WHAM (AM)

WHAM (1180 kHz) is an AM clear channel station in Rochester, New York. It is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and airs a News/Talk format. Its 50,000-Watt non-directional transmitter, located in Chili, New York, is the maximum power for commercial AM stations in the U.S., allowing WHAM to be heard on some nights through much of the Eastern U.S. and Canada. Its studios are located at One HSBC Plaza in downtown Rochester. WHAM is an affiliate of the Fox News Radio Network.

Programming

As with most iHeartMedia News/Talk stations, WHAM carries a mix of local shows and nationally syndicated programs from Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia. Local weekday programs include The WHAM Morning News (5 to 8 a.m.) and The WHAM 5 O'Clock Hour News (5 to 6 p.m.), Bob Lonsberry (8 a.m. to noon), Kimberly and Beck (8 to 9 p.m.) and Sports Talk with Bob Matthews (6 to 8 p.m.). Matthews is a former Rochester Democrat and Chronicle columnist. Matthews often has a rotating co-host, including Marv Levy, Chuck Dickerson and Fred Smerlas.

Wham!

Wham! were an English musical duo formed by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in the early 1980s. They were briefly known in the United States as Wham! UK due to a naming conflict with an American band. Wham! sold more than 25 million certified records worldwide from 1982 to 1986.

History

Michael and Ridgeley met at Bushey Meads School in Bushey near the town of Watford in Hertfordshire. The two at first performed in a short-lived ska band called The Executive, alongside three of their former school friends David (Austin) Mortimer, Harry Tadayon and Andrew Leaver. When this group split, Michael and Ridgeley eventually formed Wham!, signing with Innervision Records.

Michael took on the majority of roles and responsibilities within the band—composer, producer, singer, and occasional instrumentalist. Still teenagers, they promoted themselves as hedonistic youngsters, proud to live a carefree life without work or commitment. This was reflected in their earliest singles which, part-parody, part-social comment, briefly earned Wham! a reputation as a dance protest group.

List of Rock Profile episodes

Here is a list of episodes in Matt Lucas and David Walliams' comedy show Rock Profile. Also see Rock the Blind.

Series One (1999–2000)

Series Two (2000 - 2001)

Series Three (2009)

Wham! (comics)

Wham! was a weekly British comic book magazine published by Odhams Press. It ran for 187 issues from 20 June 1964 to 13 January 1968, when it merged into its sister title Pow!. Although Wham! was superficially a typical British comic in the mould of The Beano, its later issues (under the Power Comics imprint) included short instalments of The Fantastic Four reprinted from American Marvel Comics. To many of its readers, this move destroyed Wham's originality and style.

The initial success of Wham! prompted the creation of sister titles Pow! and Smash! with similar intent, and led to the formation of the Power Comics line. But as costs rose in 1968, the inevitable adjustment of content, followed by mergers of titles, made the Power Comics more like those they were attempting to replace.

Created by Leo Baxendale, in its early issues Wham! presented both clear imitations of Beano strips, such as a clone of his Bash Street Kids in the shape of The Tiddlers, and new original strips such as Eagle Eye, Junior Spy and Georgie's Germs in which he attempted to break the mould of older strips by the use of bizarre humour, outrageous puns, and surreal plots.