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WPBG
WPBG (93.3 FM) is a radio station with a classic hits format, and is licensed for Peoria, Illinois. The station was formerly known as 93.3 WMBD-FM, as well as KZ-93 (WKZW) through 1994, "Mix 93.3" prior to its conversion to oldies/classic hits. The station is owned by Midwest Communications, Inc. HD Radio WPBG broadcasts in the HD Radio digital (hybrid) format: *HD1 is a digital simulcast of the (traditional) analog format of classic hits. *HD2 is an oldies format known as 102.7 Super Hits, simulcast on FM translator W274BM. *HD3 is a format known as Freedom 95.9, simulcast on WIRL and FM translator W240DM. *HD4 is a simulcast of longtime sister station 1470 WMBD, also simulcast on FM translator W262BY. History WMBD-FM was established in April 1947 with 17,000 watts on 92.5 MHz as a sister station to 1470 WMBD (AM), the only other station in Peoria; Illinois AM stations on pages 94 & 98; Illinois FM stations on page 294. Page 326 shows 4 additional FM cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIRL
WIRL (1290 AM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a conservative talk format. Licensed to Peoria, Illinois, it is owned by Midwest Communications, Inc. Studios and offices are on Fulton Street in Peoria. WIRL is powered at 5,000 watts. To protect other stations on 1290 AM from interference, it uses a directional antenna with a two-tower array by day and four towers at night. The transmitter is on Zion Oaks Road in Marquette Heights, Illinois. Programming is also heard on FM translator W240DM at 95.9 MHz and on an HD Radio subchannel on sister station 93.3 WPBG-HD3. Programming Most of WIRL's programming is nationally syndicated talk shows. Weekdays begin with ''This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal''. That's followed by ''The Glenn Beck Radio Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Mark Levin Show, The Joe Pags Show'' and ''Red Eye Radio''. Weekends feature shows on money, health and technology. Weekend s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMBD (AM)
WMBD (1470 hertz, kHz) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station, the oldest in Peoria, Illinois. It broadcasts a talk radio, news/talk radio format, format and is owned by Duke Wright with the license held by Midwest Communications, Inc. The radio studio, studios and offices are on Fulton Street in Peoria. The WMBD transmitter, transmitter site is located on County Road 2100 East in Groveland Township, Tazewell County, Illinois, Groveland Township, Illinois. The station is powered at 5,000 watts, with a directional antenna, directional signal. By day, a two-tower array is used, switching to a four towers at night to avoid causing interference with other stations. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator W262BY at 100.3 Hertz, MHz. WMBD is not licensed to broadcast in HD Radio, HD; however, it is carried on an FM sister station's HD digital subchannel, subchannel, 93.3 WPBG-HD4. Programming WMBD has local shows in morning and afternoon drive time. Weekdays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKZF
WKZF (102.3 FM is a commercial radio station licensed to Morton, Illinois, and serving the Peoria metropolitan area. It broadcasts a rhythmic AC radio format and is owned by Midwest Communications, Inc. The radio studios and offices on the 12th floor of The Civic Center Plaza Building in Downtown Peoria. History The station came on the air in 1976 as WTAZ, from a studio and transmitter northeast of Morton on Washington Road in Tazewell County (hence WTAZ). Through most of the 1980s and 1990s, WTAZ had a talk format featuring personalities such as G. Gordon Liddy, Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura, and Art Bell. On June 14, 1999, those shows and call letters were moved to 1350 AM, and 102.3 became WFXF-FM, broadcasting Howard Stern in the morning, and classic rock. In October 2000, Stern was dropped, and WFXF-FM began playing classic hits. In late 2005, WDQX was sold, along with WXCL, to JMP, a subsidiary of Triad Broadcasting. WDQX kept a classic rock format, but wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXCL
WXCL (104.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Pekin, Illinois and serving the Peoria metropolitan area. It broadcasts a country radio format and is owned by Midwest Communications, Inc. WXCL is one of two outlets in Peoria playing Country music, along with 97.3 WFYR. History 104.9 signed on the air in 1973 as WZRO with an oldies format. This format was not successful and the station later adopted an automated country music format from Drake-Chenault called "Great American Country." During the summer of 1980, for several days WZRO went off the air for repairs and a format switch. When it returned it became WKQA with a format of top 40. At this time it was owned by a company called Manship Corp. out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, co-owned with sister station WFMF. Then, during March 1982 it changed its moniker to Q-104 WKQA, and competed directly against AM station WIRL with an adult contemporary format. It used the monikers "Q-104" and WKQA interchangeably until e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMBD-TV
WMBD-TV (channel 31) is a television station in Peoria, Illinois, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to Bloomington-licensed Fox affiliate WYZZ-TV (channel 43) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Cunningham Broadcasting. The two stations share studios on North University Street in Peoria, with a secondary studio and news bureau on East Lincoln Street in Bloomington. WMBD-TV's transmitter is located on Pinecrest Drive in East Peoria, a section of Groveland Township, Tazewell County. History The station signed on January 1, 1958, as the third television outlet in the Peoria market after WEEK-TV (channel 25) and WTVH (channel 19, now WHOI). Airing an analog signal on UHF channel 31, it was originally owned by John Fetzer along with WMBD radio (1470 AM and 93.3 FM, now WPBG). All three stations took their calls from a local legend that President Theodore Roosevelt once described Grandview Drive (o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midwest Communications, Inc
