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WOLF-FM
WOLF-FM (92.1 MHz) is a radio station serving the community of Baldwinsville, New York in the Syracuse, New York metropolitan area. The station is owned by Craig Fox, through licensee FoxFur Communications, LLC, and is currently running a country music format branded as 92.1 The Wolf. History In 1967, the station began operations as a full-time country outlet as WSEN-FM. It was the sister station to WSEN 1050, one of the first country stations in the northeastern United States. Century Radio sold the stations in 1974. On September 7, 1975, WSEN-FM began operating on a 24-hour basis continuing with a country music format hosted by Carl Knight from 1-6 a.m. The new 24 hour full-time programming lineup included: Bob Paris 6-10 a.m.; Daniel J. Dunn 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.; "Uncle" Rob 2-6 p.m.; Les Howard 6-10 p.m.; Al Jenner 10 p.m. - 1 a.m. In 1986, the station format flipped to oldies. Both AM and FM were owned by Buckley Broadcasting during much of the 2000s, until being sold in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMVN (FM)
WMVN (100.3 MHz, "96.5/100.3 The Beat") is a rhythmic top 40 FM radio station serving the Syracuse and a part of the Utica-Rome, New York market. WMVN is licensed to Sylvan Beach, New York. A separate translator, W243AB, serves the city of Syracuse, New York on the 96.5 frequency (hence the "96.5/100.3 The Beat" branding). The station is located at 401 West Kirkpatrick St, in Syracuse, NY. History As Radio Disney WMVN signed on in 1999 as WBGJ, as a simulcast of the Radio Disney affiliated sister stations WOLF and WWLF. As "Movin'" In October 2006, the station changed its call sign to WWLF-FM. On December 6, 2006, the station flipped its format to Rhythmic Adult Contemporary, becoming the tenth station to adopt the MOViN' format, along with sister station WOLF-FM (96.7). The AM stations continued to carry Radio Disney programming through 2014. In August 2009, WWLF-FM and WOLF-FM changed their call signs to WMVU (100.3) and WMVN (96.7). This allowed sister station FM 105.1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSEN (FM)
WSEN (103.9 MHz) is an FM radio station licensed to Mexico, New York, United States. The station serves the Syracuse area and is currently owned by Renard Communications Corporation, wholly owned by Craig Fox. History The station went on the air as WUPN on April 14, 1995, before giving those calls to the current WPNY-LD, a television station (as its call sign indicated, a UPN affiliate) in Utica, in May 1996. Then, on May 6, 1996, the station changed its call sign to WNDR (picking up the calls previously heard on the current WSKO); it became WVOQ in late 1998 (reflecting its simulcast of the original WVOA on 105.1 FM), WVOA on April 25, 2001 (picking up the call sign and programming from 105.1 after its sale to Clear Channel Communications), WVOU on May 19, 2009 (during a period in which the WVOA-FM call letters were moved back to 105.1 after Craig Fox reacquired that station), and then back to WVOA-FM on September 8, 2009 (after 105.1 became WOLF-FM). The -FM suffix wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBVG
WBVG (1050 kHz) was an AM radio station licensed to Baldwinsville, New York serving the Syracuse metropolitan area. WBVG was last owned by Leatherstocking Media Group and aired a 1950s - 1960s oldies radio format. The transmitter was on Hencle Boulevard (Route 631) in Baldwinsville. WBVG was powered at 2,500 watts by day. But because AM 1050 is a clear channel frequency, WBVG reduced power at night to only 19 watts to avoid interference. Outside of Baldwinsville, the 1050 frequency in Central New York at night is either occupied by WEPN New York City or CHUM Toronto, both 50,000 watt stations. They sometimes were heard over WBVG at night, even a mile or two from its transmitter. History On February 25, 1959, the station first signed on as WSEN and was licensed by Century Radio Corp. Owners Robert Stockdale, Donald Menapace, and James Lowery started WSEN as a middle of the road and adult standards station, but changed to country music in 1962 and called it "The first country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCIS-FM
WCIS-FM (105.1 MHz) is a Contemporary Christian radio station serving the Central New York Region. The station broadcasts with an ERP of 33 kW and is licensed to DeRuyter, New York; it is currently owned and operated by the Family Life Network, a regional Christian broadcaster active in upstate New York and Northern Pennsylvania. History WVCN WCIS-FM began operating June 6, 1948 at 105.1 MHz as WVCN, the Central New York outlet of the farm-oriented Rural Radio Network, a six-station group based in Ithaca. This pioneer FM network was the first to employ a direct off-air relay system instead of wire lines, with WVCN serving as the link between Ithaca flagship station WVFC and sister stations WVBN, Turin (which would cease operation in 1951) and WVCV, Cherry Valley. Its original General Electric 250 watt transmitter and four-section RCA FM Pylon antenna provided an ERP of 1.3 kW, horizontally-polarized. A 1 kW amplifier was added in April, 1951, increasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckley Broadcasting
Buckley Broadcasting (or Buckley Radio) was an American broadcasting company that previously held radio stations in the states of New York, Rhode Island, California and Connecticut. History Buckley Broadcasting Radio was founded in 1954 as Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. Richard D. Buckley Sr and John Jaeger were the original founding partners. It began as an independently owned radio broadcasting company. WNEW in New York City was the station's first acquisition, but the company resold that station to Metromedia in 1955. In 1957, the station bought its first long-term asset, WHIM in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1959, it bought WDRC in Hartford, Connecticut, and soon after launched its flagship station WDRC-FM. Following the death of his father in 1972, Richard D. Buckley Jr. became the president and chairman of the company, a position he held until his death in 2011. Buckley acquired WOR in New York City in 1989. Buckley began divesting its stations shortly before Buckley Jr.' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WZUN-FM
