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WMAJ (AM)
WMAJ (1230 Hertz, kHz) is an AM radio, AM radio station in the List of radio stations in New York State#Elmira.2FCorning area, Elmira-Corning market of New York state. It Broadcasting, broadcasts at 1,000 watts at day and 910 watts at night from studios in Corning (city), New York, Corning, New York. It airs an adult contemporary format branded as "Magic 106.7/106.9". History Test broadcasts began on November 1, 1939, reaching states such as Idaho and Florida. WMAJ officially started its broadcasts on November 26, operated by the ''Elmira Star-Gazette'' with the call sign WENY and was affiliated with the Mutual Broadcasting System. It was initially assigned to 1200 kilohertz, kHz, with studios in the Mark Twain Hotel on Market Street in Elmira, New York, Elmira. WENY was the third ''Star-Gazette'' affiliated radio station. In the spring of 1932, the newspaper had briefly assumed control of WBGF in Glen Falls, and changed that station's call letters to WESG, with plans to move t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmira, New York
Elmira () is a Administrative divisions of New York#City, city in and the county seat of Chemung County, New York, United States. It is the principal city of the Elmira, New York, metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses Chemung County. The population was 26,523 at the United States Census 2020, 2020 census, down from 29,200 at the United States Census 2010, 2010 census, a decline of more than 7 percent. The City of Elmira is in the south-central part of the county, surrounded on three sides by the Administrative divisions of New York#Town, Town of Elmira (town), New York, Elmira. It is in the Southern Tier of New York, a short distance north of the Pennsylvania state line. The city was the site of the Elmira Prison, a prisoner-of-war camp that held over 12,000 captured Confederate States Army, Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. Elmira College is located within the city. History Early history The region of Elmira was inhabited by the Cayuga N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAMC (AM)
WAMC (1400 AM broadcasting, AM) is a public radio station licensed to Albany, New York. Along with WAMC-FM (90.3), the station serves as a flagship station of the Northeast Public Radio network, which carries a listener-supported, commercial-free radio format of news, talk and eclectic music. The WAMC stations are members of National Public Radio (NPR). WAMC is a list of broadcast station classes, Class C AM station transmitting 1,000 watts, using a omnidirectional antenna, non-directional antenna. With WAMC-FM's radio masts and towers, tower in Western Massachusetts, some listeners in the Albany area may tune in AM 1400 if they have trouble receiving the FM signal. WAMC's transmitter is on Braintree Street in Albany, near the New York State Thruway. Its studios are on Central Avenue in Albany. History WAMC was first licensed on August 1, 1930, to W. Neal Parker and Herbert M. Metcalfe as WBGF in Glens Falls, New York, and initially broadcast on 1370 kHz. In 1932, the sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCBA (AM)
WCBA (1350 AM) was a radio station in the Elmira-Corning market of New York state. It broadcast with 1,000 watts day and 37 watts night on 1350 kHz from studios in South Corning, New York. History The station signed on as Corning's second AM station prior to 1967, according to the for John T. Horn, the longtime disc jockey known on the air as Jack Shane. Dean Slack bought the station in 1977 and persuaded Horn, who started his career at WCBA 10 years earlier and was then a top personality at WENY, to return. "Dean and Jack" hosted the morning show on the adult contemporary station for 12 years. In 1988, Slack signed WCBA-FM on the air, giving WCBA an FM presence in the market. The stations were simulcast early on and often were referred to in marketing as "The WCBA stations". Slack sold the stations in 1990 to Eolin Broadcasting Inc., which was headed by former Gateway Communications television station manager Bob Eolin, his wife Dee, and Horn. Bob Eolin replaced Slack as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCIG
WCIG (97.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. Licensed to Big Flats, New York, United States, the station is owned by Family Life Network. History The station was assigned the call letters WNBR on August 28, 1987. On March 1, 1989, the station changed its call sign to WGMM; on May 16, 2005, to WCBA-FM; and on July 26, 2005, to WENI-FM. The station swapped call signs with its sister station in South Waverly, Pennsylvania, on December 27, 2017, assuming the WENY-FM call sign. On June 1, 2021, WENY-FM changed its format from 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 ... to Family Life Network's Christian radio format, assuming the call sign WCIG on June 22, 2021. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldies
