WPAY (AM)

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WPAY (AM 1400/104.1 FM) is a radio station in Portsmouth, Ohio. The radio station started in 1933 as a country yodeling and country music station hence its name Pay Any Yodeler. The station became notable when it stayed on air during the floods in Portsmouth in 1937, giving up-to-the-minute news and announcements to those separated and weary from the floods. In the 1960s, WPAY started to play country music on its FM while the AM was reassigned to have a news/talk format. Recently, the station has added the by-weekly meetings of the local city council.

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WPAY-FM has one of the most powerful radio antennas in Southern Ohio and had one of the tallest radio towers, standing over 200 meters high overlooking the Ohio River in Kentucky. Due to the station having an ERP of 100,000 watts, it's signal can be heard as far away as Columbus, Ohio, Beckley, West Virginia, and Cincinnati, Ohio. However, the antenna is not as high as it once was. The old tower collapsed from the weight of the ice during an ice storm on February 19, 2003 and put the station off the air for a couple of days.