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42-637: WBFO is a Class B station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts . The transmitter is off Millersport Highway ( New York State Route 263 ) in Getzville . Programming is also heard on two satellite stations : WUBJ (88.1 FM) in Jamestown , and WOLN (91.3 FM) in Olean . WBFO broadcasts using HD Radio technology. It plays adult album alternative on its HD2 subchannel and Spanish-language public radio on its HD3 subchannel. WBFO

84-579: A 50,000 watt maximum for the US and Canada, but no maximum for other governments in the region. Mexico, for example, typically runs 150,000 to 500,000 watts, but some stations are grandfathered at 10,000 to 20,000 watts at night; by treaty, these sub-50,000 watt Mexican stations may operate with a maximum of 100,000 watts during the daytime. Because the AM broadcast band developed before technology suitable for directional antennas , there are numerous exceptions, such as

126-472: A comeback on the Westwood One format. ABC discontinued its Timeless service early in 2010; that same year, Music of Your Life added more 1960s oldies to its playlist. iHeartMedia 's Format Lab also features at least two adult standards formats. Some noteworthy AM & FM radio stations featuring the adult standards format today include: Moving into the 21st Century, adult standards have been given

168-460: A few Class B stations with grandfathered power limits in excess of 50 KW, such as WETA (licensed for Washington DC in zone I, at a power of 75 kW ERP), WNCI ( Columbus, Ohio in zone I, at 175 kW ERP), KPFK (Los Angeles in zone I-A, at 110 KW ERP), and the most extreme example being WBCT ( Grand Rapids, Michigan , in zone I, at 320  kW ERP). Notes: All full-power analog television station transmissions in

210-402: A handful of FM stations also air Westwood One's format. While Music of Your Life has not eliminated all of the big-band and traditional pop music from its playlist, Westwood One and ABC dropped much of the older music in favor of softer pop and rock oldies from the 1960s and 1970s top 40 era and a good deal of soft AC material as well. Under Dial Global, some of the older-style songs are making

252-412: A handful of adult standards stations today are live and locally programmed around-the-clock. Many have affiliated with nationally distributed satellite formats to cut costs; due to advertiser perceptions about the audiences these stations primarily target, a large number of adult standards stations have trouble selling airtime to advertisers, which makes them unprofitable. For example, KIXI 880 AM, serving

294-498: A station of this type shares the callsign of another station. In analog, these services often were broadcast on the same or adjacent channels to their parent station, except in certain areas with tight packing of television stations (such as central Mexico). In digital, these services usually operate on the same RF channel as their parent station, except for those with conflicting full-power applications ( XHBS-TDT Cd. Obregón, Son., channel 30 instead of 25), in certain other cases where it

336-439: Is a member station of National Public Radio (NPR). The station airs a news, talk and information format with music programs in the evening. Weekdays begin with NPR's Morning Edition . Also heard on weekdays are All Things Considered , Here and Now , Capitol Pressroom, Fresh Air and Marketplace . The WBFO staff provides local news updates during the day. Monday through Thursday from 10 to 11 a.m., What's Next?

378-437: Is called "Adult Standards" (known on-air as " America's Best Music "). Prior to 2010, ABC distributed Stardust/Timeless Classics/Timeless . Stardust/Timeless Classics was consolidated with a middle-of-the-road format owned by ABC— Unforgettable Favorites /Memories—in 2006, creating Timeless . Westwood One originally called its format AM Only and for a time, as the name suggests, offered the format only to AM stations; today,

420-469: Is divided into three zones for FM broadcasting: I, I-A and II. The zone where a station is located may limit the choices of broadcast class available to a given FM station. Zone I in the US includes all of Connecticut , the District of Columbia , Delaware , Illinois , Indiana , Massachusetts , Maryland , New Jersey , Ohio , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , and West Virginia . It also includes

462-492: Is heard, a Buffalo-centered interview and call-in show produced by WBFO. In the evening, WBFO presents The Bridge , an adult album alternative music service that also airs fulltime on WBFO-HD2. Weekends feature one-hour public radio shows on a variety of topics: The Splendid Table , On The Media , The TED Radio Hour , Planet Money , Radiolab , A Way with Words , Science Friday , Travel with Rick Steves , Freakonomics Radio and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me . Overnight,

