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WKYS
WKYS (93.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Washington, D.C., United States. The station is owned by Urban One through licensee Radio One Licenses, LLC, and broadcasts an urban contemporary radio format. It is co-owned with WMMJ, WOL, WPRS-FM, and WYCB, with radio studios and offices in Silver Spring, Maryland. WKYS has an effective radiated power of 24,500 watts. The transmitter tower is on Nebraska Avenue NW, co-located with the tower for WRC-TV (WKYS' former TV sister station). WKYS broadcasts using HD Radio technology. The urban talk programming of co-owned WOL 1450 AM was heard on its HD3 digital subchannel. The HD3 subchannel has since been turned off. History WRC-FM The station first signed on the air as WRC-FM in . It was launched alongside its television partner, WRC-TV (originally as WNBW). Both were built from the ground up by NBC, which put WRC 980 AM on the air 24 years earlier. The call sign represents the name of the parent com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOL (AM)
WOL (1450 kHz) is an urban talk AM radio station in Washington, D.C. This is the flagship radio station of Radio One. It is co-owned with WKYS, WMMJ, WPRS, and WYCB and has studios located in Silver Spring, Maryland. The transmitter site is in Fort Totten in Washington. A Baltimore version of this station, WOLB, was created in the early 1990s and shares some of the same programming as WOL. History WWDC The station was granted a construction permit, as WWDC, by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on October 29, 1940, for a new station to broadcast with 250 watts on 1420 kHz. In March 1941, most stations assigned to this frequency, including WWDC, were reassigned to 1450 kHz, under the provisions of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement. WWDC made its debut broadcast at 8 p.m. on May 3, 1941, airing programming from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. Studios were at 1000 Connecticut Avenue. An independent station with no network affiliation, the station adve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTEM
WTEM (980 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial Sports radio, sports radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station services the Washington metropolitan area as the flagship station of the Washington Wizards and the Washington Mystics. WTEM is also the co-flagship station of the Maryland Terrapins (shared with Audacy-owned WJZ-FM in Baltimore), and is the Washington affiliate of Fox Sports Radio. History WRC era The station was originally licensed in April 1923 as WRC—the call sign having represented the original owner's name, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The station's original frequency was 469 meters (equal to 640 kHz). It was shared time with another Washington station, WCAP (Washington, D.C.), WCAP. The time-sharing arrangement between the two stations continued until 1926, when RCA purchased WCAP's share. WRC was a charter network affiliate of the National Broadcasting Company when it launched in November 1926. NBC spl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMMJ
WMMJ (102.3 FM), known on air as "Majic 102.3 & 92.7," is an urban oldies-leaning urban adult contemporary radio station owned by Urban One in the Washington, D.C. market. It is co-owned with WKYS, WOL, WPRS-FM and WYCB and has studios located in Silver Spring, Maryland. It is licensed to Bethesda, but its transmitter is located in Tenleytown. During the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, the station had been home to the original "progressive rock" formatted WHFS, which later migrated to the higher powered Annapolis, Maryland-based 99.1 frequency. WMMJ simulcasts on WDCJ (92.7 FM, Prince Frederick, Maryland) for the southeastern counties of the Washington metro. WMMJ broadcasts in the HD format. WHFS (1961–1983) On March 20, 1960, High Fidelity Broadcasters, Inc., applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a new FM radio station on 102.3 MHz in Bethesda; the commission granted the construction permit on July 20. The station went on air on Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban One
Urban One, Inc. (formerly Radio One) is an American media conglomerate based in Silver Spring, Maryland. Founded in 1980 by Cathy Hughes, the company primarily operates media properties targeting African Americans. It is the largest African-American-owned broadcasting company in the United States, currently operating over 50 radio stations. The company also operates digital arm Interactive One, cable networks TV OneFelicia R. Lee"A Network for Blacks With Sense of Mission" ''The New York Times'', December 11, 2007. & Cleo TV, and is a majority-owner of syndicator Reach Media. As of 2014, it was the ninth-highest-earning African-American-owned business in the United States. History Early years Radio One was founded in 1980 by Cathy Hughes, a then-recently divorced single mother, with the purchase of the Washington, D.C. radio station WOL-AM for $995,000.Steven Overly"With purchase of radio station WOL in 1980, Cathy Hughes launched a media empire" ''The Washington Post'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPRS-FM
WPRS-FM (104.1 FM) is an urban contemporary gospel formatted radio station in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The station is licensed to Waldorf, Maryland, and is co-owned with WKYS, WMMJ, WOL and WYCB and has studios located in Silver Spring, Maryland, with a transmitter located just east of Waldorf. History Xtra 104 For many years, 104.1 FM was known as WXTR-FM, an oldies station known as "Xtra 104", which began in 1976. WXTR, which had been purchased by Liberty Broadcasting, was soon paired with the Frederick, Maryland-licensed WZYQ (103.9 FM) (which aired a Top 40 format), in an attempt to attain better signal coverage for WXTR-FM. From that point on, both stations operated as a simulcast throughout a variety of formats: first oldies, then all-1970s music. Z104 Finally, Bonneville purchased the WXTR-FM/WZYQ combo, and, under program director Dale O'Brian, changed the format over to contemporary hit radio at 11 am on July 15, 1996, as "Z104" with the call l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRC-TV
