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WSBG
WSBG (93.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a hot adult contemporary format. Branding itself as "93.5 SBG", it features current hits mixed with recurrent hits from the early 1990s to today. Licensed to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, United States, the station serves the Stroudsburg area. The station is currently owned by Seven Mountains Media. Its transmitter is located south of the Appalachian trail in Smithfield Township, Pennsylvania. History 93.5 FM began operation in 1964 as WVPO-FM. Initially, the station employed an MOR format playing mostly pop standards and simulcast WVPO. Beginning in the late 1960s, WVPO-FM would simulcast WVPO in the morning hours and in the afternoon employing a pop-rock format. This continued until February 1984. Their local owners were known as Keystone Broadcasters. In 1983, WVPO-FM separated totally from WVPO and began offering a Top 40/ CHR format playing current products mixed with big hits from the late 1970s and 1980s. The station added ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nassau Broadcasting Partners
Nassau Broadcasting Partners LP was a company based in Princeton, New Jersey that owned radio stations in New England and the Mid-Atlantic United States. Nassau's stations, which included both AM and FM frequencies, were located in Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The company was owned and headed by Louis F. Mercatanti. Nassau was predominantly an operator of radio stations in medium and small markets. Nassau formerly owned radio station WCRB in Waltham, a Boston suburb, and located in the Boston market, the 11th largest radio market in the US, according to BIA Financial Network. However that station was sold to WGBH in 2009. Nassau operated radio stations in substantially all of the major formats. The company's most common format was classic rock/ classic hits. On October 13, 2011 Nassau Broadcasting entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after their senior lenders petitioned for an involuntary Chapter 7 liquidation in September. The stations were auctioned to variou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPCO (AM)
WPCO (840 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, United States, the station serves the Stroudsburg area. The station is owned by Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle, LLC. History WPCO began operation as WHAB in 1947. A year later, the station changed its call sign to WVPO "The Voice of the Poconos". The station offered a blend of local news and popular music. The station moved studio locations after a devastating fire hit Main Street on July 29, 1958. The station was located above the Rea and Derick Drug Store and relocated temporarily to the transmitter site stop Godfrey's Ridge. In 1959, studios were moved to 22 South 6th Street, in the building that formerly housed Stroudsburg's Post Office. In the 1960s, the station employed a middle of the road (MOR) format, playing mostly pop standards. In the early 1980s, WVPO evolved into an adult contemporary format. Their local owners were known as K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWYY
WWYY (107.1 FM broadcasting, FM) is a List of broadcast station classes, class A radio station licensed to Belvidere, New Jersey. It serves The Poconos and Lehigh Valley regions. The station is currently owned by Cumulus Media, through licensee Radio License Holding CBC, LLC, and airs a country music radio format known as "Cat Country 96", simulcasting on WCTO 96.1 FM in Easton, Pennsylvania. History Early years On October 15, 1992, WWYY began operation as WRNJ-FM under the co-ownership of Norman Worth and Larry Tighe, who still retain the call sign WRNJ (formerly on 1000 kHz, now on 1510 kHz). WRNJ-FM offered a country music format to the northwestern New Jersey and Pocono Mountains, Poconos. Except for the Lehigh Valley, which had a Philadelphia-based country/western music station, most of this region was without its own country music station after WIXL, now WNNJ, dropped country music in May 1988. For a few months, northwestern New Jersey and the Poconos could get c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Stroudsburg is a borough in and the county seat of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies within the Poconos region approximately five miles (8 km) from the Delaware Water Gap at the confluence of Brodhead Creek, McMichaels, and Pocono Creeks in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Stroudsburg is part of the East Stroudsburg, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn is part of the New York combined statistical area. The population was 5,927 at the 2020 census. History Stroudsburg was laid out by Colonel Jacob Stroud in 1799. Stroud's family founded Stroudsburg in the mid-1700s, and the town was incorporated on February 5, 1815. Stroudsburg was the location of the lynching of Richard Puryear in March 1894. A Black railroad worker accused of murdering a white storekeeper, Puryear was lynched by a mostly white mob after he escaped from prison. Despite a grand jury investigation, no one was charged or convicted for Puryear's murder. The Academy Hill Historic D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVPO (FM)
WVPO (96.7 MHz) is an FM radio station in Lehman Township, Pennsylvania, known as "Bigfoot Country 96.7 & 97.3". The station is owned by Seven Mountains Media, programming a country music format. History This station began operation on October 23, 1970, as WDLC-FM. The station ran a country music format initially. Their AM station played a Middle Of The Road (MOR) music format playing songs from the 1940s up to and including current songs. The stations WDLC 1490 and 96.7 WDLC-FM were owned by Oscar Wein and family. His son Bob Wein along with the rest of the family were active with the station. By the mid 1970s, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) relaxed simulcast restrictions between AM and FM radio stations. Because WDLC-FM was automated, they decided to begin simulcasting both stations. WDLC and WDLC-FM, upon simulcasting, continued the MOR format from 5 to 10 a.m. as well as from 3 to 7 p.m.; played country music from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHCY
