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WRRA-FM
WRRA-FM (97.5 FM broadcasting, FM, "Quality Rock 97.5 The Lake") is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format. Licensed to Bridgman, Michigan, it first began broadcasting under the WCSE call sign. History On February 17, 2025, WYTZ changed its call sign to WRRA-FM; concurrently, sister station WQLQ became WYTZ-FM. References Michiguide.com - WYTZ History External links * Radio stations in Michigan, RRA-FM Country radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1993 1993 establishments in Michigan Berrien County, Michigan {{Michigan-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WYTZ-FM
WYTZ-FM (99.9 FM broadcasting, FM) is a country-formatted radio station licensed to Benton Harbor, Michigan, targeting the South Bend, Indiana, market. WYTZ-FM is owned by Mid-West Family Broadcasting. Its signal is regularly heard as far as Chicago, Illinois, and as far east as Battle Creek, Michigan. History In June 2011, WHFB-FM re-imaged from "Cat Country 99-9" to "Real Country 99-Nine". Previous to the Country music, country format, the then-WHFB-FM acted as a local station serving the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area, with beautiful music and adult contemporary music formats. In September 2015, Schurz Communications, which previously held a minority interest in Douglas Road Radio, agreed to acquire full ownership of the company. The transaction was part of the $442.5 million acquisition of Schurz' broadcast interests, including WHFB-FM, by Gray Television.{{cite news, title=Schurz Communications to sell WSBT and other TV, radio stations, url=http://www.southbendtribune.com/ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid-West Family Broadcast Group
Mid-West Family Broadcasting is an independently owned broadcasting company based in Madison, Wisconsin. The company owns and manages radio stations in Madison, Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, La Crosse, Wisconsin, Benton Harbor/St. Joseph, Michigan, South Bend/Elkhart, Indiana, Springfield, Illinois, Springfield, Missouri, and Rockford, Illinois. In 2013 Mid-West Family purchased the Maverick stations in Rockford, Illinois and Eau Claire, Wisconsin. This added 11 stations starting May 1, 2013 with an LMA. On November 2, 2015, Gray Television agreed to sell the WSBT radio group to Mid-West Family when the deal to acquire the television and radio assets of Schurz Communications closed. This added four stations in the Michiana area to Mid-West's lineup. Owned & operated stations DeKalb, Illinois * WDKB - 94.9 FM - Hot Adult Contemporary Eau Claire, Wisconsin *WAYY - 790 AM / 105.1 FM - News/sports * WEAQ - 1150 AM / 95.9 FM - Farm news/classic country * WECL - 92.9 FM - Active ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCXT
WCXT (98.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an alternative rock format, serving the southwestern Michigan area. WCXT is licensed to Hartford, Michigan, and is focused on the cities of St. Joseph, Benton Harbor and South Haven. The station broadcasts in HD on 98.3-HD1 and is owned by Mid-West Family Broadcasting (WSJM, Inc.). History It was announced on January 7, 2008, that the station would move from the 94.9 FM frequency to 98.3 FM, which had previously been the home of WCSY-FM and briefly WSJM-FM. The satellite-fed smooth jazz programming from Jones Radio Networks (now owned by Dial Global) that was part of WCSY-FM's "Cosy-FM" AC format continued after the move to 98.3 MHz. In 2009, the smooth jazz programming was dropped in favor of a live and local night show featuring the station's daytime format of hot AC. The call letters were changed once again on February 8, 2008, from the 94.9 FM transferred WCNF to WCXT when the heritage call letters became available. The W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIRX
WIRX (107.1 FM) is a mainstream rock radio station owned by Mid-West Family Broadcasting located in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The station's city of license is St. Joseph, Michigan broadcasting in HD from a tower at the edge of Benton Township, Michigan. Its programming is also simulcast to the South Bend–Mishawaka metropolitan area on WYRX-FM (94.3) in Plymouth, Indiana. History According to the "History of 107.1 FM St. Joseph",History of 107.1 FM St. Joseph - ROCK 107 WIRX Website, Retrieved January 1, 201/ref> the 107.1 frequency was started as a music outlet to sister station WQYQ, WSJM in 1964 by Mid-West Family Broadcasting (MWF), which is based in Madison, Wisconsin. WSJM-FM began broadcasting in stereo on 107.1 MHz in 1965 and regularly provided stereo remote broadcasts by the Twin Cities Symphony and other events. In 1969, the station changed its call letters to WIRX and switched to a completely jockless, automated Country format, tagged "WIRX Country". In 1979, WYR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WQYQ
WQYQ (1400 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports radio format, simulcasting WSBT 960 AM South Bend, Indiana. Licensed to St. Joseph, Michigan, it first began broadcasting in 1956 as WSJM. Programming is simulcast on a local FM translator on W291DK 106.1 FM Benton Harbor. History WSJM went on the air in 1956. Until 1984, it had a country music format called "The Best in the Country". Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, WSJM was a full service radio station, with an adult contemporary mixture of pop and oldies music, local personalities, network and local newscasts, evening talk programming ( Bruce Williams and Larry King) and play-by-play sports. For many years, the station's slogan was "The Spirit of the Southwest". WSJM started simulcasting on 94.9 FM in early 2008. " The Coast", which had been on that frequency, then moved to 98.3 FM. The WCSY call letters were moved from 98.3 FM to 103.7 FM as part of this three station swap. The WSJM-FM call sign were tempora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSJM-FM
