WJCC (1700 kHz ) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Miami Springs, Florida , and serving the Miami metropolitan area . It is owned by Multicultural Broadcasting with studios on NW 58rd Street at NW 72nd Avenue in Miami . It broadcasts mostly Haitian Creole talk, music and news with some other ethnic programming. The station has a brokered programming format , where hosts pay for their time on the air and may advertise their services and products. Most of the schedule is used by Radio Mega, which broadcasts in the U.S. and Haiti .
19-415: WJCC may refer to: WJCC (AM) , a radio station (1700 AM) licensed to serve Miami Springs, Florida, United States World Junior Curling Championships Western Joint Computer Conference Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools , Virginia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
38-598: Is a Class B station. By day, it is powered at 10,000 watts . But to reduce interference to other stations on 1700 AM , at night it drops its power to 1,000 watts. It uses a non-directional antenna . The transmitter is on NW 102nd Avenue near NW 138th Street in Hialeah . As part of the Expanded Band , there are only a handful of other radio stations in the U.S. and one in Mexico on 1700 AM. WJCC originated as
57-401: Is ill-suited for digital broadcasting. In these cases, the outlying areas of a TMA may only be served by cable and satellite, or perhaps by small translators . (There are some cases, such as that of Olean, New York , where a sizable number of independent stations operate, but none carry any major network affiliation unless they operate as translators. Because of this, Olean is considered part of
76-590: Is notable as the first broadcasting home of South Florida sports radio personality Jorge Sedano , who began his career in 1999 as a host/update anchor/producer at WAFN ("The Fan"). He went on to a successful radio career with Fox Sports Radio , and later ESPN . During its time as "The Fan", WAFN carried programming from New York's WFAN 660 AM , including the syndicated Imus in the Morning . AM 1700's call letters were changed again, to WJCC, on October 30, 2001. The FCC's initial policy for expanded band stations
95-570: Is used by advertisers to determine how to reach a specific audience . In countries such as the United States, media regions are defined by a privately held institution without government status; in countries such as the United Kingdom , government-run television stations map their own regions. A Television Market Area ( TMA ) is a group of counties in the United States covered by a specific group of television stations . The term
114-587: Is used by the U.S. Government's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate broadcast, cable, and satellite transmissions, according to the Code of Federal Regulations , at 47 CFR § 76.51 and FCC.gov. The TMAs not only have full control over local broadcasts, but also delineate which channels will be received by satellite or cable subscribers ( "must-carry" rules ). These market areas can also be used to define restrictions on rebroadcasting of broadcast television signals. Generally speaking, only stations within
133-689: The Buffalo, New York market despite none of that city's major signals reaching the city from 70 miles [110 km] away.) Conversely, a geographically small market such as Erie, Pennsylvania may have stations where their signal spills well over into neighboring TMAs (most of Chautauqua County, New York , is closer to Erie than Buffalo, but the county is also located within the Buffalo DMA). Arbitron (now Nielsen Audio) also maintained similar areas for television ratings, each called an "area of dominant influence" (ADI), which were first created in 1966. For
152-607: The United States , radio markets are generally a bit smaller than their television counterparts, as broadcast power restrictions are stricter for radio than TV, and TV reaches further via cable. AM band and FM band radio ratings are sometimes separated, as are broadcast and cable television ratings. Market researchers also subdivide ratings demographically between different age groups, genders , and ethnic backgrounds, as well as psychographically between income levels and other non-physical factors. This information
171-465: The 1993–1994 television season, there were 209 ADIs in the continental United States. Arbitron stopped offering a television ratings service in late 1993. Nielsen Audio (previously Arbitron) maintains smaller areas for radio stations ; each is called an Arbitron Radio Metro . Whereas a typical TMA may cover ten counties, an Arbitron market generally covers two to four, and a TMA may contain two to four separate Radio Metros. There are 302 Radio Metros in
190-759: The Miami radio market . Media market A media market , broadcast market , media region , designated market area (DMA) , television market area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media such as newspapers and internet content. They can coincide with or overlap with one or more metropolitan areas , though rural regions with few significant population centers can also be designated as markets. Conversely, very large metropolitan areas can sometimes be subdivided into multiple segments. Market regions may overlap, meaning that people residing on
209-537: The Miami metropolitan area on the 1700 frequency. The call sign for the original WCMQ on 1210 AM was changed to WNMA on November 25, 1997, thus allowing a Construction Permit for the expanded band station on 1700 AM to inherit the historic WCMQ call letters on December 5, 1997. (The original CMQ 640 AM was a popular radio station in the 1940s and 50s in Cuba.) AM 1700's call letters were changed to WRNU on February 1, 1999, and to WAFN on September 9, 1999. The station
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#1732779578295228-436: The center of the market region. However, geography and the fact that some metropolitan areas have large cities separated by some distance can make markets have unusual shapes and result in two, three, or more names being used to identify a single region (such as Wichita – Hutchinson, Kansas ; Chico – Redding, California ; Albany – Schenectady – Troy, New York ; and Harrisburg – Lebanon – Lancaster – York, Pennsylvania ). In
247-471: The edge of one media market may be able to receive content from other nearby markets. They are widely used in audience measurements , which are compiled in the United States by Nielsen Media Research . Nielsen has measured both television and radio audiences since its acquisition of Arbitron , which was completed in September 2013. Markets are identified by the largest city, which is usually located in
266-525: The expanded band "twin" of an existing station on the standard AM band. On March 17, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that 88 stations been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz. A radio station, at the time WCMQ , was authorized to move from 1210 to 1700 kHz. Its goal was to improve its signal, covering more of
285-507: The initial five-year deadline, and a petition to resume operations was granted, with WJCC's license restored on October 4, 2012. Since then the FCC deadline has been extended multiple times, and both stations have remained authorized. One restriction is that the FCC has generally required paired original and expanded band stations to remain under common ownership. Multicultural Broadcasting continues to own WNMA and WJCC, as well as WEXY 1520 AM, in
304-453: The most viewers. There are 210 Nielsen DMAs in the United States, 70 of which are metered (in other words, viewership in these markets are estimated automatically instead of through the archaic diary system still in use in the smaller markets). TMAs may cover a much larger area than the stations that serve it, especially since the digital television transition . This is particularly true in markets that have hilly or mountainous terrain that
323-497: The same market area can be rebroadcast. The only exception to this rule is the " significantly viewed " list. Virtually all of the United States is located within the boundaries of exactly one TMA. A similar term used by Nielsen Media Research is the Designated Market Area (DMA), and they control the trademark on it. DMAs are used by Nielsen Media Research to identify TV stations that best reach an area and attract
342-488: The title WJCC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WJCC&oldid=973160262 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WJCC (AM) WJCC
361-457: Was that both the original station and its expanded band counterpart could operate simultaneously for up to five years, after which owners would have to turn in one of the two licenses, depending on whether they preferred the new assignment or elected to remain on the original frequency. Due to this requirement, WJCC was deleted on February 23, 2006. However, numerous other joint standard/expanded band station pairs had been permitted to operate beyond
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