WLES

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WLES
WLES-AM 2009.PNG
City of license Bon Air, Virginia
Broadcast area Metro Richmond
Frequency 590 kHz
First air date 1959
Format Christian Talk
Power 600 Watts daytime
58 Watts nighttime
Class D
Facility ID 72504
Transmitter coordinates 37°30′52.0″N 77°30′28.0″W / 37.51444°N 77.50778°W / 37.51444; -77.50778
Callsign meaning W LawrEnceville S
Owner Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation
Webcast WLES Webstream
Website WLES Online

WLES is a Christian Talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Bon Air, Virginia, serving Metro Richmond. WLES is owned and operated by Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation.

This station was once licensed to Lawrenceville, Virginia, where it had been an oldies station.

[edit] Technical Information

Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting filed a request in July 2007 to transfer the license of WLES to Truth Broadcasting, headed by her son Stu Epperson, Jr.[1], but withdrew the request in August, 2007.[2].

Subsequently, a construction permit request was filed to conduct a frequency swap with nearby station WLVA, which is owned by Truth Broadcasting and operates on the adjacent AM channel of 590 kHz.[3] The swap was completed in 2011.

WLES operates an FM translator on 97.3 MHz in Petersburg, with an application to the FCC to move it to 97.7 MHz.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.vartv.com/archives07d.htm
  2. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1193268
  3. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101221166&formid=301&fac_num=72504

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