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WHAN also airs Randolph-Macon College Football and Patrick Henry High School football during the autumn. In 2009, WHAN became a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers Radio Network and currently broadcasts all of their games. WHAN also added coverage of college basketball featuring both the men's and women's teams of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, plus most regular season games of the University of North Carolina, as well as the 2010 ACC Tournament. |
WHAN also airs Randolph-Macon College Football and Patrick Henry High School football during the autumn. In 2009, WHAN became a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers Radio Network and currently broadcasts all of their games. WHAN also added coverage of college basketball featuring both the men's and women's teams of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, plus most regular season games of the University of North Carolina, as well as the 2010 ACC Tournament. |
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==Construction Permit== |
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WHAN holds a construction permit to move to 650 AM, with a new city of license in [[Victoria, Virginia|Victoria]]. The station will broadcast with a powerful 50,000 watts during the daytime only. A request to amend the CP was taken up by the FCC in December, 2009 which would change the proposed city of license to Powhatan, Virginia and reduce the power to 23,000 watts daytime, and 14,000 watts critical hours. |
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==History== |
==History== |
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Revision as of 06:44, 5 November 2010
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| Broadcast area | Ashland, Virginia Hanover County, Virginia |
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| Frequency | 1430 kHz |
| Branding | "1430 WHAN" |
| Programming | |
| Format | Full Service |
| Affiliations | CNN Radio Westwood One WOR Radio Network |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Fifth Estate Broadcasting |
| History | |
First air date | 1962 |
Former call signs | WIVE (1962-1977) WKDH (1977-1981) WIVE (1981-1987) WMMM (1987-1989) WPES (1989-1998) WHAN (1998-Present) |
Call sign meaning | W HANover (County) |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 8438 |
| Class | D |
| Power | 1,000 Watts daytime 31 Watts nighttime |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°44′46.0″N 77°29′44.0″W / 37.746111°N 77.495556°W |
| Links | |
| Website | WHAN Online |
WHAN is a Full Service formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Ashland, Virginia, serving Ashland and Hanover County, Virginia. WHAN (1430) is owned and operated by Fifth Estate Broadcasting.
Programming
WHAN airs a variety format featuring bluegrass music, news, and information in morning and afternoon drive, and popular talk shows in middays and evenings. Included are "Duke and The Doctor" from 9 to 11am, WOR Radio Network relationship expert "Dr. Joy Browne" from 11am to 1pm, "America's Consumer Warrior--Clark Howard" from 1 to 4pm, and "Lou Dobbs" from 7 to 10pm.
"Mornings In Hanover with Roberts and Andrews", hosted by Bill Roberts and Skip Andrews, airs weekday mornings from 7 to 9, while "The Bluegrass Railroad" airs weekday afternoons from 4 to 7.
WHAN also airs Randolph-Macon College Football and Patrick Henry High School football during the autumn. In 2009, WHAN became a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers Radio Network and currently broadcasts all of their games. WHAN also added coverage of college basketball featuring both the men's and women's teams of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, plus most regular season games of the University of North Carolina, as well as the 2010 ACC Tournament.
History
The station signed on the air around 1965 as WIVE. In 1970, an FM was signed on at 100.1 as WIVE-FM. During the seventies the stations broadcast a religious format and also operated a Christian Book Store out of their studios on Ashcake Rd in Hanover County.
In 1977, WIVE-AM changed to an adult contemporary format as WKDH, the calls meant to latch on to the popularity of local Hanover county theme park, Kings Dominion.
By 1981, the station abandoned the format and returned to religion as WIVE-AM on May 12, 1981. WIVE-FM was also sold off around this time and became WYFJ. WIVE-AM continued broadcasting alone from Ashcake Rd, while WYFJ-FM moved to a new facility on Washington Highway.
On October 1, 1987, the station changed its call sign to WMMM (these calls are now on an FM station in Madison Wisconsin). On July 1, 1989, the calls were changed to WPES by new owner Calvary Pentecostal Campground. The station became WHAN-AM on August 28, 1998.
External links
- WAHN Online
- Template:AMQ
- Template:AML
- WHAN in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
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