WNOC

WNOC

City	Bowling Green, Ohio
Broadcast area	Toledo Metropolitan Area
Branding	Annunciation Radio
Slogan	"Faith with Frequency"
Frequency	89.7 mHz
First air date	August 14, 2010
Format	Religious radio
ERP	5,300 watts
HAAT	87.9 meters (288 feet)
Class	A
Callsign meaning	Northwest Ohio Catholics
Affiliations	EWTN Glocal Catholic Radio Network Ave Maria Radio Network
Owner	Our Lady of Guadalupe Radio Inc. (dba:Annunciation Radio)
Sister stations	WHRQ, Sandusky WFOT Lexington/Mansfield WSHB Willard
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	Annunciation Radio.com

WNOC (89.7 FM, "Annunciation Radio") is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve the community of Bowling Green, Ohio and serving the Toledo and Bowling Green areas with Catholic programming within the northern portion of the Toledo diocese. It is the second Catholic station to make its debut in the Toledo Diocese in the summer of 2010, the other being WJTA "Holy Family Radio" licensed in Glandorf, Ohio and transmitting from Leipsic. WNOC airs local programming in addition to programs from EWTN Radio, and Ave Maria Radio.

History

Annunciation Radio began in 2006 as a venture by Toledo businessman and Deacon Michael Learned who, on February 3, 2008, launched a Sunday afternoon program on Toledo daytime talk station WTOD 1560 AM. It was sold by Cumulus Media to CSN Radio in March 2010 (which is now WWYC). The program briefly moved to Cumulus-owned WLQR (1470 AM) until the new station signed-on on August 14, 2010. The construction permit was at first held by MCCR Inc. (Ministry for Catholic Charismatic Renewal.) While the new station was in its construction permit phase, a temporary working studio and office was set up at 2679 Brookford Drive in Toledo and a tower erected on Sugar Ridge Rd. near Bowling Green which is shared with WPFX.

In June 2010, two months before the station began broadcasting, Tim Kusner joined the radio station's staff. He was responsible for obtaining underwriters and gradually moved into producing, announcing, traffic management, managing the station Facebook page, and co-hosting the Friday morning live program Annunciation Radio Presents. WNOC serves the Bowling Green and Toledo areas while sister station WHRQ in Sandusky at 88.1 FM made it on-air debut on Monday April 25, 2011 (initially as a WNOC simulcast). The Annunciation Radio audiostream commenced on its website on August 26, 2010.

In May 2013 Annunciation Radio opened a permanent main studio and office located at 3662 Rugby Drive in south Toledo. In July 2013, it purchased WFOT 89.5 FM licensed to Lexington and serving the Mansfield area from its previous owner St. Gabriel Radio based in Columbus. The transition of WFOT programming from St. Gabriel Radio to Annunciation Radio took place at 3:00pm local time on Thursday July 11, 2013. WFOT has been on the air since 2007.

In September 2013, Annunciation Radio purchased the construction permit of WSHB, 90.9 mHz in Willard from the Mansfield Christian School which owns WVMC in Mansfield. Approval of the sale was granted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on December 23, 2013. WSHB took to the air on Christmas Day December 25, 2013.

Online sister stations

Annunciation Radio also operates two web based stations:

Source and Summit Radio -Contemporary Catholic music for teens and young adults.
Nuestra Senora de Guadelupe Radio (Our Lady of Guadalupe Radio Toledo) -Catholic programming in Spanish.

Call sign history

WNOC's call letters had been used at 94.1 FM in Old Forge New York (later WNOB now defunct), on Channel 26 in Jamestown, New York (which is now WNYB), on Channel 24 in Flora, Illinois (later WNOI-LP now defunct), at 720 AM in Wake Forest, North Carolina (defunct since 1986) and before that at 1310 AM in Norwich, Connecticut, the present-day WICH.

Repeaters of WNOC

WHRQ 88.1 FM in Sandusky also serving Port Clinton, Fremont,the Lake Erie Islands and the Northcoast/Firelands areas.
WFOT 89.5 FM licensed to Lexington serving the Mansfield area.
WSHB 90.9 FM in Willard.

