Jingles are brief, bright pieces of choral music that promote the station's call letters, frequency and sometimes disc-jockey or program segment.

For most mainstream country stations, the emphasis is generally on current pop country, following the same process as top 40 ; the remaining music in a particular station's library generally uses music from the past fifteen years ( shorter for " hot country " or " new country " stations ), with the exact music used varying depending on the station and the style of music the listener wants to hear.

Often the only breaks in a satellite music station's programming are for station identification and DJ introductions.

The radio station's programmers Max Tolkoff and Mark Sovel had been invited to Prince's home to hear the new rock oriented music.

The station's programming consists of news / talk programs and Mexican popular music.

According to Phillips, this radio station's " open format " ( of broadcasting music from both white and black musicians ) would later inspire his work in Memphis.

In 1960 WLS hired star disc jockey Dick Biondi ( a 1998 inductee of the National Radio Hall of Fame ) from WEBR in Buffalo, New York, to anchor the station's new Top 40 music radio format that began May 2, 1960.

The oldies format was an attempt to recreate the station's history as a popular music station ( and was part of a nationwide fad of " real oldies " formats on AM radio stations in the early 2000s ( decade )), and while they maintained the official WWKB calls for station identification, they also played the original " WKBW Buffalo " jingles and featured many of the classic WKBW jocks including Armstrong and Neaverth.

Much of the station's closing night was made up of in-house produced output including Live Like A Lord ( a music and comedy show with mainstay TWW personality Ivor Emmanuel and Clive Dunn ) and Sing Me A Fantasy ( a musical film ).

The station's uniquely progressive programming policy mandated a focus on music available through independent and artist owned labels, rather than centralized corporate media.

This radio broadcast was extremely important to the success of Joel's music career because after the show was recorded, the live recording of " Captain Jack " was played by the Philly station and quickly became " the most requested song in the station's history.

The first single, " The Very First Time ", debuted on BBC Radio 2 in January, was added to the station's " A " playlist for the week beginning 29 March and was released as a music download track on 1 April.

Despite the music's limited commercial availability, house records sold in the tens of thousands, and the music was further popularized via radio station 102. 7 WBMX-FM, where Program Director Lee Michaels gave airtime to the station's resident DJ team, the Hot Mix 5 ( Ralph Rosario, Mickey " Mixin " Oliver, Scott " Smokin " Silz, Kenny " Jammin " Jason, and Farley " Jackmaster " Funk ).

The Hot Mix 5 shows started with the station's launch in 1981, and was widely listened to by DJs and dance music fans in Chicago as well as visiting DJs and producers from Detroit.

* A Date With Jennifer – In one of the series ' best musical bits, when Les was dressing in the bullpen for his date with Jennifer that evening, Foreigner's " Hot Blooded " played on the station's speaker monitor ( with Les moving to the music ); this was replaced by a generic sound-alike.

In June 2004, he was temporarily suspended from his show on Classic Gold for playing songs by Cliff Richard, in defiance of a ruling by the head of programmes that Richard's music did not match the station's ' brand values '.

This music was later to become the station's signature tune.

* Friends of Radio 3 ( FoR3 ) ( from 2003 ), a listeners ’ campaign group set up to express concern at changes to the station's style and scheduling, including the shift to presenter-led programmes stripped through the week, as on Classic FM and other mass-audience music stations.

Whereas Grampian had previously restricted its output to news and current affairs beforehand, production controller James Buchan decided to go for broke and branch out to produce light entertainment and music shows ( originally, at the rate of four programmes a week )-such output would remain a staple of the station's local output for the next forty years or so.

The birdsong recording was made in the Wiltshire garden of the station's chief engineer who is also credited with the idea of using the soundtrack as test material rather than playing back to back music which would otherwise have been expected.

Classic FM currently has a music team who create playlists for the station, commission music research with listeners as well as choosing the repertoire for the station's CDs, magazines and concerts.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

The station's new Main Building, which now houses the Immigration Museum, was opened in 1900.