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504-494: Is licensed for two watts in digital. The highest-powered shadows are XEQ-TDT Toluca and XHBS-TDT Ciudad Obregón, both at 200 kW. The United States Federal Communications Commission lists the following services on their website for television broadcasting: Adult standards Adult standards (also sometimes known as the nostalgia or Big Band format ) is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations. Adult standards started in

546-501: Is now heard on a subchannel of 94.5 WNED-FM. List of 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. Effective radiated power (ERP) and height above average terrain (HAAT) are listed unless otherwise noted. All radio and television stations within 320 kilometers (199 miles) of

588-606: Is still considered LPTV with respect to stations in Canada and Mexico. Class-A stations (US) (suffix: -CA or -CD for digital class A): The class-A television class is a variant of LPTV created in 2000 by the FCC to allocate and protect some low-power affiliates. Class-A stations are still low-power, but are protected from RF interference and from having to change channel should a full-service station request that channel. Additionally, class-A stations, LPTV stations, and translators are

630-517: Is technically not feasible ( XHAW-TDT Guadalupe, NL, channel 26 instead of 25) or to make way for eventual repacking on upper UHF ( XHPNW-TDT has four shadows on 33, its post-repacking channel, instead of 39). Equipos complementarios can relay their parent station, or a station that carries 75% or more of the same programming as its parent station. Stations of either type may have unusually low or high effective radiated powers. XHSMI-TDT in Oaxaca

672-650: The BBC World Service is heard. WBFO signed on the air on January 6, 1959 ; 65 years ago  ( 1959-01-06 ) . It was owned and operated by the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). At first, the station was only powered at 190 watts. For many years, the university operated it as a jazz station most of the day. After the start of National Public Radio in 1971, WBFO carried NPR's initial program All Things Considered and later added Morning Edition in 1979. The rest of

714-519: The Seattle market and KKIN 930 AM, serving Aitkin , terminated its local airstaff to affiliate with the Music of Your Life network. Many others have simply dumped the format altogether, often for all-talk or all-sports formats, oldies , or other formats deemed by management more profitable than standards. Music of Your Life is an adult standards format that probably more than any other source defined

756-799: The US-Canada or US-Mexico border must get approval by both the domestic and foreign agency. These agencies are Industry Canada / Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in Canada, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US, and the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) in Mexico. All domestic (United States) AM stations are classified as A , B , C , or D . Notes: AM station classes were previously assigned Roman numerals from I to IV in

798-409: The 1950s and is aimed at "mature" adults, meaning mainly those people over 50 years of age, but it is mostly targeted for senior citizens. It is primarily on AM because market research reveals that only persons in that age group listen to music on AM in sizable numbers. Adult standards first became a popular format in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a way to reach mature adults who came of age before

840-527: The New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association. WBFO was all-news and information during the day and featured jazz at night. On weekends there had been a mix of nationally syndicated talk programs (such as Car Talk and Only a Game ) on weekend mornings. Weekend music programs included The Thistle & Shamrock , Bebop and Beyond , and Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland in

882-640: The US use of 800 (kHz) and 900 non-directionally in Alaska, limited to 5 kW at night; and 1050 and 1220, directionally, in the continental US , and without time limits; each of these being assigned to specific cities (and each of these being Mexican Class I-A clear channels). In return for these limits on US stations, Mexico accepted limits on 830 and 1030 in Mexico City, non-directionally, restricted to 5 kW at night (both of these being US Class I-A clear channels). Notes: The following table lists

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924-439: The US were terminated at midnight Eastern Daylight Time on June 12, 2009. Many broadcasters replaced their analog signal with their digital ATSC signal on the same transmission channel at that time. Notes: LPTV (secondary) (suffix: -LP, or a sequential-numbered callsign in format W##XX with no suffix for analog or with -D suffix for digital, or -LD for low-power digital stations): The LPTV (low-power television) service

