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WSCI
South Carolina Public Radio (SCPR) is the National Public Radio member network serving the state of South Carolina. It is licensed to the South Carolina Educational Television Commission, an agency of South Carolina state government. It is a sister network to South Carolina Educational Television. The radio network's primary operations and Public Information Files are located on George Rogers Boulevard in Columbia, near Williams-Brice Stadium. The network's eight transmitters at 100 kW (5) and 30 kW (3) provide at least secondary coverage to nearly all of South Carolina, with portions of North Carolina and Georgia. History The S.C. Educational Television Commission had its mission broadened to include FM radio in the late 1960s. In 1972, WEPR in Clemson (now in Greenville) signed on the air as the state's first public radio station. Seven more transmitters signed on in the 1970s and 1980s. Until 2001, the stations were known as the South Carolina Educationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJWJ-FM
WJWJ-FM (89.9 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported public radio station licensed to Beaufort, South Carolina, and serving the South Carolina Lowcountry. It is part of the statewide "News and Talk Network" from South Carolina Public Radio (SCPR) and is a member of National Public Radio (NPR). The offices and studios are on George Rogers Boulevard in Columbia. WJWJ-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 48,000 watts. It is a Class C1 station. Its transmitter is off White Hall Road near Green Pond, South Carolina, in Colleton County. It shares a tower with sister station WJWJ-TV 16, part of the SCETV network. WJWJ's signal covers most of the southeastern part of the state, including Charleston. It also provides rimshot coverage of Savannah, Georgia. Programming On weekdays, the "News and Talk Network," including WJWJ-FM, airs news programs from NPR and other public radio networks: ''Morning Edition, All Things Considered, 1A, Here and Now, On Point, Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLTR
WLTR (91.3 MHz) is a noncommercial public FM radio station in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. The station primarily features news and information radio format with programs from National Public Radio, along with classical and other genres of music during late mornings, nights and weekends. WLTR is the flagship station of the statewide "News and Music Network" from South Carolina Public Radio. WLTR broadcast with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum allowed for non- grandfathered FM stations. The transmitter is located on Hardscrabble Road near Sloan Road in Columbia. History WLTR first signed on the air on July 1, 1976. Over time, additional non-commercial FM stations were added to the network around the state, operated jointly with South Carolina Educational Television (SCETV). These FM stations largely simulcast programming from originating on flagship station WLTR, featuring a mix of NPR news and information on weekday mornings and aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia, South Carolina
Columbia is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of South Carolina. With a population of 136,632 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is List of municipalities in South Carolina, the second-most populous city in South Carolina. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, South Carolina, Richland County, and a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County, South Carolina, Lexington County. It is the center of the Columbia metropolitan area, South Carolina, Columbia, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 858,302 in 2023, and is the Metropolitan statistical area, 70th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States. The name Columbia (name), "Columbia", a poetic synonym of "the United States of America", derives from the name of Christopher Columbus, who explored the Caribbean on behalf of the Spanish Crown. The name of the city of Columbia is often abbre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Edgar
Walter B. Edgar (born December 10, 1943) is an American historian and author specializing in Southern history and culture, particularly for South Carolina. Edgar has authored or edited several books about the state, including ''South Carolina: A History'' and ''The South Carolina Encyclopedia''. He is known for hosting the popular weekly radio show ''Walter Edgar's Journal'' on South Carolina Public Radio on historic and cultural topics, as well as the daily feature ''South Carolina A to Z'' on South Carolina Public Radio. Edgar was born in 1943 in Mobile, Alabama, and was raised there. Edgar went to Davidson College in North Carolina for undergraduate studies, receiving a B.A. in history. Edgar elected to continue history studies at the University of South Carolina, graduating with both a masters and doctorate degree. Following active duty in the U.S. Army The United States Army (USA) is the primary land service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Feinstein
Michael Jay Feinstein (born September 7, 1956) is an American singer, pianist, and music Revivalist artist, revivalist. He is an archivist and interpreter for the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988, he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theater songs. Feinstein is also a multi-platinum-selling, five-time Grammy-nominated recording artist. He is the founder of the Great American Songbook Foundation and the artistic director for Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana. Early life Feinstein was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Florence Mazie (née Cohen), an amateur tap dancer, and Edward Feinstein, a sales executive for the Sara Lee Corporation and a former amateur singer. Michael Feinstein is Jewish. At the age of five, he studied piano for a couple of months until his teacher became angered that he was not reading the sheet music she gave him, since he was more comfortable playing by ear. As his moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Jazz
