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WSTV
WSTV (104.9 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, serving Metro Roanoke and the New River Valley. WSTV has an adult hits format WSTV is owned and operated by iHeartMedia. WSTV previously broadcast an alternative rock format on 104.9 HD2.The translator would later switch to a simulcast of WVTF's HD3 subchannel. WSTV first began broadcasting on September 2, 1992. On May 1, 2019, the station changed its call letters to WSTV in anticipation of the adult hits-formatted "Steve FM" moving from WSFF (106.1 FM) and WSNZ (101.7 FM), which were in the process of being sold to Educational Media Foundation Educational Media Foundation (formerly EMF Broadcasting, abbreviated EMF) is an American nonprofit Christian media ministry based in Franklin, a suburb of Nashville. EMF is the parent company of K-LOVE and Air1—the world's largest contempor .... Concurrently, the WJJS calls were moved to sister station WSNV in anticipation of the CHR format mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJJS (FM)
WJJS (93.5 hertz, MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Salem, Virginia, and serving the Roanoke metropolitan area. WJJS has a rhythmic contemporary, rhythmic Top 40 radio format and is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. Programming is simulcast with co-owned 102.7 WJJX in Appomattox, Virginia, serving the Lynchburg metropolitan area. The radio studios and offices are on Old Forest Road in Lynchburg and its transmitter is located on Luckett Street near Shenandoah Ave in Roanoke. Most shows on WJJS and WJJX are voicetracking, voicetracked, outside of FCC-mandated public affairs programming on Sundays. The only syndicated shows aired on the station are ''The Tino Cochino Show'' and ''The KRRL, Bootleg Kev Show.'' History The station launched on March 7, 1969, with the callsign WJLM and carried a country music format for 33 years, last branded as "J93.5, Today's Hot Country". Clear Channel purchased the station and at midnight on December 26, 2002, the format was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WROV-FM
WROV-FM (96.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Martinsville, Virginia. WROV-FM is owned and operated by iHeartMedia and airs a classic rock radio format. WROV-FM's signal covers the Roanoke- Lynchburg media market, including the New River Valley and the Southside of Virginia. WROV-FM has studios and offices on Brandon Avenue in Roanoke and its transmitter is in Boones Mill, Virginia. WROV-FMHD2 WROV-FMHD2 carries an African-American-oriented news/talk format under the branding "Roanoke's BIN 96.7". On November 18, 2020, WROV-FMHD2 and W244AV changed their format from alternative rock to programming from the Black Information Network, branded as "Roanoke's BIN 96.7". The alternative rock format continues on WSTV-HD2 and W245BG. History of call letters WROV-FM first signed on the air in January 1950 as WMVA-FM. It was a sister station to WMVA and served Martinsville. In 1989, new ownership purchased WMVA-FM and WROV (now WGMN), and undertook a move of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WROV-HD2
WROV-HD2 (96.3 MHz) is an all-news radio station, aimed at African-American listeners and licensed to Martinsville, Virginia. It carries the Black Information Network and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The HD-2 digital subchannel feeds 250-watt FM translator W244AV at 96.7 MHz in Blacksburg, Virginia. History On February 8, 2018, WROV-HD2 rebranded as "Alt 96". On November 18, 2020, WROV-HD2 and W244AV changed their format from alternative rock to African-American-oriented news, branded as "Roanoke's BIN 96.7." Programming comes from the Black Information Network Black Information Network (BIN) is a Broadcast network, radio network and content brand owned by iHeartMedia. Launched on June 30, 2020, it is an all-news radio network of stations targeting African American communities, carrying mostly important .... The alternative rock format continues on 104.9 WSTV-HD2 and W245BG. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IHeartMedia Radio Stations
iHeartMedia, Inc., or CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc., formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc., a company founded by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs in 1972, and later taken private by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners in a leveraged buyout in 2008. As a result of the 2008 buyout, Clear Channel Communications, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of CC Media Holdings, Inc. On September 16, 2014, CC Media Holdings, Inc. was rebranded iHeartMedia, Inc., and Clear Channel Communications, Inc., became iHeartCommunications, Inc. Overview iHeartMedia, Inc. specializes in radio broadcasting, podcasting, Digital media, digital and live events through Division (business), division iHeartMedia (sans "Inc." suffix; formerly Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, Clear Channel Radio, et al.) and subsidiary iHeartMedia and Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Clear Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJJX
WJJX (102.7 hertz, MHz) is a commercial radio, commercial FM broadcasting, FM Radio broadcasting, radio station city of license, licensed to Appomattox, Virginia, and serving the Lynchburg metropolitan area and the Southside (Virginia), Southside. WJJX has a rhythmic contemporary, rhythmic Top 40 radio format and is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. Programming is simulcast with co-owned 93.5 WJJS (FM), WJJS in Salem, Virginia, serving the Roanoke metropolitan area. The radio studios and offices are on Old Forest Road in Lynchburg and its transmitter is off Round Mountain Road in Madison Heights, Virginia. Most shows on WJJS and WJJX are voicetracked, outside of FCC-mandated public affairs programming on Sundays. The only syndicated shows aired on the station are ''The Tino Cochino Show'' and ''The Bootleg Kev Show''. References External linksJJS Online * 1989 establishments in Virginia Rhythmic contemporary radio stations in the United States Radio stations e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WYYD
