WZLX, the Glossary
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72 relations: Adolescence, Adult standards, Album-oriented rock, Audacy, Inc., Beasley Broadcast Group, Beautiful music, Boston, Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics, Brighton, Boston, CBS, CBS Radio, Charles Laquidara, Classic hits, Classic rock, Classical music, Cook Inlet Region, Inc., Country music, Educational Media Foundation, Federal Communications Commission, FM broadcasting, George Taylor Morris, Greater Boston, HD Radio, Heavy metal music, Hertz, Howard Stern, IHeartMedia, Infinity Broadcasting Corporation, Jack FM, K-Love, Lance Norris, Local marketing agreement, Medford, Massachusetts, Monitor (radio program), NBC Radio Network, New England Patriots, Oldies, Pink Floyd, Premiere Networks, Prudential Tower, Radio format, Simulcast, Steve Sweeney (comedian), Talk radio, The Boston Globe, The Dark Side of the Moon, The Dark Side of the Rainbow, The Lost 45s, The Washington Post, ... Expand index (22 more) »
- 1948 establishments in Massachusetts
- Radio stations in Boston
Adolescence
Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to adulthood (typically corresponding to the age of majority).
Adult standards
Adult standards (also sometimes known as the nostalgia or Big Band format) is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations.
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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Audacy, Inc.
Audacy, Inc. is an American broadcasting company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Beasley Broadcast Group
Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc., based in Naples, Florida, is an owner/operator of radio stations in the 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.
Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Boston Bruins
The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston.
Boston Celtics
The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston.
Brighton, Boston
Brighton is a former town and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, located in the northwestern corner of the city.
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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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.
Charles Laquidara
Charles Laquidara (born November 24, 1938) is an American radio disc jockey whose show, The Big Mattress, was broadcast in the Boston, Massachusetts, area for nearly 30 years (1969–1996) on WBCN.
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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.
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.
Cook Inlet Region, Inc.
Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI) is one of thirteen Alaska Native regional corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) in settlement of aboriginal land claims.
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Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.
Educational Media Foundation (formerly EMF Broadcasting, abbreviated EMF) is an American nonprofit Christian media ministry based in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville.
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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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FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave.
George Taylor Morris
George Taylor Morris (May 10, 1947 – August 1, 2009) was an American disc jockey and radio personality who grew up with and on the radio.
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Greater Boston
Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston, the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England, and its surrounding areas.
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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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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Howard Stern
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American broadcaster and media personality.
iHeartMedia, Inc., or CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.
Infinity Broadcasting Corporation
Infinity Broadcasting Corporation was a radio company that existed from 1972 until 2005.
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Jack FM
Jack FM is a radio network brand that is licensed by Sparknet Communications, with the exception of the European Union where it is licensed by Oxis Media.
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K-Love
K-Love (stylized as K-LOVE) is an American Christian radio network.
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Lance Norris
Lance Norris (August 9, 1962 - December 10, 2023) was an American actor/writer/director/stand-up comic/critic/mentalist.
Local marketing agreement
In North American broadcasting, a local marketing agreement (LMA), or local management agreement, is a contract in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another party.
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Medford, Massachusetts
Medford is a city northwest of downtown Boston on the Mystic River in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Monitor (radio program)
Monitor was an American weekend radio program broadcast live and nationwide on the NBC Radio Network from June 12, 1955, until January 26, 1975.
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NBC Radio Network
The National Broadcasting Company's NBC Radio Network (also known as the NBC Red Network from 1927 to 1942) was an American commercial radio network which was in continuous operation from 1926 through 1999.
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New England Patriots
The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area.
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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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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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Prudential Tower
The Prudential Tower, also known as the Prudential Building or, colloquially, the Pru,subscription required The Pru' everyone calls it: a resigned shrug of a name, as flat and uninflected as the wan moue its pronunciation requires." is an international style skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts.
Radio format
A radio format or programming format (not to be confused with broadcast programming) describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station.
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).
Steve Sweeney (born September 5, 1949) is an American comedian.
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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.
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Dark Side of the Moon
The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records in the UK and Capitol Records in the US.
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The Dark Side of the Rainbow
The Dark Side of the Rainbow – also known as Dark Side of Oz or The Wizard of Floyd – is the pairing of the 1973 Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon with the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. This produces numerous moments of apparent synchronicity where the film and the album appear to correspond.
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The Lost 45s
The Lost 45s with Barry Scott is an American syndicated classic hits retro music radio and interview program.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
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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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.
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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WBGB (FM)
WBGB (103.3 MHz) – branded as Big 103 – is a commercial adult hits FM radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts. WZLX and WBGB (FM) are 1948 establishments in Massachusetts, radio stations established in 1948 and radio stations in Boston.
WBOS
WBOS (92.9 MHz, "Rock 92-9") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Brookline, Massachusetts, and serving Greater Boston. WZLX and WBOS are classic rock radio stations in the United States and radio stations in Boston.
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WBWL (FM)
WBWL (101.7 FM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Lynn, Massachusetts. WZLX and WBWL (FM) are iHeartMedia radio stations and radio stations in Boston.
WBZ (AM)
WBZ (1030 AM) is a commercial AM radio station, licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, and owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. Its studios and offices are located on Cabot Road in the Boston suburb of Medford. WZLX and WBZ (AM) are iHeartMedia radio stations and radio stations in Boston.