Midwest Communications, Inc. is a Wausau, Wisconsin–based radio broadcasting company. It owns 82 radio stations located primarily within the Midwest United States, in Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Illinois and Wisconsin. The company is a family-owned business and is headed by the Wright family. History 1950s-1960s Midwest Communications began in Wausau, Wisconsin, with WRIG, Inc. and the acquisition by the Duey E. Wright family of a 1400 kHz, 250 watt AM facility from the Wisconsin Valley Television Corporation. The call letters WRIG (for Wright) were assigned and on August 1, 1958, top forty-formatted WRIG signed on the air. Power was increased to 1,000 watts in 1961 and WRIG-FM (now WDEZ) signed on in 1964. 1970s Midwest started station WROE in Appleton/Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1971. Founder Duey E. Wright Sr. died at 75 on November 24, 1971, with Duey E. Wright Jr. taking over the company his father founded. In 1975 Midwest pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSWT
WSWT (106.9 FM, branded as "Mix 106.9") is a commercial radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary radio format, switching to Christmas music for much of November and December. It is licensed to Peoria, Illinois, and is owned by Midwest Communications, Inc. The radio studios and offices are on Fulton Street in Peoria. WSWT has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts, the current maximum for Illinois radio stations. The transmitter is on Grosenbach Road in Washington, Illinois. History The station signed on the air in 1964 as WIRL-FM. It was the FM counterpart to WIRL 1290 AM. It has since changed call signs to WIVC, WUHN and then to the current WSWT. For many years, it aired a beautiful music format, calling itself "W-Sweet" to go along with its call letters. The station played quarter hour sweeps of soft, instrumental cover versions of popular songs. Walter Thurman was a longtime announcer at the station. Beginning in the 1980s the station gradually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJBC (AM)
WJBC (1230 Hertz, kHz) is a commercial radio, commercial AM broadcasting, AM radio station city of license, licensed to Bloomington, Illinois, and serving the Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, Bloomington-Normal region. It broadcasts a talk radio, news/talk radio format and is owned by Cumulus Media, part of a five-station cluster. It has two full-time show hosts. The station calls itself "The Voice of Central Illinois". WJBC is powered at 1,000 watts, using a omnidirectional antenna, non-directional antenna. The transmitter is on Greenwood Avenue at West Hamilton Road in Bloomington. Programming is also heard on 50-watt FM translator W271DC at 102.1 Hertz, MHz. Programming Talk In morning drive time, Scott Miller is heard. In afternoon drive, Blake Haas hosts. Syndicated programming on the station includes ''The Ramsey Show'', ''The Rich Eisen Show'', ''CBS Eye on the World'' with John Batchelor, ''Our American Stories'', ''Coast to Coast AM with George Noory'', and ''America in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcasting & Cable
''Broadcasting & Cable'' (''B&C'', or ''Broadcasting+Cable'') was a telecommunications industry monthly trade magazine and, later, news website published by Future US. Founded in 1931 as ''Broadcasting'', subsequent mergers, acquisitions and industry evolution saw a series of name changes, including ''Broadcasting and Broadcast Advertising'', and ''Broadcasting-Telecasting'', before adopting its current name in 1993. ''B&C'', which was published biweekly until January 1941, and weekly thereafter, covers the business of television in the U.S.—programming, advertising, regulation, technology, finance, and news. In addition to the newsweekly, ''B&C'' operates a comprehensive website which offered a forum for industry debate and criticism. On August 6, 2024, Future announced that the magazine would cease publication after its September 2024 issue, and switch to a digital-only format as part of sister website ''Next TV''. However, ''Next TV'' as a whole ceased publishing new co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AM Broadcasting
AM broadcasting is radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions. It was the first method developed for making audio radio transmissions, and is still used worldwide, primarily for medium wave (also known as "AM band") transmissions, but also on the longwave and shortwave radio bands. The earliest experimental AM transmissions began in the early 1900s. However, widespread AM broadcasting was not established until the 1920s, following the development of vacuum tube receivers and transmitters. AM radio remained the dominant method of broadcasting for the next 30 years, a period called the " Golden Age of Radio", until television broadcasting became widespread in the 1950s and received much of the programming previously carried by radio. Later, AM radio's audiences declined greatly due to competition from FM (frequency modulation) radio, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), satellite radio, HD (digital) radio, Internet radio, music streaming services, and podca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Hit Radio
Contemporary hit radio (CHR, also known as contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 Record chart, music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock music, rock, pop music, pop, or Urban contemporary, urban music. Used alone, ''CHR'' most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term ''contemporary hit radio'' was coined in the early 1980s by ''Radio & Records'' magazine to designate Top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into Adult contemporary music, adult contemporary, Urban contemporary music, urban contemporary, Contemporary Christian music, contemporary Christian and other formats. The term "top 40" is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. The term has also been modifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peoria, Illinois
Peoria ( ) is a city in Peoria County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. Located on the Illinois River, the city had a population of 113,150 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Illinois, eighth-most populous city in Illinois. It is the principal city of the Peoria, Illinois, metropolitan area, Peoria metropolitan area in Central Illinois, consisting of Fulton County, Illinois, Fulton, Marshall County, Illinois, Marshall, Peoria, Stark County, Illinois, Stark, Tazewell County, Illinois, Tazewell, and Woodford County, Illinois, Woodford counties and home to 402,391 people in 2020. Established in 1691 by the French explorer Henri de Tonti, Peoria is the oldest permanent European settlement in Illinois, according to the Illinois State Archaeological Survey. Originally known as Fort Clark, it received its current name when the Peoria County, County of Peoria was organized in 1825. The city was named after the Peoria peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
