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WTBV
WTBV (101.5 FM, "101.5 The Vibe") is a commercial radio station licensed to St. Petersburg, Florida, and serving the Tampa Bay area. It is owned by the Cox Media Group and broadcasts an urban adult contemporary format. The studios are on 4th Street North in St. Petersburg. WTBV carries the syndicated ''Rickey Smiley Morning Show'' in drive time. WTBV has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The transmitter site is on Colonnade Vista Drive in Riverview. WTBV broadcasts using HD Radio technology. The HD2 digital subchannel carries an alternative rock format, known as 97X. History Religious (1961–1997) The station signed on the air on July 1, 1961. Its original call sign was WGNB. It was the sister station to WGNP 1520 AM (now WXYB). The stations were owned by the World Christian Radio Foundation. In 1974, the FM station was acquired by the Chicago-based Moody Bible Institute. It became WKES, airing a new Christian radio format from studios at the Moody-affi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKES
WKES (91.1 Hertz, MHz) is a commercial radio, non-commercial, listener-supported FM broadcasting, FM radio station broadcasting a Christian talk and teaching radio format. City of license, Licensed to Lakeland, Florida, it serves the Tampa Bay area from its studios at Keswick Christian School in Seminole, Florida, Seminole. The station is owned by the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago and features programming from Moody Radio. WKES is the flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the statewide Moody Radio Florida network, which includes: Local programming includes ''New Day Florida'' (a morning show) and ''Prime Time Florida'' (a drive-time afternoon show), plus hourly news and traffic updates, along with weather updates from former Bay News 9 meteorologist Alan Winfield. History The station first signed on May 20, 1975, at 91.3 MHz as WCIE, a religious station owned by the Carpenter's Home Church in Lakeland. In 1980, as part of a plan to increase its power, the stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cox Media Group
CMG Media Corporation (doing business as Cox Media Group) is an American media conglomerate principally owned by Apollo Global Management in conjunction with Cox Enterprises, which maintains a 29% minority stake in the company. The company primarily owns radio and television stations—many of which are located in the South, Pacific Northwest, Eastern Midwest, and Northeast, and the regional cable news network Pittsburgh Cable News Channel (PCNC). Originally founded in December 2008 by Cox Enterprises through a consolidation of its existing publishing and broadcasting subsidiaries, the current incarnation of Cox Media Group was formed on December 17, 2019, through the acquisition by Apollo of the original Cox Media Group (along with Cox Enterprises' advertising subsidiary, Gamut) from Cox Enterprises, which transferred a controlling interest in the company to Apollo, and Northwest Broadcasting from Brian Brady. History In December 2008, Cox Enterprises created Cox Media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDUV
WDUV (105.5 FM "The Dove") is a commercial radio station licensed to New Port Richey, Florida and serving the Tampa Bay Area. Owned by Cox Radio, the station broadcasts a soft adult contemporary format, switching to all-Christmas music for much of November and December. WDUV's studios and offices are in St. Petersburg and the transmitter site is off Dartmouth Drive in Holiday. The station has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 33,000 watts and broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format. History Beautiful music The station signed on the air in . The original call sign was WBRD-FM. It had a beautiful music format and was formerly licensed to Bradenton in Manatee County. It originally broadcast at 103.3 FM. The station shared the same studio facilities on Tamiami Trail in Bradenton with WBRD (1420 AM), and the Bradenton news bureau of ABC network affiliate WXLT-TV 40 (now WWSB). At the time, all three stations were owned by the same family. In the early-1990s, WDUV re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHPT
WHPT (102.5 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Sarasota, Florida, and serving the Tampa Bay area. Owned by Cox Media Group, it broadcasts a hot talk format. It is also the flagship station for Tampa Bay Lightning hockey and carries South Florida Bulls football. WHPT's studios and offices are on 4th Street North in St. Petersburg. WHPT is a Class C station with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for most stations. The transmitter site is off 283rd Street East near Gopher Hill Road in Myakka City, an unincorporated area of southwest Manatee County. WHPT broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its HD2 subchannel airs a Tampa Bay Lightning sports radio format. History WYAK - WSAF-FM The station signed on the air on . Its original call sign was WYAK. It was a rare stand-alone FM station in an era where most were co-owned with AM or TV stations. It was owned by the Multitone Music Corporation with studios at 1375 Fifth Street. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWRM
WWRM (94.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Tampa, Florida, and serving the Tampa Bay area. Owned by Cox Media Group, it airs a hot adult contemporary format. The station's studios and offices are located on 4th Street North in St. Petersburg. WWRM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. Its transmitter site is shared with WTSP, Tampa's CBS TV network affiliate, off Rhodine Road in Riverview. History Top 40 era On September 1, 1970, the station signed on as WLCY-FM, and was licensed to St. Petersburg. It was put on the air by Rahall Communications, and was co-owned with WLCY and WLCY-TV. The studios were in the "Rahall Color Communications Center" on Gandy Boulevard. During the early 1970s, WLCY-FM was an automated station, airing Drake-Chenault's "Hit Parade" and TM's "Stereo Rock" formats. Hoping to follow the sudden rise in popularity of local Top 40 station WRBQ-FM ("Q105") in the mid-1970s, WLCY-FM switched to live disc jockeys in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXGL
