52-473: WBLS (107.5 MHz ) is an urban adult contemporary formatted FM radio station, licensed to New York, New York . It is currently owned by Mediaco Holding and operated by Emmis Corporation under a shared services agreement, along with sister stations WLIB (1190 AM) and WQHT (97.1 FM). The three stations share studios in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Lower Manhattan , and WBLS' transmitter
104-677: A Jazz format. The stations were split up in 1972, when Inner City Broadcasting purchased WLIB (AM); WLIB-FM was then renamed WBLS. Inner City reunited the pair with its purchase of WBLS in 1974. From 1972 to 1978, WBLS was the flagship station of the Mutual Black Network (now the American Urban Radio Networks ). As part of the Inner City Broadcasting Corporation stations, program director Frankie Crocker held 5% of
156-723: A $ 5 million promissory note , and a 23.72% stake in the new company. Mediaco Holding will be a public company, and Emmis will continue to manage the stations. The sale was completed November 25, 2019. On March 11, 2020, Emmis announced that it had purchased sound masking technology company Lencore Acoustics. On April 24, 2020, Emmis announced that it would voluntarily delist from the Nasdaq , citing cost-saving concerns. On June 13, 2022, Emmis announced it will sell its Indianapolis radio properties to Urban One for an undisclosed amount. Emmis acquired Lencore in 2020. They build systems for Sound Masking, Paging and Audio with applications in
208-605: 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 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
260-907: A deal in April with its lenders to seek $ 80 million worth of divestments by January 2018 to amend its credit agreement. The Meruelo Group began operating the station under an LMA on July 1, 2017, until the sale was consummated on August 1, 2017. On January 30, 2018, Emmis announced it would leave the St. Louis market, selling KSHE and KPNT to Hubbard Broadcasting , and KFTK and KNOU to Entercom . In June 2019, Emmis announced that it would sell its controlling stake in its Austin stations to its minority partner Sinclair Telecable Inc. (d/b/a Sinclair Communications, unrelated to Sinclair Broadcast Group ). On July 1, 2019, Emmis announced that it would sell its New York City stations WQHT and WBLS to Mediaco Holding—an affiliate of Standard General —for $ 91.5 million,
312-572: A few years, WEVD-FM moved to 97.9 , and 107.5 went off the air. Several years later the New Broadcasting Company, then-owners of WLIB, was awarded a construction permit for the dormant frequency and on September 15, 1965, WLIB-FM signed on. As the Federal Communications Commission had recently instituted a rule prohibiting full-time AM/FM simulcasting in large markets, WLIB-FM was programmed with
364-752: A lot of media in the same year including Texas Monthly, WRXP in New York, WTHI and WWVR in Terre Haute, and six television stations in Honolulu, New Orleans, Green Bay, and Mobile, Alabama, from SF Broadcasting and in Terre Haute, Indiana, and Ft. Myers, Florida, from Wabash Valley Broadcasting RadioNow was launched in Indianapolis as a Top 40 format. Emmis purchased Country Sampler Magazine in 1999 and Liberty Media purchased 2.7 million shares of Emmis for approximately $ 150M. In 2005, Emmis changed
416-478: A person, its symbol starts with an upper case letter (Hz), but when written in full, it follows 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
468-648: A pile of hip-hop recordings during a rally. In response to the protests, WBLS excised most hip hop music from its air and carefully screened what it did play for content and language. In 1995, after WRKS was purchased by Emmis Communications and dropped all hip-hop music in favor of a similar adult R&B format, WBLS countered with a controversial advertising campaign labeling WRKS as a " plantation station." WBLS shortly reverted to urban contemporary, only to exit again in 2004 when WBLS switched to urban adult contemporary. From 2010 to 2015, former Nation of Islam minister and "Hip Hop Minister" Conrad Tillard served as
520-408: A radio talk show host on WBLS, which broadcast his hour-long Sunday Night Live community-issues program for five years. WBLS acquired WRKS's intellectual property in a merger of the two outlets announced on April 26, with a joint statement on both stations' respective websites. In addition to acquiring WRKS's intellectual property, WBLS and WLIB also moved into Emmis's New York production facility in
572-452: 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 the second as "the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to
