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WNRW
WNRW (98.9 FM) - branded as 98.9 Kiss FM - is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station licensed to Prospect, Kentucky, and serving the Louisville metropolitan area. It is owned by iHeartMedia, with studios on South 4th Street in the Louisville neighborhood of Watterson Park. On weekdays, WNRW carries two nationally syndicated programs: ''The Jubal Show'' from co-owned KBKS-FM Seattle in morning drive time and ''On Air with Ryan Seacrest'' in middays. WNRW is a Class C2 station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 43,000 watts. The transmitter tower is in east Louisville, off Tucker Station Road near Interstate 265. History WSLM-FM The station was originally based in Salem, Indiana, about northwest of Louisville. It signed on the air in . The original call sign was WSLM-FM, the sister station to WSLM 1220 AM. At first the two stations simulcast, with WSLM-FM developing some of its own programming by the late 1970s. WSLM-FM was powered at only 3,000 watts. It ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKJK
WKJK (1080 AM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a talk radio format in Louisville, Kentucky. It is owned by iHeartMedia and serves North-Central Kentucky and South-Central Indiana. It features programming from iHeart subsidiary Premiere Networks as well as Compass Media Networks. The station's studios are in the Louisville neighborhood of Watterson Park. By day, WKJK is powered at 10,000 watts. Because 1080 AM is a clear-channel frequency, WKJK must reduce power at night to 1,000 watts to protect the Class A stations on 1080 kHz, KRLD Dallas and WTIC Hartford, Connecticut. It uses a directional antenna off East Daisy Lane in New Albany, Indiana. History Top 40 The station signed on the air in November 1948. Its original call sign was WKLO. The studios were in the Henry Clay Hotel. WKLO was one of Louisville's favorite Top 40 stations in the 1960s and 70s. It was owned by Dayton-based Great Trails Broadcasting, which also owned several other Top 40 outlets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTFX-FM
WTFX-FM (93.1 MHz, "Real 93.1") is a commercial mainstream urban radio station licensed to Clarksville, Indiana, serving the Louisville metropolitan area. Owned by iHeartMedia, WTFX has studios located in Louisville, while the station transmitter resides in New Albany, Indiana. Besides a standard analog transmission, WTFX-FM broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online via iHeartRadio. History 93.1 FM signed on in October 1998, first with a loop of songs from " Schoolhouse Rock", and then, on October 12, officially signed on with a Modern AC format as "She 93.1" with the WQSH call letters. In September 1999, "She" moved to 98.9 FM, with 93.1 flipping to country as "The Bull", WYBL. In May 2003, WYBL flipped to smooth jazz as WJZL. In September 2005, 93.1 FM became the home of active rock-formatted WTFX, as their former frequency (100.5 FM) flipped to adult hits as "Louie FM." WTFX served as the local affiliate for ''Rover's Morning Glory'', ''Skratch ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAMZ
WAMZ (97.5 FM) is a commercial radio station in Louisville, Kentucky. It airs a country music format and is owned by iHeartMedia The studios are in the central part of Watterson Park. WAMZ carries two nationally syndicated radio programs: ''The Bobby Bones Show'' in morning drive time and '' After Midnite with Granger Smith'' overnights. WAMZ is a Class C station with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. (Most Louisville FM stations are Class B or A, with only a fraction of that power.) The transmitter site is on Brooks Hill Road in Brooks, Kentucky. WAMZ has always been a sister station to Louisville's most powerful AM station, WHAS 840 AM. History WCJT and WHAS-FM Experimental W9XEK began on July 22, 1944, at 45.5 MHz, on the original FM band. A second FM station was established on the newer FM band on April 20, 1947, when WCJT started at 99.7 FM, co-owned with WHAS. The WCJT call sign represented the initials of ''The Courier-Journal'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHAS (AM)
WHAS (840 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Louisville, Kentucky, airing a news/talk radio format. It is owned by iHeartMedia, with studios in Fourth Street Live!, an entertainment complex in downtown Louisville. First licensed in July 1922, it is the oldest radio station in Kentucky. WHAS is a Class A clear-channel station, powered at 50,000 watts non-directional, the maximum for commercial AM stations. Its daytime signal can be heard in most of central Kentucky, as well as parts of Indiana and Ohio. Its nighttime signal can be heard in most of the Eastern and Central United States, and much of Canada. Programming News and talk iHeartMedia owns two talk stations in Louisville. WKJK 1080 AM carries syndicated shows while WHAS features mostly local programming and news. Weekdays begin with the ''Kentuckiana Morning News'' anchored by Tony Cruise. ''Tony & Dwight'' (Tony Vanetti and Dwight Witten) are heard in late mornings and '' The Terry Meiners Show'' airs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSDF
WSDF (100.5 FM broadcasting, FM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult hits format under the branding "100.5 FM". Licensed to Louisville, Kentucky, United States, the station serves the Louisville area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and features programming from iHeart subsidiary Premiere Networks. The station is also broadcast on HD radio. The station's studios are located in the Louisville enclave of Watterson Park, Kentucky, Watterson Park and the transmitter site is in east Louisville, southwest of the Interstate 64, I-64/Interstate 265, I-265 interchange. History The station was assigned call letters WTFX on June 28, 1991. On April 19, 2002, the station changed its call sign to WTFX-FM, on August 19, 2005, to WLUE, and an application was filed as of September 3, 2009, to change the call sign to WLGX. On February 4, 2020, the call sign was changed to WSDF. This station initially signed on with a classic rock format on June 11, 1993, which shifted more towards mains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WQMF
