Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

WBAP (AM)

Index WBAP (AM)

WBAP (820 kHz) is an AM News/Talk radio station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. [1]

92 relations: AM broadcasting, AMBER Alert, American Broadcasting Company, American English, Amon G. Carter, Austin, Texas, Backronym, Belo, Bill Mack (songwriter), Blue Network, Bob Brinker, Broadcast syndication, Brokered programming, Call sign, Citadel Broadcasting, City of license, Clear-channel station, Country music, Cowbell, Cumulus Media, Cumulus Media Networks, Dallas, Dallas Stars, Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Disaster area, Downtown Dallas, Emergency Alert System, Federal Communications Commission, Flagship (broadcasting), Fort Worth, Texas, General Order 40, HD Radio, Herbert Hoover, Hertz, Ice hockey, John Batchelor, KERA (FM), KESN, KLIF (AM), KLIF-FM, KPLX, KRLD (AM), KSCS, KTCK (AM), KTCK-FM, KXAS-TV, Larry Kudlow, List of North American broadcast station classes, Local marketing agreement, Mansfield, Texas, ..., Mark Davis (talk show host), Mark Levin, Mexico, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, NBC, NBC chimes, Network affiliate, News, Nolan Ryan, North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, North Texas, Oklahoma City, Omnidirectional antenna, Premiere Networks, Radio station, Red Eye Radio, Rimshot (broadcasting), Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Severe weather terminology (United States), Simulcast, Sister station, Sports radio, Talk radio, Talk show, TCU Horned Frogs football, TCU Horned Frogs men's basketball, Texas Christian University, Texas Rangers (baseball), The Walt Disney Company, Transmitter, United States, Victory Park, Dallas, Watt, Westwood One, Westwood One News, WFAA, Wichita Falls, Texas, WOAI (AM), 1922 in radio, 1999 Stanley Cup Finals, 2010 TCU Horned Frogs football team. Expand index (42 more) »

AM broadcasting

AM broadcasting is a radio broadcasting technology, which employs amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and AM broadcasting · See more »

AMBER Alert

An AMBER Alert or a Child Abduction Emergency (SAME code: CAE) is a child abduction alert system.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and AMBER Alert · See more »

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and American Broadcasting Company · See more »

American English

American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and American English · See more »

Amon G. Carter

Amon G. Carter, Sr. (December 11, 1879 – June 23, 1955) was the creator and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and a nationally known civic booster for Fort Worth, Texas.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Amon G. Carter · See more »

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Austin, Texas · See more »

Backronym

A backronym, or bacronym, is a constructed phrase that purports to be the source of a word that is an acronym.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Backronym · See more »

Belo

Belo Corporation was a Dallas-based media company that owned 20 commercial broadcasting television stations and two regional 24-hour cable news television channels.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Belo · See more »

Bill Mack (songwriter)

Bill Mack (born June 4, 1932 in Shamrock, Texas) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and radio host.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Bill Mack (songwriter) · See more »

Blue Network

The Blue Network (previously the NBC Blue Network) was the on-air name of the now defunct American radio network, which ran from 1927 to 1945.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Blue Network · See more »

Bob Brinker

Robert John Brinker (born 1941)"Brinker, Robert J." In Who's Who in America, 50th edition.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Bob Brinker · See more »

Broadcast syndication

Broadcasting syndication is the license to broadcast television programs and radio programs by multiple television stations and radio stations, without going through a broadcast network.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Broadcast syndication · See more »

Brokered programming

Brokered programming (also known as time-buy and blocktime) is a form of broadcast content in which the show's producer pays a radio or television station for air time, rather than exchanging programming for pay or the opportunity to play spot commercials.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Brokered programming · See more »

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 designation for a transmitter station.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Call sign · See more »

Citadel Broadcasting

Citadel Broadcasting Corporation was a Las Vegas, Nevada-based broadcast holding company.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Citadel Broadcasting · See more »

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.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and City of license · See more »

Clear-channel station

A clear-channel station is an AM radio station in North America that has the highest protection from interference from other stations, particularly concerning night-time skywave propagation.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Clear-channel station · See more »

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.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Country music · See more »

Cowbell

A cow bell or cowbell is a bell worn by freely roaming animals made to scare off any predators.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Cowbell · See more »

Cumulus Media

Cumulus Media, Inc. is an American broadcasting company and is the third largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States behind Entercom and iHeartMedia, Inc. As of July 1, 2017, Cumulus lists ownership of 446 stations in 90 media markets.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Cumulus Media · See more »

Cumulus Media Networks

Cumulus Media Networks was an American radio network owned and operated by Cumulus Media.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Cumulus Media Networks · See more »

Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Dallas · See more »

Dallas Stars

The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Dallas Stars · See more »

Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area, the official title designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget, encompasses 13 counties within the U.S. state of Texas.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex · See more »

Disaster area

A disaster area is a region or a locale, heavily damaged by either natural, technological or social hazards.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Disaster area · See more »

Downtown Dallas

Downtown Dallas is the Central Business District (CBD) of Dallas, Texas USA, located in the geographic center of the city.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Downtown Dallas · See more »

Emergency Alert System

The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States put into place on January 1, 1997 (approved by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in November 1994), when it replaced the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), which in turn replaced the CONELRAD System.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Emergency Alert System · See more »

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.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Federal Communications Commission · See more »

Flagship (broadcasting)

In broadcasting, a flagship (also known as a flagship 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.This includes both direct network feeds and broadcast syndication, but generally not backhauls.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Flagship (broadcasting) · See more »

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the 15th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Fort Worth, Texas · See more »

General Order 40

The Federal Radio Commission's (FRC) General Order 40, dated August 30, 1928, described the standards for a sweeping reorganization of radio broadcasting in the United States.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and General Order 40 · See more »

HD Radio

HD Radio is a trademarked term for iBiquity's in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio technology used by AM and FM radio stations to transmit audio and data by using a digital signal embedded "on-frequency" immediately above and below a station's standard analog signal, providing the means to listen to the same program in either HD (digital radio with less noise) or as a standard broadcast (analog radio with standard sound quality).

New!!: WBAP (AM) and HD Radio · See more »

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Herbert Hoover · See more »

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.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Hertz · See more »

Ice hockey

Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Ice hockey · See more »

John Batchelor

John Calvin Batchelor (born April 29, 1948) is an American author and host of The John Batchelor Show radio news magazine.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and John Batchelor · See more »

KERA (FM)

KERA (90.1 FM) is a National Public Radio member station serving North Texas.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and KERA (FM) · See more »

KESN

KESN (103.3 FM) is a Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, based sports talk radio station.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and KESN · See more »

KLIF (AM)

KLIF (570 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Dallas, Texas.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and KLIF (AM) · See more »

KLIF-FM

KLIF-FM (93.3 FM, branded as "Hot 93.3") is a radio station licensed to serve Haltom City, Texas, United States.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and KLIF-FM · See more »

KPLX

KPLX (99.5 FM, "99.5 The Wolf") is an American commercial radio station broadcasting a country music format on 99.5 FM, serving the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex in Texas and is under ownership of Cumulus Media.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and KPLX · See more »

KRLD (AM)

KRLD (1080 kHz; NewsRadio 1080) is a commercial AM radio station owned and operated by Entercom.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and KRLD (AM) · See more »

KSCS

KSCS (96.3 MHz) is an FM station which serves the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex in Texas.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and KSCS · See more »

KTCK (AM)

KTCK (1310 AM; "SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket") is a commercial sports talk radio station licensed to Dallas, Texas, which serves the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW).

New!!: WBAP (AM) and KTCK (AM) · See more »

KTCK-FM

KTCK-FM (96.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve the community of Flower Mound, Texas.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and KTCK-FM · See more »

KXAS-TV

KXAS-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 24), is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, United States and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and KXAS-TV · See more »

Larry Kudlow

Lawrence Alan Kudlow (born August 20, 1947) is an American financial analyst and former television personality serving as Director of the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump since 2018.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Larry Kudlow · See more »

List of North American broadcast station classes

This is a list of broadcast station classes applicable in much of North America under international agreements between the United States, Canada and Mexico.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and List of North American broadcast station classes · See more »

Local marketing agreement

In North American broadcasting, a local marketing agreement (or local management agreement, abbreviated as an LMA) is a contract in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another party.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Local marketing agreement · See more »

Mansfield, Texas

Mansfield is a suburban city located mostly in Tarrant county, with small parts in Ellis and Johnson counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Mansfield, Texas · See more »

Mark Davis (talk show host)

Mark Davis is an American radio host, newspaper columnist and political commentator.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Mark Davis (talk show host) · See more »

Mark Levin

Mark Reed Levin (born September 21, 1957) is an American lawyer, author, and radio personality.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Mark Levin · See more »

Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Mexico · See more »

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located in Cooperstown, New York, and operated by private interests.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum · See more »

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and NBC · See more »

NBC chimes

The NBC chimes are a sequence of three tones played on National Broadcasting Company (NBC) broadcasts.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and NBC chimes · See more »

