WNOS (1450
AM) is a
radio station
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broadcasting a
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format. Licensed to
New Bern, North Carolina
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, it serves the New Bern area. The station is owned by CTC Media Group. In addition to sports talk from
Fox Sports Radio
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, it also carries
Westwood One's Dennis Miller
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show, the self-syndicated
Laura Ingraham
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show, and
Salem Media's
Michael Medved
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and
Dennis Prager
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.
History
WHIT signed on in 1942 as the first radio station in
Craven County, North Carolina
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. The letters stood for "Where Hospitality Is Traditional". Later, WHIT was a
country
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station. However, WHIT was a successful Top-40 station in the 70's, taking advantage of the "HIT" moniker.
In 1982, what was then WJQI "Radio Joy" hired Bill Benjamin, who left after the station was sold the next year. Benjamin was asked in 1988 by investors to manage the station and be one of the owners of what by then was WNOS; the transaction never happened.
References
External links
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New Bern, North Carolina
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