WLES

WLES
City Bon Air, Virginia
Broadcast area Metro Richmond
Branding "Truth Radio 590"
Frequency 590 kHz
Translator(s) 107.9 W300DK (Richmond)
First air date September 1959 (as 580 WLES, Lawrenceville)
Format Christian Talk
Power 1,000 Watts daytime
58 Watts nighttime
Class D
Facility ID 72504
Transmitter coordinates 37°30′52.0″N 77°30′28.0″W / 37.514444°N 77.507778°W / 37.514444; -77.507778
Callsign meaning W LawrEnceville S
Former frequencies 580 kHz (1959-2014)
Owner Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation
Sister stations WTRU, WDRU, WCRU, KUTR, KTIA-FM
Webcast WLES Webstream
Website truthnetwork.com

WLES (590 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Bon Air, Virginia, serving the Greater Richmond Region. WLES is owned and operated by Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation.[1] It airs a Christian radio format, as part of "The Truth Network."

This station was once licensed to Lawrenceville, near the Virginia-North Carolina border.[2] It had been a daytimer station on AM 580, with an oldies format.[3] The station moved to the suburbs of Richmond to serve that larger radio market, now at AM 590 with authorization to broadcast around the clock. Programming is also heard on FM translator station W300DK at 107.9 MHz.

Technical Information

Logo for the station when it operated on 580 AM.

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.,[4] but withdrew the request in August, 2007.[5]

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.[6] The swap was completed in 2011. The station was issued a license to operate on the 590 kHz frequency on March 28, 2014.

Translator

In addition to the main station, WLES is relayed by an FM translator to widen its broadcast area.[7]

Call signFrequency
(MHz)		City of licenseFacility
ID		ERP
W		Height
m (ft)		ClassFCC info
W300DK107.9Richmond, Virginia51896450 m (0 ft)DFCC

References

  1. ↑ "WLES Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1961-62 page B-177
  3. ↑ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2005 page D-537
  4. ↑ http://www.vartv.com/archives07d.htm
  5. ↑ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1193268
  6. ↑ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101221166&formid=301&fac_num=72504
  7. ↑ "W300DK Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division.


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