WEGB

WEGB

City of license	Napeague, New York
Broadcast area	Nassau-Suffolk (Long Island) Area
Frequency	90.7 MHz
Format	Religious
ERP	6,250 watts (vertical) 10 watts (horizontal)
HAAT	96 meters (315 feet)
Class	B1
Facility ID	173215
Transmitter coordinates	41°01′56″N 71°58′32″W
Former callsigns	KCBE (2008–2009)
Owner	Community Bible Church of Long Island

WEGB is a planned radio station serving the Long Island, New York, area under a "shared time" agreement. It will be broadcasting on FM frequency 90.7 MHz and is under ownership of the Community Bible Church of Long Island.

The station was assigned the current WEGB call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on February 13, 2009.

Former callsign

In an unusual move, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had originally granted a "K" call letter station in the Eastern United States on October 23, 2008, for the said station. For decades, the commission's practice is to keep the "W" calls east of the Mississippi River and the "K" calls west of the river. This is not surprising, as there are a few stations west of the Mississippi River with the "W" call signs such as WBAP and WFAA-TV in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Other stations using a K east of the Mississippi River are KYW-AM and TV in Philadelphia, KDKA-AM and TV in Pittsburgh and also KQV-AM in Pittsburgh, while all those cities are in Pennsylvania. This is not the first time a K has been used in an Eastern United States state outside of Pennsylvania—others include KYW-TV in Cleveland back in the 1960s; and KTGG in Spring Arbor, Michigan in 1985.

External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WEGB
• Radio-Locator information on WEGB
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WEGB