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WWFY
WWFY (100.9 FM, "Froggy 104.3 & 100.9") is a radio station licensed to serve Berlin, Vermont. The station is owned by Great Eastern Radio. It airs a country music format. The station has been assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since May 21, 1999. While WWFY has broadcast to the Barre- Montpelier area since October 2000, the 100.9 frequency was originally allocated over the mountains in Middlebury, where the station signed on as WCVM on April 2, 1975. WCVM was a sister to WFAD (1490 AM) in Middlebury, and operated as a class A facility at 3000 watts. At its sign-on, WCVM carried an automated oldies format which lasted for several years. In the 1990s, the station, as WGTK, aired a classic rock format under the name "K101"; it marketed itself as "The Champlain Valley's classic rock station". In 1999, "K101", while keeping the classic rock format, moved to 93.7 FM, and became WRRO "The Arrow". The current air staff includes JD Green (morning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJKS (FM)
WJKS (104.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in the Champlain Valley of northern New England, in the United States. WJKS broadcasts a country music radio format, simulcast with 100.9 WWFY in Berlin, Vermont. The two stations are owned by Great Eastern Radio. WJKS serves the Burlington– Plattsburgh media market, while WWFY serves Barre– Montpelier. History Before it went on the air, the station first took the call sign WVFA on May 3, 1991, and changed to WGLV on June 14, 1991. It officially launched on March 15, 1992, with a religious format in Hartford, Vermont. On October 11, 2000, the station launched its WWOD call letters and changed its format to oldies as "Oldies 104.3". In 2008, the station was granted a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) construction permit to change its city of license from Hartford, Vermont, to Keeseville, New York, increasing its effective radiated power Effective radiated power (ERP), synonymous with equivalent radiated po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSNO-FM
WSNO-FM (97.9 Hertz, MHz, "97.9 & 105.7 The Penguin") is a radio station city of license, licensed to Au Sable, New York, and serving the Burlington, Vermont, Burlington-Plattsburgh, New York, Plattsburgh-Lake Champlain media market, radio market. The station is owned by Great Eastern Radio, LLC. WSNO-FM broadcasts an adult hits radio format, format, simulcast on the second HD Radio channel of WWFY (100.9 FM) in Berlin, Vermont, Berlin and on translator station W289CH (105.7 FM) in Barre, Vermont (city), Barre. History The station was first licensed in early 2009 as WYME. At the outset, it did not offer programming on a regular schedule, and founding owner Radioactive, LLC had already put the station up for sale. The call sign was changed to WZXP on December 11, 2009; on July 23, 2010, the station signed on with an album-oriented rock/adult album alternative format programmed by Diane Desmond and Russ Kinsley, whose "Album Station" programming had been heard on WEXP (FM), WCLX unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSNO (AM)
WSNO (1450 kHz; "The Penguin") was an AM radio station licensed to serve Barre, Vermont. The station, which operated from 1959 to 2023, was owned by Jeffrey Shapiro's Great Eastern Radio. It had most recently broadcast an adult hits format, simulcast from Burlington-market WSNO-FM (97.9 FM) in Au Sable, New York, and also heard on translator W289CH (105.7 FM). The station had been assigned the WSNO call letters by the Federal Communications Commission. History WSNO signed on October 13, 1959. The original owners, JKL Broadcasting Company, sold the station to Robert Kimel and Bessie Grad, owners of WWSR in St. Albans, in 1960. By 1961, the station had affiliated with the CBS Radio Network. By 1970, WSNO had a middle of the road format, with twelve hours weekly of country music. In 1980, the station shifted to a full-time country music format. The station had added an affiliation with Mutual by 1993, while remaining a CBS affiliate. In 1996, the station switched to a news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIFY
WIFY (93.7 FM) is an adult album alternative formatted radio station that is part of The Point radio network. Licensed to Addison, Vermont, United States, the station serves Middlebury, Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, and Plattsburgh, New York. WIFY is owned by Radio Broadcasting Services, Inc. History The station was assigned call sign WWFY on December 8, 1997. On April 30, 1999, the call letters changed to WRRO. When the station launched, it went by the name "The Arrow" and broadcast a classic rock format. The station changed calls and formats again on April 23, 2001, to WXAL-FM with a hot adult contemporary format as "Alice". In September 2002, WXAL-FM began simulcasting on WLKC (103.3 FM; now WAVJ). The simulcast gave "Alice" a better signal in Burlington. On June 1, 2005, WLKC and WXAL-FM flipped to an adult hits format as "MP 103"; WLKC became WWMP, and station identifications during this time ceased to mention WXAL-FM. That August, the station ended the WWMP simulcast a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Vermont
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Vermont, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct In 2011, the license of WNHV was cancelled. It had been on 910 AM, White River Junction, Nassau Broadcasting III, LLC and was an All Sports station. In 2015, the license of WAOT-LP, 98.3 FM, Derby, was cancelled. It had been licensed to the Vermont Agency of Transportation. On May 22, 2019, the license of WIUV, 91.3 FM, Castleton, was cancelled. It had been licensed to the Board of Trustees/Vermont State Colleges, and transitioned to online-only operation following the license's cancellation. On November 1, 2022, the license for WCAT, 1390 AM, Burlington, was cancelled. It had been airing a simulcast of mainstream-rock-formatted WWMP 103.3 FM Waterbury. On June 21, 2023, the license for WVNR, 1340 AM, Poultney, was cancelled. On Septemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nassau Broadcasting Partners
