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WMUD (FM)
WMUD (101.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Brandon, Vermont. WMUD broadcasts an Americana music format featuring recent Americana and country music, with programming focused on Rutland County, Vermont, and surrounding areas. Branded as "Mud Radio", the station features live, daily dialog with community service. History The station's construction permit was originally owned by Tim Hoehn, Gary Savoie, and local resident Michael Carr who wound up selling a controlling interest to Jeff Shapiro. Although the transmitter is located a distance from Brandon, the tower site on Grandpa's Knob, in Castleton, Vermont, was the only place that would suffice to get a city grade signal over the majority of Brandon. A waiver from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permitted this operation. A story in the ''Rutland Herald'' depicted a large type balloon being raised over a hilltop in Pittsford to describe how high a proposed tower could be. Several hunters shot the bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon, Vermont
Brandon is a New England town, town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 4,129. History On October 20, 1761, the town of Neshobe was chartered to Capt. Josiah Powers. In October 1784, the name of the town was changed to Brandon by an act of the legislature. Brandon is a study in early American architecture and Vermont history. When the first settlers came to the area in the mid-1770s, they established the village of Neshobe. The area was rich in natural resources with excellent farmland along the rivers and abundant supplies of timber and minerals. The town flourished during the 1800s with several industries relying on the key resources of waterpower, iron ore and marble. The coming of the railroad in 1849 enabled the manufacture and shipping of iron-based products such as the Howe scale, as well as Brandon paints, wood products and marble. During its century of rapid growth, Brandon Village evolved a un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
W284AB
WTHK (100.7 FM; "The Peak") is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format. It is licensed to Wilmington, Vermont. The station is currently owned by Jeffrey Shapiro's Great Eastern Radio, and currently simulcasts sister station WKKN (101.9 FM). History WTHK began its radio life as WVAY. The station was part of the wave of upscale smooth jazz formatted stations that were very trendy in the mid to late 1980s. The station was owned and operated by Rothschild Broadcasting. Founding program director Roger Coryell left the station in 1990 for a position as morning host on San Francisco smooth jazz outlet KKSF. WVAY's slogan evolved from "Smooth Sounds - 100.7 WVAY" to "100.7 WVAY, Different by Design" as the station evolved into more of a triple-A formatted radio station. At one time WVAY also had additional translators at 99.7 in Marlboro, Vermont, which was sold to Harvest Broadcasting, a religious broadcaster, and had an arrangement to operate a translator at 100.1 whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plattsburgh (city), New York
Plattsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, New York, United States, situated on the north-western shore of Lake Champlain. The population was 19,841 at the 2020 census. The population of the surrounding (and separately incorporated) Town of Plattsburgh was 11,886 as of the 2020 census, making the combined population of Plattsburgh to be 31,727. Plattsburgh lies just to the northeast of Adirondack Park, immediately outside of the park boundaries. It is the second largest community in the North Country region (after Watertown), and serves as the main commercial hub for the sparsely populated northern Adirondack Mountains. The land around Plattsburgh was previously inhabited by the Iroquois, Western Abenaki, Mohican, and Mohawk people. Samuel de Champlain was the first ever recorded European that sailed into Champlain Valley and later claimed the region as a part of New France in 1609. Plattsburgh was the site of the Amphibious warfare, amphibious Batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKOL
WKOL (105.1 FM; "Kool 105") is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. The station, which signed on in 1994 as WEXP-FM, is licensed to Plattsburgh, New York, United States, and serves the Burlington / Plattsburgh area. WKOL is owned by Hall Communications, Inc. History The station was assigned the call letters WAEE on July 23, 1993; on March 18, 1994, the station changed its call sign to WEXP-FM. The station signed on August 22, 1994, with an album-oriented rock and adult album alternative format under the ownership of UBC Inc. and branded as "Experience 105.1". After UBC ran into financial problems, Hall Communications, owner of WOKO and WJOY in Burlington, agreed to purchase WEXP-FM in February 1995 and assumed control on June 13, 1995; on that date, the station was assigned its present WKOL call sign. "Experience 105.1" programming ended on June 15, 1995; on June 22, WKOL returned to the air as "Kool 105" with an oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randolph, Vermont
