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unusual facts about AM Radio



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am ccTLD enjoy popularity due to the connection to AM radio (similar to the .fm and .tv ccTLDs), and the ability to form English words ending in "am" — e.g. the mobile photo sharing service Instagram uses the Armenian domain name Instagr.am.

2XXfm

It took over the operation of the former Australian National University student radio station in 1976, broadcasting as 2XX on 1008 kHz AM from two studios at the Drill Hall Gallery in Acton.

BBC Radio Northampton

The station was launched at 6:45am on 16 June 1982 on 1107 AM and 96.6 FM, with Jon Beynon's programme Start the Day, the first piece of music being John Williams's Superman theme, followed by Work that Body by Diana Ross.

Bill Mack

Ironically, two of the other main personalities on Open Road, Dave Nemo and Dale "The Truckin' Bozo" Sommers, were Mack's primary competitors before all three left their AM radio stations to join XM.

Bryce Soderberg

At 21, he joined Elektra recording artists AM Radio, and toured the world for three years under the management of Rivers Cuomo recording their debut record with Producer Howard Benson.

CBPM

CBPM is a Weatheradio Canada station which broadcasts weather information and alerts on a frequency of 1260 AM in Sicamous, British Columbia, Canada, in both English and French.

CICX-FM

The station was originally launched in 1943, broadcasting at 1450 AM in Nobel, with the call sign CFPS.

L.E.O.

Spawned by an on-stage cover of ELO's "Telephone Line" by lead singer-songwriter Bleu and Mike Viola, it quickly produced an entire album of original songs similar in style to 1970s AM radio pop music.

Royal Parker

He began his broadcasting career in the late 1940s on WASA (now WJSS), an AM radio station in Havre de Grace, Maryland, hosting a music program called the Royal Record Review.

Scott Shannon

He began his radio career during his own Army stint at WFBS-1450 AM in Spring Lake, North Carolina (now WFBX).

WEBB

Owned by Townsquare Media, the station broadcasts on 98.5 FM, and was previously simulcast on AM 1490 WTVL.


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2007 Island Fire

According to Associated Press, the blaze was started by contractors cutting steel wire with a torch for day-time only AM radio station, KBRT.

Adam Hochberg

Prior to that, he served as assistant news director at WPTF Radio in Raleigh and as a reporter at WCHL (AM) Radio in Chapel Hill.

B105 FM

The 4BK studio complex, an AM radio facility was located at 16 Campbell Street Bowen Hills.

CJNR

CJNR (AM), an AM radio station in Blind River, Ontario, Canada, which ceased broadcasting in 1997 after converting to the FM band as CKNR-FM.

Clyde Clifford

Beaker Street, which first aired on clear channel KAAY AM 1090 from 1966 through 1972, was the first underground music program broadcast regularly on a commercial AM radio station.

Dayna Devon

She began her broadcast journalism career as the weekend anchor at KTSA-AM radio in San Antonio.

Dermott Brereton

In 2004, Brereton hosted The Run Home radio show on Melbourne AM radio station SEN 1116 with Anthony Hudson and Matthew Hardy, but left due to a payment dispute.

DWRT

DWRT-AM, formerly known as Rock 990/Nueve Noventa, an AM radio station in Metro Manila, Philippines

DYCM

DYCM (1152 kHz Bogo City) Bagong Adlaw is an AM radio station owned and operated by Masbate Community Broadcasting Co.Inc, an affiliate of the Archdiocese of Cebu, in the Philippines.

DZMM

All of these were witnessed and listened on AM radio to listeners, together with ABS-CBN News team.

East Bay Grease

"Sparkling in the Sand" became a #1 ballad in the San Francisco Bay Area with major airplay on defunct AM radio station, KDIA, then local pop stations, KYA and KFRC and then eventually a standard oldie on FM stations, KSOL and KBLX.

Fred Cusick

In 2007, he returned to the broadcast booth as the Cape Cod Baseball League game of the week play-by-play announcer on WBZ (AM) Radio.

Gil Whitney

Gil Whitney was an American television personality in Dayton, Ohio, who worked primarily at WHIO Television and Radio until his death in 1982.

Hexing a Hurricane

Those appearing on screen include Chris Rose (Times-Picayune columnist), Angela Hill (WWL-TV Channel 4 news anchor), Garland Robinette, (WWL (AM) radio talk show host), Harry Anderson (actor, former resident, former local club owner), Irvin Mayfield (musician), Sallie Ann Glassman (artist, Voodoo priestess), along with various people of New Orleans.

Johnny Colt

With Cartoon Network and Adult Swim executive Michael Ouwleen (Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Space Ghost), Colt also co-hosts the AM radio talk show 'Politely Disruptive' on WMLB AM1690 (the Voice of the Arts).

