York)
WGLI (1290 AM) was a radio station licensed to Babylon, New York. History Founded in 1958 by William Reuman the founder and owner of WWRL in New York City, the station went on the air on September 1, 1958, along with WGLI-FM. This made WGLI the first Long Island station to sign on both an AM & FM station on the same day. In March 1960, Friendly Frost Inc. (a Long Island-based appliance store chain) acquired WGLI Inc. from Mr. Reuman and his partners. Originally broadcasting with 1,000 watts, the station increased power to 5,000 watts in 1966 after being sold to new owner Martin F. Beck. Beck, along with his brother-in-law George H. Ross created Beck-Ross Communications in order to purchase WGLI, the company eventually grew to own 10 stations, including WBLI in Patchogue, New York. Beck-Ross sold the station to Greater Long Island Communications in October 1978. In 1988, it was purchased by WADO. The oldies format, which had been in place for some time, ended in August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
