WINC

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WINC-FM Winchester is 92.5 WINC FM (pronounced WINK), a "Hot" Adult Contemporary radio station serving the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. WINC-AM is 1400 AM and plays mostly right-wing talk radio.

WINC-FM has an unusually strong signal for an FM station, due to its transmitter being atop a mountain and its power being grandfathered in. It can be easily heard in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC and can even be heard at times as far south as Richmond. It regularly contests for supremacy in the Winchester market with Q102 WUSQ-FM, a country music station.

[edit] History

WINC-FM is owned by Mid-Atlantic Network, Inc., a family owned corporation and licensee of 6 radio stations in Winchester, VA and Fredericksburg, VA.

Richard F. Lewis, Jr. began the operation in 1939 when he, as a California resident, answered an advertisement in "Broadcasting Magazine", in which the Fredericksburg, VA Chamber of Commerce requested a radio station operator for the community. He formed the Fredericksburg Broadcasting Corporation, and founded station WFVA.

Two years later, Mr. Lewis moved to Winchester, VA and built station WINC-AM. He eventually built and acquired additional radio stations, including one of the nation's first FM Radio stations, WINC-FM Winchester. WINC was originally known as WRFL, in honor of its founder.

[edit] External Link

WINC-FM website