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WTVL

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WTVL
Currently silent
WTVL1490.png
Broadcast areaKennebec County, Maine
Frequency1490 kHz
BrandingKool AM 1490
Programming
FormatAdult standards
Ownership
Owner
WEBB, WJZN, WMME-FM
History
First air date
June 19, 1946
Former call signs
WODJ (November 26-December 8, 2004)
Call sign meaning
WaTerVilLe
Technical information
Facility ID52607
ClassC
Power1,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates
44°33′52″N 69°36′39″W / 44.56444°N 69.61083°W / 44.56444; -69.61083
Links
WebcastListen live
Websitekoolam.com

WTVL (1490 kHz "Kool AM 1490") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Waterville, Maine, and serving Kennebec County. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and until January 2023, it broadcast an adult standards radio format, playing softer hits from the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s. The station featured the music of Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Nat King Cole and Dionne Warwick in its playlist.

WTVL’s transmitter power output is 1,000 watts. The transmitter is off Benton Avenue in Winslow.[1] The studios and offices are on Western Avenue in Augusta.[2]

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Hertz

Hertz

The hertz is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event per second. The hertz is an SI derived unit whose expression in terms of SI base units is s−1, meaning that one hertz is the reciprocal of one second. It is named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), the first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves. Hertz are commonly expressed in multiples: kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), gigahertz (GHz), terahertz (THz).

City of license

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.

Townsquare Media

Townsquare Media

Townsquare Media, Inc. is an American radio network and media company based in Purchase, New York. The company started in radio and expanded into digital media toward the end of the 2000s, starting with the acquisition of the MOG Music Network. As of 2019, Townsquare was the third-largest AM–FM operator in the country, owning over 321 radio stations in 67 markets.

Adult standards

Adult standards

Adult standards is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations.

Radio format

Radio format

A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. The radio format emerged mainly in the United States in the 1950s, at a time when radio was compelled to develop new and exclusive ways to programming by competition with television. The formula has since spread as a reference for commercial radio programming worldwide.

Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He is among the world's best-selling music artists with an estimated 150 million record sales.

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand is an American singer, actress and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT).

Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts. He received numerous accolades including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960) and a Special Achievement Golden Globe Award. Posthumously, Cole has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1990), along with the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award (1992) and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2000), and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame (2020).

Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick

Marie Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress, and television host.

Playlist

Playlist

A playlist is a list of video or audio files that can be played back on a media player either sequentially or in a shuffled order. In its most general form, an audio playlist is simply a list of songs, but sometimes a loop. The term has several specialized meanings in the realms of television broadcasting, radio broadcasting and personal computers.

Transmitter

Transmitter

In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna. The transmitter itself generates a radio frequency alternating current, which is applied to the antenna. When excited by this alternating current, the antenna radiates radio waves.

Augusta, Maine

Augusta, Maine

Augusta is the capital city of the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Kennebec County.

History

On June 19, 1946, WTVL first signed on as an ABC Network affiliate owned by Kennebec Broadcasting Company.[3] WTVL carried ABC's schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the "Golden Age of Radio."

An FM sister station went on the air March 26, 1968, at 98.3 FM, simulcasting WTVL's programming.[4] WTVL-AM-FM had a middle of the road format and carried news from the ABC Entertainment network.[5] In 1984, the station shifted to an adult contemporary format.[6]

The following year, WTVL changed to a nostalgia format programmed separately from the FM station, which had moved to 98.5 FM and had become adult contemporary station WDBX.[7] In 1987, WDBX returned to the WTVL-FM call sign, and the two stations resumed simulcasting with an oldies format.[8]

E.H. Close, owner of WPNH AM-FM in Plymouth, New Hampshire and WKNE AM-FM in Keene, New Hampshire, bought WTVL and WTVL-FM from Kennebec Broadcasting for $1.29 million in 1988.[9] By 1990, the stations had changed to a soft rock format.[10] In 1993, WTVL-FM became country music station WEBB; the simulcast on WTVL continued, even though the AM call letters were not changed.[11]

Pilot Communications bought WTVL and WEBB for $450,000 in 1994.[12] Pilot's radio stations were acquired by Citadel Broadcasting in 1999 as part of its purchase of parent company Broadcasting Partners Holdings.[13] In January 2003, Citadel ended WTVL's simulcast of WEBB and switched the station to an adult standards format, simulcast with sister station WEZW (1400 AM, now WJZN) in Waterville under the "Kool" branding.[14] The call letters were changed to WODJ on November 26, 2004; on December 8, the WTVL call sign returned.[15]

Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.[16] Townsquare Media acquired Cumulus' Augusta/Waterville stations in 2012.[17] The simulcast with WJZN ended on July 14, 2016, when that station changed to a classic rock format.[18]

In January 2023 WTVL went silent.[19]

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American Broadcasting Company

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Network affiliate

Network affiliate

In the broadcasting industry, a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or all of the lineup of television programs or radio programs of a television or radio network. This distinguishes such a television or radio station from an owned-and-operated station (O&O), which is owned by the parent network.

Soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, or soap for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers. The term was preceded by "horse opera", a derogatory term for low-budget Westerns.

Game show

Game show

A game show is a genre of broadcast viewing entertainment where contestants compete for a reward. These programs can either be participatory or demonstrative and are typically directed by a host, sharing the rules of the program as well as commentating and narrating where necessary. The history of game shows dates back to the invention of television as a medium. On most game shows, contestants either have to answer questions or solve puzzles, typically to win either money or prizes. Game shows often reward players with prizes such as cash, trips and goods and services provided by the show's sponsor.

Big band

Big band

A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular. The term "big band" is also used to describe a genre of music, although this was not the only style of music played by big bands.

Golden Age of Radio

Golden Age of Radio

The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice for scripted programming, variety and dramatic shows.

Middle of the road (music)

Middle of the road (music)

Middle of the road is a commercial radio format and popular music genre. Music associated with this term is strongly melodic and uses techniques of vocal harmony and light orchestral arrangements. The format was eventually rebranded as soft adult contemporary.

ABC News Radio

ABC News Radio

ABC News Radio is the news radio service of ABC Audio, a division of ABC News in the United States. Formerly known as ABC Radio News, ABC News Radio feeds, through Skyview Networks, five minute newscasts on the hour and news briefs at half-past the hour, to its network affiliates. ABC News Radio is the largest commercial radio news organization in the US.

Call sign

Call sign

In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique identifier for a transmitter station. A call sign can be formally assigned by a government agency, informally adopted by individuals or organizations, or even cryptographically encoded to disguise a station's identity.

Oldies

Oldies

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

Plymouth, New Hampshire

Plymouth, New Hampshire

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Keene, New Hampshire

Keene, New Hampshire

Keene is a city in, and the seat of Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 23,047 at the 2020 census, down from 23,409 at the 2010 census.

Source: "WTVL", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, January 14th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTVL.

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References
  1. ^ Radio-Locator.com/WTVL
  2. ^ KoolAM.com/help
  3. ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1947 (PDF). 1947. p. 122. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  4. ^ 1969 Broadcasting Yearbook (PDF). 1969. p. B-77. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  5. ^ 1974 Broadcasting Yearbook (PDF). 1974. p. B-95. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  6. ^ Broadcasting Cablecasting Yearbook 1985 (PDF). 1985. p. B-122. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  7. ^ Broadcasting Cablecasting Yearbook 1986 (PDF). 1986. p. B-128. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  8. ^ Broadcasting/Cablecasting Yearbook 1986 (PDF). 1986. p. B-129. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  9. ^ "Changing Hands" (PDF). Broadcasting. October 3, 1988. p. 71. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  10. ^ The Broadcasting Yearbook 1991 (PDF). 1991. p. B-148. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  11. ^ Fybush, Scott. "Maine Radio History, 1971–1996". The Archives at BostonRadio.org. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  12. ^ "Changing Hands" (PDF). Broadcasting & Cable. April 18, 1994. p. 34. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  13. ^ Seavey, Deborah Turcotte (November 9, 1999). "8 Maine radio stations bought". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  14. ^ Fybush, Scott (January 27, 2003). "KB Komes Back". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  15. ^ "Call Sign History (WTVL)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  16. ^ "Cumulus now owns Citadel Broadcasting". Atlanta Business Journal. September 16, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  17. ^ "Cumulus sells radio stations in Bangor, Augusta, Presque Isle". Bangor Daily News. Associated Press. April 30, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  18. ^ Capital 95.9 Launches in Augusta, ME Radioinsight - July 14, 2016
  19. ^ TOWNSQUARE MEDIA TURNS OFF TWO MORE NORTHEAST AMS Radioinsight - January 13, 2023
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