Affilliates

WRRO 89.9 FM licensed to Edon serving Bryan and the far-corner regions of northwest Ohio and northeast Indiana. WRRO is owned by the Knights of Columbus Council 1915 (as licensee "Club 1915 Inc.") WRRO was previously an affilliate of Fort Wayne-based Redeemer Radio at first for WLYV and later WRDF.
WLBJ-LP 104.1 FM in Fostoria owned by the Christopher Center Corporation (as "Christ The Shepherd Radio").

Though both of the above stations are a near-simulcast of WNOC, both stations separately identify themselves legally at the top of the hour.

External links

Official Annunciation Radio site (with streaming audio)

Query the FCC's FM station database for WNOC

Radio-Locator information on WNOC

Radio stations in the Toledo, Ohio market

By AM frequency	730 1230 1370 1520 1560

By FM frequency	88.1 88.3 88.3 88.9 89.3 89.7 90.3 91.3 92.1 92.5 92.9 93.5 94.1 94.5 94.9 95.7 96.1 96.5 96.9 97.3 98.3 99.1 99.5 99.9 100.7 101.5 102.3 103.3 103.7 104.1 104.7 105.5 105.9 106.1 106.5 107.3 107.7 107.9

Digital radio	1230 1370 92.5-1 92.5-2 93.5-1 99.9-1 101.5-1 101.5-2 104.7-1 104.7-2 105.5-1 105.5-2 106.5-1

Internet radio	WFAL Falcon Radio

Defunct	WLQR 1470

By callsign	W221BG W225AM W231AJ W235BH W258BT W264AK W277BI W281AL W290BA WAKT-LP WBGU-FM WCKY-FM WCWA WGTE-FM WIMX WIOT WJUC WJYM WJZE WKKO WKXA-FM WMIM WMLZ-LP WMTR-FM WNKL WNOC WNWT WOTL WPFX-FM WPOS-FM WQQO WRQN WRVF WSPD WTOD WTPG WVKS WWYC WXKR WXTS-FM WXUT WYSZ WVZC-LP

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Religious radio stations in the state of Ohio

Stations	WAKW – Cincinnati WAOM – Mowrystown WAUI – Shelby WBCJ – Spencerville WBCY – Archbold WBIE – Delphos WBJV – Steubenville WCBV-LP – Lima WCCD – Parma/Cleveland WCCR – Cleveland WCNW – Fairfield WCRF-FM – Cleveland WCUE – Cuyahoga Falls/Akron WCVJ – Jefferson WCVV – Belpre WEEC – Springfield WFCJ – Miamisburg WFCO – Lancaster WFOT – Lexington WGOJ – Conneaut WGRI – Cincinnati WHSS -Hamilton WHJM – Anna WHKW – Cleveland WHKZ – Warren/Youngstown WHRQ – Sandusky WHVT – Clyde WHVY – Coshocton WILB – Canton WJDD – Carrollton WJEE – Bolivar WJFY-LP – Newark WJHE – Heath WJIC – Zanesville WJJE – Delaware WJTA – Glandorf/Leipsic WJTB – North Ridgeville/Cleveland WJYM – Bowling Green/Toledo WKCD – Cedarville WKJA – Brunswick WLRU-LP – Hillsboro WNHC-LP – Lima WNKL – Wauseon/Toledo WNOC – Bowling Green/Toledo WNOP – Newport/Cincinnati WNWT – Rossford/Toledo WOFN – Beach City WOHC – Chillicothe WOTL – Toledo WQRP – Dayton WRFD – Columbus-Worthington WRRO – Edon/Bryan WSHB – Willard WSJG -Tiffin WTGN – Lima WTLL-LP – Zanesville WTPG – Whitehouse WTTP-LP – Lima WUKV – Portsmouth WULM – Springfield/Dayton WVML – Millersburg WVMS – Sandusky WVSG -Columbus WWOW – Conneaut WWTL-LP – Logan WWYC – Toledo WXMF – Marion WXML – Upper Sandusky WXMW – Sycamore WYFY – Cambridge WYTN – Youngstown WYWH-LP – Athens WZCP – Chillicothe WZLP – Loudonville WZWP – West Union WYLR – Hubbard/Youngstown

Defunct	WCER – Canton

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Coordinates: 41°25′41″N 83°36′29″W / 41.428°N 83.608°W / 41.428; -83.608

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