WTRG

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WTRG
City of license Gaston, North Carolina
Branding "The Great 98"
Frequency 97.9 MHz
Format Oldies music
ERP 1350 watts
HAAT 149 meters (489 feet)
Class A
Facility ID 17568
Transmitter Coordinates 36°27′38″N, 77°33′52″W
Former callsigns WLGQ, WYTT
Owner First Media Radio
Website WTRG Online

WTRG (97.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Gaston, North Carolina, in the Roanoke Rapids market. WTRG is an oldies station and is owned by First Media Radio Roanoke Rapids.

Contents

[edit] History

This station was assigned call letters WLGQ on August 5, 1988 which it held until switching to WYTT on January 17, 2003. It switched again, this time to current call sign WTRG, on January 10, 2005.[1]

The WTRG call letters once belonged to WRVA-FM, 100.7 FM in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. It first took the calls as an adult contemporary station, and kept them when it flipped to oldies as "Oldies 100.7" in 1989, finally giving them up in 2004.[2]

[edit] Ownership

In June 2003, the then-WYTT was sold to First Media by MainQuad Communications Inc. as part of a nine station deal with a total sale price of $11.35 million dollars.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ WTRG Call Sign History. FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  2. ^ WRVA Call Sign History. FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  3. ^ BIA Financial Networks (2003-06-09). Changing Hands. Broadcasting & Cable.

[edit] External links

v • d • e
Radio stations in the Roanoke Rapids/South Hill market
By AM frequency
860 • 890 • 980 • 1230 • 1400 • 1520 • 1370
By FM frequency
88.5 • 89.3 • 90.1 • 90.1 • 90.5 • 90.9 • 91.3 • 91.7 • 92.5 • 93.5 • 94.3 • 97.9 • 98.3 • 98.3 • 99.5 • 100.7 • 101.9 • 102.3 • 103.1 • 103.1 • 104.3 • 104.7 • 105.5 • 106.9 • 107.3 • 107.7
By callsign
WAFX • WARR • WBBC-FM • WBKU • WBOB-FM • WCBT • WDLZ • WEVA • WFXK • WHFD • WHNC • WJIJ • WJYA • WJYK • WKSK-FM • WLUS-FM • WMVE • WNCM • WPEX • WPGT • WPTM • WPZZ • WRTP • WRVA-FM • WRTP • WSHV • WSMY • WTRG • WWDW • WYFL • WYTT • WZRN • WZRU
 This article about a radio station in North Carolina is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.