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#1732787424284624-522: 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 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
676-465: A strategic alliance with StreamTheWorld, the radio industry's streaming technology and services company, to put all Emmis radio stations on a new streaming platform. On January 12, 2011, the share price of Emmis stock surged 42% as insiders speculated that the company could be close to selling off several of its radio stations. In its January 2011 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission ,
728-718: A variety of industries. Major clients include: Amazon, AT&T, CVS Health, Coca-Cola, Ford, Ernst & Young, Michelin among many others. Emmis acquired Digonex in 2014. Digonex is a technology company. The NextRadio smartphone app was developed by Emmis, with support from the National Association of Broadcasters , to enable FM radio reception on mobile devices with activated internal FM receivers. NextRadio allows users of many FM-enabled smartphones to listen to broadcast FM radio—with no need for Internet connection or use of phone data—and receive supplemental data such as album art, program information, and metadata over
780-415: A variety of tastes – The Jamz, Slow Jamz, Hip-Hop and WBLS Classics with on-demand access to concerts and music videos. Wendy Williams , Egypt Sherrod , and Rap City ' s Big Lez doubled on the online platform as IJ's or WBLS' the first internet jockeys. The first internet program director of WBLSi was Hakeem Khaaliq . Hertz#SI multiples The hertz (symbol: Hz ) is the unit of frequency in
832-450: Is able to perceive frequencies ranging from 20 Hz to 20 000 Hz ; 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
884-508: 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 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,
936-634: Is located at the Empire State Building . It was previously owned by YMF Media LLC, owned jointly by investor Ronald Burkle and Magic Johnson , which had assumed control of WBLS and WLIB's former parent company, Inner City Broadcasting Corporation , on October 19, 2012, at a purchase price of $ 180 million. The 107.5 frequency in New York City signed on in July 1951 as WEVD-FM, simulcasting its sister station at 1330 AM . Within
988-607: 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"). Emmis Communications Emmis Corporation is an American media conglomerate based in Indianapolis , Indiana , United States. Emmis, based on
1040-572: The Doubleday Broadcasting Company. Both KPWR and WQHT would pioneer the urban contemporary rhythmic format. Emmis transformed WHN into the world's first all-sports radio station, WFAN . In 1988, Emmis entered the world of publishing. Emmis purchased Indianapolis Monthly and added WKQX in Chicago to its radio portfolio. Also, Emmis acquired five NBC radio stations in 1988. Chairman and CEO Jeff Smulyan purchased
1092-511: 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), the first person to provide conclusive proof of
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#17327874242841144-681: The Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team in 1989. Emmis kicked off the 1990s by selling KKHT-FM in Houston to Nationwide Communications in May 1990. In 1991, Emmis sold two more stations: WLOL to Minnesota Public Radio and KXXX , San Francisco, to Alliance Broadcasting. Also in 1991, KMGG became KPWR , "Power 106" and became the first rhythmic contemporary-focused top 40 formatted outlet. In 1992, Emmis sold WFAN, New York, to Infinity for US$ 70M, which
1196-403: The visible spectrum being 400–790 THz. Electromagnetic radiation with frequencies in the low terahertz range (intermediate between those of 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,
1248-637: The Hebrew word for "Truth" ( Emet ) was founded by Jeff Smulyan in 1980. Emmis has owned many radio stations, including KPWR and WQHT , which have notoriety for their Hip Hop Rhythmic format as well as WFAN , which was the world's first 24-hour sports talk radio station. In addition to radio, Emmis has invested in TV, publishing, and mobile operations throughout the U.S. In 1980, Emmis Broadcasting founder Jeffrey Smulyan purchased his first radio station, WSVL-FM Shelbyville, Indiana. In July 1981, Smulyan changed
1300-631: The Internet if connected. Launched in August 2013 through a radio industry agreement with Sprint Corporation , the app was preloaded on some devices, and available for download in the Google Play Store of Android applications. The NextRadio app is powered by TagStation, an Emmis-developed cloud data service for enhanced radio broadcasting. TagStation allows broadcasters a web-based platform for managing supplemental content for delivery to
