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WVKS
WVKS (92.5 FM) also known as ''92.5 KISS-FM'' is an iHeartMedia-owned station serving Toledo, Ohio with a top 40 (CHR) format; it is the most popular Toledo station in this format. WVKS' studios and offices are located at Superior and Lafayette in downtown Toledo. The station's transmitter is located on Neiderhouse Road in Perrysburg Township, Ohio. History 92.5 went on the air in the Toledo area as WMHE on October 14, 1957. The station was founded by William A. Hillebrand (1917–2005). Though FM broadcasting was still in its infancy at the time, Hillebrand saw FM radio, with its superior sound quality for musical recordings, as an investment that would prove viable in the long run. "He foresaw something that he thought was going to be successful and he was right," his widow, Marvel Hillebrand, told ''The Toledo Blade'' after his death in 2005. The call letters stood for "Wired Music Hillebrand Electronics". WMHE's initial format consisted of "fine arts" music programming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCWA
WCWA (1230 AM) is a radio station licensed to and serving Toledo, Ohio, airing a sports format. Owned by iHeartMedia, it is the Toledo affiliate for Fox Sports Radio, and the city's second-oldest radio station. History The station signed on in 1938 as WTOL, founded by former Toledo prosecutor Frazier Reams (whose family would continue to own the station all the way until 1996). Originally licensed for daytime operations only, WTOL was granted authority for around-the-clock operations in 1939 and affiliated with NBC's Blue Network (later to become ABC Radio) shortly thereafter. Programming on WTOL, until the mid-1960s, was a full-service format of news, information, sports, ABC network programs and various types of music, including pop, country, jazz, and, by the early 1960s, some rock and roll. The station started broadcasting 24 hours a day in 1962 with the new format "Demand Radio 123". The tight format wore out in less than two years. In 1964 WTOL became a personality dri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCKY-FM
WCKY-FM (103.7 MHz, "Buckeye Country 103.7") is a radio station licensed to Pemberville, Ohio. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station - branded as Buckeye Country 103.7 CKY - features a classic country format, and is the Toledo affiliate for ''The Bobby Bones Show''. From its inception until 2008, the station was licensed to (and originally broadcast from) Tiffin, Ohio where the transmitter is located. Originally it simulcast and was a sister station to WTTF, now an AM station at 1600 kHz. WCKY-FM's studios and offices are located at Superior and Lafayette in downtown Toledo. History Beginnings: as WTTF-FM WCKY-FM first signed on the air as WTTF-FM in 1963, four years after the premiere of its AM sister. The station was founded by Robert G. Wright and Milton Maltz, who formed Malrite Communications, based in Cleveland, Ohio. The station first broadcast from its AM transmitter site at an effective radiated power of 3,000 watts at the time of its inception. In the mid-1980s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSPD
WSPD (1370 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Toledo, Ohio. It broadcasts a news/talk format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The radio studios and offices are located in downtown Toledo at Superior and Lafayette Streets. By day, WSPD is powered at 5,000 watts, using a non-directional antenna. But to avoid interfering with other stations on 1370 AM, at night it switches to a directional signal with a three-tower array. The transmitter is on Oregon Road near Wales Road in Perrysburg Township. The transmitter site still contains a small DJ booth - reportedly the original broadcast studio. Programming is also heard on 144 watt FM translator W225AM at 92.9 MHz and on an HD Radio digital subchannel of 101.5 WRVF. Programming Regular schedule Local personalities heard weekdays on WSPD include Fred LeFebvre (morning drive) and Scott Sands (afternoon drive). The rest of the weekday schedule is nationally syndicated programs, including '' This Morning, America' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRVF
WRVF (101.5 FM "The River") is a commercial radio station in Toledo, Ohio, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. It broadcasts an adult contemporary radio format, switching to all-Christmas music for much of November and December. WRVF carries the syndicated ''Delilah'' music and call-in show in the evening. The radio studios and offices are at Superior and Lafayette in Downtown Toledo. WRVF has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 33,000 watts. The station's transmitter is located at North Wynn Road at Cedar Point Road in Oregon, Ohio. The signal covers parts of Ohio and Michigan, getting into the Detroit metropolitan area, as well as a small chunk of Ontario. The station broadcasts using HD Radio technology. The HD2 digital subchannel simulcasts the news/talk format of co-owned WSPD 1370 AM. History WSPD-FM On August 11, 1946, the station signed on the air as WSPD-FM. The station largely simulcast sister station WSPD 1370 AM. They were owned by The Fort Industry Company on H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIOT
WIOT (104.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Toledo, Ohio, and features a mainstream rock format. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., WIOT serves both Northwest Ohio and Monroe County, Michigan, as an affiliate of ''The Bob & Tom Show'' and '' The House of Hair with Dee Snider''. WIOT's studios are located in Downtown Toledo while the transmitter resides in the Toledo suburb of Oregon. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WIOT broadcasts over two HD Radio channels and is available online via iHeartRadio. History WTOL-FM and WCWA-FM In , the station signed on as WTOL-FM. It was the FM simulcast of WTOL (now WCWA), owned by the family of Toledo prosecutor Frazier Reams. The two stations carried ABC Radio's dramas, comedies, news and sports during the "Golden Age of Radio." When network programming shifted from radio to television, WTOL-AM-FM began airing a full service, middle of the road format of popular music, news and sports. By the 1960s, WTOL-FM had it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toledo, Ohio
