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WMVA (AM)
WMVA was an oldies formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Martinsville, Virginia, serving Martinsville and Henry County, Virginia. WMVA was last owned and operated by Martinsville Media, Inc. History In October 2005, William D. Wyatt, Jr. purchased WMVA, which had an adult contemporary and sports radio Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sport, sporting events. A widespread programming genre that has a narrow audience appeal, sports radio is characterized by an often-low comed ... format, from Billy D. Wilson and Linda R. Wilson. whom purchased it from founder Hans Peter Blume The station went silent on January 28, 2019, and it never returned to the air.Response to Operational Status Inquiry & Surrender of ...
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Martinsville, Virginia
Martinsville is an Political subdivisions of Virginia#Independent cities, independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 13,485. A community of both Southside (Virginia), Southside and Southwest Virginia, it is the county seat of Henry County, Virginia, Henry County, although the two are separate jurisdictions. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Martinsville with Henry County for statistical purposes. Martinsville is the principal city of the Martinsville micropolitan area, Martinsville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the communities and towns of Axton, Virginia, Axton, Bassett, Virginia, Bassett, Chatmoss, Virginia, Chatmoss, Collinsville, Virginia, Collinsville, Fieldale, Virginia, Fieldale, Horsepasture, Virginia, Horsepasture, Laurel Park, Virginia, Laurel Park, Oak Level, Virginia, Oak Level, Sandy Level, Virginia, Sandy Lev ...
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Radio Station
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio station, while in '' satellite radio'' the radio waves are broadcast by a satellite in Earth orbit. To receive the content the listener must have a broadcast radio receiver (''radio''). Stations are often affiliated with a radio network that provides content in a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast, or both. The encoding of a radio broadcast depends on whether it uses an analog or digital signal. Analog radio broadcasts use one of two types of radio wave modulation: amplitude modulation for AM radio, or frequency modulation for FM radio. Newer, digital radio stations transmit in several different digital audio standards, such as DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting), HD radio, or DRM ( Digital Ra ...
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Radio Stations Disestablished In 2019
Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to an antenna which radiates the waves. They can be received by other antennas connected to a radio receiver; this is the fundamental principle of radio communication. In addition to communication, radio is used for radar, radio navigation, remote control, remote sensing, and other applications. In radio communication, used in radio and television broadcasting, cell phones, two-way radios, wireless networking, and satellite communication, among numerous other uses, radio waves are used to carry information across space from a transmitter to a receiver, by modulating the radio signal (impressing an information signal on the radio wave by varying some aspect of the wave) in the transmitter. In radar, used to locate and track objects like air ...
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Radio Stations In Virginia
The following is a list of Federal Communications Commission, FCC-licensed radio stations in the United States, U.S. Virginia, state of Virginia which can be sorted by their call signs, frequency, frequencies, city of license, cities of license, licensees, and radio format, programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WBBL (Virginia), WBBL * WBDB-LP * WBDY (AM), WBDY * WBVA (AM), WBVA * WCLM-LP * WDIC (AM), WDIC * WDUF * WFNR * WHKT * WJRX-LP * WJYI (AM), WJYI * WKEY (AM), WKEY * WLEE (1480 AM), WLEE * WMVA (AM), WMVA * WODI * WORJ-LP * WOWZ (AM), WOWZ * WPEX * WPUV * WPVC-LP * WQLU * WQMR-LP * WRAP (Norfolk), WRAP * WRRW-LP * WSVG (AM), WSVG * WVAB * WXCF (AM), WXCF * WXMY * WXZR-LP See also * Virginia#Media, Virginia media ** List of newspapers in Virginia ** List of television stations in Virginia ** Media of List of cities in Virginia, cities in Virginia: Chesapeake, Virginia#Media, Chesapeake, Hampton, Virginia#Media, Hampton, Newport News, Virginia#Media, Ne ...
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Sports Radio
Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sport, sporting events. A widespread programming genre that has a narrow audience appeal, sports radio is characterized by an often-low comedy, boisterous on-air style and extensive debate and analysis by both :wikt:host, hosts and caller (telecommunications), callers. Many sports talk stations also carry play-by-play (live commentary) of local sports teams as part of their regular programming. History In 1955, WHN New York launched the first regular sports talk program featuring a broadcaster/journalist roundtable that aired before and after Brooklyn Dodgers games. By the early 1960s, sports talk content, ranging from individual commentary to roundtable discussions, began appearing in major US markets, initially tied to play-by-play broadcasts but gradually developing unique styles and characters. Art Rust Jr. launched New York’s first interactive call-in show (WMCA) in 19 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the data distribution, distribution of sound, audio audiovisual content to dispersed audiences via a electronic medium (communication), mass communications medium, typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a :wikt:one-to-many, one-to-many model. Broadcasting began with AM radio, which came into popular use around 1920 with the spread of vacuum tube radio transmitters and radio receiver, receivers. Before this, most implementations of electronic communication (early radio, telephone, and telegraph) were wikt:one-to-one, one-to-one, with the message intended for a single recipient. The term ''broadcasting'' evolved from its use as the agricultural method of sowing seeds in a field by casting them broadly about. It was later adopted for describing the widespread distribution of information by printed materials or by telegraph. Examples applying it to "one-to-many" radio transmissions of an individual station to multiple listeners appeared as ...
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Henry County, Virginia
Henry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 50,948. The county seat is usually identified as Martinsville; however, the administration building (where county offices are located and where the board of supervisors holds meetings), county courthouse, and Henry County Sheriff's Office are located on Kings Mountain Road (SR 174) in Collinsville.The Henry County Adult Detention Center is located on DuPont Road in Henry County, just south of Martinsville. Henry County is part of the Martinsville Micropolitan Statistical Area. History The county was established in 1777 when it was carved from Pittsylvania County. The new county was initially named Patrick Henry County in honor of Patrick Henry, who was then serving as the first Governor of Virginia, and some of whose relatives had settled in the area. Governor Henry also had a plantation called " Leatherwood plantation" (for Leatherwood Creek) in the newly na ...
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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 ...
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WYAT-LD
WYAT-LD (channel 40) is a low-power independent television station in Martinsville, Virginia, United States. It is owned by Martinsville Media alongside full service radio station WHEE WHEE is a Full Service formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Martinsville, Virginia, serving Martinsville and Henry County, Virginia Henry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the pop ... (1370 AM). The two stations share studios on Franklin Street in downtown Martinsville. Subchannel References External links * 1999 establishments in Virginia Television channels and stations established in 1999 YAT-LD Independent television stations in the United States Martinsville, Virginia {{Virginia-tv-station-stub ...
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