In 2008, the museum's library was officially named the Bob Hope Memorial Library in honor of one the station's most famous immigrants.

He was also hired as the station's VP of Operations.

The station's first appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation was during the sixth season episode " Birthright " and in addition, two Next Generation characters, Miles O ' Brien and ( from Season 4 onwards ) Worf, became regular members of DS9.

Armstrong ( and others ) eventually deduced that this was caused by a " supersonic heterodyne " between the station's carrier frequency and the oscillator frequency.

Severe damage was sustained during launch and deployment, including the loss of the station's micrometeoroid shield / sun shade and one of its main solar panels.

The most serious issue for reactivation was stationkeeping, as one of the station's gyroscopes had failed and the attitude control system needed refueling ; these issues would need EVA to fix or replace.

It was on September 4, 1882, that Edison switched on his Pearl Street generating station's electrical power distribution system, which provided 110 volts direct current ( DC ) to 59 customers in lower Manhattan.

Also discussed was how wattage power used by broadcasters would be distributed depending on the radio station's conditional use and location.

As interest in television grew, and as early television stations began regular broadcasts, the idea of networking television signals ( sending one station's video and audio signal to outlying stations ) was born.

The South Wellfleet station's first call sign was " CC ", for Cape Cod.

WMAQ reporter Larry Langford, who was that station's overnight crime reporter and was known to cover all overnight police and fire activity for that station, reported that city crews were in the process of shutting down large water mains to see if the flow could be stopped.

A seventh station, WCVB-TV in Boston, was part of the original transaction but was spun off in a separate, concurrent deal to the Hearst Corporation as part of a right of first refusal related to that station's 1982 sale to Metromedia.

Afterward, WLPI-AM was shut down due to maintenance problems with the station's equipment.

The naming ceremony took place in his presence ; there was a last-minute scramble to repaint the station's new nameboards when it was discovered that the unusual dieresis in his name had been omitted ( making the French word for " welcome ").

The station dropped the 3GL call sign in favour of 3CAT, an ID that was proposed by the radio station's head of football commentary Ted Whitten ( who at the time was in the early stages of affliction of cancer ).

The station's building was evacuated and the fire was brought under control, though there is said to have been " extensive damage ", including smoke and water damage, to the studio.

The national entity was known as the CanWest Global System until adopting the Ontario station's branding in 1997.

In the early 1980s, the station's format switched from easy listening to soft AC as a response to WSB-FM's format change.

Bored with the station's commercial easy listening music, he reportedly brought in some of his own records one night, breaking format and hosting in an uncharacteristically dynamic style.

The station's configuration means that easy cross-platform transfer is available for some services.

At that time, FM radio was not very popular and WMNI-FM ( as it was known ) mostly rebroadcast its sister AM station's easy listening music format.

The music consisted of Christmas songs by the station's core artists mixed with well-known Christmas music by oldies artists and some traditional easy listening type artists.

The station's easy listening format was innovative but criticised by rival Britain Radio as " stone age radio-a series of segmented dirges ".

In the late 1960s, the station's call letters changed to KFMH, but easy listening music continued on the frequency for several more years.

As a result, lifts were installed during the station's refurbishment to restore easy access to the platforms.

CHUM dropped the station's longtime easy listening format in 1992, adopting the calls and the brand name Kool FM for its new hot adult contemporary format.

" That had been the station's format dating back to 1979 ; before that, it was an album oriented rock station, and before that easy listening / classical music outlet WMAL-FM ( known as " The Soft Explosion "), sharing a base call sign with WMAL ( 630 AM ).

The move left Baton Rouge without a beautiful music station ( WQXY was a Schulke Radio affiliate, using SRN tapes for its easy listening programming ) for the first time in decades, and it bitterly angered a large portion of the station's traditional base while failing, in successive years, to attract a considerable share of what was already a heavily saturated Adult Contemporary radio market in Baton Rouge at the time.