WLES

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WLES
City of license	Bon Air, Virginia
Slogan	'
Frequency	580 kHz
Format	Religious
Power	201 watts day 27 watts night
Class	D
Facility ID	72504
Transmitter Coordinates	37°30′52.00″N 77°30′28.00″W / 37.5144444, -77.5077778
Owner	Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation

WLES (580 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a religious format, licensed to serve the community of Bon Air, Virginia, USA. The station is currently owned by Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation.^[1]. Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting is owned by Nancy Epperson, who is married to Stu Epperson, Sr. - the co-founder and chairman of religious broadcaster Salem Communications.^{[citation needed]}

This station was once licensed to Lawrenceville, VA, where it had been an oldies format station.

Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting filed a request in July 2007 to transfer the license of WLES to Truth Broadcasting, headed by her son Stu Epperson, Jr.[1], but withdrew the request in August, 2007.[2]. (the vartv.com article erroneously reports it as a sale from wife to husband).

Subsequently, a construction permit request was filed to conduct a frequency swap with nearby station WLVA which is owned by Truth Broadcasting and operates on the adjacent AM channel of 590 kHz.[3].