WNWV, the Glossary
WNWV (107.3 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Elyria, Ohio, carrying an alternative rock format known as "107.3 Alternative Cleveland".[1]
Table of Contents
91 relations: Acoustic Café, Adult album alternative, Adult contemporary music, Akron, Ohio, Alternative rock, Analog transmission, Bally Sports Great Lakes, Beautiful music, Billboard (magazine), Broadcasting & Cable, Call sign, CBS Radio, Cease and desist, Chicago, Christmas and holiday season, Christmas music, Classic rock, Classical music, Cleveland Scene, Contemporary hit radio, Cumulus Media Networks, Dallas, Dan Aykroyd, Dave Koz, David Sanborn, Digital subchannel, Drake-Chenault, Easy listening, Elyria, Ohio, Federal Communications Commission, Feel It Still, FirstMerit Corporation, FM broadcasting, Grafton, Ohio, Greater Cleveland, Hashtag, HD Radio, Heavy metal music, House of Blues, If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, Independence, Ohio, Instagram, Jazz, John Gorman (radio executive), KTWV, Latin pop, Lorain, Ohio, Los Angeles, Millennials, NAB Marconi Radio Awards, ... Expand index (41 more) »
- 1948 establishments in Ohio
- Radio stations in Cleveland
Acoustic Café
Acoustic Café is an independent, syndicated radio program, produced in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
Adult album alternative
Adult album alternative (also triple-A, AAA, or adult alternative) is a radio format.
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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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Akron, Ohio
Akron is a city in and the county seat of Summit County, Ohio, United States.
Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.
Analog transmission
Analog transmission is a transmission method of conveying information using a continuous signal which varies in amplitude, phase, or some other property in proportion to that information.
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Bally Sports Great Lakes
Bally Sports Great Lakes is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports.
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Beautiful music
Beautiful music (sometimes abbreviated as BM, B/EZ or BM/EZ for "beautiful music/easy listening") is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in North American radio from the late 1950s through the 1980s.
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Broadcasting & Cable
Broadcasting & Cable (B&C, or Broadcasting+Cable) is a monthly telecommunications industry trade magazine published by Future US.
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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.
CBS Radio
CBS Radio was a radio broadcasting company and radio network operator owned by CBS Corporation and founded in 1928, with consolidated radio station groups owned by CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W since the 1920s, and Infinity Broadcasting since the 1970s.
Cease and desist
A cease and desist letter is a document sent by one party, often a business, to warn another party that they believe the other party is committing an unlawful act, such as copyright infringement, and that they will take legal action if the other party continues the alleged unlawful activity.
Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
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Christmas and holiday season
The Christmas season or the festive season; also known as the holiday season or the holidays, is an annual period generally spanning from late November to early January.
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Christmas music
Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season.
Classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s.
Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
Cleveland Scene
The Cleveland Scene is an alternative weekly newspaper based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Contemporary hit radio
Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts.
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Cumulus Media Networks was an American radio network owned and operated by Cumulus Media.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.
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Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian and American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.
Dave Koz
David Stephen Koz (born March 27, 1963) is an American saxophonist, composer, record producer, and radio personality based in California.
David Sanborn
David William Sanborn (July 30, 1945 – May 12, 2024) was an American alto saxophonist.
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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Drake-Chenault
Drake-Chenault Enterprises (originally American Independent Radio Inc.) was a radio syndication company that specialized in automation on FM radio stations.
Easy listening
Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.
Elyria, Ohio
Elyria is a city in, and the county seat of, Lorain County, Ohio, United States, located at the forks of the Black River in Northeast Ohio southwest of Cleveland.
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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Feel It Still
"Feel It Still" is a song by American rock band Portugal. The Man.
FirstMerit Corporation
FirstMerit Corporation was a diversified financial services company headquartered in Akron, Ohio, with assets of approximately $26.2 billion as of June 30, 2016, and 359 banking offices and 400 ATM locations in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
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FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave.
Grafton, Ohio
Grafton is a village in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, along the East Branch of the Black River.
Greater Cleveland
The Cleveland metropolitan area, or Greater Cleveland as it is more commonly known, is the metropolitan area surrounding the city of Cleveland in Northeast Ohio, United States.
