Its call letters are a partial abbreviation of the station's original owners, the now-defunct Asociación de Productores de Azúcar, or Puerto Rico Sugar Grower's Association.

In 1979, the station's original owners were involved in court action unrelated to CFNY and forced to sell the station.

With the Canadian economy in recession and interest rates high, the station's owners sold the station to media conglomerate Selkirk Communications.

In April 1998, CHUM fired news co-anchor Al McGregor, which generated harsh criticism of the station's new owners.

Scottish Television was founded by Canadian businessman Roy Thomson ( later Lord Thomson ) in association with the Theatre Royal's owners Howard & Wyndham Ltd. Thomson invited Canadian television producer Rai Purdy to become the station's first head of programming.

It also operates Gore-based station Hokonui Gold through a lease agreement with the station's owners.

The station's owners had hoped to be assigned " K-V-S-L ", for " Voice of St. Louis " They were assigned KMOX, but in a last-ditch effort they applied for " K-M-O ", but the letters had been in use by KMO in Tacoma since 1922.

Under the Kokers, KFBT was an independent station with a firmly local flavor and soon garnered much acclaim with features such as the scary B-movie night Saturday Fright at the Movies, hosted by Count Cool Rider, which aired at 10 p. m. Count Cool Rider was actually Danny Koker, one of the station's owners, who has since gone on to become a respected builder of custom motorcycles, as well as a regular expert on the History channel series Pawn Stars and host of its spinoff, Counting Cars.

In early 2007, the station's owners approached UK media regulator OFCOM to ask permission to move the station's base from Warrington to the Haydock or Newton Le Willows area of Merseyside as part of a plan to house it in a single building with two other stations from the UTV Radio group: Wish FM ( Wigan and St Helens ) and Tower FM ( Bolton and Bury ).

After the sale was completed, the new owners changed the station's call letters to WVVA, which stands for the states which channel 6 serves, West Virginia and Virginia.

The station's successive owners, British Rail, Railtrack and its current owner Network Rail have been unfairly criticised for underutilising the valuable city-centre spaces available within, there being a legal covenant preventing any upwards extension, which would obstruct the view of Arthur's Seat from Princes Street.

Gene Autry was one of the station's owners.

In May 2005, the former host started giving interviews to various Quebec media where he complained about what he says is a lack of respect towards him by the station's owners.

The station's new owners wanted DuckTales to be shown on KCAL, thus taking it away from Fox-owned KTTV.

In February 2010, the station's owners Guardian Media Group were reported to be in talks with staff regarding options for Channel M's future after the company sold off 32 of its regional newspaper titles, including the Manchester Evening News, to Trinity Mirror for £ 44. 8 million.

The station's owners said UK government plans for localised television services would not allow the station to run a commercially viable service in the future.

In early 2007, the station's owners approached UK media regulator OFCOM to ask permission to move the station's base from Bolton to the Haydock or Newton Le Willows area of Merseyside as part of a plan to house it in a single building with two other stations from the UTV Radio group-Wish FM in Wigan and Wire FM in Warrington.

On 18 October 2007, the station's new owners Global Radio announced that they and Sky had scrapped a joint venture to turn LBC News 1152 into a 24 hour Sky News branded station.

In February 2010, the station's owners lodged a request with Ofcom to change the station's format to one for over 45-year-olds.

In August 1999, the station's new owners, Jersey-based Hub Trans Communications, merged KCBC and Connect FM, rebranding them as Connect 97. 2 and 107. 4, and co-locating both stations at Telford Way Industrial Estate in Kettering.

In January 2009, owners Global Radio re-branded SGR Colchester as Heart Colchester and the following year it was merged with Heart Essex, resulting in the closure of the station's studio base in the town.

In the mid 1990s, GEM's owners Midland Radio plc were bought, by expanding radio company GWR, which gradually networked the station's programming with that of other gold stations it had purchased elsewhere in the country.

As a result, the vast majority of the station's crew were Soviet or Russian ; however, through international collaborations, including the Intercosmos, Euromir and Shuttle-Mir programmes, the station was made accessible to astronauts from North America, several European nations and Japan.

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 ).

David Frost was an original director of LWT, and he presented a late-night chat show on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in the station's early years ; another chat show host who made his debut on LWT was Russell Harty.

The station's output was actually broadcast several seconds after it was produced in the studio, allowing a small amount of time for the station to be silenced after unwanted comments had been made.

Its navigation system, made up of the Delta semi-automatic computer to depict the station's orbit and the Kaskad system to control its orientation, was based on that used on Salyut 4, as was its power system, which consisted of a trio of steerable solar panels together producing a peak of 4 kilowatts of power over 51 m².

The station's thermal regulation systems, which made use of a sophisticated arrangement of insulation and radiators, was also derived from that used on Salyut 4.

After demonstrating a prototype ( a rotating baffle in a hole in a small closet with a big speaker in the closet near Leslie's home organ ) with Bob Mitchell, an organist with radio station KFI in Los Angeles, a contract was made to install another prototype in the station's studios, where Mitchell would be the only organist authorized to use it.

* Aki City Station Chiba-San Market ( 安芸市ちばさん市場 ): Located within the station's main building, local produce, plants, bakery goods, Aki City omiyage, and home-made bento are brought / made fresh every day and sold cheaply.

He made his broadcast debut performing a comedy sketch he'd written on the station's popular comedy-variety radio program, " Blue Monday Jamboree.

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.

The station's sign-on made Portland one of the smallest markets in the United States with three network affiliates on the analog VHF band.

Hyland emphasized and leveraged KMOX's relationship with the St. Louis Cardinals ; he also made the decision in 1960 to eliminate the station's afternoon music programming in favor of talk radio, a critical change which led to the station's subsequent dominance of the St. Louis radio market.

* 1959 The station's first on-screen logo was an oscilloscope pattern made up of seven dot joined together by six lines.

The station's tuning signal since 1936 has been the air O ' Donnell Abú, although since the advent of 24-hour broadcasting in 1997, the tune has been played just once a day, as a prelude to the start of the day's live broadcasting at 05: 30 each morning ( between 02: 00 and 05: 30, apart from the hourly news bulletins, Radio 1's output is made up of selected repeats from earlier programmes ).

Not until 2001 did Congress made changing the station's name a condition of further federal funding.

Finally, in 2001, Congress made changing the station's name a condition of further federal funding.

He significantly upgraded the station's programming and made it profitable almost immediately, as he did in Atlanta with what became WTCG, and later WTBS.

In 2010, the station's Sophie Price won the Original Journalism category for a documentary she had made about teenage pregnancy in Norfolk.

On May 25, 2006, the station's radar was made even more powerful and is now " SkyTower HD VIPIR.

It was Hyland who emphasized and leveraged KMOX's relationship with the Cardinals ; he also made the decision in 1960 to eliminate the station's afternoon music programming in favor of talk radio, a critical change which led to the station's subsequent dominance of the St. Louis radio market.

Several months later the band made an appearance on an early form of internet television station ' MP3TV ' which led them to finally releasing their first official single, " Good Luck Olivia ", under the station's show host Susan Hyatt's Not Your Common Records.

In January 2007 KCPQ made headlines when, during a satellite interview with the station's morning show, Paula Abdul, who was promoting American Idol, began to sway in her chair and slur her speech.

Different radio stations want their DJs to speak only at certain times, so cyber jocks have to be made aware of each station's rules.