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WWKY-FM
WWKY-FM (104.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Providence, Kentucky Providence is a list of Kentucky cities, home rule-class city in Webster County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 3,193 at the time of the 2010 United States Census. History In 1820, Richard B. Savage arrived from Virginia with ..., United States. The station is currently owned by Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation, through licensee Madisonville CBC, Inc. Studios are in downtown Princeton at 108 West Main Street. History The station, originally licensed to Princeton, went on the air as WPKY-FM on March 22, 1979, under ownership by Leslie Goodaker. The station was an FM simulcast of WPKY's AM signal (1580 kHz) until the stations were sold to DART, Inc., in November 1993. On January 15, 1994, the station changed its call sign to WAVJ, and began airing its country music format. The station has been recognized on the local, state and national level for its efforts in the area of com ...
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WREF (FM)
WREF (97.7 FM broadcasting, FM) is a radio station licensed to Sebree, Kentucky, United States, serving Hopkins and Webster counties, as well as the greater Evansville, Indiana, area. The station is owned by Henson Media, Inc. History The station's construction permit for a new radio station, originally licensed to Providence, Kentucky, was issued on May 22, 1975. Its first broadcast as WHRZ was in April 1976, with former WOMI general manager Doug Gabby as manager of the station. Under original ownership by Tradewater Broadcasting Company, the station aired an adult contemporary format in its early years as the only radio station within Webster County, Kentucky, Webster County boundaries. The station became a country music- formatted station in 1983. In 1991, the station's transmission was relocated near Dixon, Kentucky, with the opening of a second studio/office facility in Madisonville, Kentucky, Madisonville. The station changed its callsign to WWKY (unrelated to the curren ...
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WPKY
WPKY (1580 AM) is a radio station licensed to Princeton, Kentucky, United States. The station is currently owned by Beth Mann, through licensee Ham Broadcasting. History The station began broadcasting on March 15, 1950 under ownership of Leslie Goodaker, a former engineer at Owensboro's WOMI. He and his wife, Mayme, operated the station for more than first four decades on the air until selling the station to DART, Inc., in November 1993. The station's programming was also broadcast on WPKY-FM (104.9 MHz, now Providence, Kentucky Providence is a list of Kentucky cities, home rule-class city in Webster County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 3,193 at the time of the 2010 United States Census. History In 1820, Richard B. Savage arrived from Virginia with ...-based WWKY-FM) from 1969 until that station became a separate entity by becoming a country music station after the 1993 sale. In 2016, the station and its translator was sold to Tiger Media from Comm ...
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Radio Stations In Kentucky
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Kentucky, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WAIA * WANY * WBLG-LP * WCPM * WCYN-FM * WEKC (Williamsburg, Kentucky) * WENS-LP * WFLE * WFUL * WGRK * WIAR * WKYD-LP * WKYR * WLBJ * WLGC * WLKS * WMMG * WMOR * WMTC * WQFR-LP * WQXY * WRLV * WRSL * WSMJ * WWLK * WYAH-LP See also * Kentucky media ** List of newspapers in Kentucky ** List of television stations in Kentucky ** Media of cities in Kentucky: Bowling Green, Lexington, Louisville References Bibliography * (About WHAS and early radio in general) * * * * * * * * External links Kentucky Broadcasters Association Images File:Mr. Sergent dresses in clean clothing early in the morning, turns on the radio for some music "to start the day"... - NARA - 541351.jpg, Radio listener, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1 ...
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Providence, Kentucky
Providence is a home rule-class city in Webster County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 3,193 at the time of the 2010 United States Census. History In 1820, Richard B. Savage arrived from Virginia with his wife and his elder sister Mary (Savage) Settler, and opened a general store on the site of the present city. The community that grew up was known as Savageville, until the post office was established in 1828, when it was renamed "Providence". Though sometimes said to honor the Rhode Island city of that name, local history records that an old trader who had been helped by nearby farmers suggested the name to honor divine Providence.Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names''p. 244. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 27 September 2013. On February 18, 1840, the town had a population of 150; there were three physicians, five stores, two hotels, a school, a Baptist church, a Masonic lodge, and three tobacco stemmeries. Located in the heart of ...
