WYJB, the Glossary
WYJB (95.5 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Albany, New York, and serving the Capital District, including Schenectady and Troy.[1]
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49 relations: Adult contemporary music, Albany, New York, Beautiful music, Broadcast Data Systems, Broadcast syndication, Broadway theatre, Call sign, Capital Cities/ABC, Capital District (New York), Christmas music, Cinema of the United States, City of license, Classic rock, Commercial broadcasting, Cover version, Delilah (radio host), Easy listening, Effective radiated power, Federal Communications Commission, Flagship (broadcasting), FM broadcasting, Hertz, Latham, New York, Mediabase, Oldies, Pamal Broadcasting, Premiere Networks, Radio broadcasting, Radio format, Recording studio, Schenectady, New York, Sign-on and sign-off, Simulcast, Sister station, Transmitter, Troy, New York, Voorheesville, New York, WAJZ, Watt, WFLY, WINU, WJKE, WKLI-FM, WQBK-FM, WROW, WTRY-FM, WYKV, 1966 in radio, 2010 in radio.
- 1966 establishments in New York (state)
- Pamal Broadcasting
- Radio stations in Capital District (New York)
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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Albany, New York
Albany is the capital and oldest city in the U.S. state of New York, and the seat of and most populous city in Albany County.
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.
Broadcast Data Systems
Broadcast Data Systems (also known as BDS or Luminate BDS) is a service that tracks radio, television and internet airplay of songs.
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Broadcast syndication
Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.
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.
Capital Cities/ABC
Capital Cities/ABC Inc. was an American media company.
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Capital District (New York)
The Capital District, also known as the Capital Region, is the metropolitan area surrounding Albany, the capital of the U.S. state of New York.
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Christmas music
Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season.
Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.
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City of license
In U.S., Canadian, and Mexican broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.
Classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s.
Commercial broadcasting
Commercial broadcasting (also called private broadcasting) is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media, as opposed to state sponsorship, for example.
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Cover version
In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.
Delilah (radio host)
Delilah Rene Luke (born February 15, 1960, in North Bend, Oregon) is an American radio personality, author, and songwriter, best known as the host of a nationally syndicated nightly U.S. radio song request and dedication program, with an estimated 8 million listeners.
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Easy listening
Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.
Effective radiated power
Effective radiated power (ERP), synonymous with equivalent radiated power, is an IEEE standardized definition of directional radio frequency (RF) power, such as that emitted by a radio transmitter.
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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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Flagship (broadcasting)
In broadcasting, a flagship (also known as a flagship station or key station) is the broadcast station which originates a television network, or a particular radio or television program that plays a key role in the branding of and consumer loyalty to a network or station.
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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.
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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Latham, New York
Latham is a hamlet and census-designated place in Albany County, New York, United States.
Mediabase is a music industry service that monitors radio station airplay in 180 US and Canadian markets.
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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Pamal Broadcasting
Pamal Broadcasting, Ltd. is a family-owned radio group with twenty-three stations in medium-to-small markets in the Northeast.
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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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Radio format
A radio format or programming format (not to be confused with broadcast programming) describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station.
Recording studio
A recording studio is a specialized facility for recording and mixing of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.
Schenectady, New York
Schenectady is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat.
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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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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).
Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio or television stations operated by the same company, either by direct ownership or through a management agreement.
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.
Troy, New York
Troy is a city in the United States state of New York and is the county seat of Rensselaer County, New York.
Voorheesville, New York
Voorheesville is a village within the town of New Scotland in Albany County, New York, United States.
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WAJZ
WAJZ (96.3 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Voorheesville, New York, and serving the Capital District, including Albany, Schenectady and Troy. WYJB and WAJZ are Pamal Broadcasting and radio stations in Capital District (New York).
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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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WFLY
WFLY (92.3 FM, "FLY 92.3") is a Top 40/CHR radio station licensed to Troy, New York, and serving the Capital District. WYJB and WFLY are Pamal Broadcasting and radio stations in Capital District (New York).
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WINU
WINU (104.9 FM, "Big Country 104.9 & 97.9") is a commercial radio station licensed to Altamont and serving New York's Capital District. WYJB and WINU are Pamal Broadcasting and radio stations in Capital District (New York).