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Hashtag
A hashtag is a metadata tag that is prefaced by the hash symbol, #. On social media, hashtags are used on microblogging and photo-sharing services such as Twitter or Tumblr as a form of user-generated tagging that enables cross-referencing of content by topic or theme.
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HD Radio
HD Radio (HDR) is a trademark for an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio broadcast technology.
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.
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House of Blues
House of Blues Entertainment, LLC. is an American chain of live music concert halls and restaurants.
If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" is the first single by English musician Sting from his solo debut album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985).
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Independence, Ohio
Independence is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
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Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
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John Gorman (radio executive)
John Gorman is a radio personality, executive, and author from Cleveland, Ohio.
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KTWV
KTWV (94.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, and broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area.
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Latin pop
Latin pop (in Spanish and in Portuguese: Pop Latino) is a pop music subgenre that is a fusion of US–style music production with Latin music genres from anywhere in Latin America and Spain.
Lorain, Ohio
Lorain is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
Millennials
Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.
NAB Marconi Radio Awards
The Marconi Radio Awards are presented annually by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) to the top radio stations and on-air personalities in the United States.
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National Association of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is a trade association and lobby group representing the interests of commercial and non-commercial over-the-air radio and television broadcasters in the United States.
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New-age music
New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.
Nielsen Audio
Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio broadcasting audiences.
Northeast Ohio
Northeast Ohio is a geographic and cultural region that comprises the northeastern counties of the U.S. state of Ohio.
OWOW Radio
oWOW Radio, stylized and marketed as oWOW! Radio or oWOW! Cleveland, was a commercial internet radio station based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, that primarily served Greater Cleveland and surrounding Northeast Ohio. WNWV and oWOW Radio are radio stations in Cleveland.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
Portable People Meter
The Portable People Meter (PPM), also known as the Nielsen Meter, was a system developed by Arbitron (now Nielsen Audio) to measure how many people are exposed to individual radio stations and television stations.
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Portugal. The Man
Portugal.
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Radio & Records
Radio & Records (R&R) was a trade publication providing news and airplay information for the radio and music industries.
Radio broadcasting
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.
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Ramsey Lewis
Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis Jr. (May 27, 1935 – September 12, 2022) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and radio personality.
Rocky River, Ohio
Rocky River is a city in western Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
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Ron Penfound
Ronald A. Penfound was a radio announcer and local television personality in the Cleveland, Ohio, market, specifically on WEWS-TV channel 5 where from 1955 to 1971 he hosted an afternoon program for children.
Saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.
Smooth jazz
Smooth jazz is a term used to describe commercially oriented crossover jazz music.
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.
Station identification
Station identification (ident, network ID, channel ID or bumper) is the practice of radio and television stations and networks identifying themselves on-air, typically by means of a call sign or brand name (sometimes known, particularly in the United States, as a "sounder" or "stinger", more generally as a station or network ID).
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Sting (musician)
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known professionally as Sting, is an English musician, activist and actor.
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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Television advertisement
A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.
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The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revue band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, who met and began collaborating as original cast members of Saturday Night Live.
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The News-Herald (Ohio)
The News-Herald is a newspaper distributed in the northeastern portion of Greater Cleveland, Ohio, United States, serving Lake and Geauga Counties as well as a section of eastern Cuyahoga County.
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The Plain Dealer
The Plain Dealer is the major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio; it is a major national newspaper.
Thievery Corporation
Thievery Corporation is an American electronic music duo consisting of Rob Garza (born March 28, 1970) and Eric Hilton.
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Trademark
A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies a product or service from a particular source and distinguishes it from others.
Traditional pop
Traditional pop (also known as classic pop and pre-rock and roll pop) is Western pop music that generally pre-dates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s.
X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.
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Urban One
Urban One, Inc. (formerly Radio One) is a Silver Spring, Maryland-based American media conglomerate.
Viral marketing
Viral marketing is a business strategy that uses existing social networks to promote a product mainly on various social media platforms.
WAKR
WAKR (1590 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Akron, Ohio, and known as "Soft Hits 93.5 FM".