WXGL (107.3 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to St. Petersburg, Florida, and serving the Tampa Bay Area. It is owned by Cox Media Group and calls itself "The Eagle - Tampa Bay's Classic Hits." WXGL airs a classic hits radio format that leans toward classic rock, primarily from the 1980s and 1990s, although occasionally going older. Unlike rival Classic Hits station 104.7 WRBQ, The Eagle does not play pop or dance music from artists such as Madonna or Michael Jackson. WXGL broadcasts in the HD format. WXGL's studios are located in St. Petersburg on 4th Street North. The transmitter site is off Burbank Road in Oldsmar. Streaming In addition to the Eagle website, streaming via the iHeartRadio iHeartRadio (often shortened to just "iHeart") is an American freemium broadcast, podcast, radio streaming and Music Streaming platform owned by iHeartMedia. Founded in August 2008, iHeartRadio serves as the national umbrella brand for iHeart ... website and smartphone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXYB
WXYB (1520 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, and serving the Tampa Bay area. The station is currently owned by Angelatos Broadcasting. The station airs an ethnic radio format featuring shows in Greek, Spanish and other languages. It sells blocks of brokered time to hosts who then seek advertising support from their communities. AM facilities and FM translator Because it shares AM 1520 with Class A clear channel radio stations WWKB in Buffalo, New York and KOKC in Oklahoma City, this station previously was a daytimer. To avoid interfering with those 50,000-watt stations, it was required to sign off at sunset. On May 15, 2008, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fined WXYB $4,000 for operating during the nighttime hours. Further inspections find that while the station signed off, equipment failure has prevented WXYB from shutting down completely. It has since then been fixed and the FCC reduced the fines to $3,000 base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signed On
A sign-on (or start-up in Commonwealth countries except Canada) is the beginning of operations for a radio broadcasting, radio or television station, generally at the start of each day. It is the opposite of a sign-off (or closedown in Commonwealth countries except Canada), which is the sequence of operations involved when a Radio broadcasting, radio or television station shuts down its transmitters and goes off the air for a predetermined period; generally, this occurs during the overnight hours although a broadcaster's digital specialty or sub-channels may sign-on and sign-off at significantly different times than its main channels. Like other Television show, television programming, sign-on and sign-off sequences can be initiated by a broadcast automation system, and automatic transmission systems can turn the carrier signal and transmitter on/off by remote control. Sign-on and sign-off sequences have become less common due to the increasing prevalence of 24/7 service, 24/7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Call Sign
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station. A call sign can be formally assigned by a government agency, informally adopted by individuals or organizations, or even cryptographically encoded to disguise a station's identity. The use of call signs as unique identifiers dates to the landline railroad telegraph system. Because there was only one telegraph line linking all railroad stations, there needed to be a way to address each one when sending a telegram. In order to save time, two-letter identifiers were adopted for this purpose. This pattern continued in radiotelegraph operation; radio companies initially assigned two-letter identifiers to coastal stations and stations on board ships at sea. These were not globally unique, so a one-letter company identifier (for instance, 'M' and two letters as a Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister Station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio or television stations operated by the same company, either by direct ownership or through a management agreement. Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and sometimes one station is on the AM band while another is on the FM band. Conversely, several types of sister-station relationships exist in television; stations in the same city will usually be affiliated with different television networks (often one with a major network and the other with a secondary network), and may occasionally shift television programs between each other when local events require one station to interrupt its network feed. Sister stations in separate (but often nearby) cities owned by the same company may or may not share a network affiliation. For example, WNYW and WWOR-TV, in New York City and Secaucus, New Jersey, are both owned by Fox Corporation. WNYW is a Fox owned-and-operated station; WWOR-TV is a MyNetworkTV ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1520 AM
The following radio broadcasting, radio stations broadcast on AM broadcasting, AM frequency 1520 kHz: 1520 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency. WWKB in Buffalo, New York, and KOKC (AM), KOKC in Oklahoma City share List of broadcast station classes, Class A status on 1520 AM. Argentina * LRI721 in Chascomús, Buenos Aires * LT38 in Gualeguay, Entre Ríos, Gualeguay, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Rios * La Voz del Sur in Luis Guillon, Buenos Aires * Norteña in Los Polvorines, Buenos Aires Mexico * XEEH-AM in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora United States Stations in bold are clear-channel stations. References {{Lists of radio stations by frequency Lists of radio stations by frequency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampa Bay Area
The Tampa Bay area is a major metropolitan area surrounding Tampa Bay on the Gulf Coast of Florida in the United States. It includes the main cities of Tampa, Florida, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, Florida, Clearwater. It is the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 17th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with a population of 3,175,275 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census. The exact boundaries of the metro area can differ in different contexts. Hillsborough County, Florida, Hillsborough County and Pinellas County (including the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and various smaller communities) make up the most limited definition. This area includes most of the Tampa Bay bayfront, aside from the far southern portion which lies in Manatee County. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defines the Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area (Metropolitan statistical area, MSA) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