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WJKE
WJKE (101.3 FM, "K-Love") is a contemporary Christian music radio station licensed to Stillwater, New York, United States, and serving Saratoga County as an affiliate of the K-Love network.
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WKLI-FM
WKLI-FM (100.9 MHz, "100.9/107.1 The Cat") is a commercial radio station, licensed to Albany, New York, and serving the Capital District, including Schenectady and Troy. WYJB and WKLI-FM are Pamal Broadcasting and radio stations in Capital District (New York).
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WQBK-FM
WQBK-FM (105.7 MHz "Q105.7/103.5") is a commercial radio station licensed to Malta, New York, and serving the Capital District of New York. WYJB and WQBK-FM are radio stations in Capital District (New York).
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WROW
WROW (590 AM) – branded Magic 590-1410 AM and 96.5-100.5 FM – is a commercial radio station licensed to Albany, New York, and serving the Capital District, including Albany, Schenectady and Troy. WYJB and WROW are Pamal Broadcasting and radio stations in Capital District (New York).
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WTRY-FM
WTRY-FM (98.3 MHz, "98-3 TRY"), is a commercial radio station licensed to Rotterdam, New York. WYJB and WTRY-FM are radio stations in Capital District (New York).
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WYKV
WYKV (94.5 MHz) is a listener-supported, non-commercial Christian contemporary radio station licensed to Ravena, New York, and serving the Capital District and upper Hudson Valley of New York. WYJB and WYKV are radio stations in Capital District (New York).
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1966 in radio
The year 1966 in radio involved some significant events.
2010 in radio
The following events occurred in radio in 2010.
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1966 establishments in New York (state)
- Alamo EMS
- Bishop Grimes Junior/Senior High School
- Bowman Lake State Park
- Briarcliffe College
- Burchfield Penney Art Center
- Chrysalis (band)
- Chyron Corporation
- Columbia–Greene Community College
- Command Airways
- Computer Task Group
- Eakins Press
- Erewhon Organic
- Fibes Drums
- Genesee Community College
- Griffis Sculpture Park
- Herkimer County Community College
- Holy Trinity Diocesan High School
- IEC Electronics
- John A. Coleman Catholic High School
- John F. Kennedy Catholic Preparatory School
- John F. Kennedy High School (Bellmore, New York)
- Long Island Maritime Museum
- Mastercard
- Mathematical Applications Group
- National Committee on United States–China Relations
- Northport High School
- Oneonta Outlaws
- Oneonta Tigers
- Plainview – Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School
- Port Washington Tennis Academy
- Reilly Center
- Rudolf Steiner Fellowship Foundation
- SUNY Polytechnic Institute
- Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site
- St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School
- The Leffell School
- Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
- Vanilla Fudge
- WCIH (FM)
- WCZX
- WGY-FM
- WHRW
- WJGK
- WQKE
- WRMM-FM
- WRRV
- WXXI-TV
- WYJB
Pamal Broadcasting
- Pamal Broadcasting
- WAJZ
- WBNR
- WBPM
- WDVT
- WENU
- WFFG-FM
- WFLY
- WHUD
- WINU
- WJEN
- WJJR
- WKBE
- WKLI-FM
- WLNA
- WMML
- WNYQ
- WPNI
- WROW
- WSPK
- WSYB
- WXPK
- WYJB
- WZRT
Radio stations in Capital District (New York)
- WAJZ
- WAMC
- WAMC (AM)
- WCDB
- WCSQ-LP
- WDCD (AM)
- WFFG-FM
- WFLY
- WGDJ
- WGNA-FM
- WGY (AM)
- WGY-FM
- WHAZ (AM)
- WINU
- WKKF
- WKLI-FM
- WMHH
- WOFX (AM)
- WOPG (AM)
- WPBZ-FM
- WPYX
- WQBK-FM
- WQSH (FM)
- WROW
- WRPI
- WRUC
- WRVE
- WSSV
- WTMM-FM
- WTRY-FM
- WVCR-FM
- WXKW (Albany, New York)
- WYAI
- WYJB
- WYKV
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYJB
Also known as WROW-FM, WYJB-FM.