Randolph is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,774 at the 2020 census, making Randolph the largest town in Orange County. The town is a commercial center for many of the smaller, rural farming communities that surround it. When the area was originally settled there were three villages— Randolph Center, East Randolph and West Randolph—the current locations of the three fire departments. What is now Randolph, the primary village of the town, had previously been the village of West Randolph. History Vermont granted the town on November 2, 1780, when the New Hampshire settlers could not locate the original grantees, whose patents were issued by New York. It was chartered on June 29, 1781, to Aaron Storrs and 70 others, and was originally named "Middlesex".Randolph, Vermont, Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVXR
WVXR (102.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Randolph, Vermont. The station is owned by Vermont Public. It is a classical music station, serving as the central Vermont outlet for Vermont Public Classical. History The station signed on October 25, 1982 as WCVR-FM. Originally owned by Stokes Communications and broadcasting at 102.3, the station carried a country music format, at times simulcast on sister AM station WCVR/WWWT. It moved to 102.1 in the early 1990s. Stokes sold WCVR-FM and WWWT to Excalibur Media in 1999; Excalibur, in turn, was sold to Clear Channel Communications the following year. Clear Channel dropped the country format on January 23, 2003, replacing it with a simulcast of classic rock station WCPV from the Champlain Valley The Champlain Valley is a region of the United States around Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York extending north slightly into Quebec, Canada. It is part of the St. Lawrence River drainage basin, drained northward by the Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlboro, Vermont
Marlboro is a New England town, town in Windham County, Vermont, Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,722 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The town is home to the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum and Potash Hill, the campus that was formerly Marlboro College. Potash Hill hosts the Marlboro Music School and Festival each summer, as well as other arts and education programs throughout the year. History Named "New Marlborough" for the Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, Duke of Marlborough until 1800,"Brief History of Marlboro" on the Marlboro Historical Society website the town was a New Hampshire grants, New Hampshire grant chartered on April 29, 1751, to Timothy Dwight and 64 others from Northampton, Massachusetts, Northampton, Massachusetts and vicinity. The French and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRSY
WRSY (101.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Marlboro, Vermont. The station is owned by Saga Communications, and operates as part of its Monadnock Broadcasting Group. WRSY airs an adult album alternative radio format, via a simulcast of 93.9 WRSI in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. WRSY is heard in Southeastern Vermont and Southwestern New Hampshire. History When it was being built, the station first took its call sign WAIG on May 20, 1994, and changed to WSSH on March 1, 1996. It officially launched in July 1996, airing a soft adult contemporary format, simulcast with 95.3 WZSH in Hartford, Vermont (now WZLF WZLF (107.1 FM broadcasting, FM, "95.3 and 107.1 The Wolf") is a radio station licensed to serve Bellows Falls, Vermont, transmitting from Alstead, New Hampshire. The station is owned by Binnie Media. It airs a country music format, simulcast wi ...). Vox purchased the stations from Dynacom in 1999. Vox switched WSSH to the WRSI simulcast on February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glens Falls, New York
Glens Falls is a City (New York), city in Warren County, New York, Warren County, New York, United States and is the central city of the Glens Falls, New York metropolitan area, Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 14,830 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The name was given by Colonel Johannes Glen, the falls referring to a large waterfall in the Hudson River at the southern end of the city. Glens Falls is a city in the southeastern corner of Warren County, surrounded by the Town (New York), town of Queensbury, New York, Queensbury to the north, east, and west, and by the Hudson River and Saratoga County, New York, Saratoga County to the south. Glens Falls is known as "Hometown U.S.A.", a title ''Look (American magazine), Look'' magazine gave it in 1944. The city has also referred to itself as the "Empire City." History The area is originally called Chepontuc ("difficult place to get around") in the Iroquoian languages of the area's Indig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
