WINY is a heritage radio station and is owned by Gary and Karen Osbrey through licensee Osbrey Broadcasting Company. The station broadcasts a full service adult contemporary radio format.
AM broadcasting is radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation transmissions. It was the first method developed for making audio radio transmissions, and is still used worldwide, primarily for mediu
Lee de Forest used an early vacuum-tube transmitter to broadcast returns for the Hughes-Wilson presidential election returns on November 7, 1916, over 2XG in New York City. Pictured is engineer Charles Logwood.
Nellie Melba making a broadcast over the Marconi Chelmsford Works radio station in England on June 15, 1920.
Farmer listening to U.S. government weather and crop reports using a crystal radio in 1923. Public service government time, weather, and farm broadcasts were the first radio "broadcasts".
1938 Zenith Model 12-S vacuum-tube console radio, capable of picking up mediumwave and shortwave AM transmissions. "All Wave" receivers could also pick up the third AM band: longwave (LW).