WQMF (95.7 FM) is a mainstream rock radio station in Louisville, Kentucky. The station is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to the nearby city of Jeffersonville, Indiana, and broadcasts with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 28.5 kW. The station's studios are in the Louisville enclave of Watterson Park and its transmitter site is near Elizabeth, Indiana, west of the Ohio River. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. Station history 95.7 signed on as WQHI in April 1974 as ''HI 95'', an automated Top 40 station using TM's "Stereo Rock" format. The first song played when HI 95 signed on was "Oh My My" by Ringo Starr. In January 1981, WQHI was sold to the Wood family owners of Secret Communications and the people behind WEBN, so the station was changed to a AOR format as ''96 FM WQMF''. Within a short period of time, QMF was successful in toppling WLRS as the top Album Rock station in the market under Program Director Tom Owens. Many current well-k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKRD (AM)
WKRD (790 Hertz, kHz) is a sports radio, sports formatted AM radio, AM radio station in the Louisville, Kentucky, metropolitan area. It is owned by iHeartMedia, and is known as Sports Talk 790AM. The station is best known for being a Top 40 powerhouse in the 1960s and 1970s as WAKY. The station's studios are located in the Louisville enclave of Watterson Park, Kentucky, Watterson Park and the transmitter site is in east Louisville southwest of the Interstate 64, I-64/Interstate 265, I-265 interchange. History 790 AM in Louisville was originally WGRC, and featured a variety of programming, typical of radio in the pre-rock era. In 1958, broadcaster Gordon McLendon, a Top 40 radio pioneer best known for his legendary KLIF (AM), KLIF in Dallas, Texas, purchased WGRC. After stunting with the novelty record "The Purple People Eater", WGRC became WAKY on July 7, 1958, and immediately shot to the top of the Louisville ratings as the market's first Top 40 music station. WAKY (known affec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IHeartMedia
iHeartMedia, Inc., or CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc., formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc., a company founded by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs in 1972, and later taken private by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners in a leveraged buyout in 2008. As a result of the 2008 buyout, Clear Channel Communications, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of CC Media Holdings, Inc. On September 16, 2014, CC Media Holdings, Inc. was rebranded iHeartMedia, Inc., and Clear Channel Communications, Inc., became iHeartCommunications, Inc. Overview iHeartMedia, Inc. specializes in radio broadcasting, podcasting, Digital media, digital and live events through Division (business), division iHeartMedia (sans "Inc." suffix; formerly Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, Clear Channel Radio, et al.) and subsidiary iHeartMedia and Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Clear Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Syndication
Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast their content to other television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air it on. It is common in the United States where broadcast programming is scheduled by television networks with local independent Network affiliate, affiliates. Syndication is less widespread in the rest of the world, as most countries have centralized networks or television stations without local affiliates. Shows can be syndicated internationally, although this is less common. Three common types of syndication are: ''first-run'' syndication, which is programming that is broadcast for the first time as a syndicated show and is made specifically for the purpose of selling it into syndication; ''Off-network'' syndication (colloquially called a "rerun"), which is the licensing of a program whose first airing was on stations inside the Television broadcaster, television network that prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBKS-FM
KBKS-FM (106.1 MHz) – branded as ''Hits 106.1'' – is a commercial radio station licensed to Tacoma, Washington, and serving the Seattle metropolitan area. Owned by iHeartMedia, it broadcasts a top 40 (CHR) format. The studios and offices are located on Elliott Avenue West in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle. The transmitter is on Tiger Mountain, in Issaquah. KBKS is the flagship station of the syndicated morning show ''The Jubal Show.'' History Beautiful music (1959–1972) The station signed on the air in May 1959 as KLAY-FM. It was originally on 106.3 MHz, with an effective radiated power of 830 watts. KLAY-FM was owned by Clay Huntington and aired a beautiful music format, playing 15-minute music sweeps of mostly instrumental cover versions of pop songs, Broadway and Hollywood showtunes. KLAY-FM was the first FM station in the Pacific Northwest broadcasting in stereo. In 1961, the station moved to 106.1 MHz, its current frequency, and increased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prospect, Kentucky
Prospect is a list of Kentucky cities, home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, Jefferson and Oldham County, Kentucky, Oldham counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The Jefferson County portion is a part of the Louisville Metro government. The population was 4,592 as of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, down from 4,698 at the time of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is one of the wealthiest communities in Kentucky. History The area was first known as "Sand Hill" when it was settled by farmers in the late 18th century. The present community grew up around the "Prospect" railroad station erected by the Louisville, Harrods Creek and Westport Railway . The name referred either to the view from the top of the hill or the expected completion of the line (which owing to the Long Depression never did reach Westport, Kentucky, Westport and collapsed into bankruptcy in 1879). When the post office was established in 1886, the local postmaster named it " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the county seat of King County, the most populous county in Washington. The Seattle metropolitan area's population is 4.02 million, making it the 15th-most populous in the United States. Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 made it one of the country's fastest-growing large cities. Seattle is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and Lake Washington. It is the northernmost major city in the United States, located about south of the Canadian border. A gateway for trade with East Asia, the Port of Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling . The Seattle area has been inhabited by Native Americans (such as the Duwamish, who had at least 17 villages a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
