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WKWK
WKWK-FM (97.3 MHz) is an adult contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Wheeling, West Virginia, United States, serving the Wheeling/Steubenville area. WKWK is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station carries Murphy, Sam and Jodi in mornings and Delilah at night. Dana Tyson in middays afternoons are hosted locally by Vice President of Programming Chris Kelly, and overnights by Dana McKay. All music heard on the station is programmed at the corporate level by Premium Choice. The station is also the flagship broadcast station of the Wheeling Nailers ECHL The ECHL (formerly the East Coast Hockey League) is a minor professional ice hockey league based in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, with teams across the United States and Canada. Competitively, it is a tier below the American Hockey League (AHL). The ... ice hockey team, with all games broadcast. References External links * * KWK-FM IHeartMedia radio stations Radio stations established in 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBBD
WBBD (1400 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Wheeling, West Virginia, United States, carrying a sports format. Owned by iHeartMedia, WBBD serves both the Wheeling metropolitan area and nearby St. Clairsville, Ohio, as the market's Fox Sports Radio affiliate. WBBD's studios are currently located at the Capitol Theatre in downtown Wheeling, while its transmitter resides in the city's northern end. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WBBD is relayed over low-power FM translator W280EW () and is available online via iHeartRadio. WBBD was established in 1941 as WKWK, which aired network programming in the 1940s and 1950s before emerging as a Top 40 station in the 1960s and 1970s. Later operating various oldies and adult standards formats, it has broadcast Fox Sports Radio since 2014 after a brief period airing comedy radio. History On July 10, 1940, Community Broadcasting applied with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new radio station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWVA (AM)
WWVA (1170 kHz, ''NewsRadio 1170'') is an American AM radio station in Wheeling, West Virginia. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and uses the moniker "The Big One". It is West Virginia's only class A 50,000–watt clear-channel station, sharing the frequency's Class A status with KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and KJNP in North Pole, Alaska. Its transmitter site is located at a three-tower facility in St. Clairsville, Ohio. During the day, a single non-directional tower beams its full power to northern West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania (including Pittsburgh), and eastern Ohio (as far as Akron). At night, power is fed to all three towers in a directional pattern to protect KOTV. Even with this restriction, it can still be heard in most of the eastern two-thirds of the United States, as well as most of Canada, with a good radio. WWVA is one of the Local Primary 1 Emergency Alert System stations in the Wheeling area. Programming The BloomDaddy Experience hosts th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheeling, West Virginia
Wheeling is a city in Ohio County, West Virginia, Ohio and Marshall County, West Virginia, Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The county seat of Ohio County, it lies along the Ohio River in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains within Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, the state's Northern Panhandle. It is the List of municipalities in West Virginia, fifth-most populous city in West Virginia and the most populous city in the Northern Panhandle with a population of 27,062 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Wheeling metropolitan area had 139,513 residents in 2020. Wheeling is located about west of Pittsburgh and east of Columbus, Ohio, Columbus via Interstate 70 in West Virginia, Interstate 70. Wheeling was settled in 1769 on land contested between colonial Province of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and Colony of Virginia, Virginia, and later grew to become Virginia's largest city west of the Appalachians. During the American Civil War, Whee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In West Virginia
The following is a list of Federal Communications Commission, FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of West Virginia, which can be sorted by their Call signs in North America, call signs, frequency, frequencies, city of license, cities of license, licensees, and radio format, programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WCFC (West Virginia), WCFC * WCFC-FM * WMBP-LP * WOBG (AM), WOBG * WPDX (Clarksburg, West Virginia), WPDX * WQAB * WQTZ-LP * WSPW-LP * WVBL-LP * WVPV-LP * WXDB-LP * WXKX See also * West Virginia#Media, West Virginia media ** List of newspapers in West Virginia ** List of television stations in West Virginia ** Media of List of cities in West Virginia, cities in West Virginia: Charleston, West Virginia#Media, Charleston, Huntington, West Virginia#Media, Huntington, Wheeling, West Virginia#Media, Wheeling References Bibliography * * External links * West Virginia Broadcasters AssociationTri-State Amateur Radio Association Huntington, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheeling Nailers
The Wheeling Nailers are a professional ECHL ice hockey team based in Wheeling, West Virginia. They are the ECHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League. The Nailers are the oldest surviving minor league franchise below the level of the American Hockey League, with unbroken continuity of franchise and never having missed a season of play. Franchise history The Nailers began play in 1981 in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League as the Carolina Thunderbirds based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Thunderbirds won four consecutive regular season titles and were three-time Bob Payne Trophy winners as league champions. In 1987, the ACHL folded and the team joined the All-American Hockey League for the 1987–88 season. The Thunderbirds, Virginia Lancers, and Johnstown Chiefs then became the basis for the East Coast Hockey League, now known as the ECHL. The Thunderbirds lost the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOVK
WOVK (98.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country format. Licensed to Wheeling, West Virginia, United States, it serves the Wheeling area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. WOVK is one of the Local Primary 1 Emergency Alert System stations in the Wheeling area. History The 98.7 MHz frequency in Wheeling was originally assigned to WWVA-FM, which began broadcasting September 1, 1947. It was licensed to West Virginia Broadcasting Corporation. As of 2022, local programming on the station consists of a daily live afternoon program hosted by cluster Program Director Corey Klug, as well as weekly broadcasts of OVAC high school football, which feature Klug as play-by-play announcer and Brad Mitchell as color commentator. Additionally, the station airs ''The Bobby Bones Show'', ''After MidNite with Granger Smith'', ''Country Top 30 with Bobby Bones'', and '' The Crook & Chase Countdown'' from Premiere Networks, and utilizes the Premium Choice “Country Favorites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WEGW
WEGW (107.5 MHz "Eagle 107.5") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Wheeling, West Virginia, and serving the West Virginia Panhandle and parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania. It has a classic rock radio format and is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. On weekday mornings it carries the nationally syndicated ''John Boy and Billy Show''. The rest of the schedule is voicetracked from Maria Malito and Ken Dashow of co-owned WAXQ New York City and Ron "Big Rig" Michaels from WXTB Tampa. On weekends, WEGW formerly carried auto races from the Motor Racing Network and the Performance Racing Network. WEGW has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 16,000 watts. The transmitter is on Kirkwood Heights Road in Bridgeport, Ohio. History The station signed on in . The original call sign was WTRF-FM. It was a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System The Mutual Broadcasting System (commonly referred to simply as Mutual; sometimes referred to as MBS, Mutual Radio or th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVKF
WVKF (95.7 FM, "Kiss 95.7") is a radio station broadcasting a contemporary hit radio format. Licensed to Shadyside, Ohio, United States, the station serves the Wheeling, West Virginia, area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. History WVKF began its life on 105.5 as "The Zone" in 2000 under the calls of WZNW, with a similar format but without the hip-hop music that had become dominate once the banner was changed to "Kiss-FM". Once Clear Channel took over the station, its format shifted to play, in addition to the current format, the R&B and hip-hop tracks. This, along with its main competitor in the market at the time, 100.5 WOMP-FM (now WYJK under the Jack-FM format), being reluctant to play the Top 40 hits that Kiss was willing to play (due to WOMP's demographic being slightly older than WVKF's was), KISS developed the moniker "All of today's best music, not just some of it", which it still uses today. Once WVKF eclipsed WOMP in the ratings, some of the image promoti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premiere Networks
Premiere Networks, Inc. (formerly Premiere Radio Networks, shortened as PRN) is an American media company, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, for which it currently serves as its main original radio content distribution and production arm. It is the largest syndication company in the United States. Founded independently in 1987, it is headed by Julie Talbott, who serves as president. Premiere Networks either syndicates and/or (co-)produces more than 90 individual programs and radio programming services/networks to more than 5,500 affiliates across the U.S., reaching about 245 million listeners monthly. Premiere offers talk, entertainment and sports programming featuring well-known personalities including Ryan Seacrest, Delilah, JoJo Wright, Mario Lopez, Bobby Bones, Crook & Chase, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, Glenn Beck, Steve Harvey, Big Boy, George Noory, John Boy and Billy, Sean Hannity, Elvis Duran, Dan Patrick, Bill Cunningham, Cody Alan, Johnjay and Rich, Jay Mohr, Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, internet, wi-fi, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security. The FCC was established pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the previous Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. The FCC also provides varied degrees of cooperation, oversight, and leadership for similar communications bodies in other countries in North America. The FCC is funded entirely by regulatory fees. It has an estimated fiscal-2022 budg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of Power (physics), power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantification (science), quantify the rate of Work (physics), energy transfer. The watt is named in honor of James Watt (1736–1819), an 18th-century Scottish people, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved the Newcomen engine with his own Watt steam engine, steam engine in 1776, which became fundamental for the Industrial Revolution. Overview When an object's velocity is held constant at one meter per second against a constant opposing force of one Newton (unit), newton, the rate at which Work (physics), work is done is one watt. \mathrm. In terms of electromagnetism, one watt is the rate at which electrical work is performed when a current of one ampere (A) flows across an electrical potential difference of one volt (V), meaning the watt is equivalent to the vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