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music. Since 2000, 1970s music has been increasingly included in this genre. " Classic hits" have been seen as a successor to the oldies format on the radio, with music from the 1980s serving as the core example. Description This category includes styles as diverse as doo-wop, early rock and roll, novelty songs, bubblegum music, folk rock, psychedelic rock, baroque pop, surf music, soul music, rhythm and blues, classic rock, some blues and some country music. Golden Oldies usually refers to music exclusively from the 1950s and 1960s. Oldies radio typically features artists such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Beach Boys, Frankie Avalon, The Four Seasons, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Little Richard and Sam Cooke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilly Broadcasting
Lilly Broadcasting, LLC is a privately owned American broadcasting company owned and operated by the Lilly Brothers. The company was formed in September 1999 with the purchase of WENY-TV (ABC) and WENY-FM & AM radio. In 2002, Kevin Lilly purchased WSEE-TV (CBS) in Erie, Pennsylvania and have since added the CBS and The CW affiliates in Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and ABC in the Virgin Islands. Brian and Kevin Lilly are the sons of George Lilly, whose SJL Broadcast Management (also previously known as the Montecito Broadcast Group) was founded in 1984 and based in Montecito, California. SJL owns WICU-TV in Erie and the two Companies purchased three TV stations from Gateway Communications in 2000, and four stations from Emmis Communications in 2005. Lilly Broadcasting most recently with Sankaty Advisors purchased KITV ( ABC) in Hawaii. Lilly sold the station to Byron Allen's Allen Media Broadcasting in 2021. History WJRT-TV was sold to SJL Broadcast Management in 1989. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WENY-TV
WENY-TV (channel 36) is a television station in Elmira, New York, United States, affiliated with ABC, CBS and The CW Plus. Owned by Lilly Broadcasting, the station has studios on Old Ithaca Road in Horseheads, and its transmitter is located on Higman Hill in Corning. History The station signed on November 19, 1969, after Howard Green, owner of WENY radio (1230 AM, now WMAJ and 92.7 FM, now WCBF) and WCMC-AM- TV in Wildwood, New Jersey, was awarded analog UHF channel 36 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Another area broadcaster, Frank Saia, had surrendered the construction permit to build what would have been WEHH-TV on the same channel. Green purchased the initial equipment from defunct station WNYP-TV, hiring Larry Taylor (previously the Assistant Chief Engineer of WNYP-TV) to move and install the broadcast equipment. Green and Taylor brought the equipment into a space on the ground floor of the Mark Twain Hotel in Downtown Elmira which had been a restauran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast Television broadcaster, television and radio Radio network, network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. ABC is headquartered on Riverside Drive in Burbank, California, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Team Disney – Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network maintains secondary offices at 77 66th Street (Manhattan), West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, which houses its broadcast center and the headquarters of its news division, ABC News (United States), ABC News. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. The youngest of the "Big Three (American television), Big Three" American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Still The One (song)
"Still the One" is a song written by Johanna Hall and John Hall, and recorded by the soft rock group Orleans on their album '' Waking and Dreaming'', released in 1976; it reached No. 5 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Country singer Bill Anderson recorded and released a successful cover version, peaking at No. 11 on ''Billboards Hot Country Singles chart in 1977. Song lyrics The lyrics of the uptempo love song are of someone (as the lyrics were written by a woman and sung by a man, it does not state the gender of the singer or of their beloved) describing their feelings for a person with whom they had and still have, a long-lasting relationship ("We've been together since way back when... Now I want you to know / After all these years"); with trust ("You're still the one / I want whispering in my ears"); that they are close ("You're still the one / I want to talk to in bed"); find them attractive ("Still the one that turns my head"); and of an intimate or sexual nature ("You're ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orleans (band)
Orleans is an American pop rock band formed in 1972 in Woodstock, New York by John Hall (New York politician), John Hall, Larry Hoppen and Wells Kelly. Larry's younger brother, bassist Lance Hoppen and drummer Jerry Marotta joined the band in 1972 and 1976, respectively. The band is best known for its hits "Dance with Me (Orleans song), Dance with Me" (No. 6 in 1975); "Still the One" (No. 5 in 1976), from the album ''Waking and Dreaming''; and "Love Takes Time (Orleans song), Love Takes Time" (No. 11 in 1979). The group's name evolved from the music it was playing when it formed; their music is inspired in part by Louisiana artists, including Allen Toussaint and the Neville Brothers. History 1960s Drummer Wells Kelly, the son of Cornell University's dean of Architecture, Burnham Kelly, first met John Hall, an in-demand session player and member of the group Kangaroo, in the late 1960s when he played with him in a group called Thunderfrog and later appeared on John's first solo al ... [...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] |
