WGNI
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| City of license | Wilmington, North Carolina |
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| Slogan | "A Better Variety Of The 80's, 90's & Today" |
| Frequency | 102.7 MHz |
| Format | Hot Adult Contemporary |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 299.0 meters |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 8581 |
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| Owner | Cumulus Media |
| Website | wgni.com |
WGNI (102.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Hot Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Wilmington, North Carolina, USA, it serves the Wilmington area. The station is currently owned by Cumulus Licensing Llc.
[edit] History
Prior to the early 1980s, this station played beautiful music and was known as WAAV.
The call letters were originally assigned to 1340AM in Wilmington. The station went on the air on Christmas Eve in 1945. The original station was owned by General Newspapers Inc, publisher of the Wilmington Post. Studios were state of the art, suspended studios located in the 200 block of Princess Street in downtown Wilmington.
The studios were moved to the Eagle Island transmitter site in the late 1950s, then to 211 North Second Street until the spring of 1992, afterwards they relocated to 1890 Dawson Street and then in July 2001 moved to their current location of 3233 Burnt Mill Road in Wilmington.
The FM (102.7) was put on the air in 1971 as WAAV. By this time, the transmitter site had been moved to River Road near Greenfield Lake and the original FM antenna was side mounted on the AM tower. Subsequently, a taller tower was built on the site to house the FM antenna until the station was sold, which then purchased an existing tower south of Wilmington to upgrade their signal.
In 1981, WAAV-FM and WGNI-AM were sold to Cape fear Broadcasting, which was based in Fayetteville with two stations, WFNC-AM and WQSM-FM, once this sale took place, WAAV & WGNI switched call letters and frequencies, WAAV going to 1340, and WGNI to 102.7, in the process WAAV changed to a "Music of Your Life" format and WGNI picked up the Adult Contemporary format.
In the fall of 1999, Cape Fear Broadcasting sold their Wilmington and Fayetteville stations to their current owners, Cumulus Media.
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