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WTAQ
WTAQ (1360 AM broadcasting, AM) and WTAQ-FM (97.5 FM broadcasting, FM) are conservative Talk radio, news/talk-formatted radio stations, city of license, licensed to Green Bay, Wisconsin (AM) and Glenmore, Wisconsin (FM), that serve the Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green Bay and Appleton, Wisconsin, Appleton-Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Oshkosh areas. The stations are owned by Midwest Communications. WTAQ's studios and newsroom are located on Bellevue St. in the Green Bay suburb of Bellevue, Wisconsin, Bellevue. The station's AM transmitter is located on Lost Dauphin Road, near the Fox River (Green Bay tributary), Fox River in De Pere. WTAQ-FM's transmitter is located at the former WFRV-TV analog transmitter site on Scray's Hill, also in De Pere. WTAQ transmits with a power of 10 kilowatts daytime, 5 kilowatts nighttime. WTAQ-FM’s effective radiated power is 3 kilowatts. WTAQ history WTAQ was originally licensed to Osseo, Wisconsin, on September 4, 1923, on 1180 kHz to C.S. Van Gorden. In Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRDZ (AM)
WRDZ (1300 kHz) is a silent AM radio station licensed to La Grange, Illinois, and serving the Chicago metropolitan area. The station, which began broadcasting in 1950, is owned and operated by Walter Kotaba's Polnet Communications. By day, WRDZ is powered at 4,500 watts. At night, it reduces power to 4,000 watts. A directional antenna is used full-time. History Early years The station's original call sign was WTAQ, with the meaning "Western Towns Along the Q".Chicago Radio: Some facts, figures, and things you might not know , ''Chicago Tribune Magazine'', March 4, 1979. p. 16. Accessed August 12, 2015 The "Q" referred to the |
WIXX
WIXX (101.1 FM) is an adult Top 40/ CHR radio station licensed to and serving Green Bay, Wisconsin and the Fox Cities region of Northeast Wisconsin. The station is owned and operated by Wausau, Wisconsin-based Midwest Communications, and is part of a Midwest-owned cluster of 8 stations in the market. WIXX broadcasts from studios located on Bellevue Street in the Green Bay suburb of Bellevue, and transmits from a tower on Scray Hill in the Brown County town of Ledgeview, sharing a site with WBAY-TV, WPNE-TV, and WPNE-FM. Current On-Air Staff * Huggie, Natalie & Corey – Morning Show ** Corey Carter – Host & Studio Producer (mixing board operator) ** Dan "Huggie" Amsden – Co-Host ** Natalie Kay – Co-Host * Andy Gardner – Midday Host * Andrew Haze – Afternoon Host * Mara – Nighttime Host (mostly overnights, occasional evenings) * Other DJs: ** Abby ** Casey Jones ** DJ Haze ** Grace ** Jerry Michaels ** Kaylee ** Lile ** Shane Reno ** Taycee ** Tom Pererson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midwest Communications
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 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WYDR
WYDR (94.3 FM broadcasting, FM, "94.3 Jack FM") is a radio station broadcasting a adult hits, variety hits music format, licensed to both Neenah, Wisconsin, Neenah and Menasha, Wisconsin (giving it and sister station WNCY-FM a rare dual city of license, cities of license situation) and transmitting from High Cliff State Park in Northwestern Calumet County, Wisconsin, Calumet County. WYDR has its studios at Midwest Communications' facilities on Bellevue Street in the Green Bay suburb of Bellevue, Wisconsin, Bellevue, adjacent to the tower site of sister station WNFL. With the start of the 2022 season, WYDR serves as the Fox Cities affiliate of the Packers Radio Network, replacing Woodward Communications' WAPL (105.7). History The station that would eventually become WYDR was launched by Midwest Communications in 1971 under the call sign of WROE with a beautiful music format, a format found quite frequently on FM radio in that era. In 1977, Midwest bought WBAY-AM and WBAY-FM (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGEE (FM)
WGEE (93.5 FM broadcasting, FM, "93.5 Duke FM") is a classic country radio broadcasting, radio station owned and operated by Midwest Communications, licensed to New London, Wisconsin, and serving the Northeast Wisconsin area, including Appleton, Wisconsin, Appleton, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green Bay (the latter city aided by a repeater at 93.1 FM, W226BD), and is repeated on full-powered station WDKF (99.7 FM), which is licensed to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Sturgeon Bay. WGEE's studios are located on Bellevue Street in Green Bay, while its main transmitter is located in Maine, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, Maine Township in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. History The station was opened in 1967 as WLIH, with its studios and transmitter just southeast of New London. The call letters played off a Wisconsin tourism slogan at the time, ''We Like It Here.'' Those call letters are now used by a station in Whitneyville, Pennsylvania. In 1981, the station was bou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDKF
WDKF (99.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States. The station serves the Green Bay area simulcasting co-owned WGEE with a classic country format as ''Duke FM''. The station is currently owned by Midwest Communications, with studios in Bellevue, and its main transmitter located near the town of Lincoln in Kewaunee County. History The station that would become WDKF launched in the early 1980s, at 100.1 FM (eventually moving to 99.7 by 1986). The station started out under the WSBW call sign (not to be confused with the current WSBW in Sister Bay) and aired a locally originated adult contemporary format through studios in downtown Sturgeon Bay. An ownership change in 1989 would see WSBW become WQZZ, with the station now using a satellite-fed AC format, the same service used by its sister station in the Fox Cities, the similarly-callsigned but separately-operated WOZZ. On November 30, 1990, WQZZ became WHET-FM and adopted a new satel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNFL
WNFL (1440 AM) is an American all-sports radio station located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The station is locally owned and operated by Midwest Communications, which owns six other stations in Northeast Wisconsin. WNFL simulcasts the programming of WRNW in Milwaukee from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays. The station is also an affiliate of Fox Sports Radio, carrying much of their line-up for the remainder of the day and on weekends. It airs one minute news updates from CBS at approximately 45 minutes past the hour. In addition to the station's sports-talk offerings, WNFL airs Milwaukee Bucks basketball play-by-play and local high school football and basketball games. Milwaukee Brewers baseball games during the work week are also on WNFL, with night and weekend games on sister station WTAQ. Former programming on the station included ''The Steve Czaban Show'' and the station's local ''Maino & Nick'' (John Maino and Nick Vitrano) show. WNFL's studios and transmitter are located on Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNCY-FM
WNCY-FM (100.3 FM, "Y100") is an American commercial country music formatted radio station licensed to Neenah- Menasha, Wisconsin, that serves the Green Bay and Appleton- Oshkosh areas. WNCY is owned and operated by Midwest Communications, which owns six other radio stations in Northeast Wisconsin. WNCY's studios are located at 1420 Bellevue Street in Bellevue, while its transmitter is located in a rural area east of the city of Kaukauna. On July 18, 2006, Midwest Communications broke ground on their new, $4.725 million facility in Bellevue, and WNCY moved into the new broadcast center in January 2008. The facility is located on the WNFL WNFL (1440 AM) is an American all-sports radio station located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The station is locally owned and operated by Midwest Communications, which owns six other stations in Northeast Wisconsin. WNFL simulcasts the programming ... tower site on Bellevue Street. WNCY and the six other Midwest Communications stations in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backronym
A backronym is an acronym formed from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase. Backronyms may be invented with either serious or humorous intent, or they may be a type of false etymology or folk etymology. The word is a portmanteau of ''back'' and ''acronym''. A normal acronym is a word derived from the initial letter(s) of the words of a phrase, such as ''radar'' from "radio detection and ranging". By contrast, a backronym is "an acronym deliberately formed from a phrase whose initial letters spell out a particular word or words, either to create a memorable name or as a fanciful explanation of a word's origin". Many list of fictional espionage organizations, fictional espionage organizations are backronyms, such as SPECTRE (special executive for counterintelligence, terrorism, revenge and extortion) from the ''James Bond'' franchise. For example, the Amber Alert missing-child program was named after Amber Hagerman, a nine-year-old girl w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellevue, Wisconsin
Bellevue is a village in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 15,935 at the time of the 2020 census. Bellevue is part of the Green Bay metropolitan area, around east from Green Bay. History Bellevue was named for the French words meaning "beautiful view". It was a town until incorporating as a village on February 14, 2003. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which of it is land and is water. Climate Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 census, there were 15,935 people and 6,923 households living in the village. The population density was . There were 6,314 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 80.6% White, 1.2% African American, 1.1% Native American, 4.9% Asian, 5.6% from other races, and 6.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.9% of the population. 2010 census As of the 2010 census, there were 14,570 people, 5,876 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHBY
WHBY (1150 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio station city of license, licensed to Kimberly, Wisconsin, that serves the Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green Bay and Appleton, Wisconsin, Appleton-Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Oshkosh areas. The station is owned by Woodward Communications and it airs a talk radio, news/talk radio format. WHBY's studios and microwave transmitter are located on East College Avenue in Appleton. By day, WHBY is powered at 20,000 watts. At night, the power increases to 25,000 watts. WHBY uses a directional antenna with a six-tower array to protect other stations on 1150 AM from interference. The transmitter is in Neenah, Wisconsin, Neenah, on Wisconsin Highway 76. Programming is also heard on FM translators in Appleton, Wisconsin, Appleton, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Oshkosh and Wrightstown, Wisconsin, Wrightstown. Programming On weekdays, WHBY has local news and talk shows in morning and afternoon drive time, and part of middays. The rest of the schedule is made u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Rubber Company
Uniroyal, formerly known as the United States Rubber Company, is an American manufacturer of tires and other synthetic rubber-related products, as well as variety of items for military use, such as ammunition, explosives, chemical weapons and operations and maintenance activities (O&MA) at the government-owned contractor-operated facilities. It was founded in Naugatuck, Connecticut, in 1892. It was one of the original 12 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and became Uniroyal, Inc., as part of creating a unified brand for its products and subsidiaries in 1961. The company's long-lived advertisement slogan was "''United States Tires are Good Tires''." One of Uniroyal's best-known tires is the ''Tiger Paw'' introduced in the 1960s and included as original equipment for that decade's muscle cars such as the Pontiac GTO, which itself was promoted as The Tiger during its early years. Today, Uniroyal still uses the Tiger Paw brand name in its tire line. In 1990, Uniroyal was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
