WDGG

WDGG
City	Ashland, Kentucky
Broadcast area	Huntington, West Virginia Ashland, Kentucky Ironton, Ohio
Branding	93.7 The Dawg
Slogan	Country Favorites and Fun
Frequency	93.7MHz
First air date	October 1948 (as WCMi-FM)
Format	Country
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	226 meters
Class	C1
Facility ID	21436
Callsign meaning	WDoGG (Dawg)
Former callsigns	WCMI-FM (1948-70) WAMX-FM (1970-88) WRVC-FM (1988-90s)
Affiliations	CBS (1945-59, 1960-72) ABC (1972-83)
Owner	Fifth Avenue Broadcasting Company, Inc. (dba Kindred Communications)
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	937thedawg.com

WDGG (93.7 FM) is one of several country music formatted radio stations in the Huntington, West Virginia, Ashland, Kentucky, and Ironton, Ohio, market area. Although the Dawg's studios are located in Huntington, its city of license is Ashland following the original Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocation of its predecessor WCMI-FM. The Dawg is the flagship station of the Marshall University sports radio network. The station along with WCMI-FM, WMGA, WXBW, WRVC-AM, and WCMI-AM are owned by Huntington-based Kindred Communications.

WDGG has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts and is licensed to the city of Ashland. West Virginia is an FCC Zone I state, which means that the station would be allowed to have only 50,000 watts of maximum power if the city of license were transferred to Huntington.

History

The station signed on the air in October 1948 as WCMI-FM in Ashland as a simulcast of its AM sister station WCMI's broadcast schedule. The call letters were said to refer to the steel industry of Ashland as "Where Coal Meets Iron".

On November 20, 1970, the call letters were changed to WAMX-FM and ownership was transferred to W. Richard Martin and Stereo 94, Inc. The station broadcast with an adult contemporary music format and experimented with an album oriented rock format at night during the early 1970s.

In the mid-1970s, WAMX-FM (also known as 94X) adopted a contemporary hit radio (CHR) format until its sale to Storer broadcasting in 1983. With the sale, the studios moved to nearby Huntington, and the station adopted an album oriented rock format (AOR).^[1] On April 30, 1988, the call letters representing the River Cities were adopted and the license became known as WRVC-FM.^[2] The dormant WAMX call sign was adopted by an unrelated station (at 106.3 MHz) in the Huntington market on January 6, 1997.^[3] The WDGG call letters were granted by the FCC on February 6, 1995.^[2]

WDGG is a full-time country station that also carries Marshall football and men's basketball. WDGG's sister stations include the following:

WRVC, also known as Super Talk 94.1 FM and AM 930, is a 5,000-watt station (daytime) carrying sports for about 21 of 24 hours on-air from the nation's sports leader, ESPN. Events include Marshall sports (football and men's basketball also on WDGG; AM also carries women's basketball and baseball), Triple Crown racing, NFL, NCAA football and basketball, NBA, NHL, IRL-Indy 500, NASCAR Craftsman Trucks and Spring Valley High School football and boys' basketball. The station has been known as WSAZ and WGNT.
WCMI 1340 AM is a progressive talk station operating with 1,000 watts from a tower in Catlettsburg, Kentucky. This facility carries some sporting events, including West Virginia Power baseball, Spring Valley boys' basketball, and NCAA football and basketball

Programming

Notable weekday programming on WDGG includes Julie Reeves Live in the morning, T on middays, Crawdawg in afternoons, The Lia Show in evenings, and The Big Time with Whitney Allen overnight.

Notes

↑ Jeff Miller (ed.). "History of WCMI, Ashland, KY". Retrieved 2009-05-06.
1 2 "WDGG Call Letter History". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
↑ "WAMX Call Letter History". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved 2009-05-06.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WDGG

Radio-Locator information on WDGG

Radio stations in the Huntington / Ashland, WV–KY–OH market

By AM frequency	800 930 1080 1110 1200 1230 1340 1340 1370 1420 1520 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 89.1 89.9 90.3 91.1 91.9 92.3 92.7 93.7 94.9 96.1 97.1 97.5 97.9 98.3 99.7 100.5 100.9 101.5 102.7 103.3 104.1 104.5 105.1 105.7 106.3 107.1 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio	162.550

By callsign	KIH39 WAMX WASP-LP WBVB WCMI WCMI-FM WDGG WEKV WEMM-FM WGOH WHKU WIRO WKAO WKEE-FM WKLC-FM WKWS WLGC WLGC-FM WLRX WMGA WMKY WMUL WMUX WOKE WONS WOUB WOUL WNKE WQBE-FM WRVC WXBW WTCR WTCR-FM WUGO WVSR-FM WVHU WVWV WZAQ WZPS WZZW

Defunct	WPAY

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Country radio stations in the state of Kentucky

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Defunct:	WFUL – Fulton

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Kentucky

Coordinates: 38°23′13″N 82°39′43″W / 38.387°N 82.662°W / 38.387; -82.662

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