1352-561: The NextRadio app, HD Radio receivers, and connected car dashboards. During the quarter ended November 30, 2018, Emmis decided to dramatically reduce the scale of operations in TagStation, LLC and NextRadio, LLC. In connection with this decision, the company recognized $ 1.2 million of severance related to the termination of 35 employees. Emmis Chairman and CEO Jeff Smulyan said on the company's second quarter earnings call that Emmis
1404-646: The Phenomenal Woman Awards). From 2005 to 2013 Emmis owns three radio networks in Bulgaria : Radio FM+ , Radio Fresh! and Star FM. In 2006, Emmis flipped KZLA Los Angeles to Adult Rhythmic Contemporary as "KMVN, Movin' 93.9". The move gave Emmis a companion station to complement KPWR. However, on April 15, 2009, KMVN switched to Spanish-language programming, KXOS , under a seven-year Local Marketing Agreement with Grupo Radio Centro of Mexico City. On June 9, 2009, Emmis announced it had formed
1456-635: The West Village section of Manhattan, into studio space vacated by WRKS during the week of May 21, 2012. During the 2012-13 NBA season, WBLS broadcast selected New York Knicks games in an agreement with WEPN-FM. These games conflicted with WEPN-FM's coverage of the NFL 's New York Jets when both teams were scheduled to play on Sunday afternoons. On February 11, 2014, Emmis Communications announced it would purchase WBLS and WLIB from YMF Media LLC for $ 131 million, pending FCC approval. The purchase
1508-568: The broadcast license for WWVR . Midwest Communications would also sell WDKE to DLC Media to stay under FCC ownership limits. The sale was consummated on January 27, 2017. On March 1, 2017, Emmis announced it had sold four of its magazines ( Atlanta , Cincinnati , Los Angeles , and Orange Coast ) to Hour Media Group, LLC for $ 6.5 million. It also sold Texas Monthly to Genesis Park, LP for $ 25 million. On May 9, 2017, Emmis announced that it would sell KPWR to The Meruelo Group for $ 82.75 million. The announcement came after Emmis made
1560-727: The company purchased WIBC (now WFNI ) and WKLR (now WIBC (FM) ) in Indianapolis from the Horizon Broadcast Corporation and WRKS in New York City from the Summit Communications Group. WKLR was changed from an oldies format to a classic hits format with the call letters of WNAP-FM in September 1994. Emmis became a public company , EMMS on NASDAQ , with an IPO on March 4, 1994. The following year, 1995, WQHT and KPWR were among
1612-455: The company reported that it had the necessary cash to survive through February 2011. "Absent asset sales, which the company is actively pursuing," Emmis attorneys stated in the regulatory filing, "the company believes it is unlikely it will be able to maintain compliance with the financial covenants after Sept. 1, 2011". On August 16, 2013, Emmis launched the NextRadio smartphone app on HTC One Android phones from Sprint . A deal struck between
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1664-462: The country's most popular national radio station until the Hungarian government revoked the license in 2009. Emmis added Cincinnati Magazine to its publishing group, as well as KIHT-FM and KPNT-FM in St. Louis to its rock collection. In 1998, Emmis Broadcasting changed its name to Emmis Communications and moved into its current headquarters on Monument Circle in Indianapolis. Emmis acquired
1716-442: The dimension T , of these only frequency is expressed using 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
1768-537: The end of 2021 version 6.0.2492 (January 2, 2019) of the NextRadio app remained available on the Google Play Store. Emmis announced on September 9, 2008, that it had teamed up with digital radio network WorldBand Media and would be using the " HD-3 " subchannels to produce programming for the South Asian communities in Chicago (on WLUP), Los Angeles (on KPWR), and New York (on WQHT), and would include
1820-489: 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 is also used to describe the clock speeds at which computers and other electronics are driven. The units are sometimes also used as
1872-534: The format from country music to adult contemporary and renamed the station WENS and later to WLHK . In 1982, Emmis acquired WLOL in Minneapolis, MN and quickly became a top contender for ratings. Around 1984, the company bought Magic 106 in Los Angeles, California ; at the time, L.A. Lakers player "Magic" Johnson was an early spokesperson for the station. Emmis also bought KSHE in St. Louis in
1924-419: The format of its first radio station from its long-term adult contemporary format to country, and the call letters were changed from WENS to WLHK . Emmis was also named one of Fortune ' s 100 Best Companies to Work For. In March of that year, Emmis Communications and 98.7 KISS-FM, New York, celebrated Women's History Month by introducing their first annual salute to Phenomenal Women (also referred to as