Nassau Broadcasting Partners LP was a company based in Princeton, New Jersey that owned radio stations in New England and the Mid-Atlantic United States. Nassau's stations, which included both AM and FM frequencies, were located in Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The company was owned and headed by Louis F. Mercatanti. Nassau was predominantly an operator of radio stations in medium and small markets. Nassau formerly owned radio station WCRB in Waltham, a Boston suburb, and located in the Boston market, the 11th largest radio market in the US, according to BIA Financial Network. However that station was sold to WGBH in 2009. Nassau operated radio stations in substantially all of the major formats. The company's most common format was classic rock/ classic hits. On October 13, 2011 Nassau Broadcasting entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after their senior lenders petitioned for an involuntary Chapter 7 liquidation in September. The stations were auctioned to variou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRFK (FM)
WRFK (107.1 MHz, "Frank FM") is an FM radio station licensed to Barre and serving central Vermont. Established in 1974, the station is owned by Jeffrey Shapiro's Great Eastern Radio. WRFK airs a classic rock format, and is simulcast in the Champlain Valley on WWFK (also on 107.1 FM) in Plattsburgh West, New York. The transmitter is located off Websterville Road and the studios and offices are on Jacques Street. History The station signed on August 5, 1974, as WORK. It was originally owned by Robert Kimel, who also owned WSNO in Barre and WWSR AM- FM in St. Albans, and programmed an automated Top 40/hot AC format known as "Hit Parade". Kimel sold WORK and WSNO to Bull Moose Broadcasting in 1997; two years later, the stations were purchased by Vox Radio Group. Nassau Broadcasting Partners acquired most of Vox's northern New England radio stations in 2004, and changed WORK's format to classic hits on September 15, 2006. WORK, along with 29 other Nassau stations in northern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFAD
WFAD (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Middlebury, Vermont, United States. The station is owned by Christian Ministries Inc. and is part of The Light, a network of six FM stations and one AM station, as well as five associated FM translators, carrying a Christian radio format. History On the air, off and on again Frank Alvin Delle, Jr., and Donald G. Fisher were initially granted on April 20, 1966, a construction permit for a new 1,000-watt radio station on 1490 kHz in Middlebury, for which they had filed more than four years prior. ( Guide to reading History Cards) The station signed on shortly before noon on July 22, 1966, airing a full-service format and became affiliated with CBS. The studio facilities were so small that the Associated Press teletype machine was in the bathroom. Almost immediately after the station opened, however, a legal problem emerged. WIPS, a radio station on 1250 kHz at Ticonderoga, New York, appealed the grant of the permit t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Rock
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the early-1990s, primarily focusing on commercially successful blues rock and hard rock popularized in the 1970s AOR format.Pareles, Jon (June 18, 1986)"Oldies on Rise in Album-Rock Radio" ''The New York Times''. Retrieved April 19, 2019. The radio format became increasingly popular with the baby boomer demographic by the end of the 1990s. Although classic rock has mostly appealed to adult listeners, music associated with this format received more exposure with younger listeners with the presence of the Internet and digital downloading. Some classic rock stations also play a limited number of current releases which are stylistically consistent with the station's sound, or by Heritage act (music), heritage acts which are still active and producing new music."New York Radio Guide: Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lia Show
''The Lia Show'', formerly known as ''Neon Nights'' and ''Cryin’, Lovin’ or Leavin’'', is a nationally syndicated country music and entertainment radio program hosted by Lia Knight (born in Kentucky). The program airs nightly from 7 pm to midnight locally across the United States. Based out of Seattle, Washington, ''The Lia Show'' is a very artist-driven program with loads of interviews from the top names in the country music industry and many from the film and television industries. The show contributes a measure of its success to its caller hotlines. Putting on caller-intensive shows allowed for it to become more emotional and real. ''The Lia Show'' continues to grow. Whereas in its infancy, it focused primarily on country music, the show has branched out considerably and has featured several high-profile celebrity guests, such as Jenny McCarthy, Bill Engvall, UFC fighters Chuck Liddell, Forrest Griffin, and Matt Hughes, Piers Morgan, Larry the Cable Guy, Chelsea Handle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWJE-DT
WWJE-DT (channel 50) is a television station licensed to Derry, New Hampshire, United States, serving the Boston area as an affiliate of True Crime Network. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision alongside Univision- owned station WUNI (channel 66). The two stations share main studios and transmitter facilities on Parmenter Road in Hudson, Massachusetts. WWJE is operated separately from WUNI's joint sales agreement (JSA) with Entravision Communications–owned UniMás affiliate WUTF-TV (channel 27). WWJE formerly broadcast local newscasts from a studio located in Concord, branded as the NH1 News Network or ''NH1 News''. Besides WBIN, sister radio station WNNH also used the ''NH1 News'' branding from August 2015 to August 2017. WBIN-TV was one of only two television stations based in the state of New Hampshire to broadcast local newscasts (alongside WMUR-TV), as much of the state is part of the Boston media market. On February 17, 2017, WBIN canceled its newscasts as part of a wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Harrison Binnie
William Harrison "Bill" Binnie is an American industrialist, investment banker, and philanthropist, who is currently president of the Carlisle Capital Corporation, president of the media company New Hampshire 1 Network and owner of Carlisle One Media. He is the former chairman of the Finance Committee for the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, and a former candidate for the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate in 2010. He served as chairman of Carlisle Plastics, Inc. until that firm was sold to Tyco International in September 1996. Education Binnie was born in Scotland and immigrated to the United States at the age of five. He attended Harvard University on a scholarship. As a student, he was a research fellow for the ''Accounting Review'', a journal on finance and accounting. Upon graduation, he attended Harvard Business School, where he served as president of the Management Consulting Club. After graduation, he took a position as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Busi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
