Misplaced Pages

#387612

33-530: WFEA (1370 kHz ) is a commercial AM radio station in Manchester, New Hampshire , airing a talk radio format . It is owned and operated by Saga Communications of New England LLC, which also owns 95.7 WZID and 96.5 WMLL . WFEA's studios and offices are on North Commercial Street in Manchester. WFEA is powered at 5,000 watts , using a directional antenna with a two- tower array . Its AM transmitter

66-622: A format for mature listeners who were content with hearing music on AM radio, especially if the station played songs that FM stations thought was too old or conservative. "AM Only" was promoted exclusively to AM stations, though it was not long before some FM stations used it as well. The format was promoted on-air as "Great Songs, Great Memories," and it continues to use that slogan to this day. One affiliate used an ad which stated: Ray Charles lives here. So does Rosemary Clooney , Perry Como , Bing Crosby , The Lettermen , and The Nelson Riddle Orchestra. At KVIN , Vintage 920 The Vine, we play

99-548: A more detailed treatment of this and the above frequency ranges, see Electromagnetic spectrum . Gravitational waves are also described in Hertz. Current observations are conducted in the 30–7000 Hz range by laser interferometers like LIGO , and the nanohertz (1–1000 nHz) range by pulsar timing arrays . Future space-based detectors are planned to fill in the gap, with LISA operating from 0.1–10 mHz (with some sensitivity from 10 μHz to 100 mHz), and DECIGO in

132-451: A short-lived format created by the now-dissolved Jones Radio Networks , as a result of Jones's purchase by Westwood One. Many, though not all, Jones Standards affiliates switched over to America's Best Music. Westwood One's subsequent purchase of Waitt Radio Networks added a second adult standards/MOR-based format to the syndicator's portfolio in the form of " The Lounge ", formerly distributed by Waitt and now discontinued. In July 2015 it

165-903: Is Music of Your Life , syndicated by Planet Halo, Inc. Until 2010, Timeless from Citadel / ABC Radio had been another similar format. The target audience of the format is listeners 35 to 64, with a range of softer hits, primarily from the 1950s through the 1980s, plus a few newer titles in the playlist . Artists include The Beatles , Celine Dion , Elvis Presley , Dionne Warwick , Neil Diamond , Billy Joel , Frank Sinatra , Barbra Streisand , The Carpenters , Lionel Richie , Barry Manilow , James Taylor , Elton John , Anne Murray , Simon and Garfunkel , Andy Williams , Linda Ronstadt , Natalie Cole , Nat King Cole , The Captain & Tennille , and The 5th Dimension . The format also incorporates "new standards" material by artists like Norah Jones , Diana Krall , Michael Bublé , Rod Stewart , Bette Midler and Carly Simon . An occasional newer song

198-631: Is New Hampshire 's oldest radio station and has always had the same call sign . Over the years, WFEA has had 10 owners. From its first day on the air, WFEA was an affiliate of the Yankee Network and the CBS Radio Network . Before the enactment of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) in 1941, WFEA broadcast on 1340 kHz. It transmitted with 1,000 watts by day and 500 watts at night. It

231-427: Is 1/time (T ). Expressed in base SI units, the unit is the reciprocal second (1/s). In English, "hertz" is also used as the plural form. As an SI unit, Hz can be prefixed ; commonly used multiples are kHz (kilohertz, 10  Hz ), MHz (megahertz, 10  Hz ), GHz (gigahertz, 10  Hz ) and THz (terahertz, 10  Hz ). One hertz (i.e. one per second) simply means "one periodic event occurs per second" (where

264-490: Is also used to describe the clock speeds at which computers and other electronics are driven. The units are sometimes also used as a representation of the energy of a photon , via the Planck relation E  =  hν , where E is the photon's energy, ν is its frequency, and h is the Planck constant . The hertz is defined as one per second for periodic events. The International Committee for Weights and Measures defined

297-508: Is heard if it has adult appeal, such as some recent hits by Adele . Also, the network switches to all Christmas music beginning in mid-December through Christmas Day each year. "AM Only" was created by Transtar Radio Networks at a time when FM had overtaken AM for listeners seeking music on the radio. Most AM stations that had previously programmed formats such as Top 40 , adult contemporary and country music saw their listeners switch to FM stations. These stations were in search of

330-614: Is on Danial Webster Highway ( U.S. Route 3 ) in Merrimack , at its original studio building. One of the towers in the Merrimack array is a diamond-shaped " Blaw-Knox ", a smaller version of the famous Blaw Knox tower of WLW in Cincinnati . Programming is also heard on FM translator station W260CF at 99.9 MHz . The FM transmitter is on Mount Uncanoonuc in Goffstown . WFEA is simulcast on