''Piano Jazz'' is a weekly one-hour radio show produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). It began on June 4, 1978, and was hosted by jazz pianist Marian McPartland (1918–2013) until 2011. It is the longest-running cultural program on NPR. The show generally features a single guest (though small groups and duos are also featured at times), and usually consists of about an equal mixture of discussion and playing, often duets with McPartland. Initially the guests were limited to jazz pianists, but the format was later expanded to include performers on other instruments as well as other genres (though the performances remain focused on jazz tunes). The show provides an inside look at the relationships of jazz musicians, since McPartland often had long friendships with many of her guests. ''Piano Jazz'' won a Peabody Award in 1983. The show is an exclusive production of South Carolina public radio on WLTR and is offered nationally by NPR. A number of shows have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Charlotte Observer
''The Charlotte Observer'' is an American newspaper serving Charlotte, North Carolina, and its metro area. The Observer was founded in 1886. it has the second-largest circulation of any newspaper in the Carolinas. It is owned by Chatham Asset Management. Overview ''The Observer'' primarily serves Charlotte and Mecklenburg County and the surrounding counties of Iredell, Cabarrus, Union, Lancaster, York, Gaston, Catawba, and Lincoln. Home delivery service in outlying counties has declined in recent years, with delivery times growing later as the paper has outsourced circulation services outside the primary Charlotte area. Circulation at ''The Charlotte Observer'' has been declining for many years. The period of May 2011 showed that ''Charlotte Observer'' circulation totaled 155,497 daily and 212,318 Sunday. 2017 Print Circulation Daily: 69,987 and Sunday: 106,434. The newspaper has an online presence and its staff also oversees a NASCAR news website, and a correspondin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSVH
WSVH (91.1 FM) is a 96,000-watt public radio station broadcasting from Savannah, Georgia, and transmitting from the WVAN-TV 9 (GPB TV) tower to the west in Pembroke, Georgia, north of Fort Stewart. It provides the radio service of Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) serves the upper Georgia coast and areas well inland, and adjacent areas of far southern South Carolina. The station's signal is simulcast by GPB-owned WWIO-FM 88.9 in Brunswick, Georgia. Together, the two stations serve the entire Georgia coastline. Their signals can be heard from Beaufort, South Carolina to Fernandina Beach, Florida. History Georgia Public Radio, Inc. (of no relation to GPB) was formed by local residents to build a public radio station for Savannah after locals had occasionally received public stations in Charleston, South Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. The station began broadcasting on April 20, 1981, with the first piece played on the station at 6 a.m. being Aaron Copland's ''Fanfare for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRJA-FM
WRJA-FM (88.1 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported public radio station licensed to Sumter, South Carolina, that covers both Columbia and Florence, South Carolina. It is the flagship station of the statewide "News and Talk Network" from South Carolina Public Radio (SCPR) and is a member of National Public Radio (NPR). WRJA-FM's offices and studios are on George Rogers Boulevard in Columbia. WRJA-FM is a Class C station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 98,000 watts. The transmitter is on ETV Tower Road in Sumter, sharing a tower with WRJA-TV, its PBS sister station. Programming On weekdays, the "News and Talk Network," including WRJA, carries news programs from NPR and other public radio networks: ''Morning Edition, All Things Considered, 1A, Here and Now, On Point, Think, Fresh Air, The World, Marketplace'' and from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation it carries '' Q''. The BBC World Service runs all night. On weekends and at 9 and 11 p.m. on w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNSC-FM
WNSC-FM is a National Public Radio station in Rock Hill, South Carolina. A member of South Carolina Public Radio (formerly ETV Radio), it carries programming from South Carolina Public Radio's all-news network. History News and classical music WNSC-FM signed on January 3, 1978, as WPRV, initially broadcasting instructional programs during the day before beginning full-time broadcasting in July. The same day it went on the air, WNSC-TV channel 30 began broadcasting. WPRV was the first NPR station in the Charlotte area; the market's flagship NPR station, WFAE, did not sign on in its current form until 1981. The call letters were changed to WNSC-FM on October 27, 1980. ( Guide to reading History Cards) From its sign-on until 2001, it aired a format of NPR news and classical music along with the rest of what was then the South Carolina Educational Radio Network (SCERN). Jazz and talk In 2001, it broke off from the rest of the SCERN stations to air jazz music under the moniker of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