KCRG

KGYM, an AM radio station (1600 kHz) licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, which held the call sign KCRG until 2006

KFUO-FM

The station was owned by the LCMS, which still owns the KFUO AM radio station.

KSHO-TV

KSHO, American AM radio station ("Unforgettable 920") in small Oregon city of Lebanon, which began broadcasting in 1950 as KGAL and used those call letters until 1991

KWVE-FM

That changed in 2009 when Calvary Chapel purchased a defunct Christian AM radio station, KGDP in Oildale, California and renamed it KWVE, simulcasting the FM signal into the Bakersfield area.

KWWL

KWLO, an AM radio station (1330 kHz) licensed to Waterloo, Iowa, United States, which held the callsign KWWL from 1947 to 1980

Little Walter DeVenne

He now lives in New Hampshire and is the host of the syndicated retro oldies program Little Walter's Time Machine focusing on the pop, doo-wop, blues, R&B and early rock n' roll hits of the 1950s and early to mid-1960s presented in the high energy style of the Top 40 AM radio stations of that era.

Magee, Mississippi

Magee is ahome to a 50,000 Watt AM radio station, WSJC on 810 kHz.

Mio, Michigan

There are no AM Radio Stations in range of Mio, Michigan, although WWJ can be faintly heard during the nighttime.

Ombra mai fu

On 24 December 1906, Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian inventor and radio pioneer, broadcast the first AM radio program, which started with a phonograph record of "Ombra mai fu" followed by him playing "O Holy Night" on the violin and singing the final verse.

Pira-pirasong Pangarap

This also caused the Pira-piraso... radio drama to moved from DZRH to Super Radyo DZBB, the AM Radio station of GMA Network.

Pirate radio in Australia and New Zealand

On 5 October, the Australian Communications and Media Authority reported that it shut down an unlicensed AM radio station operating on 1485 kHz from Chadstone following a complaint.

Rádio Universitária 1570 kHz

Rádio Universitária AM 1570 kHz ("University Radio 1570 kHz") is the official AM radio station owned and operated by the Brazilian famed southwestern university Universidade Federal de Itajubá.

Radio Warwick

Formerly known as W963, during the years when broadcasts were conducted via an induction loop around the university campus on 963 kHz AM, Radio Warwick now broadcasts from inside the Students' Union HQ building on 1251 kHz AM to the campus and previously on FM for four weeks of the year to Coventry, Kenilworth and surrounding areas.

Tom Donahue

Donahue wrote a 1967 Rolling Stone article titled "AM Radio Is Dead and Its Rotting Corpse Is Stinking Up the Airwaves", which also lambasted the Top Forty format.

Wacky

WAYE, a Birmingham, Alabama AM radio station formerly known as "Wacky 1220" (as WAQY)

Walter Kotaba

Kotaba is the President and 100% shareholder of Polnet Communications. Ltd., which owns 8 US AM radio stations, as well as of Polstudios, Inc, which runs Polish-language television broadcaster Polvision.

Warren on the Weekend

It was broadcast on several AM radio stations, mainly in Western Canada, on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific Time on the Corus Radio Network.

WCYB

WCYB (AM), call sign used from 1946 to 1969 by WZAP AM radio station licensed to Bristol, Virginia, United States

WEDR

1963 -- The WEDR call letters have been in South Florida since 1963 when the station's then owner Ed Rivers acquired them from an AM radio station in Birmingham, Alabama.

WFBM

WNDE, an AM radio station (1260 kHz) licensed to serve Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, which held the call sign WFBM from 1924 to 1973

WIBG

WNTP, an AM radio station (990 AM) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, known as WIBG from 1924 to 1977

WJDM

Later that decade, the station became the first in the United States to acquire a license to operate in the expanded AM radio broadcast band at 1660 kHz, carrying AAHS World Radio network children's format until 1997.

WJPR

WJPR may also refer informally to a "Part 15" AM radio station in Highland Park, New Jersey, which broadcasts a Jewish format to the central New Jersey community.

WLUP

WMVP, an AM radio station on 1000 kHz licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States, which held the call sign WLUP from 1987 to 1993

WMRP

WWCK-FM, an AM radio station in Flint, Michigan that held the WMRP call letters from 1964 until 1971.

WPBS

WPBS (AM) an AM radio station operating at 1040 kHz in Conyers, Georgia

WQXR

WQEW, an AM radio station on 1560 kHz licensed to New York City, New York, United States, which held the WQXR callsign from December 1936 to November 1992

WTOP

WFED 1500, an AM radio station in Washington, D.C. that held the WTOP call letters from 1943 until 2005