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.
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WCPN
WCPN (104.9 FM) is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to Lorain, Ohio, featuring a public radio format as a repeater of Kent–licensed WKSU. WNWV and WCPN are radio stations in Cleveland.
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WENZ
WENZ (107.9 FM) is a commercial mainstream urban radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio. WNWV and WENZ are radio stations in Cleveland.
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WEOL
WEOL (930 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Elyria, Ohio, and features a talk and sports radio format. WNWV and WEOL are 1948 establishments in Ohio, radio stations established in 1948 and radio stations in Cleveland.
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WMMS
WMMS (100.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio, commonly identified as "The Buzzard". WNWV and WMMS are radio stations in Cleveland.
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WONE-FM
WONE-FM (97.5 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Akron, Ohio, featuring an AOR-leaning classic rock format known as "97.5 WONE".
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Word play
Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.
WPPN
WPPN (106.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Des Plaines, Illinois, that targets the Chicago metropolitan area.
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WQMX
WQMX (94.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Medina, Ohio, carrying a country format known as "FM 94.9 WQMX".
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WUMR (FM)
WUMR (106.1 MHz, "Rumba 106.1") is a commercial Spanish contemporary hits FM radio station that is licensed to serve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The WUMR studios are located in the neighboring community of Bala Cynwyd, while the station transmitter resides in nearby Wyndmoor.
Z Rock
Z Rock was a nationally syndicated radio network based in Dallas, Texas, United States that, from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, played heavy metal and hard rock music.
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See also
1948 establishments in Ohio
- A. W. Marion State Park
- Akron Americans
- American Signature
- Blacklick Woods Metro Park
- Bob Evans Restaurants
- Clearview Golf Club
- Cowan Lake State Park
- Dayton Rens
- Dorothy Lane Market
- Fairfield County Airport (Ohio)
- Gourmet Room
- Greyhound Bus Station (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Lee Road–Shaker Heights station
- Ohio Christian University
- Portsmouth A's
- Stonelick State Park
- Strouds Run State Park
- Swallen's
- Tecumseh Local School District
- Terrace Plaza Hotel
- Tom's Ice Cream Bowl
- WCOL-FM
- WEOL
- WKYC
- WLWT
- WMJI
- WNCX
- WNOP (AM)
- WNWV
- WOMP (FM)
- WQAL
- WTVG
- WXMG (FM)
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Radio stations in Cleveland
- KDPM (Cleveland)
- List of mass media in Cleveland
- OWOW Radio
- WABQ
- WAKS
- WAKS-HD2
- WARF
- WATJ
- WBWC
- WCCD
- WCCR (AM)
- WCLV
- WCPN
- WCRF-FM
- WCSB (FM)
- WDLW
- WDOK
- WENZ
- WEOL
- WERE
- WFHM-FM
- WGAR-FM
- WHK (AM)
- WHKW
- WHLK
- WHWN
- WINT (AM)
- WJCU
- WJMO
- WJTB (AM)
- WKHR
- WKNR
- WKRK-FM
- WMJI
- WMMS
- WMMS-HD2
- WNCX
- WNWV
- WOBC-FM
- WOBL
- WQAL
- WRUW-FM
- WTAM
- WWGK
- WWIZ (Lorain, Ohio)
- WZAK
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNWV
Also known as WNWV (FM), WNWV-FM, WNWV-HD1.
, National Association of Broadcasters, New-age music, Nielsen Audio, Northeast Ohio, OWOW Radio, Philadelphia, Portable People Meter, Portugal. The Man, Radio & Records, Radio broadcasting, Ramsey Lewis, Rocky River, Ohio, Ron Penfound, Saxophone, Smooth jazz, Soft rock, Station identification, Sting (musician), Stunting (broadcasting), Television advertisement, The Blues Brothers, The News-Herald (Ohio), The Plain Dealer, Thievery Corporation, Trademark, Traditional pop, Twitter, Urban One, Viral marketing, WAKR, Watt, WCPN, WENZ, WEOL, WMMS, WONE-FM, Word play, WPPN, WQMX, WUMR (FM), Z Rock.