WCBG
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City | Waynesboro, Pennsylvania |
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Broadcast area |
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Hagerstown, Maryland |
Branding | 1380 The Bull |
Frequency | 1380 kHz |
First air date | 1953 |
Format | Sports Talk |
Power |
1,000 Watts daytime 20 Watts nighttime |
Class | D |
Facility ID | 27402 |
Transmitter coordinates | 39°44′20.0″N 77°36′10.0″W / 39.738889°N 77.602778°W |
Callsign meaning |
W ChambersBurG see note |
Former callsigns |
WAYZ (1953–1993) WHGT (1993–2005)[1] |
Affiliations | ESPN Radio |
Owner |
Verstandig Broadcasting (HJV Limited Partnership) |
Website | 1380wcbg.com |
WCBG is a sports talk formatted broadcast radio station affiliated with ESPN Radio.
WCBG is licensed to Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, serving the Waynesboro/Chambersburg area. WCBG is owned and operated by VerStandig Broadcasting.
History
The WCBG calls were on AM 1590 until January 1, 2005. VerStandig Broadcasting "donated" the station to Emmanuel Baptist Temple after a very public battle over the station's tower, which was in Chambersburg city limits. On January 1, WCBG switched calls with then sister WHGT and moved all programming to AM 1380 and AM 1590 fell silent. AM 1590 would remain silent until December 4, 2005.
AM 1380 spent years as country formatted WAYZ, later gaining an FM station at 101.5 (today WAYZ resides at FM 104.7). WAYZ changed calls in 1992 to WHGT pending a format change that never happened. When country WAYZ moved to FM 104.7 in 2000, AM 1380 changed to simulcasting then classic hits "Star 92.1" WSRT. In 2006 when FM 92.1 changed format to CHR as "The Point", sister AM WCBG was sold and the calls and talk format moved to AM 1380.
References
External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WCBG
- Radio-Locator Information on WCBG
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WCBG