1976-471: The frequencies of light and higher frequency electromagnetic radiation are more commonly specified in terms of their wavelengths or photon energies : for 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
2028-472: 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 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
2080-407: The megahertz range. Higher frequencies than the International System of Units provides prefixes for are believed to occur naturally in the frequencies of 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
2132-443: 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 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
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2184-410: The perpendicular electric and magnetic fields per second—expressed in hertz. Radio frequency radiation 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
2236-516: The radio industry and Sprint facilitated the launch which subsequently enabled FM radio support for the app on additional Android devices available on the Sprint wireless network. On October 12, 2016, Emmis announced that it would sell its radio stations in the Terre Haute cluster to Midwest Communications and DLC Media. Midwest Communications would acquire WTHI-FM and the intellectual property of WWVR while DLC Media would acquire WFNF , WFNB and
2288-485: The radio market in the northeast from 1975 to 1978, only ceding the title of top R&B station to upstart WKTU when that station broke out playing disco and club music in 1979. By 1982 it had fallen to number 3 in the market. In 1993, Calvin O. Butts , pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem , led a threat to boycott the station if they played any form of gangsta rap. Butts' protests culminated in his bulldozing
2340-593: The same year. In early 1986, Emmis changed Magic 106, which focused on traditional top 40 rock, to Power 106 KPWR , which would focus on dance, top40, and shock-jock talk. In 1987, Emmis made a series of purchases including WQHT , WYNY , and WNBC in New York, WKQX in Chicago, WJIB in Boston, WKUU and KXXX in San Francisco, and KKHT in Houston. They also acquired WAVA -FM in Washington, D.C. from
2392-515: The top rated radio station in each of their markets. This resulted in a record-breaking accomplishment where Emmis was the first company to own top rated radio stations in the top 2 markets. Later in 1996, WHHH (formerly WTLC-AM/FM) became top rated for Urban Adult Contemporary. Emmis entered the world of international radio in 1997 when the company was awarded a license to operate in Hungary, Sláger Radio , which debuted #1 nationwide and remained
2444-424: 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 is 1/time (T ). Expressed in base SI units, the unit is the reciprocal second (1/s). In English, "hertz"
2496-439: Was "unwilling and unable" to continue funding the NextRadio and TagStation businesses. In January 2019, Radio World published a long article analyzing NextRadio's operation and failure, suggesting that the long-term, unfulfilled, hope was that the radio industry could eventually monetize the NextRadio app, in part by providing advertisers with good analytical information and insights into radio's return on investment. As of
2548-676: Was consummated on June 10, 2014. On July 1, 2019, Emmis announced that it would sell WBLS and WQHT to the public company Mediaco Holding—an affiliate of Standard General —for $ 91.5 million and a $ 5 million promissory note . Emmis will be a shareholder in Mediaco Holding and continue to operate the stations. The sale was consummated on November 25, 2019. In 2000 WBLS launched its interactive sister site WBLSi with radio internet convergence company FMITV in Burbank, California , WBLSi.com featured live original music streams to cater to
2600-640: Was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 1935. It 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"
2652-423: Was largely replaced by "hertz" by 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
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#17327874242842704-591: Was one of the highest prices ever paid for an AM radio station. Emmis also sold WAVA-FM, Washington D.C., to Salem Broadcasting and WJIB, Boston, to Greater Media. In the same year, Jeff Smulyan sold the Seattle Mariners to Nintendo. Emmis grew its publishing portfolio by adding Atlanta Magazine in 1993. In the same year, Emmis launched its second hip hop station in America, Hot 97 . Emmis' Q101 in Chicago moved into an Alternative Rock Format. In 1994,
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