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Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to ''hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encompas ...
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer. The watt is named after James Watt (1736–1819), an 18th-century Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved the Newcomen engine with his own steam engine in 1776. Watt's invention was fundamental for the Industrial Revolution. Overview When an object's velocity is held constant at one metre per second against a constant opposing force of one newton, the rate at which work is done is one watt. : \mathrm In terms of electromagnetism, one watt is the rate at which electrical work is performed when a current of one ampere (A) flows across an electrical potential difference of one volt (V), meaning the watt is equivalent to the volt-ampere (the latter unit, however, is used for a different quantity from the real power of an electrical circuit ...
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Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security. The FCC was formed by the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. The FCC also provides varied degrees of cooperation, oversight, and leadership for similar communications bodies in other countries of North America. The FCC is funded entirely by regulatory fees. It has an estimated fiscal-2022 budget of US $388 million. It h ...
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FM Broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting using frequency modulation (FM). Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong, wide-band FM is used worldwide to provide high fidelity sound over broadcast radio. FM broadcasting is capable of higher fidelity—that is, more accurate reproduction of the original program sound—than other broadcasting technologies, such as AM broadcasting. It is also less susceptible to common forms of interference, reducing static and popping sounds often heard on AM. Therefore, FM is used for most broadcasts of music or general audio (in the audio spectrum). FM radio stations use the very high frequency range of radio frequencies. Broadcast bands Throughout the world, the FM broadcast band falls within the VHF part of the radio spectrum. Usually 87.5 to 108.0 MHz is used, or some portion thereof, with few exceptions: * In the former Soviet republics, and some former Eastern Bloc countries, the older 65.8–74 M ...
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Radio Station
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio station, while in satellite radio the radio waves are broadcast by a satellite in Earth orbit. To receive the content the listener must have a broadcast radio receiver (''radio''). Stations are often affiliated with a radio network which provides content in a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both. Radio stations broadcast with several different types of modulation: AM radio stations transmit in AM ( amplitude modulation), FM radio stations transmit in FM (frequency modulation), which are older analog audio standards, while newer digital radio stations transmit in several digital audio standards: DAB (digital audio broadcasting), HD radio, DRM ( Digital Radio Mondiale). Television bro ...
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Princeton, Kentucky
Princeton is a home rule-class city in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 6,329 during the 2010 U.S. Census. Princeton is home to several notable attractions such as Adsmore Museum, Champion-Shepherdson House (home of the Princeton Art Guild), University of Kentucky Research and Education Center Botanical Garden, Capitol Cinemas, the Annual Black Patch Festival, and Newsom's Aged Kentucky Ham. History The community at the head of Eddy Creek was first called Eddy Grove for the creek's source at a large whirling spring. of surrounding land was granted to the Virginian William Prince for his service during the American Revolution. He settled there in what was then Livingston County in 1799 and erected Shandy Hall, a brick home and tavern. Prince's heirs and another local landowner named Thomas Frazier granted around Eddy Grove and Prince's Place towards the establishment of a new town in 1817, provided the courthou ...
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Radio Stations Established In 1979
Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to an antenna which radiates the waves, and received by another antenna connected to a radio receiver. Radio is very widely used in modern technology, in radio communication, radar, radio navigation, 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 modulating the radio signal (impressing an information signal on the radio wave by varying some aspect of the wave) in the transmitter. In radar, used to locate and track objects like aircraft, ships, spacecraft ...
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1979 Establishments In Kentucky
Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song '' Chiquitita'' to commemorate the event. ** The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full diplomatic relations. ** Following a deal agreed during 1978, French carmaker Peugeot completes a takeover of American manufacturer Chrysler's European operations, which are based in Britain's former Rootes Group factories, as well as the former Simca factories in France. * January 7 – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: The People's Army of Vietnam and Vietnamese-backed Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area along the Thai border, ending large-scale fighting. * January 8 – Whiddy Island Disaster: The Fre ...
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