966-812: The US, with subclasses indicated by a letter suffix. Current class A is equivalent to the old class I; class B is the old classes II and III, with class D being the II-D, II-S, and III-S subclasses; and class C is the old class IV. The following conversion table compares the old AM station classes with the new AM station classes: The following chart lists frequencies on the broadcast company band, and which classes broadcast on these frequencies; Class A and Class B , 10,000 watt and higher (full-time) stations in North America which broadcast on clear-channel station frequencies are also shown. By international agreement, Class A stations must be 10,000 watts and above, with

1008-560: The adult standards audience has increased in age to the point where many of its listeners have either died or are no longer attractive to advertisers, the format as it is known today (much like the contemporary decline of oldies and smooth jazz formats, along with the earlier demise of easy listening ) is likely to die out. Most independently programmed former adult standards stations have transitioned to other formats such as oldies, classic hits , or adult contemporary music that have similar music but skew toward more modern songs. Only about

1050-458: The antenna site," based on the determined noise-limited bounding contour. All digital television stations in Mexico have -TDT callsign suffixes. Analog stations, which existed until December 31, 2016, had -TV callsign suffixes. The equivalent of low power or translator service in Mexico is the equipo complementario de zona de sombra , which is intended only to fill in gaps between a station's expected and actual service area caused by terrain;

1092-592: The areas south of latitude 43.5°N in Michigan , New Hampshire , New York, and Vermont ; as well as coastal Maine , southeastern Wisconsin , and northern and eastern Virginia . Zone I-A includes California south of 40°N, as well as Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands . Zone II includes the remainder of the continental US , plus Alaska and Hawaii . In Zones I and I-A, there are no Class C, C0, or C1 stations. However, there are

1134-498: The blues blocks and A Prairie Home Companion , which had previously aired on WNED. (The latter show ended in 2016 with Garrison Keillor 's retirement; neither WBFO nor WNED carried the successor program Live from Here , which ran until 2020.) A musical satellite feed called "Exponential" had been carried on the HD2 digital subchannel . That was replaced by a satellite-fed jazz service called "JazzWorks." In November 2021, JazzWorks

1176-525: The broad-based adult standards format on the revived WEBR in 2020. WBFO, along with WNED-FM-TV, began collectively referring to themselves as "Buffalo Toronto Public Media" on February 4, 2020. The rebranding was in part to better identify WBFO and the WNED stations as part of a single organization. It also reflects WNED-TV's significant Canadian viewership and financial support, though cable and satellite carriage. WNED officials told The Buffalo News that

1218-550: The daytime and much of the evening music programming on 88.7 FM for news shows. At the same time, it discussed a merger with WNED. WNED purchased WBFO in July 2011. The new owner incorporated some of the channel's news features and staff into a combined lineup which debuted on March 1, 2012. Once listeners began tuning in WBFO for news and information, Western New York Public Broadcasting could sell 970 AM. On November 30, 2012, 970 WNED

1260-420: The evenings. Locally originated blues programming was broadcast on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. A four-hour block of jazz programming during the midday shift was eliminated in 2010, with Fresh Air moving to an earlier time slot and additional talk programming (all network or syndicated) added. The program changes also eliminated an additional two hours of jazz and local music in the evening time slot, pushing

1302-599: The fledgling network and moved the company's broadcasting operations to Denver, Colorado, under a distribution deal with Clear Channel Satellite. Music of Your Life is currently distributed by Music of Your Life, Inc. a publicly traded company listed on the OTC markets under the ticker symbol, MYLI, and is distributed to AM, FM, and HD radio stations using the Barix system. Dial Global (formerly part of Westwood One ) has an adult standards format distributed via satellite; Dial Global's

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1344-592: The format features big band music, particularly from the 1940s and 1950s, though most modern stations eschew that genre. Younger artists who record in the big-band era style, such as Harry Connick Jr. , or Diana Krall , may be played as well. The term "standards" in the format's title is a reference to the standard , a song that is covered extensively by many artists over a prolonged period of time; adult standards may play true standards but are not limited to them. According to Nielsen Audio , there were 129 stations with adult standards/ MOR as format in 2016. Because

