|
WGYE
WGYE (102.7 FM) is a conservative talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Mannington, West Virginia, serving North-Central West Virginia. WGYE is owned and operated by LHTC Media. History This radio station first began as WTUS, and was assigned that call sign on October 31, 1989, more than a year after the construction permit was first granted in May 1988. However, the permit was sold to Joseph Donald Powers and partner Al Sergi in 1991 for $23,000. Powers and Sergi finally brought the station on the air in the fall of 1992, with the moniker "Today's U.S. Country", maintaining studios and offices along Locust Avenue in neighboring Fairmont, where the station remains today. Powers and Sergi sold WTUS in the late 1990s to Pittsburgh-based Burbach Broadcasting. Sergi today owns WSGB in Sutton, West Virginia, and three other area stations. The station had a country format for its entire existence until it was sold to LHTC Media effective September 1, 2023; on Septem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMMN
WMMN (920 AM broadcasting, AM) is a conservative talk formatted Broadcasting, broadcast radio station licensed to Fairmont, West Virginia, serving North-Central West Virginia. WMMN is owned and operated by Laurel Highland Total Communications, Inc., through licensee LHTC Media of West Virginia, Inc. History On November 1, 1935, WMMN joined the CBS Radio Network. At that time, the station was licensed to A.M. Rowe Inc., with Storer Communications, George B. Storer the chief stockholder. It operated on 890 kHz with power of 500 watts daytime and 250 watts at night. On February 5, 2024, WMMN changed its format from Sports radio, sports to conservative talk, branded as "The Torch". Radioinsight - February 6, 2024 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHTI
WHTI (105.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Salem, West Virginia, serving the Clarksburg/ Fairmont area. WHTI is owned and operated by LHTC Media. History WOBG-FM debuted in 1990 as "Oldies But Goodies", playing hits from the late 1950s through the late 1970s. The station featured live, local DJs (“Doctor” Dan Terango hosting mornings, Don Niles with the afternoon drive) until 1995, when it switched to a syndicated oldies format. WOBG-FM broadcast an active rock format until January 22, 2018, when the station changed its call sign to WHTI and began stunting with the sound of crickets. On January 25, 2018, WHTI launched a top 40 (CHR) format, branded as "Hot 105.7". Following its sale to LHTC Media in September 2023, the station began simulcasting WZST's format under the Jack FM brand, with the "Hot" format moving to WGYE. On February 5, 2024, WHTI changed its format from a simulcast of WZST to a simulcast of conservative talk-formatted WMMN (920 AM), branded as "T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In West Virginia
The following is a list of Federal Communications Commission, FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of West Virginia, which can be sorted by their Call signs in North America, call signs, frequency, frequencies, city of license, cities of license, licensees, and radio format, programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WCFC (West Virginia), WCFC * WCFC-FM * WMBP-LP * WOBG (AM), WOBG * WPDX (Clarksburg, West Virginia), WPDX * WQAB * WQTZ-LP * WSPW-LP * WVBL-LP * WVPV-LP * WXDB-LP * WXKX See also * West Virginia#Media, West Virginia media ** List of newspapers in West Virginia ** List of television stations in West Virginia ** Media of List of cities in West Virginia, cities in West Virginia: Charleston, West Virginia#Media, Charleston, Huntington, West Virginia#Media, Huntington, Wheeling, West Virginia#Media, Wheeling References Bibliography * * External links * West Virginia Broadcasters AssociationTri-State Amateur Radio Association Huntington, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRLF
WRLF (94.3 FM broadcasting, FM, "The Torch") is a conservative talk formatted Broadcasting, broadcast radio station licensed to Fairmont, West Virginia, serving the North-Central West Virginia area. WRLF is owned and operated by Laurel Highland Total Communications, Inc., through licensee LHTC Media of West Virginia, Inc. History On August 17, 2020, WRLF changed their format from mainstream rock to a simulcast of sports-formatted WMMN (920 AM), branded as "The Ticket". In late June 2021, WRLF dropped the WMMN simulcast and returned to mainstream rock, under the same "94 Rock" branding as had been used prior to the simulcast. On January 6, 2025, WRLF ended the mainstream rock format and returned to simulcasting WMMN, now a conservative talk station branded as "The Torch". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WZST
WZST (100.9 FM broadcasting, FM, "The Torch") is a conservative talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Westover, West Virginia, serving the Morgantown, West Virginia, Morgantown–Fairmont, West Virginia, Fairmont area. WZST is owned and operated by Laurel Highland Total Communications, Inc., through licensee LHTC Media of West Virginia, Inc. History In the 1990s, the station was adult contemporary formatted known as "Mix 100.9" WMQC. WMQC simulcast (to better serve Clarksburg) with former sister station WPDX-FM, which was known as "Mix 104.9", prior to becoming a classic country station. WZST branded itself as Star 100.9 featuring a country music format before switching to adult contemporary as "Variety 101" in June 2008. On December 22, 2016, LHTC Media announced that following the end of its Christmas music stint on the 26th, WZST would flip to variety hits, using the small market Jack FM network, as "100.9 Jack FM". WZST retained its West Virginia Mountaineers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBKE (AM)
