WONA (AM)

For the Winona, Mississippi radio station that held the call sign WONA at 1570 AM from 1958 to 2016, see WLEE (AM).

WONA
City	Richmond, Virginia
Broadcast area	Metro Richmond
Frequency	1540 kHz
First air date	1964
Format	Silent
Power	10,000 Watts daytime 7 Watts nighttime
Class	D
Facility ID	21434
Transmitter coordinates	37°37′8.0″N 77°25′27.0″W / 37.618889°N 77.424167°W / 37.618889; -77.424167
Former callsigns	WKIE (?-1990) WRBN (1990-1993) WREJ (1993-2016) WLEE (2016)
Owner	Davidson Media Group, LLC (Davidson Media Station WREJ Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations	WREJ, WTOX, WVNZ

WONA is a broadcast radio station licensed to Richmond, Virginia, serving Metro Richmond. WONA is owned and operated by Davidson Media Group, LLC.^[1]

History

On November 9, 2015, the then-WREJ went silent (off the air). Its previous black gospel format moved to sister station WLEE 990 AM, replacing news/talk.

On February 4, 2016, WREJ swapped call signs with its sister station, assuming the WLEE call sign. The station changed its call sign to WONA on March 15, 2016.

Previous logo

References

↑ "WONA Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WONA

Radio-Locator Information on WONA

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WONA

Radio stations in the Richmond/Petersburg market

By AM frequency	590 820 910 950 990 1140 1240 1290 1320 1340 1380 1430 1450 1480 1540 1590

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.7 90.1 90.1 91.1 91.3 92.1 92.5 93.1 93.7 94.5 95.3 96.1 96.5 97.3 98.1 98.5 98.9 99.3 99.9 100.3 100.5 100.9 102.1 103.1 103.7 104.7 105.7 106.1 106.5 106.9 107.3

By callsign	W223AZ W241AP W253BI W276BZ W291CL WAFX WARV-FM WBBT-FM WBTJ WBTK WCDX WCFC-LP WCLM WCVE-FM WDCE WDZY WFTH WHAN WHAP WHCE WJSR WKHK WKJM WKJS WKLR WKYV WLES WLFV WLRJ WNTW WONA WPZZ WREJ WRIH WRIR-LP WRNL WRVA WRVQ WRXL WTOX WTPS WTVR-FM WURV WVNZ WVST WWLB WXGI WYFJ WZEZ

Defunct stations	WHCK-LP

Virginia radio markets Bristol Fredericksburg Harrisonburg Norfolk–Newport News–Virginia Beach Richmond Roanoke–Lynchburg Winchester Other Virginia radio regions Blacksburg–Christiansburg–Radford–Pulaski Bluefield Charlottesville Eastern Shore Farmville Northern Neck Roanoke Rapids–South Hill Southside Southwest Virginia Virginia Highlands See also List of radio stations in Virginia

Davidson Media Group

KMNQ KMNV WEMG WONA WTMP-FM^*

^*Licensed to Scott Savage, Receiver; operated by Davidson Media under a local marketing agreement.

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, March 20, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.