WRC-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Washington, D.C., serving as the market's NBC outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Class A television service, Class A Telemundo outlet WZDC-CD (channel 44). WRC-TV and WZDC-CD share studios on Nebraska Avenue in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Northwest Washington. Through a channel sharing agreement, the stations transmit using WRC-TV's spectrum from a tower adjacent to their studios. History The station traces its roots to experimental television station W3XNB, which was put on the air by the Radio Corporation of America, the then-parent company of NBC, in 1939. A construction permit with the commercial call signs in North America, callsign WNBW (standing for "NBC Washington") was first issued on channel 3 (60–66 MHz, numbered channel 2 prior to 1946) on December 23, 1941. NBC requested this permit to be cancelled on June 29, 1942; channel 3 was reassigned to Harr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WYCB
WYCB (1340 AM) is a radio station in Washington, D.C., featuring an urban gospel format known as "Spirit 1340 AM". Owned by Urban One, its studios are in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the transmitter site is in Capitol Heights, Maryland. WYCB is the oldest gospel radio station in Washington; it was also the first contemporary gospel outlet in the United States. History Challenging WOOK's license The Washington Community Broadcasting Company filed on August 31, 1966, for a construction permit for a new radio station in Washington, D.C., as a challenge to the license of WOOK, an African American outlet which went on the air in 1940. Washington Community Broadcasting also sought to operate the companion television station, WOOK-TV (channel 14, later WFAN-TV), for which it was one of two challengers to the license. Washington Community's vice president was journalist Drew Pearson; other principals in the challenger included Pearson's friend Jack Anderson, a newscaster for WTO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Corporation Of America
RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America. It was initially a patent pool, patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Westinghouse, AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Company. In 1932, RCA became an independent company after the partners were required to divest their ownership as part of the settlement of a government United States antitrust law, antitrust suit. An innovative and progressive company, RCA was the dominant electronics and communications firm in the United States for over five decades. In the early 1920s, RCA was at the forefront of the mushrooming radio industry as a major manufacturer of radio receivers, and the exclusive manufacturer of the first superheterodyne sets. The company also created the first nationwide American radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). RCA was also a pioneer in the introduction and development of television, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
980 AM
The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 980 kHz: 980 AM is classified as a regional broadcast frequency by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; ) is a public organization in Canada tasked with the mandate as a regulatory agency tribunal for various electronic communications, covering broadcasting and telecommunic .... In Argentina * LT39 in Victoria * LU37 Radio 37 in General Pico, La Pampa * Ovacion in José C Paz, Buenos Aires In Canada In Mexico * XELC-AM in La Piedad, Michoacán * XELFFS-AM in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla In the United States References {{DEFAULTSORT:980 Am Lists of radio stations by frequency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 assigned by a government agency, informally adopted by individuals or organizations, or even cryptographically encoded to disguise a station's identity. The use of call signs as unique identifiers dates to the landline railroad telegraph system. Because there was only one telegraph line linking all railroad stations, there needed to be a way to address each one when sending a telegram. In order to save time, two-letter identifiers were adopted for this purpose. This pattern continued in radiotelegraph operation; radio companies initially assigned two-letter identifiers to coastal stations and stations on board ships at sea. These were not globally unique, so a one-letter company identifier (for instance, 'M' and two letters as a Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcast Automation
Broadcast automation incorporates the use of broadcast programming technology to automate broadcasting operations. Used either at a broadcast network, radio station or a television station, it can run a facility in the absence of a human operator. They can also run in a ''live assist'' mode when there are on-air personnel present at the master control, television studio or control room. The radio transmitter end of the airchain is handled by a separate automatic transmission system (ATS). History Originally, in the US, many (if not most) broadcast licensing authorities required a licensed board operator to run every station at all times, meaning that every DJ had to pass an exam to obtain a license to be on-air, if their duties also required them to ensure proper operation of the transmitter. This was often the case on overnight and weekend shifts when there was no broadcast engineer present, and all of the time for small stations with only a contract engineer on c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
