WGYE

WGIE
City of license Mannington, West Virginia
Broadcast area North-Central West Virginia
Branding "Froggy Country"
Slogan "Genuine Country Fun"
Frequency 102.7 MHz
First air date 1992
Format Country
ERP 3,200 Watts
HAAT 138 Meters
Class A
Facility ID 32202
Transmitter coordinates 39°28′3.0″N 80°12′20.0″W / 39.467500°N 80.205556°W / 39.467500; -80.205556
Callsign meaning play on "Froggy"
Owner Burbach Broadcasting Company
(Burbach of DE, LLC)
Sister stations WGIE, WOBG, WOBG-FM, WXKX
Webcast WGYE Webstream
Website WGYE Online

WGYE is a Country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Mannington, West Virginia, serving North-Central West Virginia. WGYE is owned and operated by Burbach Broadcasting Company.

History

Tower on Tower Hill Road, Fairmont, West Virginia, seen from the adjacent Grove Cemetery

This radio station first began as WTUS, and was assigned these call letters on October 31, 1989, more than a year after the construction permit was first granted in May 1988. However, the permit was sold to Joseph Donald Powers and partner Al Sergi in 1991 for $23,000.

Powers and Sergi finally brought the station on the air in the fall of 1992, with the moniker "Today's U.S. Country", maintaining studios and offices along Locust Avenue in neighboring Fairmont, where the station remains today.

Powers and Sergi sold WTUS in the late 1990s to Pittsburgh-based Burbach Broadcasting, which still owns the station today. Sergi today owns WSGB in Sutton, West Virginia, and three other area stations.

The station has had a country format for its entire existence.

Translator

WGYE also simulcasts on a 9 watt translator station W279AE, which broadcasts at 103.7 FM. W279AE is licensed to and serves Morgantown, West Virginia.

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