WDLX
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| City of license |
WDLX: Washington, North Carolina WGHB: Farmville, North Carolina |
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| Broadcast area | Greenville-New Bern |
| Branding | Pirate Radio |
| Frequency |
WDLX: 930 kHz WGHB: 1250 kHz |
| Format | Sports Talk |
| Power |
WDLX: 5,000 watts day 1,000 watts night WGHB: 5,000 watts day 2,500 watts night |
| Class |
WDLX: B WGHB: B |
| Facility ID |
WDLX: 64610 WGHB: 56566 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
WDLX: 35°31′36″N 77°04′31″W / 35.52667°N 77.07528°W WGHB: 35°36′17″N 77°34′29″W / 35.60472°N 77.57472°W |
| Former callsigns |
WDLX: WITN (1963-1985) WRRF (1942-1963, 1985-1996) WGHB: WFAG (?-1979) |
| Affiliations | ESPN Radio, East Carolina University, Carolina Hurricanes, Baltimore Orioles |
| Owner | Pirate Media Group |
| Webcast | listen live |
| Website | pirateradio930.com |
WDLX (930 AM) and WGHB (1250 AM) are radio stations broadcasting a Sports Talk format. The WDLX/WGHB simulcast is currently owned by Pirate Media Group.
Licensed to Washington, North Carolina, USA, WDLX serves the Greenville-New Bern area. The station signed on the air 3 Mar 1942 as WRRF.[1] The calls stood for "We Radiate Real Friendship". By 1963, the calls had changed to WITN, owing largely to the eyeWITNess news format adopted by owner Bill Roberson's also-run TV station. Roberson had also signed on sister FM station WITN-FM at 93.3 mHz (today's WERO) on 6 Sep 1961.[2] These stations shared the same callsigns on FM and AM until 1985, when the FM facility became WDLX-FM and the AM reverted to the WRRF calls. They shared the same building until about 2004.
In 1996, new owner Pinnacle Broadcasting changed the calls for WDLX-FM to WERO as the station adopted an Arrow 93.3 moniker and a classic hits format; to protect the copyright to the call letters, they switched WRRF-AM to WDLX-AM, although no change was made in its talk format.
WDLX is today the flagship station for East Carolina University Pirates athletics and also broadcasts Carolina Hurricanes games. Starting in 2010, WDLX aired the Baltimore Orioles.
WGHB is licensed to Farmville, North Carolina and was once WFAG, meaning "Watch Farmville Area Grow". These two stations are not related to pirate radio, deriving their name instead from the East Carolina Pirates.
References
External links
- Official website
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WDLX
- Radio-Locator Information on WDLX
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WDLX
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WGHB
- Radio-Locator Information on WGHB
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WGHB
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