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WUSB (FM)

Index WUSB (FM)

WUSB (90.1 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to Stony Brook, New York. [1]

88 relations: A cappella, Adelphi University, Amplitude modulation, Amy Goodman, Arlo Guthrie, Bald Hill (Farmingville, New York), Billy Joel, Blue Öyster Cult, Bluegrass music, Blues, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Carlos Santana, Carrier current, Cat Stevens, Celtic music, Chinese language, City of license, Classic rock, Classical music, Country music, Democracy Now!, Downtown Community Television Center, Electronic music, Eric Corley, Farmingville, New York, Federal Communications Commission, FM broadcasting, Folk music, Frank Zappa, Freeform (radio format), Garden City, New York, Grateful Dead, Greater New Haven, Hertz, Hip hop music, Hot Tuna, Independent music, Industrial music, Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, Italian language, Janis Joplin, Jazz, Jefferson Airplane, Jerry Garcia, Jethro Tull (band), Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Korean language, Latino, Long Island, ..., National Association of Broadcasters, National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA Division I, New wave music, Noise, Non-commercial, North Shore (Long Island), Pink Floyd, Planning permission, Polka, Program director, Public service announcement, Punk rock, Queens, Radio station, Reggae, Rockabilly, Salsa music, Sam Taylor (blues musician), Simon & Garfunkel, Soul music, State University of New York, Stony Brook Seawolves, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, The Allman Brothers Band, The Beach Boys, The Doors, The Who, Thelonious Monk, Undergraduate Student Government at Stony Brook University, Van Morrison, Watershed (broadcasting), Watt, WBAU (defunct), WBLI, World music, 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Expand index (38 more) »

A cappella

A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

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Adelphi University

Adelphi University is a private, nonsectarian university located in Garden City, in Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Amplitude modulation

Amplitude modulation (AM) is a modulation technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting information via a radio carrier wave.

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Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author.

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Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer-songwriter.

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Bald Hill (Farmingville, New York)

Bald Hill, located in the hamlet of Farmingville, New York, part of the Town of Brookhaven, is one of the highest areas of elevation on Long Island.

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Billy Joel

William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.

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Blue Öyster Cult

Blue Öyster Cult (often abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American rock band formed on Long Island, New York, in 1967, whose most successful work includes the hard rock songs "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "Godzilla", "Burnin' for You" and "Shooting Shark".

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music named after Kentucky mandolin player and songwriter Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys 1939-96, and furthered by musicians who played with him, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt, or who simply admired the high-energy instrumental and vocal music Monroe's group created, and carried it on into new bands, some of which created subgenres (Progressive Bluegrass, Newgrass, Dawg Music etc.). Bluegrass is influenced by the music of Appalachia and other styles, including gospel and jazz.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bob Marley and the Wailers

Bob Marley and the Wailers was a Jamaican reggae band led by Bob Marley.

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Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican and American musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American jazz.

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Carrier current

Carrier current transmission (originally called wired wireless) employs guided low-power radio signals, which are transmitted along electrical conductors.

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Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Celtic music

Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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City of license

In American, Canadian and Philippine 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.

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Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.

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Downtown Community Television Center

The Downtown Community Television Center or DCTV is a community media center located in Manhattan's Civic Center on Lafayette Street.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Eric Corley

Eric Gordon Corley (born December 16, 1959), also frequently referred to by his pen name of Emmanuel Goldstein, is a figure in the hacker community.

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Farmingville, New York

Farmingville is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.

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FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting using frequency modulation (FM) technology.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Freeform (radio format)

Freeform, or freeform radio, is a radio station programming format in which the disc jockey is given total control over what music to play, regardless of music genre or commercial interests.

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Garden City, New York

Garden City is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York, United States, in the town of Hempstead.

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Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.

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Greater New Haven

Greater New Haven is the metropolitan area whose extent includes those towns in the U.S. state of Connecticut that share an economic, social, political, and historical focus on the city of New Haven.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hot Tuna

Hot Tuna is an American blues band formed in 1969 by guitarist/vocalist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Industrial music

Industrial music is a fusion genre of electronic and experimental music which draws on harsh, transgressive or provocative sounds and themes.

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Intercollegiate Broadcasting System

Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) is an organization with a membership of over one thousand non-profit, education-affiliated radio stations and webcasters.

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Italian language

Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.

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Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) nicknamed The Pearl, was an American rock, soul and blues singer and songwriter, and one of the most successful and widely-known female rock stars of her era.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane, a rock band based in San Francisco, California, was one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.

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Jerry Garcia

Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work as the lead guitarist and as a vocalist with the band Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era in the 1960s.

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Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Joni Mitchell

Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell, CC (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Korean language

The Korean language (Chosŏn'gŭl/Hangul: 조선말/한국어; Hanja: 朝鮮말/韓國語) is an East Asian language spoken by about 80 million people.

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Latino

Latino is a term often used in the United States to refer to people with cultural ties to Latin America, in contrast to Hispanic which is a demonym that includes Spaniards and other speakers of the Spanish language.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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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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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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NCAA Division I

NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Noise

Noise is unwanted sound judged to be unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing.

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Non-commercial

Non-commercial (also spelled noncommercial) refers to an activity or entity that does not, in some sense, involve commerce, at least relative to similar activities that do have a commercial objective or emphasis.

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North Shore (Long Island)

The North Shore of Long Island is the area along the northern coast of New York State's Long Island bordering Long Island Sound.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Planning permission

Planning permission or developmental approval refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation) in some jurisdictions.

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Polka

The polka is originally a Czech dance and genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas.

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Program director

In service industries, such as education, a program manager or program director researches, plans, develops and implements one or more of the firm's professional services.

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Public service announcement

A public service announcement (PSA), or public service ad, is a message in the public interest disseminated without charge, with the objective of raising awareness, changing public attitudes and behavior towards a social issue.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Queens

Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Radio station

A radio station is a set of equipment necessary to carry on communication via radio waves.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.

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Salsa music

Salsa music is a popular dance music that initially arose in New York City during the 1960s.

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Sam Taylor (blues musician)

Sam Taylor (October 25, 1934 – January 5, 2009) was an American jump blues musician and songwriter.

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Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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State University of New York

The State University of New York (SUNY) is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States.

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Stony Brook Seawolves

The Stony Brook Seawolves are the athletic teams of Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, United States.

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Stony Brook University

The State University of New York at Stony Brook (also known as Stony Brook University or SUNY Stony Brook) is a public sea-grant and space-grant research university in the eastern United States.

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Stony Brook, New York

Stony Brook is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island.

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The Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals, songwriting), Berry Oakley (bass guitar), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and John Densmore on drums.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Undergraduate Student Government at Stony Brook University

The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) at Stony Brook University is a governing body representing the undergraduate students of Stony Brook University.

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Van Morrison

Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer.

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Watershed (broadcasting)

In broadcasting, the watershed or safe harbour is one or more dayparts during which it is appropriate to broadcast programming aimed towards mature or adult audiences.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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WBAU (defunct)

WBAU (90.3 FM) is the now-deleted call sign of the student-operated radio station located at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.

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WBLI

WBLI (106.1 FM, "106.1 'BLI") is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station owned by Cox Radio and licensed to Patchogue, New York.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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2600: The Hacker Quarterly

2600: The Hacker Quarterly is an American seasonal publication of technical information and articles, many of which are written and submitted by the readership, on a variety of subjects including hacking, telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer "underground".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUSB_(FM)

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