363-484: Is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), often described as being equivalent to one event (or cycle ) per second . The hertz is an SI derived unit whose formal expression in terms of SI base units is s , meaning that one hertz is one per second or the reciprocal of one second . It is used only in the case of periodic events. It is named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894),

SECTION 10

#1732869932388

396-452: Is usually measured in kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), or gigahertz (GHz). with the latter known as microwaves . Light is electromagnetic radiation that is even higher in frequency, and has frequencies in the range of tens of terahertz (THz, infrared ) to a few petahertz (PHz, ultraviolet ), with the visible spectrum being 400–790 THz. Electromagnetic radiation with frequencies in the low terahertz range (intermediate between those of

429-1097: The HD2 digital subchannel of WMLL. Until February 1, 2017, it was on the HD3 subchannel of WZID. Weekdays begin with the WFEA Morning Update , a news and interview show hosted by Drew Cline. The rest of the weekday schedule is nationally syndicated programs hosted by Boston -based Howie Carr and Grace Curley, The Hugh Hewitt Show , The Mark Levin Show , Eye on the World with John Batchelor and Red Eye Radio . On weekends, shows on money, health, home repair, law, travel, cars and technology are heard, some of which are paid brokered programming . Weekend syndicated hosts include Kim Komando , Lars Larson , Larry Kudlow , Rudy Maxa , Major Garrett and Bill Handel . Most hours begin with an update from CBS News Radio . WFEA has been broadcasting continuously since 9:00 a.m. on March 1, 1932. It

462-570: The Las Vegas market, and KOY became the number 5 station in Phoenix, Arizona . In 2000, over 240 radio stations used the adult standards format which was being distributed by this time by Westwood One. In the first decade of the 21st Century, the format added more uptempo material from the oldies and adult contemporary formats and promoted "A New Variety of America's Best Music". On October 1, 2008, America's Best Music absorbed Jones Standards ,

495-446: The 0.1–10 Hz range. In computers, most central processing units (CPU) are labeled in terms of their clock rate expressed in megahertz ( MHz ) or gigahertz ( GHz ). This specification refers to the frequency of the CPU's master clock signal . This signal is nominally a square wave , which is an electrical voltage that switches between low and high logic levels at regular intervals. As

528-595: The 1950s and 1960s, WFEA evolved into a Top 40 sound. As contemporary music listeners switched to FM, WFEA began airing a full service hot AC format in the mid-1980s. By the late 1980s, it switched to mainstream adult contemporary music . In 1990, WFEA switched to a satellite-delivered adult standards format, known as " America's Best Music ", from Westwood One . It featured artists such as Frank Sinatra , Tony Bennett , The Carpenters , Dionne Warwick , Barry Manilow , Neil Diamond , Elvis Presley , Barbra Streisand , and Nat "King" Cole . In November 1990, WFEA

561-468: The 1970s. In some usage, the "per second" was omitted, so that "megacycles" (Mc) was used as an abbreviation of "megacycles per second" (that is, megahertz (MHz)). Sound is a traveling longitudinal wave , which is an oscillation of pressure . Humans perceive the frequency of a sound as its pitch . Each musical note corresponds to a particular frequency. An infant's ear is able to perceive frequencies ranging from 20 Hz to 20 000  Hz ;

594-476: The average adult human can hear sounds between 20 Hz and 16 000  Hz . The range of ultrasound , infrasound and other physical vibrations such as molecular and atomic vibrations extends from a few femtohertz into the terahertz range and beyond. Electromagnetic radiation is often described by its frequency—the number of oscillations of the perpendicular electric and magnetic fields per second—expressed in hertz. Radio frequency radiation

627-440: The event being counted may be a complete cycle); 100 Hz means "one hundred periodic events occur per second", and so on. The unit may be applied to any periodic event—for example, a clock might be said to tick at 1 Hz , or a human heart might be said to beat at 1.2 Hz . The occurrence rate of aperiodic or stochastic events is expressed in reciprocal second or inverse second (1/s or s ) in general or, in

660-403: The first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves . For high frequencies, the unit is commonly expressed in multiples : kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), gigahertz (GHz), terahertz (THz). Some of the unit's most common uses are in the description of periodic waveforms and musical tones , particularly those used in radio - and audio-related applications. It

693-449: The hertz has become the primary unit of measurement accepted by the general populace to determine the performance of a CPU, many experts have criticized this approach, which they claim is an easily manipulable benchmark . Some processors use multiple clock cycles to perform a single operation, while others can perform multiple operations in a single cycle. For personal computers, CPU clock speeds have ranged from approximately 1 MHz in

