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WBZI (1500 AM "Real Roots Radio") is a daytime-only radio station in Xenia, Ohio, United States, operating with 500 watts. Its current owner Town and Country Broadcasting operates it with a country oldies format serving Greene, Clark, eastern Montgomery and surrounding counties. Its downtown studios are located on West Second Street and transmitter on East Kinsey Road (the former studio location.) World news from Fox News Radio is aired at the top of the hour in addition to farm and agriculture news from the ABN throughout the day. History Began operation in November 1963 by founder Xenia Broadcasting Inc. as WGIC (for: "Greene Information Center.") It is Xenia and Greene County's first and oldest full service AM radio station. Crosstown competitor WHBM (now WZDA licensed to Beavercreek) was the first Xenia FM station being founded one year earlier. Several format changes took place on the station during the 1970s, most noted as contemporary hit-formatted "G-15" using an auto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WZLR
WZLR (95.3 FM broadcasting, FM), known as "95.3 and 101.1 The Eagle," is a radio station broadcasting a 1980s classic hits format currently owned by Cox Media Group. Licensed to Xenia, Ohio, United States, it serves the Dayton area. According to the Federal Communications Commission's website, the station has transmitted at 6,000 watts since 1998. Its studios are co-located with other Cox Media properties in the Cox Media Center building near downtown Dayton. WZLR's transmitter is located in Xenia and translator on the WHIO-TV tower in Germantown, Ohio. History Country (1967–1979) The station's original call sign was WBZI, the FM sister of the former WBZI, WGIC. As early as 1967 the station played country music and even published a countdown chart called the "Flashy 40." Top 40 (1979–1980) At some point in the later part of the 1970s the station flipped to an automated top 40 format using TM's "Stereo Rock" format. At the same time WDJX, located in the same city of lice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xenia, Ohio
Xenia ( ) is a city in Greene County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Located in southwestern Ohio, it is east of Dayton, Ohio, Dayton and is part of the Greater Dayton, Dayton metropolitan area as well as the Miami Valley region. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 25,441. The city's name comes from the Greek language, Greek word Xenia (Greek), Xenia (ξενία), which means "hospitality". History Xenia was founded in 1803, the same year Ohio was admitted to the Union. In that year, Hollander-American pioneer John Paul (pioneer), John Paul bought of land from Thomas and Elizabeth Richardson of Hanover County, Virginia, for "1050 pounds current moneys of Virginia." Paul influenced county commissioners to locate the county seat on this land at the forks of the Shawnee creeks, stimulating development of the settlement here. Joseph C. Vance was named to survey the site and lay out the town. The following year, he bought the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agricultural Journalism
Agricultural journalism is a field of journalism that focuses on the various aspects of agriculture, including agribusiness, best practices and changing conditions for agriculture. Agricultural journalism is part of agricultural communication Agricultural communication, or agricultural communications, is a field that focuses on communication about agriculture-related information among agricultural stakeholders and between agricultural and non-agricultural stakeholders and is part of a l ..., an academic and professional field focused on best practices for communicating about agriculture. This kind of knowledge transfer, both identify the perspectives of agriculturalists in larger news stories, such as weather or economics, and transfers knowledge from knowledge holders, policy makers and researchers, to agricultural producers and other implementers involved in growing or processing food. Agricultural journalism has its roots in other forms of rural journalism in the mid 19th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eaton, Ohio
Eaton is a city in and the county seat of Preble County, Ohio, United States, approximately west of Dayton. The population was 8,375 at the 2020 census, down 0.4% from the population of 8,407 at the 2010 census. History Eaton was founded and platted in 1806 by William Bruce. The village derives its name from Gen. William Eaton (1764–1811), the U.S. Consul at Tunis, who led a diverse army in a harrowing march from Egypt to Tripoli to meet the U.S. Naval forces. In addition to the city of Eaton and the county of Preble, various streets in Eaton (Barron, Decatur, Israel, Wadsworth, and Somers) were named in honor of heroes of the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War. The town grew quickly following its establishment. In 1846, the town first had 1000 inhabitants. This growth was primarily derived from the town's location at the strategic junction of two turnpikes. In 1849, Eaton was the site of a cholera outbreak. About half of the inhabitants fled; of the rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilmington, Ohio
Wilmington is a city in Clinton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. The population was 12,664 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Micropolitan statistical area, Wilmington micropolitan area, which includes all of Clinton County and is part of the greater Cincinnati metropolitan area, Cincinnati–Wilmington–Maysville combined statistical area. Home to Wilmington College (Ohio), Wilmington College, founded in 1870 by the Religious Society of Friends, Society of Friends, the city and the surrounding area include more than one dozen Quakers, Quaker meeting houses. The city features a weather forecast office of the National Weather Service, which serves all of Southwestern Ohio and portions of Kentucky and Indiana. History The town of Clinton was founded in 1810 as seat of the newly formed Clinton County; the name was changed to Wilmington in 1811. The village was incorporated in 1828. In 1833, Wilmington contained a brick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluegrass Music
Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States. The genre derives its name from the band Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. Bluegrass has roots in African American genres like blues and jazz and North European genres, such as Irish ballads and dance tunes. Unlike country, it is traditionally played exclusively on acoustic instruments such as the fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar and upright bass. It was further developed by musicians who played with Monroe, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt. Bill Monroe once described bluegrass music as, "It's a part of Methodist, Holiness and Baptist traditions. It's blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound." Bluegrass features acoustic stringed instruments and emphasizes the off-beat. The off-beat can be "driven" (played close to the previous bass note) or "swung" (played farther from the previous bass note). N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a neurodegenerative disease primarily of the central nervous system, affecting both motor system, motor and non-motor systems. Symptoms typically develop gradually and non-motor issues become more prevalent as the disease progresses. The motor symptoms are collectively called parkinsonism and include tremors, bradykinesia, spasticity, rigidity as well as postural instability (i.e., difficulty maintaining balance). Non-motor symptoms develop later in the disease and include behavior change (individual), behavioral changes or mental disorder, neuropsychiatric problems such as sleep abnormalities, psychosis, anosmia, and mood swings. Most Parkinson's disease cases are idiopathic disease, idiopathic, though contributing factors have been identified. Pathophysiology involves progressive nerve cell death, degeneration of nerve cells in the substantia nigra, a midbrain region that provides dopamine to the basal ganglia, a system invo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBKR
WBKR (92.5 FM) is an American radio station broadcasting a country music format. The station is licensed to Owensboro, Kentucky. Its powerful 100,000-watt signal covers much of northwest Kentucky and southwest Indiana, including the Evansville area. The station is owned by Townsquare Media. The station transmits from a tower located near Utica on Kentucky Route 140. The studios are located at 3301 Frederica Street in Owensboro. History In November 1945, the FCC issued a construction permit to the Hager Family, who were also the owners of WOMI-AM, as well as the ''Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer'' daily newspaper. The permit was filed under licensee Owensboro Broadcasting Company. It originally intended to broadcast at 92.3 megacycles, but in 1947, the construction permit was modified to allow the station to instead broadcast at 92.5 megacycles. The station began operations in 1948 under Special temporary authority as WOMI-FM, simulcasting the original WOMI-AM on a tower wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGTZ
WGTZ (92.9 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Eaton, Ohio and serving the Dayton and Springfield radio market. It airs an adult hits format, using the national Jack FM music service and is branded as "92-9 Jack FM." The station operates without DJs. It is owned by Portland-based Alpha Media with studios in Kettering, Ohio (using a Dayton address). WGTZ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 40,000 watts. The transmitter is on Carr Drive near Albert Road in Brookville, Ohio. History MOR (1959–1972) The station signed on the air on . It was founded as WCTM-FM by Stanley Coning and three other business partners, using the name Western Ohio Broadcasting Service Inc. WCTM-FM aired a middle of the road (MOR) sound in the beginning, featuring such artists as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Patti Page. Its original FM tower still stands today on North Barron Street in downtown Eaton near the Norfolk Southern Railway crossing with the original cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WONE (AM)
WONE (980 Hertz, kHz) is an AM radio, AM radio station in Dayton, Ohio with a Sports radio, sports radio format, format. It carries programming from Fox Sports Radio, as well as ''The Dan Patrick Show'' (Dan Patrick (sportscaster), Dan Patrick was originally an on-air personality on sister station WTUE under his real name, Dan Pugh). Its studios are located in downtown Dayton and its transmitter is in Kettering, Ohio. History The station took the air in 1949, licensed to Skyland Broadcasting Corp. It was sold in 1961 to Brush-Moore Newspapers, publisher of the The Repository, ''Canton Repository''. In 1965 the station was sold to Group One Broadcasting of Akron, owner of WAKR. During the mid-1960s WONE was known as "Channel 98," and it was one of Dayton's two popular Top 40 stations, the other being WING. The format changed to adult contemporary in 1968, when it was called "Charisma Radio" and "The Good Life in Dayton". Sometime thereafter, in early 1969 it switched to country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Xenia Tornado
The 1974 Xenia tornado was a violent, large and extremely powerful Fujita scale, F5 tornado that destroyed a large portion of Xenia, Ohio, Xenia and Wilberforce, Ohio, Wilberforce, Ohio, United States in Greater Dayton, Metro Dayton on the afternoon of April 3, 1974. It was the deadliest individual tornado of the 1974 Super Outbreak, the 24-hour period between April 3 and April 4, 1974, during which 148 tornadoes touched down in 13 different U.S. states. The 1974 Xenia tornado is considered one of the worst tornadoes in American history and has been a major driving force behind improvements to warning systems, alarms, and safety protocols across the United States. Across the state, 2,000 individuals were injured, 7,000 homes were destroyed, and 39 people were killed during the 1974 Super Outbreak, 32 of them being in Xenia. Despite Ohio being better equipped for a tornadic disaster than many other states, a survey team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGNZ
WGNZ (1110 kHz "Good News 1110") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Fairborn, Ohio, with radio studios in Dayton and its transmitter in Xenia (the original city of license). It airs a Christian talk and teaching radio format with Southern Gospel music. The owner is L & D Broadcasters, Inc. By day, WGNZ transmits with 5,000 watts. Because 1110 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A WBT Charlotte and KFAB Omaha, WGNZ must reduce power to 1,700 watts during critical hours and to only 2 watts night. WGNZ is heard around the clock on FM translator W282CD on 104.3 MHz in Dayton. History WGNZ was founded in 1968 as 250-watt daytimer using the call sign WELX. It was owned by West Central Ohio Broadcasters Inc., and it was the AM sister station of WHBM (now WZDA). The WELX call letters stood for: Ernie and Lowell, along with the city of Xenia. Ernie and Lowell were the sons of founders Harry and Ernestine Miller. The station was sold in 1979 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