WSJM-FM (94.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Benton Harbor, Michigan, and also serving nearby St. Joseph. The station broadcasts a News/Talk/Sports radio format. It is owned by Mid-West Family Broadcasting with studios on East Napier Avenue in Southwest Benton Harbor. WSJM is powered at 2200 watts and broadcasts from an antenna in Sodus Township near US-31. Its signal covers much of Michiana and can be heard as far south as South Bend, Indiana. Programming includes a local morning talk show with syndicated news and sports programs the rest of the day. The WSJM call sign was first used on AM sister station WQYQ prior to the station's switch to alternative rock in 2020. Most hours begin with an update from ABC News Radio. The station is also a partial affiliate of Fox Sports Radio. Play by play sports coverage comes from the Detroit Tigers Radio Network, Detroit Lions Radio Network, and Michigan Sports Network. History The WSJM-FM callsign was originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Michigan
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Michigan, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * W8XWJ * WKPR * WMQU * WQLR * WWAO (1924-?) * WRWW-LP References {{Navboxes , title = Michigan radio station regional navigation boxes , list = {{Alpena Radio {{Ann Arbor Radio {{Battle Creek Radio {{Benton Harbor-St. Joseph Radio {{Detroit Radio {{Flint Radio {{Grand Rapids Radio {{Houghton Radio {{Iron Mountain Radio {{Kalamazoo Radio {{Lansing-East Lansing Radio {{Ludington-Manistee Radio {{Marquette Radio {{Muskegon Radio {{Central Michigan Radio {{Saginaw-Bay City-Midland Radio {{Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan Radio {{South Central Michigan Radio {{Thumb Radio {{Traverse City-Petoskey Radio Michigan Radio Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridgman, Michigan
Bridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,096 at the time of the 2020 census. History There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name "Laketon" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman on April 9, 1874. Bridgman later expanded by annexing the area that had previously been Charlotteville. The town is famous for being the location of the 1922 Bridgman Convention, a clandestine communist planning meeting in 1922 that was broken up by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and local authorities. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demographics 2010 census As of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCSY-FM
WCSY-FM (103.7 MHz) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to South Haven, Michigan, the station serves the Benton Harbor-Saint Joseph area. WCSY-FM has filed a construction permit to move its community of license from Hartford, Michigan to South Haven, Michigan; it was granted in February 2008. On January 7, 2008, the station changed its branding to "103.7 Cosy-FM". The WCSY call letters were moved to the 103.7 FM frequency from 98.3 on January 17, 2008, which in turn changed call letters to WCXT WCXT (98.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an alternative rock format, serving the southwestern Michigan area. WCXT is licensed to Hartford, Michigan, and is focused on the cities of St. Joseph, Benton Harbor and South Haven. The station bro ...-FM. The call sign was modified to "WCSY-FM" on November 10, 2008. Old logo SourcesMichiguide.com - WCSY-FM History External links * * CSY-FM Classic hits radio stations in the United States Radio st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FM Broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave. Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong, wide-band FM is used worldwide to transmit high fidelity, high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. FM broadcasting offers higher fidelity—more accurate reproduction of the original program sound—than other broadcasting techniques, such as AM broadcasting. It is also less susceptible to Electromagnetic interference, common forms of interference, having less static and popping sounds than are often heard on AM. Therefore, FM is used for most broadcasts of music and general audio (in the audio spectrum). FM radio stations use the very high frequency range of radio frequency, radio frequencies. Broadcast bands Throughout the world, the FM broadcast band falls within the VHF part of the radio spectrum. Usually 87.5 to 108.0 MHz is used, or some portion of it, with few exceptions: * In the Commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Rock
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the early-1990s, primarily focusing on commercially successful blues rock and hard rock popularized in the 1970s AOR format.Pareles, Jon (June 18, 1986)"Oldies on Rise in Album-Rock Radio" ''The New York Times''. Retrieved April 19, 2019. The radio format became increasingly popular with the baby boomer demographic by the end of the 1990s. Although classic rock has mostly appealed to adult listeners, music associated with this format received more exposure with younger listeners with the presence of the Internet and digital downloading. Some classic rock stations also play a limited number of current releases which are stylistically consistent with the station's sound, or by Heritage act (music), heritage acts which are still active and producing new music."New York Radio Guide: Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
