|
WEAT
WEAT (107.9 FM) is a commercial radio station in West Palm Beach, Florida. it airs a classic hits radio format, switching to Christmas music for much of November and December. It is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, through licensee WPB FCC License Sub, LLC. The studios and offices are on Northpoint Parkway in West Palm Beach. The station plays 1970s, '80s, and '90s hits from the Top 40 charts of those decades. WEAT has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The transmitter is located off Route 7 at 60th Street North in West Palm Beach. History Beautiful music and Oldies The station debuted, with the call sign WPBF (no relation to the present-day television station), on July 4, 1965. It was a beautiful music format, playing quarter hour sweeps of mostly soft instrumental cover versions of popular songs. It was owned by Ken-Sell, Inc. alongside WIRK (1290 AM). The power was only 26,000 watts, a quarter of its current output. The station became WIRK-FM on M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFTL
WFTL (850 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio station in West Palm Beach, Florida, serving parts of Palm Beach County, Broward County, and Miami-Dade County. The station airs an talk radio, news-talk radio format, format and is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, through licensee WPP FCC License Sub, LLC. By day, WFTL is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for commercial AM stations in the United States. As 850 AM is a clear channel station, clear channel frequency, WFTL reduces power at night to 20,000 watts to avoid interference to other stations. It uses a directional antenna with a six-tower array. The transmitter is near U.S. Route 27 in Florida, U.S. Route 27 in Okeelanta, Florida, Okeelanta. Programming is also heard on FM translator W242CI at 96.3 MHz in Jupiter, Florida, Jupiter. Programming Weekdays on WFTL begin with ''The South Florida Morning Show'' with Jennifer Ross and Bill Adams. Another local show hosted by Joyce Kaufman is heard in mid-afternoons. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIRK
WIRK (103.1 FM broadcasting, FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Indiantown, Florida, the station serves the Treasure Coast and Palm Beach County, Florida, Palm Beach County area. The station is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, through licensee WPB FCC License Sub, LLC. Its studios are in West Palm Beach and its antenna is located on the west side of Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound, Florida. History WLMC/WOKC-FM Okeechobee and move-in to West Palm Beach The 103.1 frequency began in Okeechobee, Florida, Okeechobee in mid-1966 as WLMC, the FM counterpart to the town's established AM station, WOKC. The station was a Class A outlet, covering largely Okeechobee and the immediate area. On New Year's Day 1987, WLMC became WOKC-FM. The station aired a country format. In 1992, Okeechobee Broadcasters was approved to move the station to its present tower near Hobe Sound, changing the city of license to Indiantown and making WOKC-FM a move-i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Palm Beach, Florida
West Palm Beach is a city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is located immediately to the west of the adjacent Palm Beach, Florida, Palm Beach, which is situated on a barrier island across the Lake Worth Lagoon. It is the largest city in Palm Beach County, and at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 117,415. West Palm Beach is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to 6.14 million people in 2020. It is the oldest incorporated municipality in the South Florida area, incorporated as a city two years before Miami in November 1894. West Palm Beach is located approximately north of Greater Downtown Miami, Downtown Miami. History The beginning of the historic period in south Florida is marked by Juan Ponce de León's first contact with native people in 1513. Europeans found a thriving native population, which they categorized into separate tribes: the Mayaimi in the Lake Okee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubbard Broadcasting
Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. is an American television and radio broadcasting corporation based in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was founded by Stanley E. Hubbard. The corporation has broadcast outlets scattered across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Washington, Florida, and Washington, D.C. KSTP radio, KSTP-FM, KTMY, KSTP-TV, and KSTC-TV, which serve the Twin Cities region of Minnesota and western Wisconsin, are regarded as the company's legacy flagship stations. History KSTP has its origins in the Twin Cities radio station WAMD ("Where All Minneapolis Dances"), which started broadcasting live dance music from a local ballroom on February 13, 1925 with Stanley E. Hubbard as owner and station director. It was the first radio station to be completely supported by income generated by advertisements. In 1928, WAMD merged with KFOY (Kind Friends of Yours) radio (first broadcast: March 12, 1924) in St. Paul to become KSTP, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJNO
WJNO (1290 kHz) is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to serve West Palm Beach, Florida, covering Palm Beach County and portions of the Miami metropolitan area. Owned by iHeartMedia, WJNO serves as the local affiliate for: Fox News Radio; ''The Glenn Beck Program'', '' The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show'', ''The Sean Hannity Show'', ''The Mark Levin Show'', ''The Dave Ramsey Show'' and ''Coast to Coast AM''; and syndicated personalities Kim Komando, Ric Edelman and Bill Handel. The WJNO studios are located in West Palm Beach, while the station transmitter resides in nearby Loxahatchee. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WJNO streams online via iHeartRadio. This station is the second station in the West Palm Beach area—and the third AM station overall—to use the WJNO call sign, which originated on the former WJNO (1230 AM) in 1936; that station is now known as WBZT. WJNO is also notable as being the first station in the market to use the WIRK call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRMF
WRMF (97.9 FM broadcasting, FM) is a commercial broadcasting, commercial radio station in Palm Beach, Florida. It serves the northern sections of the Miami metropolitan area, including West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Fort Lauderdale. The station airs a hot adult contemporary radio format and is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting. The studios and offices are on Northpoint Parkway in West Palm Beach. For the past three decades, WRMF has been at or close to #1 in the West Palm Beach media market, radio market ratings. WRMF has an effective radiated power of 100,000 watts. The transmitter is in Lake Worth, Florida, Lake Worth, west of U.S. Route 441 in Florida, U.S. Route 441. WRMF is licensed to broadcast in the HD Radio digital format. The HD2 subchannel simulcasts the talk radio format on sister station WFTL. The HD3 subchannel carries Haitian Creole talk radio, talk and contemporary hit radio, contemporary hits from co-owned WPBR. History WQXT-FM, WWOS On March 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMEN
WMEN (640 AM, "Fox Sports 640") is a sports radio station licensed to Royal Palm Beach, Florida, United States. The station primarily serves the West Palm Beach, Florida market and provides strong coverage of nearby Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Fox Sports 640 is a Fox Sports Radio affiliate, carrying hourly sports updates along with weekend and overnight programming. The station is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, with studios in West Palm Beach. Under Special Temporary Authority from the FCC, WMEN broadcasts at 25,000 watts daytime power and 4,500 watts nighttime power in order to overcome Cuban interference. Local programming Currently, the only non-Fox Sports programming on WMEN, other than a Saturday Morning public affairs program, is Andy Slater in afternoon drive. Joe Raineri & Steve Zemach, who were hosting from 6 am-9 am ET, exited on March 13, 2017. History WMEN was initially religious brokered station WLVJ before swapping call signs, format, and dial position ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMBX
WMBX (102.3 FM "X 102.3") is a commercial radio station licensed to Jensen Beach, Florida. It serves the West Palm Beach and Treasure Coast areas, broadcasting an urban adult contemporary radio format. WMBX is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting. Its studios and offices are in West Palm Beach. On weekday mornings, it carries '' The Steve Harvey Morning Show'' from Premiere Networks. The transmitter is located on the west side of Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound, Florida. The tower is 965 feet in height above average terrain (HAAT), and shares a transmitter tower with WIRK and WKGR. WMBX has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. It sometimes can be picked up as far south as Miami, as far north as Cocoa Beach and as far west as Moore Haven. History On December 10, 1980, the station signed on as WHLG. It was a rare radio station in that era, owned and run by a woman. Genevieve Glascock was both the owner and general manager. The station aired a beauti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcast Automation
Broadcast automation incorporates the use of broadcast programming technology to automate broadcasting operations. Used either at a broadcast network, radio station or a television station, it can run a facility in the absence of a human operator. They can also run in a ''live assist'' mode when there are on-air personnel present at the master control, television studio or control room. The radio transmitter end of the airchain is handled by a separate automatic transmission system (ATS). History Originally, in the US, many (if not most) broadcast licensing authorities required a licensed board operator to run every station at all times, meaning that every DJ had to pass an exam to obtain a license to be on-air, if their duties also required them to ensure proper operation of the transmitter. This was often the case on overnight and weekend shifts when there was no broadcast engineer present, and all of the time for small stations with only a contract engineer on c ... [...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] |
Oldies
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music. Since 2000, 1970s music has been increasingly included in this genre. " Classic hits" have been seen as a successor to the oldies format on the radio, with music from the 1980s serving as the core example. Description This category includes styles as diverse as doo-wop, early rock and roll, novelty songs, bubblegum music, folk rock, psychedelic rock, baroque pop, surf music, soul music, rhythm and blues, classic rock, some blues and some country music. Golden Oldies usually refers to music exclusively from the 1950s and 1960s. Oldies radio typically features artists such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Beach Boys, Frankie Avalon, The Four Seasons, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Little Richard and Sam Cooke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing Narrative, stories about Working class in the United States, working-class and blue-collar worker, blue-collar American life. Country music is known for its ballads and dance tunes (i.e., "Honky-tonk#Music, honky-tonk music") with simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies generally accompanied by instruments such as banjos, fiddles, harmonicas, and many types of guitar (including acoustic guitar, acoustic, electric guitar, electric, steel guitar, steel, and resonator guitar, resonator guitars). Though it is primarily rooted in various forms of American folk music, such as old-time music and Appalachian music, many other traditions, including African-American, Music of Mexico, Mexican, Music of Ireland, Irish, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
