WHHO

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City	Hornell, New York
Broadcast area	Elmira-Corning area
Branding	Fox Sports Radio 1320
Frequency	1320 kHz
First air date	1949 (license revoked January 28, 2010)
Format	Defunct, was sports talk
Power	5,000 watts day 22 watts night
Class	D
Facility ID	5308
Transmitter coordinates	42°17′32.00″N 77°40′27.00″W / 42.2922222°N 77.6741667°W / 42.2922222; -77.6741667
Former callsigns	WWHG (1949-1960s)
Affiliations	Fox Sports Radio, Citadel Media
Owner	William Berry Bat Lyons (deceased) (Bilbat Radio, Inc.)

WHHO (1320 AM) was a radio station broadcasting a sports talk format. Licensed to Hornell, New York, USA, the station served the Elmira-Corning area. The station was owned by Bilbat Radio, Inc. (at the time of closure, wholly owned by William Berry after the death of partner Bat Lyons). The station had been the home of Eric Massa's weekly radio broadcasts. Gene Burns, a Hornell native, began his long broadcasting career at the station.

History

In 1946 the W.H. Greenhow Co, owner of the Hornell Tribune, launched WWHG-FM 105.3 as Hornell's 1st radio station.

WLEA, a competitor owned by Canisteo Radio Corporation, came on the air on 1320 kHz at 1 KW Daytime as part of the post-World War II radio boom in 1946. Shortly after that, WWHG was granted a CP then license to operate on 1590 kHz at 1 KW Day. Faced with direct competition, WLEA went into bankruptcy, with most of the office fixtures and equipment having been sold to Cary Simpson for WFRM in Coudersport, Pennsylvania.

With WLEA 1320 AM now out of the picture, its license was transferred from Canisteo Radio Corporation in December 1950 to the W.H. Greenhow Company, and WWHG vacated its dial position at 1590 and migrated to the more powerful 1320 kHz. WLEA returned to the air under different ownership months later on 1480 kHz. WWHG then applied for a construction permit in February 1951 to move its transmitter site from Bald Hill Road to Meeks Hill Road, and to move its studios and offices from 99 Main Street to 85 Canisteo Street in Hornell. In June 1956, The W.H. Greenhow Company sold the station to RA-Tel Broadcasters, Inc. In November of that year, the station was granted permission to increase its power to 5,000 watts, but still retaining its daytime-only status.

The following year, the owner principals in RA-Tel Broadcasters changed, but the company name was retained until August 1968, when the company was renamed Steuben Broadcasters, Inc. In October 1967, the station was granted permission to operate with a pre-sunrise authority power of 500 watts, enabling it to sign on at 6am year-round.

In July 1970, the station was sold by Steuben Broadcasters to Southeastern Publications, Inc., but Steuben Broadcasters remained the name of the licensee. The following year, studios and offices for the station were moved to 1484 Beech Street in Hornellsville, just outside Hornell.

In December 1974, the station was sold again, this time to Jonas Terman and Donald Hartman, but the Steuben Broadcasters name was still retained. . The licensee and ownership changed one last time on June 10, 1983, to Bilbat Broadcast Bunch, owned by Richard "Bat" Lyons and William Berry. WHHO and WKPQ were sold to Bilbat for $450,000.

The station was caught in an ownership dispute in the late 2000s in which Pembrook Pines Media Group attempted to buy sister station WKPQ in exchange for Pembrook Pines-owned WABH and cash; that deal eventually fell through.

Decline and failure

WHHO ceased operations on January 28, 2010 after the FCC revoked its license for failure to pay a 2007 fine, stemming from alleged failure to air government-mandated statements and not maintaining a "public information file."

Owner William Berry, who made WHHO his own personal project in an attempt to turn it back towards profitability, cited WHHO's poor revenue for not paying the fine.^[1]

Incidentally, WHHO is the second Bilbat station to have lost its license; WKZA/Kane, Pennsylvania lost its license in 1992, and while another person owned the FCC license, Bilbat still owned the physical assets of the station, which were ultimately destroyed due to weather damage.

Shortly after the station's closure, Fox Sports programming moved to WCBA in Corning; Phoenix Radio arranged to swap WCBA for WKPQ in 2010.

References

↑ Clark, Bob (February 5, 2010). "FCC yanks WHHO radio license for failure to pay 2007 fine". Hornell Evening Tribune. Gatehouse Media. Retrieved February 5, 2010.

Radio stations in the Elmira–Corning, New York market

Note: This market also includes areas around Sayre, Towanda, Mansfield, and Wellsboro in Pennsylvania.

By AM frequency	820 960 1000 1230 1310 1350 1380 1410 1450 1480 1490 (NY) 1490 (PA) 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 88.7 88.9 90.3 90.7 91.1 92.1 92.7 94.3 94.7 96.1 96.9 97.3 97.7 98.7 99.5 100.3 100.9 102.1 103.7 104.5 104.9 105.3 106.1 107.7

by callsign	W205BR WABH WAVR WCBA WCIH WCII-FM WCKR WECW WEHH WENI WENY WENY-FM WGMM WHGL WKPQ WLEA WLNL WLVY WMTQ WMTT WNBT WNBT-FM WNGZ WNKI WOKN WPGI WPHD WQNY WRCE WSKG-FM WSQX-FM WTZN WVYS WYXL

Defunct stations	WHHO/1320 WWHG/1320/95.3 (call letters now used by a completely different station, in Wisconsin)

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