WXTB, the Glossary
WXTB (97.9 FM), also known as "98 Rock", is a commercial active rock radio station owned by iHeartMedia and licensed to Clearwater, Florida, serving the Tampa Bay Area.[1]
Table of Contents
85 relations: AC/DC, Active rock, Album-oriented rock, All-news radio, Analog transmission, Bayonet Point, Florida, Beautiful music, Bubba the Love Sponge, CBS, Classic rock, Clearwater, Florida, Compass Media Networks, Contemporary hit radio, Dishwalla, Federal Communications Commission, FM broadcasting, Fort Myers, Florida, Greenpeace, Guavaween, Gulfport, Florida, Guns N' Roses, Halloween, HD Radio, Hed PE, Hells Bells (song), Hertz, Holiday, Florida, Hot for Teacher, I Mother Earth, IHeartMedia, IHeartRadio, Joe Satriani, Kickstart My Heart, Korn, Led Zeppelin, Levy County, Florida, Lex and Terry, Life of Agony, List of programming syndicated by iHeartMedia, Live Aid, Marion County, Florida, Mötley Crüe, MTV, NFL+, Paradise City, Pink Floyd, Premiere Networks, Radio broadcasting, Rock festival, Sammy Hagar, ... Expand index (35 more) »
- Radio stations in the Tampa Bay area
AC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in 1973.
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Active rock
Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada.
Album-oriented rock
Album-oriented rock (AOR, originally called album-oriented radio) is an FM radio format created in the United States in the late 1960s that focuses on the full repertoire of rock albums and is currently associated with classic rock.
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All-news radio
All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to the discussion and broadcast of news.
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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Bayonet Point, Florida
Bayonet Point is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pasco County, Florida, United States.
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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.
Bubba the Love Sponge
Bubba the Love Sponge Clem (born Todd Alan Clem, April 23, 1966) is an American radio personality who hosts The Bubba the Love Sponge Show on the radio station WWBA in Tampa, Florida, and the subscription service Bubba Army Radio.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
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Classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s.
Clearwater, Florida
Clearwater is a city and the county seat of Pinellas County, Florida, United States, west of Tampa and north of St. Petersburg.
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Compass Media Networks is an American radio network.
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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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Dishwalla
Dishwalla is an American alternative rock band from Santa Barbara, California.
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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FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave.
Fort Myers, Florida
Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Florida, United States.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.
Guavaween
Guavaween was an annual Latin-flavored Halloween celebration which took place on the last Saturday of October in the historic neighborhood of Ybor City on Tampa, Florida.
Gulfport, Florida
Gulfport is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States, bordering St. Petersburg, South Pasadena, and Boca Ciega Bay.
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Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in March 1985 when local bands Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns merged.
Halloween
Halloween or Hallowe'en (less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve) is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.
HD Radio
HD Radio (HDR) is a trademark for an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio broadcast technology.
Hed PE
Hed PE (standing for Higher Education Planet Earth/Planetary Evolution, typeset as (həd)p.e., (hed) Planet Earth, (Hed)pe or (Hed)PE) is an American nu metal band from Huntington Beach, California.
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Hells Bells (song)
"Hells Bells" is the first track of Back in Black, the seventh studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC and their comeback album after the death of lead singer Bon Scott.
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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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Holiday, Florida
Holiday is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pasco County, Florida, United States.
Hot for Teacher
"Hot for Teacher" is a song by the American rock band Van Halen, taken from their sixth studio album, 1984.
I Mother Earth
I Mother Earth, or IME, is a Canadian rock band.
iHeartMedia, Inc., or CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.
IHeartRadio
iHeartRadio (often shortened to just "iHeart") is an American freemium broadcast, podcast and radio streaming platform owned by iHeartMedia.
Joe Satriani
Joseph Satriani (born July 15, 1956)Prato, Greg.
Kickstart My Heart
"Kickstart My Heart" is a song by American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, originally released on their 1989 album, Dr. Feelgood.
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Korn
Korn (stylized as KoЯn) is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, originally formed in 1993 by James "Munky" Shaffer, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu and David Silveria, who were members of the band L.A.P.D. Their current lineup features Shaffer (guitar); Arvizu (bass); Brian "Head" Welch (guitar); Jonathan Davis (vocals), and Ray Luzier (drums), who replaced Silveria in 2007.
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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.
Levy County, Florida
Levy County is a county located on the Gulf coast in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida.
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Lex and Terry
Lex and Terry is a syndicated morning radio program hosted by Lex Staley and Terry Jaymes.
Life of Agony
Life of Agony is an American alternative metal band from Brooklyn, New York City, formed in 1989 by singer Mina Caputo (then known as Keith Caputo), bassist Alan Robert and guitarist Joey Z. The band has released six studio albums to date, most notably their 1993 debut River Runs Red, named by Rolling Stone as one of the Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.
The majority of programming syndicated by iHeartMedia is distributed through its subsidiary, Premiere Networks, owned by the company since 1999 and purchased by antecedent Jacor in 1997.
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Live Aid
Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985.
Marion County, Florida
Marion County is a county located in the North Central region of the U.S. state of Florida.
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Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Hollywood, California, in 1981 by bassist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, with guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil joining right after.
MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.
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NFL+
NFL+ is an over-the-top subscription service operated by the National Football League (NFL) in the United States.