Network affiliate

In the broadcasting industry (particularly in North America), 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.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Network affiliate · See more »

News

News is information about current events.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and News · See more »

Nolan Ryan

Lynn Nolan Ryan Jr. (born January 31, 1947), nicknamed The Ryan Express, is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher and a previous chief executive officer (CEO) of the Texas Rangers.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Nolan Ryan · See more »

North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement

The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, commonly abbreviated as NARBA, refers to a series of international treaties that defined technical standards for AM band (mediumwave) radio stations.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement · See more »

North Texas

North Texas (also commonly called North Central Texas, Northeastern Texas, and Nortex) is a term used primarily by residents of Dallas, Fort Worth, and surrounding areas to describe much of the northern portion of the U.S. state of Texas.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and North Texas · See more »

Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Oklahoma City · See more »

Omnidirectional antenna

In radio communication, an omnidirectional antenna is a class of antenna which have an axis about which radio wave power is radiated symmetrically, and, upon that axis, is zero.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Omnidirectional antenna · See more »

Premiere Networks

Premiere Networks (formerly Premiere Radio Networks, or PRN) is an American radio network.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Premiere Networks · See more »

Radio station

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

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Radio station · See more »

Red Eye Radio

Red Eye Radio is a talk radio program currently hosted by Eric Harley and Gary McNamara.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Red Eye Radio · See more »

Rimshot (broadcasting)

A rimshot is a radio and television broadcasting term for a station that attempts to reach a larger media market from a distant suburban, exurban, or even rural location.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Rimshot (broadcasting) · See more »

Rush Limbaugh

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host and conservative political commentator.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Rush Limbaugh · See more »

Sean Hannity

Sean Patrick Hannity (born December 30, 1961) is an American talk show host and conservative political commentator.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Sean Hannity · See more »

Severe weather terminology (United States)

This article describes severe weather terminology used by the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Severe weather terminology (United States) · See more »

Simulcast

Simulcast, a portmanteau of simultaneous broadcast, is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously).

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Simulcast · See more »

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.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Sister station · See more »

Sports radio

Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Sports radio · See more »

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.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Talk radio · See more »

Talk show

A talk show or chat show is a television programming or radio programming genre in which one person (or group of people) discusses various topics put forth by a talk show host.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Talk show · See more »

TCU Horned Frogs football

The TCU Horned Frogs football team is the intercollegiate football team of Texas Christian University (TCU).

New!!: WBAP (AM) and TCU Horned Frogs football · See more »

TCU Horned Frogs men's basketball

The TCU Horned Frogs men's basketball team represents Texas Christian University, located in Fort Worth, Texas, in NCAA Division I men's basketball competition.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and TCU Horned Frogs men's basketball · See more »

Texas Christian University

Texas Christian University (TCU) is a private Christian-based, coeducational university in Fort Worth, Texas, established in 1873 by brothers Addison and Randolph Clark as the AddRan Male & Female College.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Texas Christian University · See more »

Texas Rangers (baseball)

The Texas Rangers are an American professional baseball team based in Arlington, Texas, located in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Texas Rangers (baseball) · See more »

The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and The Walt Disney Company · See more »

Transmitter

In electronics and telecommunications, a transmitter or radio transmitter is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Transmitter · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and United States · See more »

Victory Park, Dallas

Victory Park is a master planned development northwest of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA) and north of Spur 366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway).

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Victory Park, Dallas · See more »

Watt

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

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Watt · See more »

Westwood One

Westwood One, owned and operated by Cumulus Media, is an American mass media company headquartered in New York, New York, specializing in radio syndication and audio content.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Westwood One · See more »

Westwood One News

Westwood One News is a radio news network operated by Westwood One through its parent company Cumulus Media.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Westwood One News · See more »

WFAA

WFAA, virtual and VHF digital channel 8, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and WFAA · See more »

Wichita Falls, Texas

Wichita Falls is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and Wichita Falls, Texas · See more »

WOAI (AM)

WOAI (1200 AM) is a San Antonio, Texas, news/talk formatted radio station operating with 50,000 watts non-directional day and night from a transmitter site near Marion, Texas.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and WOAI (AM) · See more »

1922 in radio

1922 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1922.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and 1922 in radio · See more »

1999 Stanley Cup Finals

The 1999 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1998–99 season, and the culmination of the 1999 Stanley Cup playoffs.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and 1999 Stanley Cup Finals · See more »

2010 TCU Horned Frogs football team

The 2010 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season.

New!!: WBAP (AM) and 2010 TCU Horned Frogs football team · See more »

Redirects here:

WBAP-AM.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBAP_(AM)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »