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WKSZ
WKSZ (95.9 FM, "Kiss FM") is a contemporary hit radio station licensed to De Pere, Wisconsin, serving Green Bay and Appleton- Oshkosh and owned by Woodward Communications. WKSZ's studios are located on College Avenue in Appleton, while its transmitter is located near Shirley in the Town of Glenmore. History The history of the 95.9 MHz frequency in the Green Bay area dates back to the mid-1980s, with the station signing on as WJLW on September 29, 1984. Locally owned by Jack LeDuc (from whom the "JL" of the call letters originated), WJLW broadcast a country music formauntil October 1995, when LeDuc sold the station to Woodward Communications. (LeDuc would resurrect the WJLW call letters, and its country format, one year later at the 106.7 frequency in Green Bay). The 95.9 frequency went dormant for a month until November 13, 1995, when Woodward launched WKSZ as "95.9 Kiss FM". The station was positioned as a contemporary hit radio, putting it in direct competition with Midw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKZY
WKZY (92.9 FM) is an American radio station, licensed to Chilton, Wisconsin, and transmitting from the Lake Winnebago community of Stockbridge to provide a city-grade signal to both Oshkosh and the Fox Cities. The station is owned and operated by Woodward Communications, and has simulcasted the Top 40/CHR format of sister station WKSZ since February 15, 2016. WKZY's studios are located on College Avenue in Appleton. Station history In 1996, Metro North Communications, Inc., applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit for a new broadcast radio station to serve New Holstein, Wisconsin. This application was renewed in 2010 and the FCC granted the requested permit on July 6, 2010, with a scheduled expiration date of July 6, 2013. The new station was assigned call sign "WLWB" on July 14, 2010. In November 2010, the Metro North applied to change the station's community of license to Chilton, Wisconsin, in preparation for a planned sale. In De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFZZ
WFZZ (104.3 FM broadcasting, FM) is an alternative rock-formatted radio station city of license, licensed to Seymour, Wisconsin and serving the Fox Cities and Northeast Wisconsin. Owned and operated by Woodward Communications, WFZZ's studios are located on College Avenue in Appleton, Wisconsin, Appleton, while its transmitter is located in Seymour, Wisconsin, Seymour. History From the Brookers to "The Breeze" The station launched in the spring of 1998 as WECB under the ownership of Earl Brooker and his wife, Carol (the namesakes of the call letters). Earl Brooker was a local businessman, politician, and long-time Fox Cities radio personality (he worked the 5:30–9:00 morning shift on WECB). Under the Brookers' ownership, WECB featured a 1970s in music, 70s Hits format, and also featured broadcasts of Green Bay Gamblers hockey and Wisconsin Timber Rattlers baseball. On April 1, 2003, the Brookers sold WECB to Dubuque, Iowa-based Woodward Communications, with the station joining ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAPL
WAPL (105.7 FM broadcasting, FM) is a Classic rock formatted radio station city of license, licensed to Appleton, Wisconsin, that serves the Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green Bay and Appleton, Wisconsin, Appleton-Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Oshkosh areas. The station is owned by Woodward Communications, and has studios on College Avenue in Appleton, with transmitting facilities located near the WGBA-TV, WGBA Tower west of unincorporated Shirley, Wisconsin, Shirley in the Glenmore, Wisconsin, Town of Glenmore in southeastern Brown County, Wisconsin, Brown County. Beginnings WAPL radio made its on-air debut in 1952, operating on a frequency of 1570 AM under the ownership of the Bartell family. It was the third AM station in the market, but the first to serve the younger audience with rock and roll music. WAPL-FM, operating on a frequency of 105.7 MHz, was added in 1965 when an FM broadcasting, FM antenna was installed on the existing WAPL (AM broadcasting, AM) tower in Menasha. The init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDKF
WDKF (99.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States. The station serves the Green Bay area simulcasting co-owned WGEE with a classic country format as ''Duke FM''. The station is currently owned by Midwest Communications, with studios in Bellevue, and its main transmitter located near the town of Lincoln in Kewaunee County. History The station that would become WDKF launched in the early 1980s, at 100.1 FM (eventually moving to 99.7 by 1986). The station started out under the WSBW call sign (not to be confused with the current WSBW in Sister Bay) and aired a locally originated adult contemporary format through studios in downtown Sturgeon Bay. An ownership change in 1989 would see WSBW become WQZZ, with the station now using a satellite-fed AC format, the same service used by its sister station in the Fox Cities, the similarly-callsigned but separately-operated WOZZ. On November 30, 1990, WQZZ became WHET-FM and adopted a new satel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHBY
WHBY (1150 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio station city of license, licensed to Kimberly, Wisconsin, that serves the Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green Bay and Appleton, Wisconsin, Appleton-Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Oshkosh areas. The station is owned by Woodward Communications and it airs a talk radio, news/talk radio format. WHBY's studios and microwave transmitter are located on East College Avenue in Appleton. By day, WHBY is powered at 20,000 watts. At night, the power increases to 25,000 watts. WHBY uses a directional antenna with a six-tower array to protect other stations on 1150 AM from interference. The transmitter is in Neenah, Wisconsin, Neenah, on Wisconsin Highway 76. Programming is also heard on FM translators in Appleton, Wisconsin, Appleton, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Oshkosh and Wrightstown, Wisconsin, Wrightstown. Programming On weekdays, WHBY has local news and talk shows in morning and afternoon drive time, and part of middays. The rest of the schedule is made u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WZOR