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Paradise City
"Paradise City" is a song by the American rock band Guns N' Roses, featured on their debut album, Appetite for Destruction (1987).
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965.
Premiere Networks
Premiere Networks, Inc. (formerly Premiere Radio Networks, shortened as PRN) is an American media company, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, for which it currently serves as its main original radio content distribution and production arm.
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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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Rock festival
A rock festival is an open-air rock concert featuring many different performers, typically spread over two or three days and having a campsite and other amenities and forms of entertainment provided at the venue.
Sammy Hagar
Sam Roy Hagar (born October 13, 1947), also known as the Red Rocker, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Schering-Plough
Schering-Plough Corporation was an American pharmaceutical company.
Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies
The Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies is a band from Nashville, Tennessee, US, which was formed in April 1991.
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Seven Mary Three
Seven Mary Three (occasionally abbreviated to 7 Mary 3 or 7M3) is an American rock band.
Simulcast
Simulcast (a portmanteau of simultaneous broadcast) is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one resolution, bitrate or medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously).
Soundgarden
Soundgarden was an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto.
South Tampa
South Tampa is a region in the city of Tampa that includes the neighborhoods of Beach Park, Ballast Point, Bayshore Beautiful, Bayshore Gardens, Bayside West, Belmar Shore, Davis Islands, Port Tampa, Fair Oaks-Manhattan Manor, Golfview, Hyde Park, New Suburb Beautiful, Virginia Park, Palma Ceia, Rattlesnake Gandy-Sun Bay South, South Westshore, parts of Sunset Park and Courier City-Oscawana.
Stabbing Westward
Stabbing Westward is an American industrial rock/alternative rock band.
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Stairway to Heaven
"Stairway to Heaven" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 8 November 1971 on the band’s untitled fourth studio album (commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV), by Atlantic Records.
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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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Taft Broadcasting
The Taft Broadcasting Company (also known as Taft Television and Radio Company, Incorporated) was an American media conglomerate based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Talk radio
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music.
Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is a large natural harbor and shallow estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico on the west-central coast of Florida, comprising Hillsborough Bay, McKay Bay, Old Tampa Bay, Middle Tampa Bay, and Lower Tampa Bay.
Tampa Bay area
The Tampa Bay area is a major metropolitan area surrounding Tampa Bay on the Gulf Coast of Florida in the United States.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (colloquially known as the Bucs) are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida.
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Tampa Bay Times
The Tampa Bay Times, called the St.
Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida.
Tesla (band)
Tesla is an American rock band from Sacramento, California.
The Big Guava
The Big Guava is a nickname for Tampa, Florida, United States.
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.
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Top 40
In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre.
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Van Halen
Van Halen was an American rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1973.
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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WBTP
WRUB (95.7 FM) is a Spanish tropical music radio station that serves the Tampa Bay. WXTB and WBTP are iHeartMedia radio stations and radio stations in the Tampa Bay area.
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WDAE
WDAE (620 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to St. Petersburg, Florida and serving the Tampa Bay area. WXTB and WDAE are iHeartMedia radio stations and radio stations in the Tampa Bay area.
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WFLA (AM)
WFLA (970 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Tampa, Florida, and serving the Tampa Bay media market. WXTB and WFLA (AM) are iHeartMedia radio stations and radio stations in the Tampa Bay area.
WFLZ-FM
WFLZ-FM (93.3 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Tampa, Florida. WXTB and WFLZ-FM are iHeartMedia radio stations and radio stations in the Tampa Bay area.
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WFUS
WFUS (103.5 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Gulfport, Florida. WXTB and WFUS are iHeartMedia radio stations and radio stations in the Tampa Bay area.
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WHNZ
WHNZ (1250 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Tampa, Florida. WXTB and WHNZ are iHeartMedia radio stations and radio stations in the Tampa Bay area.
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WMTX
WMTX (100.7 FM) is a commercial radio station in Tampa, Florida, known as "Mix 100.7". WXTB and WMTX are iHeartMedia radio stations and radio stations in the Tampa Bay area.
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Woodstock
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, southwest of the town of Woodstock.
WRBQ-FM
WRBQ-FM (104.7 MHz, "Q105") is a commercial radio station licensed to Tampa, Florida, airing a classic hits radio format. WXTB and WRBQ-FM are radio stations in the Tampa Bay area.
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WRXK-FM
WRXK-FM (96.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station with studios in Estero, Florida and licensed to Bonita Springs, Florida, broadcasting to the Fort Myers-Naples-Marco Island area.
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Ybor City
Ybor City is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, Florida, United States.
ZZ Top
ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in Houston, Texas, in 1969.
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1967 in radio
The year 1967 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.
See also
Radio stations in the Tampa Bay area
- Bulls Media
- WAMA (AM)
- WBTP
- WBVM
- WDAE
- WDCF
- WDUV
- WFLA (AM)
- WFLZ-FM
- WFUS
- WHBO
- WHNZ
- WHPT
- WJBR (AM)
- WKID 96.7 FM
- WLCC
- WLLD
- WMGG
- WMNF
- WMTX
- WPBB
- WQYK-FM
- WRBQ-FM
- WSUN (FM)
- WTBN
- WTBV
- WTMP (AM)
- WTMP-FM
- WUSF (FM)
- WWPR (AM)
- WWRM
- WXGL
- WXTB
- WYUU
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXTB
Also known as WXTB-FM.
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