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.

External links

Froggy Country Online
Query the FCC's FM station database for WGYE
Query the FCC's FM station database for W279AE
Radio-Locator information on WGYE
Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WGYE
Media related to WGYE at Wikimedia Commons

Radio stations in the Morgantown–Clarksburg–Fairmont market

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 89.7 90.1 90.9 91.7 92.7 93.1 94.3 95.9 96.3 97.9 99.1 100.1 100.9 101.3 101.9 102.3 102.7 103.3 103.7 104.1 104.9 105.7 106.5 106.9

By AM frequency	590 750 920 1190 1300 1340 1440 1490

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

By callsign	W279AE WAJR WAJR-FM WBRB WBWG-LP WCLG WCLG-FM WDKL WETT WFBY WFGM-FM WGIE WGYE WKJL WKKW WKTZ-FM WLOL-FM WMBS WMMN WOBG-FM WOTR WPDX WPDX-FM WRLF WTCS WVAQ WVPM WVUS WWLW WWVU-FM WXJ85 WXKX WYFU WYXA WZST

Defunct stations	WOBG 1400

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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