WEMM-FM
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City | Huntington, West Virginia |
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Broadcast area |
Huntington, West Virginia Charleston, West Virginia |
Branding | "Gospel 107.9" |
Slogan | "The Legendary Station Where You Will Always Find Hope!" |
Frequency | 107.9 MHz |
First air date | 1971 |
Format |
Southern Gospel Religious |
ERP | 50,000 Watts |
HAAT | 152 Meters |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 43860 |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°28′37.0″N 82°15′20.0″W / 38.476944°N 82.255556°W |
Callsign meaning |
W Dr. E. M. Mortenson (original owner)[1] |
Former callsigns | WEMM (1971-2004)[2] |
Owner |
Mortenson Broadcasting (Mortenson Broadcasting Company of West Virginia, LLC) |
Sister stations | WZPS |
Webcast | WEMM-FM Webstream |
Website | WEMM-FM Online |
WEMM-FM (107.9 FM, "Gospel 107.9") is a Southern Gospel and religious formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Huntington, West Virginia, serving the Huntington/Charleston area. WEMM-FM is owned and operated by Mortenson Broadcasting.
Programming
WEMM-FM broadcasts a Southern Gospel and Religious format to the Tri-State Region.[3] This format includes sermons from area pulpits, national Bible teaching ministries, and Southern Gospel music.[4][5] The station also airs a radio simulcast of the WSAZ NewsChannel 3 Six O'Clock newscast on weekdays.
History
WEMM was first established on September 6, 1971, and has since then maintained its current Gospel format.[4] The station signed on as the third station on the Tower of Faith Radio Network.[6]
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The call letters were changed to WEMM-FM on February 2, 2004,[2] when an AM sister station (then known as WHRD) was made a simulcast of the FM signal and its call sign was changed to WEMM.[7] That simulcast arrangement ended and the AM station's callsign was changed to WRWB in September 2008 but the FM station remains at the WEMM-FM callsign.[7]
References
- ↑ Miller, Jeff (August 3, 2008). "Origins of Broadcast Call Letters in West Virginia".
- 1 2 "WEMM-FM Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
- ↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
- 1 2 "About Us". WEMM-FM. Retrieved November 30, 2008.
- ↑ Rice, Holly (October 12, 2007). "Contemporary station offers different sound for listeners". The Parthenon.
- ↑ "24 Hour Christian Radio". Charleston Gazette. September 4, 1971. p. 16.
- 1 2 "WRWB Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
External links
- Gospel 107.9 WEMM official website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WEMM
- Radio-Locator information on WEMM
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WEMM