WCST

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WCST
City of license	Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
Broadcast area	Berkeley Springs, West Virginia Morgan County, West Virginia
Branding	"Cat Country 1010AM"
Slogan	"Today's Best Country and Your All Time Favorites"
Frequency	1010 kHz
First air date	1958
Format	Country
Power	270 Watts daytime 17 Watts nighttime
Class	D
Facility ID	68205
Transmitter coordinates	39°37′0.0″N 78°13′3.0″W / 39.616667°N 78.217500°W / 39.616667; -78.217500
Callsign meaning	W Charles S. Trump see note
Affiliations	IRN/USA Radio News West Virginia MetroNews
Owner	Capper Broadcasting Company
Sister stations	WDHC

WCST is a Country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, serving Berkeley Springs and Morgan County, West Virginia. WCST is owned and operated by Capper Broadcasting Company.

History

WCST signed on the air on September 7, 1958. WCST started with Dale Brooks, Tom Butcher, Kenny Robertson and Gary Daniels. They offered local programming, advertising and rock n' roll music. The call letters of the station were a tribute to Charles S. Trump, a major force behind getting the station on the air.

WCST adopted FM in 1965 and changed its genre to country music with the frequency 93.5. It was sold in the 1980s to Sam and Mary Lou Trump and later to Emmett Capper in 1995.

For many years WCST played country music, 23 hours a day; why they went off the air for just one hour remains a mystery. AM1010 was reported to be dark several times, but is just a tough catch even within town limits due to a bad tower location and tower ground system.

In the Summer of 2006, Berkeley Springs High School games and other local programming, which were heard on sister station WDHC, were moved to WCST when WDHC moved to 92.9.

Also in 2006, WCST and WDHC finally made a presence on the internet of sorts, with a MySpace Group operated by employees of the station. Currently, WCST and WDHC each have an active Facebook page.

In March 2014, WCST changed its format from News/Talk to Country, with the branding "Cat Country 1010AM WCST".

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WCST

Radio-Locator Information on WCST

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WCST

Radio stations in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia

By FM frequency	88.9 89.7 92.9 95.9 97.5 106.5 107.9

By AM frequency	740 1010 1340 1550

By callsign	W293AM WCST WDHC WDTF-LP WEPM WICL WLTF WMRE WRNR WSHC WVEP

West Virginia radio markets Beckley Bluefield Charleston Huntington Morgantown–Clarksburg–Fairmont Parkersburg Wheeling Other West Virginia radio regions Cumberland, MD East-Central Eastern Panhandle Elkins–Buckhannon–Weston Kingwood Southern West-Central Winchester, VA See also List of radio stations in West Virginia

Country radio stations in the state of West Virginia

Stations	WAMN – Green Valley WBRB – Buckhannon WBYG – Point Pleasant WCEF – Ripley WCST – Berkeley Springs WDBS – Sutton WDNE-FM – Elkins WELC – Welch WELD-FM – Moorefield WGGE – Parkersburg WGIE – Clarksburg WGYE – Mannington WHAW – Weston WHJC – Matewan WHNK – Parkersburg WHQX – Gary WJLS-FM – Beckley WKEZ – Bluefield WKKW – Fairmont WKMM – Kingwood WKWS – Charleston WOVK – Wheeling WPDX – Clarksburg WPDX-FM – Clarksburg WQBE-FM – Charleston WRON-FM – Lewisburg WTCR – Kenova WTCR-FM – Huntington WTNJ – Mount Hope WVMD – Romney WVRC-FM – Spencer WVSB – Romney WXCC – Williamson WYKM – Rupert WYMJ – New Martinsville WZAC-FM – Danville

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in West Virginia

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