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WXYT (1270 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Detroit, Michigan.It airs a betting-oriented sports radio format known as "The Bet Detroit". Most programming comes from the BetQL Network and Infinity Sports Network.
Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio broadcasting audiences. It was founded as the American Research Bureau by Jim Seiler in 1949 and became national by merging with Los Angeles-based Coffin, Cooper, and Clay in the early 1950s. [2]
Along with sister stations WWJ 950 AM and WXYT 1270 AM, 97.1 The Ticket is the flagship station of all four of Detroit's professional sports teams and two college teams: the Detroit Tigers baseball team, [4] the Detroit Pistons basketball team, [5] the Detroit Red Wings hockey team, [6] the Detroit Lions football team, [7] and the Michigan Wolverines football and men's basketball (NCAA) teams.
Detroit's other rockers were hit hard, particularly 106.7 WWWW (W4), which, having been a top 10-rated station just a year earlier (and had ranked as high as #2 in the spring 1979 ratings), had tumbled completely out of the top 20 by the fall of 1980.
From 1945 to 1957, WIND held the exclusive local rights to broadcast Chicago Cubs baseball. [39] Sportscasters on WIND during this period included Bert Wilson, Milo Hamilton, and Jack Quinlan. [40] In 1956, the station was sold to Westinghouse Broadcasting for $5.3 million, which at the time was a record amount for a radio station.
WLS-FM (94.7 MHz) is a commercial classic hits radio station licensed to serve Chicago, Illinois. Owned by Cumulus Media, the station serves the Chicago metropolitan area, and is the radio home of Dave Fogel. The WLS-FM studios are located at the NBC Tower in the city's Streeterville neighborhood, while its transmitter is located at Willis ...
WLS (890 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois. Owned by Cumulus Media , through licensee Radio License Holdings LLC, the station airs a talk radio format. WLS studios are in the NBC Tower on North Columbus Drive in the city's Streeterville neighborhood.
During the '80s, Rock 103 was usually the highest-rated local station in the Ann Arbor market. Jingles touted the fact the station was "Ann Arbor's Number One!" In 1987, the station boosted power to 50,000 watts, dramatically increasing its coverage area to the west (toward Jackson ) and north (toward Fenton ), although the station's eastward ...