WBZ-FM
WBZ-FM (98.5 FM) is a commercial sports radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, serving Greater Boston and much of surrounding New England. WZLX and WBZ-FM are 1948 establishments in Massachusetts, radio stations established in 1948 and radio stations in Boston.
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WEEI (AM)
WEEI (850 kHz) is a commercial sports gambling AM radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, serving Greater Boston and much of New England. WZLX and WEEI (AM) are radio stations in Boston.
WEEI-FM
WEEI-FM (93.7 MHz) – branded SportsRadio 93.7 WEEI-FM – is a commercial sports radio station licensed to Lawrence, Massachusetts, serving Greater Boston and much of surrounding New England. WZLX and WEEI-FM are radio stations in Boston.
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WJMN (FM)
WJMN (94.5 FM) is a rhythmic CHR radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and is owned and operated by iHeartMedia. WZLX and WJMN (FM) are 1948 establishments in Massachusetts, iHeartMedia radio stations, radio stations established in 1948 and radio stations in Boston.
WKOX (AM)
WKOX (1430 kHz, "Buenas Nuevas Boston") is a commercial AM radio station owned by the Delmarva Educational Association. WZLX and WKOX (AM) are radio stations in Boston.
WKVB (FM)
WKVB (107.3 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to serve Westborough, Massachusetts, United States, carrying a contemporary Christian format known as "K-Love".
WMJX
WMJX (106.7 FM) – branded Magic 106.7 – is a commercial adult contemporary radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts. WZLX and WMJX are radio stations in Boston.
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WRKO
WRKO (680 AM) is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, serving Greater Boston and much of surrounding New England. WZLX and WRKO are iHeartMedia radio stations and radio stations in Boston.
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WROR-FM
WROR-FM (105.7 FM) – branded as 105.7 WROR – is a commercial classic hits radio station licensed to Framingham, Massachusetts. WZLX and WROR-FM are radio stations in Boston.
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WWBX
WWBX (104.1 FM, Mix 104.1) is a radio station with a hot adult contemporary format in Boston, Massachusetts. WZLX and WWBX are radio stations in Boston.
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WWDJ
WWDJ (1150 AM) is a Catholic radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts. WZLX and WWDJ are radio stations in Boston.
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WXKS (AM)
WXKS (1200 kHz) – branded Talk 1200 – is a commercial conservative talk radio AM radio station licensed to Newton, Massachusetts, serving the Greater Boston area. WZLX and WXKS (AM) are iHeartMedia radio stations and radio stations in Boston.
WXKS-FM
WXKS-FM (107.9 MHz), branded as Kiss 108, is a commercial top 40 (CHR) radio station licensed to serve Medford, Massachusetts, and covering Greater Boston. WZLX and WXKS-FM are iHeartMedia radio stations and radio stations in Boston.
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WZRM
WZRM (97.7 FM, Rumba 97.7) is a Spanish-language radio station in the Boston, Massachusetts, market, carrying a Spanish contemporary hits format. WZLX and WZRM are 1948 establishments in Massachusetts, iHeartMedia radio stations, radio stations established in 1948 and radio stations in Boston.
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See also
1948 establishments in Massachusetts
- 1254th Air Transport Wing
- American International Yellow Jackets men's ice hockey
- Bement Camp and Conference Center
- Brandeis University
- Framingham Heart Study
- Fulton Hall
- Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs
- Helio Aircraft Company
- James J. and Helen Storrow Memorial
- Lynn Vocational and Technical Institute
- Miss Worcester Diner
- Norwood Arena Speedway
- Research Center in Entrepreneurial History
- Sharon Memorial Park, Massachusetts
- Springfield Cubs
- Stockbridge School
- Stonehill College
- The Armenian Review
- The Jimmy Fund
- Tupperware
- WARE
- WBGB (FM)
- WBZ-FM
- WBZ-TV
- WCRB
- WHAI
- WHTB
- WJIB
- WJMN (FM)
- WNAC-TV (Boston)
- WRCA
- WXTK
- WZLX
- WZRM
- YMCA Camp Hi-Rock
Radio stations in Boston
- List of radio stations in Greater Boston
- WAMG
- WBCA-LP
- WBGB (FM)
- WBIX
- WBOS
- WBQT (FM)
- WBUR-FM
- WBWL (FM)
- WBZ (AM)
- WBZ-FM
- WEEI (AM)
- WEEI-FM
- WERS
- WEZE
- WGBH (FM)
- WILD (AM)
- WJIB
- WJMN (FM)
- WKLB-FM
- WKOX (AM)
- WLYN
- WMEX (AM)
- WMFO
- WMJX
- WQOM
- WRBB
- WRCA
- WRKO
- WROL
- WROR-FM
- WUMB-FM
- WWBX
- WWDJ
- WXKS (AM)
- WXKS-FM
- WZBC
- WZLX
- WZRM
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WZLX
Also known as WZLX (FM), WZLX-FM.
, The Wizard of Oz, Top 40, Transmitter, Watt, WBGB (FM), WBOS, WBWL (FM), WBZ (AM), WBZ-FM, WEEI (AM), WEEI-FM, WJMN (FM), WKOX (AM), WKVB (FM), WMJX, WRKO, WROR-FM, WWBX, WWDJ, WXKS (AM), WXKS-FM, WZRM.