WGBW
| City of license | Denmark, Wisconsin |
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| Branding | The Oldies Station |
| Frequency | 1590 kHz |
| First air date | October 29, 1951 |
| Format | Oldies |
| Power | 10,000 watts (day) 50 watts (night) |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 74127 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°18′50.00″N 87°47′16.00″W / 44.31389°N 87.78778°W |
| Callsign meaning | Green Bay, Wisconsin |
| Former callsigns | WTRW (1951-68) WQTC (1968-1977) WRTR (1977-1983) WTRW (1983-2006) |
| Affiliations | True Oldies Channel (Citadel Media) |
| Owner | Mark Heller, President, General Manager and Sole Stockholder (WTRW, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WLWB |
| Website | www.wgbwradio.com |
WGBW (1590 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Denmark, Wisconsin, USA. The station is owned by Mark Heller and licensed to WTRW, Inc. WGBW airs a satellite-fed oldies music format. On January 1, 2010 the station dropped CNN Radio as its top-of-the-hour news source, and contracted with ABC Radio News.
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[edit] History
The station was assigned the WGBW call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on September 19, 2006.[1]
[edit] Signal Upgrade
In August 2008, after four years of applications and amendments, WGBW was granted a construction permit by the FCC to move its city of license from Two Rivers to Denmark, Wisconsin, which is in the Green Bay market, and to increase its daytime and nighttime broadcast power.[2]
On September 14, 2011, WGBW signed on with its new 10,000 watt day/50 watt night signal from its new transmitter site in Denmark, Wisconsin.
As of October 15, 2008; WGBW has dropped Dial Global's "Kool Gold" format in favor of ABC Radio's "The True Oldies Channel" while maintaining its current oldies format. It features ABC Radio Network News at the top of the hour, 24 hours a day. In January 2010, the existing tower site was picked for a new tower for the U.S. Coast Guard, and neighbors were opposed to a taller structure replacing the 59-year old tower.
On December 20, 2011, Mark Heller purchased WMBE (1530) in New Holstein. The station is currently silent, pending a move to a transmitter location closer to the Fox Cities, and had its calls changed to WLWB.
[edit] References
- ^ "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=74127&Callsign=WGBW.
- ^ "Application Search Details (BMJP-20051031AEH)". FCC Media Bureau. 2008-08-21. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1255707.
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WGBW
- Radio-Locator Information on WGBW
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for WGBW
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