Toledo ( ) is a city in Lucas County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is located at the western end of Lake Erie along the Maumee River. Toledo is the List of cities in Ohio, fourth-most populous city in Ohio and List of United States cities by population, 86th-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 270,871 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Toledo metropolitan area had 606,240 residents in 2020. Toledo also serves as a major trade center for the Midwestern United States, Midwest; its port is the fifth-busiest on the Great Lakes. The city was founded in 1833 on the west bank of the Maumee River and originally incorporated as part of the Michigan Territory. It was re-founded in 1837 after the conclusion of the Toledo War, when it was incorporated in Ohio. After the 1845 completion of the Miami and Erie Canal, Toledo grew quickly; it also benefited from its position on the railway line between New York City and Chicago. The first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album-oriented Rock
Album-oriented rock (AOR, originally called album-oriented radio) is an FM radio format created in the United States in the late 1960s that focuses on the full repertoire of rock albums and is currently associated with classic rock. US radio stations dedicated to playing album tracks by rock artists from the hard rock and progressive rock genres initially established album-oriented radio. In the mid-1970s, AOR was characterized by a layered, mellifluous sound and sophisticated production with considerable dependence on melodic hooks. The AOR format achieved tremendous popularity in the late 1960s to the early 1980s through research and formal programming to create an album rock format with great commercial appeal. From the early 1980s onward, the abbreviation AOR transitioned from "album-oriented radio" to "album-oriented rock", meaning radio stations specialized in classic rock recorded during the late 1960s and 1970s. The term is also commonly conflated with " adult-or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 In Radio
The year 1975 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history. Events *1 January – KQV-Pittsburgh's new owner, Taft Broadcasting, hires Joey Reynolds as program director. KQV's Top 40 format is blown up, taking a bizarre, free-form approach dubbed "The Death of Radio!" Phonetically re-branded "Kay-Cue-Vee," regular newscasts are canceled, jingles are replaced with crudely produced "mingles," airplay of ''any'' Top 10 songs was avoided, daily names like "Barrel Bottom Radio," "Volkswagen Radio," "Channel 14," "AM Radio" and "Normalcy Radio" are used, and all of the deejays ''only'' said "KQV plays WAY too Much Music!" for a seven-day period, among other stunts. Reynolds, along with his hand-picked music director and morning host, are all fired in May, and the station reverts to the prior format. *July – Country music station KRRV in Dallas, Texas, becomes Top 40 KIKM. *14 October – KQV in Pittsburgh ends its longtime Top 40 format, switching to all-news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doobie Brothers
The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band formed in San Jose, California in 1970. Known for their flexibility in performing across numerous genres and their vocal harmonies, the band has been active for over five decades, with their greatest success taking place in the 1970s. The group's current lineup consists of founding members Tom Johnston (guitars, keyboards, harmonica, vocals) and Patrick Simmons (guitars, banjo, recorder, vocals), alongside Michael McDonald (keyboards, synthesizers, vocals) and John McFee (guitars, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, banjo, violin, cello, harmonica, vocals), and touring musicians including John Cowan (bass, vocals), Marc Russo (saxophones), Ed Toth (drums), and Marc Quiñones (percussion, backing vocals). Long-serving former members include guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, bassist Tiran Porter, and drummers John Hartman, Michael Hossack, and Keith Knudsen. Johnston provided the lead vocals from 1970 to 1975, when they featured a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Band
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing music, swing was most popular. The term "big band" is also used to describe a genre of music, although this was not the only style of music played by big bands. Big bands started as accompaniment for dancing the Lindy Hop. In contrast to the typical jazz emphasis on improvisation, big bands relied on written compositions and arrangements. They gave a greater role to bandleaders, arrangers, and sections of instruments rather than soloists. Instruments Big bands generally have four sections: trumpets, trombones, saxophones, and a rhythm section of guitar, piano, double bass, drums and sometimes vibraphone or other percussion. The division in early big bands, from the 1920s to 1930s, was typicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listen To The Music
"Listen to the Music" is a song by American rock band the Doobie Brothers, released on their second album, '' Toulouse Street'' (1972). The song was written by Tom Johnston and was the band’s first major hit. In 1994, it received a remix by Steve Rodway a.k.a. Motiv8, which eventually peaked at No. 37 in the UK and No. 3 in Iceland. Background Writer Tom Johnston described the inspiration for the song as a call for world peace: "The chord structure of it made me think of something positive, so the lyrics that came out of that were based on this utopian idea that if the leaders of the world got together on some grassy hill somewhere and either smoked enough dope or just sat down and just listened to the music and forgot about all this other bullshit, the world would be a much better place. It was very utopian and very unrealistic (laughs). It seemed like a good idea at the time." The studio recording used both a banjo and a prominent flanging effect, audible from the bridge u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WQQO
WQQO (105.5 FM broadcasting, FM) is a commercial Radio broadcasting, radio station licensed to Sylvania, Ohio, carrying a hot adult contemporary radio format, format known as "Q105". Owned by Cumulus Media, the station serves the Toledo metropolitan area and much of surrounding Northwest Ohio. WQQO's studio is located near UTMC on Arlington near Byrne road. The transmitter is located in Toledo, Ohio, Toledo's Neighborhoods in Toledo, Ohio, Scott Park neighborhood. Besides a standard analog transmission, WQQO broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online; WQQO-HD2 carries a sports radio, sports talk format branded as "ESPN 100.7 The Ticket", which is relayed over low-power Broadcast relay station, analog translator W264AK. History The 105.5 MHz spot on the radio dial in the Toledo area began in November 1968 as WGLN, located in a cornfield in western Lucas County, the remote studio-transmitter location was the home of the "Jones Boys", a concept introduced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
