WTRG

Infobox Radio station
name = WTRG


city = Gaston, North Carolina
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branding = "The Great 98"
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frequency = 97.9 MHz
format = Oldies music
erp = 1350 watts
haat = 149 meters (489 feet)
class = A
facility_id = 17568
coordinates = coord|36|27|38|N|77|33|52|W
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns = WLGQ, WYTT
owner = First Media Radio
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sister_stations =
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website = [http://www.bestradioaround.com/wtrg/ WTRG Online]
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WTRG (97.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Gaston, North Carolina, in the Roanoke Rapids market. WTRG is an oldies station and is owned by First Media Radio Roanoke Rapids.

History

This station was assigned call letters 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. [ cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=17568&Callsign=WTRG |title=WTRG Call Sign History |work=FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database]

The WTRG call letters once belonged to WRVA-FM, 100.7 FM in 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. [ cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=74125&Callsign=WRVA-FM |title=WRVA Call Sign History |work=FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database]

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 dollars. [ cite web |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA303503.html |title=Changing Hands |author=BIA Financial Networks |work=Broadcasting & Cable |date=2003-06-09]

References

External links

* [http://www.bestradioaround.com/wtrg/ WTRG official website]
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