1386-408: The format. Music of Your Life, was founded by Al Ham in 1978 and boasts a roster of well-known personalities including Peter Marshall , Steve March-Torme, son of the legendary crooner, Mel Tormé, big band leader Les Brown, Jr., radio veteran Al Hardee, Lorri Hafer, daughter of founder Al Ham, and weekend host Pat Boone . Following an internal shakeup in 2008, business developer, Marc Angell took over

1428-427: The only stations currently authorized to broadcast both analog and digital signals, unlike full-power stations which must broadcast a digital signal only. In Canada, there is no formal transmission power below which a television transmitter is considered broadcasting at low power. Industry Canada considers that a low power digital television undertaking "shall not normally extend a distance of 20 km in any direction from

1470-704: The organization's radio stations have minimal listenership in Canada. WBFO leases an as-yet unutilized satellite studio in Toronto , Canada. Previously, WBFO broadcast from the South campus (a.k.a. Main Street Campus) of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York . Prior to March 2012, WBFO presented a full-service mix of news and music programming that incorporated blues and jazz . WBFO's local news department had been highly recognized by

1512-415: The rock era but were perhaps too mature for adult contemporary radio or too young for beautiful music or MOR stations. A typical adult standards playlist includes traditional pop music by artists such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett , some easy listening numbers from Roger Whittaker and others, and softer tunes from the oldies and adult contemporary music formats. As originally conceived,

1554-746: The schedule featured local jazz shows in middays, evenings and late nights plus blues music and specialty programming on weekends. UB was one of two public broadcasting organizations active in Western New York at the time, the other being the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association, whose AM, FM and TV stations all carried the call sign WNED. WNED's AM station, AM 970, had a news and information format that also carried Morning Edition and All Things Considered , along with other public radio shows shared with WBFO. By 2010, UB had eliminated

1596-430: The start of jazz programming from 8 p.m. back to 10 p.m., being replaced by replays of programming that had already aired on WBFO earlier in the day. All remaining local and syndicated music programming on WBFO, with the exception of the weekend afternoon blues blocks which were moved to evenings were eliminated on March 1, 2012, after WNED took over WBFO's operations. The only music programming on either WNED or WBFO were

1638-710: The various classes of FM stations, the reference facilities for each station class, and the protected and city grade contours for each station class: Historically, there were local "Class A" frequencies (like AM radio's class C stations) to which only class A stations would be allocated & the other frequencies could not have a class A. According to the 1982 FCC rules & regulations, those frequencies were: 92.1, 92.7, 93.5, 94.3, 95.3, 95.9, 96.7, 97.7, 98.3, 99.3, 100.1, 100.9, 101.7, 102.3, 103.1, 103.9, 104.9, 105.5, 106.3 & 107.1. Stations on those twenty frequencies were limited to having equivalent signals no greater that 3KW at 300 feet (91 meters) above average terrain. The US

1680-490: Was created in 1982 by the FCC to allocate channels for smaller, local stations, and community channels, such as public access stations. LPTV stations that meet additional requirements such as children's " E/I " core programming and Emergency Alert System broadcasting capabilities can qualify for a Class A (-CA) license. Broadcast translators , boosters , and other LPTV stations are considered secondary to full-power stations, unless they have upgraded to class A. Class A

1722-445: Was moved to 94.5 WNED-FM-HD2 to make way for "WBFO The Bridge," an adult album alternative format. A third subchannel, HD3 , carried NPR news and information programs at different times than they were heard on the main channel. This was eliminated when "JazzWorks" was added to HD3. On June 23, 2024, WBFO launched a Spanish language public radio format on its HD3 subchannel, branded as "Radio Bilingue". Fulltime jazz programming

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1764-416: Was sold to Christian radio owner Crawford Broadcasting . The call letters on 970 changed to WDCZ . All of the network music programming WBFO had carried on weekends was dropped. WBFO became exclusively a news and information station.). Among the programs eliminated from the old WBFO were the last jazz programs originating from a Buffalo area radio station at that time. Jazz eventually returned as part of

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