SECTION 20

#1732869932388

726-413: The highest normally usable radio frequencies and long-wave infrared light) is often called terahertz radiation . Even higher frequencies exist, such as that of X-rays and gamma rays , which can be measured in exahertz (EHz). For historical reasons, the frequencies of light and higher frequency electromagnetic radiation are more commonly specified in terms of their wavelengths or photon energies : for

759-454: The late 1970s ( Atari , Commodore , Apple computers ) to up to 6 GHz in IBM Power microprocessors . Various computer buses , such as the front-side bus connecting the CPU and northbridge , also operate at various frequencies in the megahertz range. Higher frequencies than the International System of Units provides prefixes for are believed to occur naturally in the frequencies of

792-449: The original hits of the 40s, 50s and 60s. All day, every day. After a February 1987 debut with Chick Watkins as program director, "AM Only" had 157 network affiliates by the end of 1993. Growth of the format was helped by new material from Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis, and artists such as Harry Connick Jr. , along with movies such as Sleepless in Seattle . KJUL jumped to number 3 in

825-692: The quantum-mechanical vibrations of massive particles, although these are not directly observable and must be inferred through other phenomena. By convention, these are typically not expressed in hertz, but in terms of the equivalent energy, which is proportional to the frequency by the factor of the Planck constant . The CJK Compatibility block in Unicode contains characters for common SI units for frequency. These are intended for compatibility with East Asian character encodings, and not for use in new documents (which would be expected to use Latin letters, e.g. "MHz"). America%27s Best Music Its main competitor

858-544: The rules for capitalisation of a common noun ; i.e., hertz becomes capitalised at the beginning of a sentence and in titles but is otherwise in lower case. The hertz is named after the German physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), who made important scientific contributions to the study of electromagnetism . The name was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 1935. It

891-409: The second as "the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium -133 atom" and then adds: "It follows that the hyperfine splitting in the ground state of the caesium 133 atom is exactly 9 192 631 770  hertz , ν hfs Cs = 9 192 631 770  Hz ." The dimension of the unit hertz

924-413: The specific case of radioactivity , in becquerels . Whereas 1 Hz (one per second) specifically refers to one cycle (or periodic event) per second, 1 Bq (also one per second) specifically refers to one radionuclide event per second on average. Even though frequency, angular velocity , angular frequency and radioactivity all have the dimension T , of these only frequency is expressed using

957-480: The unit hertz. Thus a disc rotating at 60 revolutions per minute (rpm) is said to have an angular velocity of 2 π  rad/s and a frequency of rotation of 1 Hz . The correspondence between a frequency f with the unit hertz and an angular velocity ω with the unit radians per second is The hertz is named after Heinrich Hertz . As with every SI unit named for a person, its symbol starts with an upper case letter (Hz), but when written in full, it follows

990-524: Was acquired by Saga Communications. The music format was discontinued in February 2015 and WFEA switched to talk programming, with hourly updates from CBS Radio News. WFEA had broadcast Manchester Wolves Arena Football League games before the team folded at the end of the 2009 season, and the University of New Hampshire college football and basketball games. Hertz The hertz (symbol: Hz )

1023-482: Was adopted by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) ( Conférence générale des poids et mesures ) in 1960, replacing the previous name for the unit, "cycles per second" (cps), along with its related multiples, primarily "kilocycles per second" (kc/s) and "megacycles per second" (Mc/s), and occasionally "kilomegacycles per second" (kMc/s). The term "cycles per second" was largely replaced by "hertz" by

WFEA - Misplaced Pages Continue

1056-657: Was announced that all the on-air personalities would be terminated as Westwood One downsized its air staff. Original morning show host Jeff Rollins and afternoon host and production director Carl Hampton were terminated as well as fellow weekday voice John Gleason, plus weekenders Pat McNulty, Wayne Yafee and Paul Worden. Rollins returned to the air, hosting mornings at WOSN , Ocean-FM, in Indian River Shores, Florida . Former DJs included Dick Heatherton, Nick Gerard, Ed Brand, Joe Daniels , Mark Haden, Rick Wagstaff, Rick Garza, Lou Simon, and Peter Doeblin. Chick Watkins,

1089-662: Was owned by the New Hampshire Broadcasting Company. After NARBA, WFEA shifted to AM 1370 , with 5,000 watts around the clock. WFEA switched its affiliation to the NBC Red Network and the Mutual Broadcasting System . During the " Golden Age of Radio ", WFEA carried NBC and Mutual's schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, variety shows , soap operas , game shows and big band broadcasts. As network programming shifted from radio to TV, in

#387612