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unusual facts about radio market



WMLB

WMLB AM 1690, "The Voice of the Arts", is a radio station licensed to Avondale Estates, Georgia, and serves most of the metro Atlanta radio market.


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Crosley Broadcasting Corporation

The WLWI call letters are used by an AM and FM radio station serving the Montgomery, Alabama radio market.

Eimac

While employed by the small San Francisco, California manufacturing firm of Heintz & Kaufmann, Bill Eitel (amateur radio call sign W6UF) and Jack McCullough (W6CHE) convinced company president Ralph Heintz (W6XBB) to allow them to develop a transmitting tube that could operate at lower voltages than those then available to the amateur radio market, such as the RCA 204A or the 852.

KHAI

KHAI (103.5 FM) is a Christian Rock station licensed to Wahiawa, Hawaii and serves the Honolulu radio market.

KUUU

In an article from The Salt Lake Tribune, the station is cited by music trade publications and record labels for being influential in breaking songs from artists like Flo Rida, Plies and T-Pain, especially in a radio market like Salt Lake City.

Nielsen ratings

Nielsen Media Research was founded by Arthur Nielsen, who was a market analyst whose career had begun in the 1920s with brand advertising analysis and expanded into radio market analysis during the 1930s, culminating in Nielsen ratings of radio programming, which was meant to provide statistics as to the markets of radio shows.

NRJ Group

With its pan-European NRJ/ENERGY stations, the Paris-based NRJ Group has challenged the European radio market by being significantly different from diversifying market players like the Luxembourg-based RTL Group (Antenne Bayern, RTL Berlin, Yorin FM), and SBS Broadcasting (Radio 1 Norway, The Voice) or Stockholm-based MTG (P4 Norway, Rix FM, Lugna Favoriter).

WGCI-FM

From mid-2004 until the introduction of Arbitron's Portable People Meters (PPMs) to the Chicago radio market in mid-2008, WGCI was the #1 music station and overall radio station in the Chicago radio market.

WHBQ-FM

In 1997 the station took its first jab at the Top 40 radio market with another call sign change to WKSL, and the moniker "KISS FM".

WJYE

It is one of three AC stations in the Buffalo radio market, one being WTSS-FM and the other being CHRE-FM in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

WOZZ

In the late 1990s-early 2000s, it began simulcasting with its sister station WIZD 99.9 FM under the name "The Oldies Station;" this was done to allow the entire Wausau-Stevens Point radio market to be linked with one oldies station.

WVEE

As of 2012 both WVEE and WPEG are the only CBS Radio Urban properties remaining, as two other Urbans had shifted to Rhythmic: WPGC-FM in Washington, D.C. (which is a larger radio market); and WJHM/Orlando, which switched formats from Urban to rhythmic contemporary in February 2012.