WZUN-FM (102.1 MHz "Sunny 102") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Phoenix, New York, and serving the Syracuse metropolitan area. The station is owned by Edward Levine's Galaxy Communications through licensee Galaxy Syracuse Licensee LLC. It airs a classic hits radio format. The studios and offices are on Walton Street in Syracuse. The transmitter is off Van Buren Road in Van Buren. Programming is also heard on AM 1070 WZUN in Sandy Creek-Pulaski and a 250-watt translator in Fulton, W291BU at 106.1 MHz. History The station first went on the air as WRDS in 1995. The station used the syndicated urban adult contemporary service known as " The Touch" with the syndicated Tom Joyner Show heard in the morning. On December 20, 2000, the station changed its call sign to WZUN. It aired a soft adult contemporary format, calling itself "Sunny 102." On September 12, 2009, WZUN switched from Soft AC to Classic Hits. Effective October 1, 2013, Galaxy Communications sold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOLF (AM)
WOLF (1490 AM broadcasting, AM) is a Sports radio, sports formatted Broadcasting, broadcast radio station licensed to Syracuse, New York, serving the Syracuse metropolitan area. The station is 100% owned by Craig Fox (radio host), Craig Fox, who also owns several other radio and low-power TV stations in the New York (state), state of New York. The WOLF broadcast license is held by WOLF Radio, Inc. The station is also simulcast on FM Broadcast relay station, translator W223CP at 92.5 FM and WOSW (1300 AM broadcasting, AM) and W253BZ at 98.5 FM, Fulton, NY. History WOLF first signed on in Syracuse shortly after the start of World War II. Like all local-channel AMs, it was initially limited to only 250 watts of power. During the early 1960s it was permitted to raise daytime power to 1,000 watts, and increased night power to 1,000 watts a decade later along with nearly all other local-channel (Class C) AM stations in the United States. It long programmed a personality popular music for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSIV
WSIV (1540 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. Licensed to East Syracuse, New York, United States, the station serves the Syracuse area. The station is owned by Cram Communications LLC, a company majority-owned by Craig Fox. WSIV also transmits programming via 106.3 FM translator W292EY. History The Wide Water Broadcasting Company received a construction permit to build a new radio station on 1540 kHz in East Syracuse on May 12, 1965. The company, consisting of local residents, built studios in the former Canada Dry Building on Erie Boulevard, Broadcasts began on December 6, 1965, with a full-service format. The station would adopt a full-time country music format in 1967. Bruce A. Houston bought WPAW in 1969, but his future in Syracuse broadcasting would be frustrated when his bid to buy WONO-FM, a classical music station, was successfully blocked by a citizen's group. In 1973, he tried selling the station to Mars Hill Broadcasting Co., owner o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFBL
WFBL (1390 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Syracuse, New York and owned by Wolf Radio, Inc. It serves Syracuse and its suburbs, with studios and offices located on Smokey Hollow Road in Baldwinsville. Since September 2017 the station has simulcast Craig Fox's "Dinosaur Radio" classic hits format; programming originates on WSEN. History The earliest Syracuse broadcasting stations, all of which were short-lived, were: WBAB (Andrew J. Potter, April 19, 1922—March 22, 1923); WDAI (Hughes Electrical Corporation, May 16, 1922—November 19, 1923); WFAB (Carl Frank Woese, June 6, 1922—October 9, 1924) and WLAH, first licensed in the summer of 1922 to Samuel Woodworth, and deleted in the fall of 1924. A contemporary write-up of WFBL's debut referred to both WFAB and WLAH as low-powered "private stations", which "have now been dismantled", and contrasted them to WFBL, which it called "Syracuse's first professional station"."Syracuse Will Dine to Onondaga Orchestra Tune ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Format
A radio format or programming format (not to be confused with broadcast programming) describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. The radio format emerged mainly in the United States in the 1950s, at a time when radio was compelled to develop new and exclusive ways to programming by competition with television. The formula has since spread as a reference for commercial radio programming worldwide. A radio format aims to reach a more or less specific audience according to a certain type of programming, which can be thematic or general, more informative or more musical, among other possibilities. Radio formats are often used as a marketing tool and are subject to frequent changes. Except for talk radio or sports radio formats, most programming formats are based on commercial music. However the term also includes the news, bulletins, DJ talk, jingles, commercials, competitions, traffic news, sports, weather and community announcements between the tracks. Backgroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel Drift
Channel drift or network decay is the gradual shift of a television network away from its original programming, to either target a newer and more profitable audience, or to broaden its viewership by including less niche programming. Often, this results in a shift from informative or artistic quality programming aimed at cultured and educated viewers toward sensational, ratings-based or reality-formatted programming designed solely for the entertainment of a mass audience. Channel drift frequently features the incorporation of infotainment, reality television and heavy advertising into the channel's lineup. Overview United States Cable Networks primarily focused on a particular topic, such as History Channel, tend to add shows that the channel's management feel that a larger audience wants to see, thus leading to additional profits. By producing irrelevant or low-quality programming they can increase their ratings to a target audience, increase viewership and increase revenues. ... [...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 (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) 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. After 2000, 1970s music was increasingly included. "Classic hits" has been seen as a successor to the oldies format on the radio, with music from the 1980s serving as the core format. Description This broad 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, Litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |