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WTRG
Frequency97.9 MHz
BrandingThe Great 98
Programming
FormatOldies
Ownership
OwnerFirst Media Radio
History
First air date
1988 (as WLGQ)
Former call signs
WLGQ (1988-2003)
WYTT (2003-2005)
Technical information
Facility ID17568
ClassA
ERP1,350 watts
HAAT149 meters (489 feet)
Transmitter coordinates
36°27′38″N 77°33′52″W / 36.46056°N 77.56444°W / 36.46056; -77.56444
Links
WebcastListen Live
Websitethegreat98fm.com

WTRG (97.9 FM) is an oldies formatted radio station licensed to Gaston, North Carolina, in the Roanoke Rapids market. WTRG is owned by First Media Radio Roanoke Rapids.

History

This station was assigned call letters as WLGQ on August 5, 1988 which it held until switching to WYTT on January 17, 2003. It switched again, this time to current call sign WTRG, on January 10, 2005.[1]

The WTRG call letters once belonged to 100.7 FM in the Raleigh–Durham area, whose city of license at the time was Rocky Mount, North Carolina. It first took the calls as an adult contemporary station, and kept them when it flipped to oldies as "Oldies 100.7" in 1989, finally giving them up in 2004 (the station is now known as WRDU).[2]

Ownership

In June 2003, the then-WYTT was sold to First Media by MainQuad Communications Inc. as part of a nine station deal with a total sale price of $11.35 million.[3]

References

  1. ^ "WTRG Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  2. ^ "WRDU Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  3. ^ BIA Financial Networks (2003-06-09). "Changing Hands". Broadcasting & Cable.