WYYD (107.9 MHz "New Country 107-9 YYD") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Amherst, Virginia, and serving the Roanoke- Lynchburg media market. WYYD airs a country music radio format and is owned and operated by iHeartMedia. Monday through Saturday mornings, the station carries ''The Bobby Bones Show'', based in Nashville and syndicated by Premiere Networks, an iHeart subsidiary. Overnight, it carries ''After Midnite with Granger Smith''. The studios and offices are on Old Forest Road in Lynchburg. The transmitter is near Sweet Hollow Road (County Route 615) in Big Island, Virginia. A 2,500 watt booster station, WYYD-FM1, is heard in Roanoke, also on 107.9 MHz. History Always a country station, the station's first call sign was WCNV, which was assigned on January 16, 1981. It officially launched on January 27 with the branding "FM 108 WCNV". The station was co-owned with WAMV WAMV (1420 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Amherst, Virg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke ( ) is an Independent city (United States), independent city in Virginia, United States. It lies in Southwest Virginia, along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains. Roanoke is about north of the Virginia–North Carolina border and southwest of Washington, D.C., along Interstate 81. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Roanoke's population was 100,011, making it the most populous city in Virginia west of the state capital, Richmond, Virginia, Richmond. It is the primary population center of the Roanoke metropolitan area, which had a population of 315,251 in 2020. The Roanoke Valley was originally home to members of the Siouan languages, Siouan-speaking Tutelo tribe. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Scotch-Irish Americans, Scotch-Irish and later German American farmers gradually drove those Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans out of the area as the American frontier pressed wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLRX (FM)
WLRX (106.1 FM) and WAWX (101.7 FM) are FM radio stations owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF). WLRX is licensed to Vinton, Virginia, serving the Roanoke metropolitan area. WAWX is licensed to Lynchburg, Virginia, serving the Lynchburg metropolitan area. WLRX plays a Contemporary Christian radio format from the "K-Love" national network, while WAWX airs a Contemporary Worship format as a network affiliate of "Air1." Both stations are licensed for commercial operation. But K-Love and Air1 are listener-supported and run no commercials. In addition, EMF owns 106.9 WLGX in nearby Bedford, Virginia. WLGX also carries K-Love programming. Combined 106.1/101.7 history 106.1 FM started out with the call sign WWFO on January 18, 1991 and officially launched in 1994. 101.7 FM started out with the call sign WDMS-FM on August 1, 1964 before being changed to WJJS in 1969 with a Black music format. In 1986 the calls and format moved to its sister station at 1320 AM, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Virginia
The following is a list of Federal Communications Commission, FCC-licensed radio stations in the United States, U.S. Virginia, state of Virginia which can be sorted by their call signs, frequency, frequencies, city of license, cities of license, licensees, and radio format, programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WBBL (Virginia), WBBL * WBDB-LP * WBDY (AM), WBDY * WBVA (AM), WBVA * WCLM-LP * WDIC (AM), WDIC * WDUF * WFNR * WHKT * WJRX-LP * WJYI (AM), WJYI * WKEY (AM), WKEY * WLEE (1480 AM), WLEE * WMVA (AM), WMVA * WODI * WORJ-LP * WOWZ (AM), WOWZ * WPEX * WPUV * WPVC-LP * WQLU * WQMR-LP * WRAP (Norfolk), WRAP * WRRW-LP * WSVG (AM), WSVG * WVAB * WXCF (AM), WXCF * WXMY * WXZR-LP See also * Virginia#Media, Virginia media ** List of newspapers in Virginia ** List of television stations in Virginia ** Media of List of cities in Virginia, cities in Virginia: Chesapeake, Virginia#Media, Chesapeake, Hampton, Virginia#Media, Hampton, Newport News, Virginia#Media, Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations Established In 1998
Radio is the technology of telecommunication, communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to an antenna (radio), antenna which radiates the waves. They can be received by other antennas connected to a radio receiver; this is the fundamental principle of radio communication. In addition to communication, radio is used for radar, radio navigation, radio control, remote control, remote sensing, and other applications. In radio communication, used in radio and television broadcasting, cell phones, two-way radios, wireless networking, and satellite communication, among numerous other uses, radio waves are used to carry information across space from a transmitter to a receiver, by Modulation, modulating the radio signal (impressing an information signal on the radio wave by varying some aspect of the wave) in the tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Establishments In Virginia
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster (1998), Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, Afghani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