WBKE (1490 kHz, "The Torch") is a conservative talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Fairmont, West Virginia, serving the Fairmont/ Grafton area. WBKE is owned and operated by Laurel Highland Total Communications, Inc., through licensee LHTC Media of West Virginia, Inc. History As WTCS, the station previously aired Laura Ingraham, '' The Dana Show'', Michael Savage, Mark Levin, Joe Pags, and '' Red Eye Radio''. On August 6, 2018, WBKE changed its format from news/talk to country, branded as "98.3 Blake FM" in reflection of its simulcast on FM translator W252EF (98.3 MHz) in Morgantown, West Virginia. On June 25, 2019, the station switched to classic hits, as "Buzz 98.3". On January 6, 2025, WBKE dropped the classic its format for a simulcast of conservative talk-formatted WMMN WMMN (920 AM broadcasting, AM) is a conservative talk formatted Broadcasting, broadcast radio station licensed to Fairmont, West Virginia, serving North-Central West Virginia. WMM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgantown, West Virginia
Morgantown is a city in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States, and its county seat. It is situated along the Monongahela River in North Central West Virginia and is the home of West Virginia University. The population was 30,347 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in West Virginia, third-most populous city in West Virginia. The Morgantown metropolitan area had a population of 138,176 in 2020. History Morgantown's history is closely tied to the Anglo-French struggle for this territory. Until the Treaty of Paris (1763), Treaty of Paris in 1763, what is now known as Morgantown was greatly contested by white settlers and Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans, and by British and French soldiers. The treaty decided the issue in favor of the British, but Indian fighting continued almost to the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Zackquill Morgan and David Morgan (frontiersman), David Morgan, so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North-Central West Virginia
North Central West Virginia (sometimes known as "Mountaineer Country") is a region in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The region's largest cities are Morgantown, Fairmont, and Clarksburg. Counties * Monongalia County * Marion County * Harrison County * Taylor County * Doddridge County These counties are sometimes also included in the region. * Barbour County * Lewis County * Upshur County * Preston County * Randolph County * Wetzel County Cities and towns * Morgantown * Fairmont * Mannington * Clarksburg * Bridgeport * Grafton * West Union ''Note: These cities are sometimes included within the region.'' *'' Kingwood'' *''Philippi'' *'' New Martinsville'' *''Weston'' *'' Buckhannon'' *'' Elkins'' Media TV * WBOY-TV ( NBC-12) * EBOY-TV ( ABC-11) * WDTV-TV ( CBS-5) * WNPB-TV ( PBS-24) * WVFX-TV ( FOX-46) Radio * WAJR - News/ Talk/Sports-1440 AM * WVAQ - Top 40-101.9 FM * WKKW - Country-97.9 FM * WWLW - Adult Contemporary-106.5 FM * WCLG - Active rock-100.1 FM * WGYE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 In Radio
The year 1992 in radio involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * January - KUBE/Seattle completes its shift from Mainstream Top 40 to Rhythmic CHR. * January 15 - AC-formatted KZOL/Salt Lake City flips to modern rock as KXRK. * January 22 - Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation. * February - WPLJ in New York City completes its shift from Top 40 to hot adult contemporary. In addition, the station rebrands from "Mojo Radio" to the continuing "95-5 PLJ." * February 12 - Washington, D.C. area Top 40 radio station WAVA-FM changes to a religious format, which continues permanently. * February 18 - After over two decades as Baltimore's premier Top 40/CHR outlet (including a brief stint with disco and a few name and call letter changes), WBSB flips to Gold-based Hot AC as "Variety 104.3." * February 18 - The "Young Country" format debuts with KRSR 105.3 in Dallas dropping its hot AC format t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the data distribution, distribution of sound, audio audiovisual content to dispersed audiences via a electronic medium (communication), mass communications medium, typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a :wikt:one-to-many, one-to-many model. Broadcasting began with AM radio, which came into popular use around 1920 with the spread of vacuum tube radio transmitters and radio receiver, receivers. Before this, most implementations of electronic communication (early radio, telephone, and telegraph) were wikt:one-to-one, one-to-one, with the message intended for a single recipient. The term ''broadcasting'' evolved from its use as the agricultural method of sowing seeds in a field by casting them broadly about. It was later adopted for describing the widespread distribution of information by printed materials or by telegraph. Examples applying it to "one-to-many" radio transmissions of an individual station to multiple listeners appeared as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Establishments In West Virginia
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as the 15th pope. Births Valerian Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
