WACV
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| WACV | |
| City of license | Montgomery, Alabama |
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| Frequency | 1170 kHz |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 10,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 43633 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Owner | Bluewater Broadcasting Company, LLC |
| Website | http://www.1170wacv.com/cms/ |
WACV (1170 AM) is a news/talk radio station in the Montgomery, Alabama, market owned by Bluewater Broadcasting Company, LLC. WACV produces all but one of its weekday daytime talk programs at their studios.
1170 AM originally had the callsign WCOV from its beginnings in 1949 until 1984, when the station was sold separately from WCOV-TV, Montgomery's oldest television station.[1] Since November 1984, 1170 AM has been known as WACV and branded as a talk radio formatted station.
In February of 2008, WACV acquired the rights to broadcast the 2008 Nascar Sprint Cup series.
[edit] Personalities
Don Markwell hosts a daily call-in show and has been a radio broadcaster in central Alabama since the mid-1960s.
Greg Budell began his career on WLS in Chicago, but came to Montgomery after 25 years in the Miami radio market.
Leslie Bailey has been a local restaurant owner and performer for many years, but is best known as a morning radio personality.
Other programming on WACV includes national syndicated talk hosts Neal Boortz, Jackie Mason, Rusty Humphries, Roy Masters, Cigar Dave, Laura Ingraham, Dee Sloane, Jerry Doyle, Robert Scott Bell, and Tammy Bruce.
On weekends, there is additional locally produced programming from Our Lady Queen of Mercy Catholic Church, Capitol Heights Baptist Church, Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church, The "Farm and Home" Show, and a Saturday talk show with Michael Bird.
[edit] References
- ^ Call Sign History. FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
[edit] External links
- WACV official website (expired 5/15/08)
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WACV
- Radio Locator Information on WACV
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for WACV
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