WHCY (106.3 Hertz, MHz), known as 106.3 The Bear, is a commercial radio, commercial FM radio, FM radio station city of license, licensed to Blairstown, New Jersey, Blairstown, New Jersey and serving the Sussex County, New Jersey, Sussex, Warren County, New Jersey, Warren, and Morris County, New Jersey, Morris County areas of North Jersey plus East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. It airs a country music radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. WHCY carries radio syndication, syndicated programs from co-owned Premiere Networks, including ''The Bobby Bones Show'' in morning drive time and ''Granger Smith, After Midnight with Granger Smith'' overnight. WHCY has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 460 watts as a List of North American broadcast station classes, Class A station. The transmitter is off Millbrook Road in Hardwick Township, New Jersey. The studios and offices are shared with sister stations WNNJ and WSUS (FM), WSUS in a state-of-the-art facility at 45 Ed Mitchell Av ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSUS (FM)
WSUS (102.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Franklin, New Jersey, and serving the Sussex County area of North Jersey. It is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., and has an adult contemporary radio format, switching to Christmas music for much of November and December. The station is consistently the number one radio station in Sussex County. It carries the syndicated ''Delilah'' call-in and request show on weeknights, '' Ellen K'' on Saturday mornings and classic ''American Top 40 with Casey Kasem'' shows on Sunday mornings. WSUS has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 590 watts, making it a class A station. The transmitter is on Esto Lane in Hardyston Township, New Jersey and the studios are on Mitchell Avenue in Franklin. History Country and Top 40 The station signed on the air on . Its original call sign was WLVP, named for Louis VanderPlatte, the station's founder. The studio, transmitter, and VanderPlatte's house were atop Hamburg Mountain, overlook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNNJ
WNNJ (103.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Newton, New Jersey and serving Sussex County. It airs a classic rock radio format focusing on the 1970s, 80s and 90s, and is owned by iHeartMedia The station is known as "103-7 NNJ The Tri States' Rock Station". Several of the personalities on WNNJ are voicetracked from WAXQ New York City and WXTB Tampa. The studios and offices are on Mitchell Avenue in Franklin, New Jersey. WNNJ is a Class B1 FM station with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 2,300 watts. The signal covers Northwestern New Jersey and reaches parts of northeastern Pennsylvania and Orange County, New York. The transmitter is on Gigi Lane in Branchville, New Jersey. History MOR and Beautiful Music The station signed on the air on . The original call sign was WNNJ-FM, the sister station to WNNJ 1360 AM (now WTOC). WNNJ-AM-FM were locally owned by Simpson Wolfe, incorporated as Sussex County Broadcasters. Initially WNNJ-FM simulcast the ... [...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] |
Don Imus
John Donald Imus Jr. ( ; July 23, 1940 – December 27, 2019), also known as Imus, was an American radio personality, television show host, recording artist, and author. His radio show '' Imus in the Morning'' was aired on various stations and digital platforms nationwide until 2018. Imus began his first radio job at KUTY in Palmdale, California in 1968. Three years later, he landed the morning broadcast position at WNBC in New York City. He was fired from WNBC in 1977, worked for a year at WHK in Cleveland, and was rehired by WNBC in 1979. He remained at WNBC until it left the air in 1988, at which time his show moved to WFAN, which took over WNBC's former frequency of 660 kHz. Howard Stern's success with national syndication led ''Imus in the Morning'' to adopt the same model in 1993. Imus was labeled a " shock jock" in his later career. He was fired by CBS Radio in April 2007 after describing the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos". In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Marketing Agreement
In North American broadcasting, a local marketing agreement (LMA), or local management agreement, is a contract in which one corporation, company agrees to operate a radio station, radio or television station owned by another party. In essence, it is a sort of lease or time-buy. Under Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations, a local marketing agreement must give the company operating the station (the "senior" partner) under the agreement control over the entire facilities of the station, including the finances, personnel and programming of the station. Its original licensee (the "junior" partner) still remains legally responsible for the station and its operations, such as compliance with relevant regulations regarding content. Occasionally, a "local marketing agreement" may refer to the sharing or contracting of only certain functions, in particular advertising sales. This may also be referred to as a time brokerage agreement (TBA), local sales agreement (LSA), manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTOC (AM)
WTOC (1360 AM) is a radio station licensed to Newton, New Jersey. Owned by Centro Biblico of NJ, Inc., the station broadcasts a Spanish-language Christian radio format. Until August 17, 2011, they aired an oldies music format with songs from the 1960s and 1970s along with a small number of oldies from 1955 to 1964 and a small number of hits from the 1980s, a full-time affiliate of Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel from Citadel Media. The station was owned by Clear Channel Communications from 2001 until 2011. From the station's 1953 sign-on until July 1, 2008, the radio station was known as WNNJ. History The station was known as WNNJ when it signed on as a daytimer in 1953 and had a full service middle of the road music and news format. The station was owned by Simpson Wolfe, incorporated as Sussex County Broadcasters. In 1961, Wolfe got the construction permit for 103.7 FM. That station, WNNJ-FM signed on in 1962 and broke away as WIXL in the mid-1960s. By 1971, WNNJ wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