WZOR (94.7 FM) is a commercial radio station serving the Green Bay, Fox Cities and lakeshore areas of Northeastern Wisconsin. The station is licensed to the Manitowoc County community of Mishicot, Wisconsin, and airs an active rock music format as "Razor 94.7 & 104.7". WZOR's studios are located on College Avenue in Appleton, while its transmitter is located near Denmark. History and programming The station launched on December 16, 1994, as WGBM, and previously aired adult contemporary and classic country formats before being sold to current owner Woodward Communications in 2000. "Razor 94.7" WZOR debuted at 9:47 a.m. on February 28, 2000, with " Head Like a Hole" by Nine Inch Nails being the first song played. When the station debuted, it started with 94 days straight of just music. After that, the very first DJ, who was then Assistant Program Director Roxanne Steele, took to air. At this time, sister station WAPL program director Joe Calgaro was running the station. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSCO
WSCO (1570 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Appleton, Wisconsin, the station serves the Appleton-Oshkosh area. The station is owned by Woodward Communications, Inc. and features local, state, and National Programming. WSCO is also heard on FM translators W237AA 95.3 MHz in Appleton and W256DD 99.1 MHz in Oshkosh. WSCO's studios are located on College Avenue in Appleton, while its AM transmitter is located in Menasha. The station signed on in 1952 as WAPL. The call letters were changed to WVMS on October 4, 1978. On September 1, 1985, the station changed its call sign In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station. A call sign can be formally as ... to WRJQ and to the current WSCO on January 31, 2002. References External linksFCC History Cards for WSCO * * * * SCO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arbitron
Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio broadcasting audiences. It was founded as the American Research Bureau by Jim Seiler in 1949 and became national by merging with Los Angeles-based Coffin, Cooper, and Clay in the early 1950s. The company's initial business was the collection of broadcast television ratings. The company changed its name to Arbitron in the mid‑1960s, the namesake of the Arbitron System, a centralized statistical computer with leased lines to viewers' homes to monitor their activity. Deployed in New York City, it gave instant ratings data on what people were watching. A reporting board lit up to indicate which homes were listening to which broadcasts. For years, Arbitron was a part of Control Data Corporation (CDC) and in 1992, it became a part of Ceridian Corporation before the company was split in 2001. The then-current Arbitron was formed from the renaming of the old Cer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midwest Communications
Midwest Communications, Inc. is a Wausau, Wisconsin–based radio broadcasting company. It owns 82 radio stations located primarily within the Midwest United States, in Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Illinois and Wisconsin. The company is a family-owned business and is headed by the Wright family. History 1950s-1960s Midwest Communications began in Wausau, Wisconsin, with WRIG, Inc. and the acquisition by the Duey E. Wright family of a 1400 kHz, 250 watt AM facility from the Wisconsin Valley Television Corporation. The call letters WRIG (for Wright) were assigned and on August 1, 1958, top forty-formatted WRIG signed on the air. Power was increased to 1,000 watts in 1961 and WRIG-FM (now WDEZ) signed on in 1964. 1970s Midwest started station WROE in Appleton/Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1971. Founder Duey E. Wright Sr. died at 75 on November 24, 1971, with Duey E. Wright Jr. taking over the company his father founded. In 1975 Midwest p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adult Contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence. Adult contemporary is generally a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of pop/rock music. Adult contemporary tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener's attention, abstains from profanity or complex lyricism, and is most commonly used as background music in heavily-frequented family areas such as supermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, or restaurants. Like most of pop music, its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a verse–chorus structure. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhythmic Contemporary
Rhythmic contemporary, also known as Rhythmic Top 20, Rhythmic Top 30, Rhythmic Top 40, Rhythmic CHR or rhythmic crossover, is a primarily American music-radio format that includes a mix of EDM, upbeat rhythmic pop, hip-hop and upbeat R&B hits. Rhythmic contemporary never uses hard rock or country in its airplay, but it may occasionally use a reggae, Latin, reggaeton, or an urban contemporary gospel hit. Essentially, the format is a cross between the mainstream radio and urban contemporary radio formats. Format history Although some top-40 stations such as CKLW in Windsor, Ontario, made their mark by integrating a large amount of R&B and soul product into their predominantly pop playlists as early as 1967, such stations were still considered mainstream top 40 (a cycle that continues to dominate the current Top 40/CHR chart). It was not until the disco era of the late 1970s that such stations came to be considered as a format of their own as opposed to top-40 or soul. This d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Pere, Wisconsin
De Pere ( ) is a city in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 25,410 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is part of the Green Bay metropolitan area. History When the first European, Jean Nicolet, visited the place in 1634–35, De Pere was the site of a polyglot settlement of several thousand attracted by the fishing at the first rapids of the Fox River (Green Bay tributary), Fox River. In 1671, French Jesuit explorer Père Claude-Jean Allouez founded the St. Francis Xavier Mission at the last set of rapids on the Fox River (Green Bay tributary), Fox River before it enters Green Bay (Lake Michigan), The Bay of Green Bay. The site was known as Rapides Des Pères (rapids of the fathers) which became modern day De Pere. The present city of De Pere had its beginnings in 1836, when John Penn Arndt and Charles Tullar incorporated the De Pere Hydraulic Company and drew up the first plat of the town. In 1837, a popular vote established De Pere as the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
