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WMOV-FM, the Glossary

WMOV-FM (107.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Norfolk, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads.^[1]

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1990 establishments in Virginia
Radio stations in the Hampton Roads-Tidewater area
Rhythmic adult contemporary radio stations

Adult contemporary music

Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence.

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Billy Joel

William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist.

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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.

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Carly Simon

Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1943) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, memoirist, and children's author.

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Carole King

Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been active since 1958.

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Chesapeake, Virginia

Chesapeake is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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Christmas music

Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season.

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Classic hits

Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format.

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Contemporary Christian music

Contemporary Christian music (CCM), also known as Christian pop, and occasionally inspirational music, is a genre of modern popular music, and an aspect of Christian media, which is lyrically focused on matters related to the Christian faith and stylistically rooted in Christian music.

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Daily Press (Virginia)

The Daily Press Inc. is a daily morning newspaper published in Newport News, Virginia, which covers the lower and middle Peninsula of Tidewater Virginia.

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Digital subchannel

In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a method of transmitting more than one independent program stream simultaneously from the same digital radio or television station on the same radio frequency channel.

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Elizabeth River (Virginia)

The Elizabeth River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

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Get Ready for This

"Get Ready for This" is a song recorded by Belgian/Dutch music group 2 Unlimited.

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Hampton Roads

Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water in the United States that serves as a wide channel for the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean, and the surrounding metropolitan region located in the southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina portions of the Tidewater Region.

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HD Radio

HD Radio (HDR) is a trademark for an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio broadcast technology.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.

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iHeartMedia, Inc., or CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

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IHeartRadio

iHeartRadio (often shortened to just "iHeart") is an American freemium broadcast, podcast and radio streaming platform owned by iHeartMedia.

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Interstate 464

Interstate 464 (I-464) is an Interstate Highway in the US state of Virginia.

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James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Movin' (brand)

“Movin'” (capitalized as “MOViN'”) is a brand name used for a variety of rhythmic AC and top 40 radio stations in numerous broadcast markets in the United States. WMOV-FM and Movin' (brand) are rhythmic adult contemporary radio stations.

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Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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Oldies

Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, 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.

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Pat Robertson

Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (March 22, 1930 – June 8, 2023) was an American media mogul, religious broadcaster, political commentator, presidential candidate, and charismatic minister.

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Radio format

A radio format or programming format (not to be confused with broadcast programming) describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station.

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Radio masts and towers

Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television.

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Ravenswood, West Virginia

Ravenswood is a city in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River.

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Rhythmic adult contemporary

Rhythmic adult contemporary, often abbreviated as rhythmic AC or RAC, is an adult contemporary radio format.

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Sign-on and sign-off

A sign-on (or start-up in Commonwealth countries except Canada) is the beginning of operations for a radio or television station, generally at the start of each day.

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Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a term used to describe commercially oriented crossover jazz music.

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Soft rock

Soft rock (also known as light rock) is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in Southern California and the United Kingdom which smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock, relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions.

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Stunting (broadcasting)

Stunting is a type of publicity stunt in radio broadcasting, where a station—abruptly and often without advance announcement—begins to air content that is seemingly uncharacteristic compared to what is normally played.

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Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

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Transmitter

In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter (often abbreviated as XMTR or TX in technical documents) is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna with the purpose of signal transmission up to a radio receiver.

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Urban adult contemporary

Urban adult contemporary, often abbreviated as urban AC or UAC, (also known as adult R&B) is the name for a format of radio music, similar to an urban contemporary format.

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Urban contemporary music

Urban contemporary music, also known as urban music, hip hop, urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format.

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WGPL

WGPL is a black gospel formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads. WMOV-FM and WGPL are radio stations in the Hampton Roads-Tidewater area.

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WHBT-FM

WHBT-FM (92.1 MHz) is a classic hip hop/urban adult contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Moyock, North Carolina, serving Hampton Roads and Northeastern North Carolina. WMOV-FM and WHBT-FM are iHeartMedia radio stations.

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WKTU

WKTU (103.5 FM) is a rhythmic adult contemporary formatted radio station licensed to Lake Success, New York, a suburb of New York City. WMOV-FM and WKTU are iHeartMedia radio stations, rhythmic adult contemporary radio stations and rhythmic contemporary radio stations in the United States.

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WMOV (AM)

WMOV (1360 kHz) is a news/talk/sports formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Ravenswood, West Virginia, serving Ravenswood and Ripley in Jackson County, West Virginia.

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WNOH

WNOH (105.3 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Windsor, Virginia, serving the Hampton Roads radio market in Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. WMOV-FM and WNOH are iHeartMedia radio stations.

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WOWI

WOWI (102.9 FM) – branded 103 Jamz – is a commercial mainstream urban radio station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia. WMOV-FM and WOWI are iHeartMedia radio stations and radio stations in the Hampton Roads-Tidewater area.

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WVBW-FM

WVBW-FM (100.5 MHz, "100.5 The Vibe") is a commercial radio station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, and broadcasting to the Hampton Roads area.

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Yacht rock

Yacht rock (originally known as the West Coast sound. NPR World Cafe, March 15, 2017. or adult-oriented rock) is a broad music style and aesthetic commonly associated with soft rock, one of the most commercially successful genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.

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2 Unlimited

2 Unlimited are a Belgian-Dutch dance music act, founded by Belgian producers/songwriters Jean-Paul De Coster and Phil Wilde in 1991 in Antwerp, Belgium. From 1991 to 1996, Dutch rapper Ray Slijngaard and Dutch vocalist Anita Doth fronted the act. During these five years, 2 Unlimited enjoyed worldwide mainstream success.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMOV-FM

Also known as WJCD, WKUS, WKUS (FM).

WMOV-FM, the Glossary

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See also

1990 establishments in Virginia

Radio stations in the Hampton Roads-Tidewater area

Rhythmic adult contemporary radio stations

References