WANO (AM)

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WANO

City of license	Pineville, Kentucky
Branding	Tri State Oldies Station
Frequency	1230 kHz
Format	Oldies
ERP	1,000 watts unlimited
Class	C
Facility ID	31153
Transmitter Coordinates	36°46′7.00″N 83°42′59.00″W / 36.7686111, -83.7163889
Affiliations	Fox News Radio
Owner	Cumberlandsmediasgroup,Sinc.
Website	1230wano.com

WANO (1230 AM) is a radio station licensed to Pineville, Kentucky, and serving the greater Bell County community. WANO broadcasts with a full-time signal of 1,000 Watts on 1230AM, and the signal is also rebroadcast on New Wave Communications Cable Channel 7 throughout Pineville and many areas of Bell, Harlan, and Lee Counties.

1 History
- 1.1 Ownership
- 1.2 2007 Fire
2 Programming
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

WANO signed on March 15, 1957 with the mission of serving the Pineville community with local news and information.

[edit] Ownership

South Bevins was the original licensee of WANO, and owned the station until approximately 1995, when the station was purchased by Warren Pursifull's Cumberland Media Group. Warren had begun working at WANO as a teenager, leaving after his acquisition of Countrywide Broadcasters, Inc's WFXY/Middlesboro in November of 1993.

In late 2005, both WANO and WFXY were acquired by Joshua Wilkey, a North Carolina businessman who moved to Bell County to run the stations. Wilkey continues to own the stations, and WANO's studios are co-located with WFXY at 2118 Cumberland Avenue in Middlesboro. WANO's transmission facilities are located on Four Mile Road just outside the corporate limits of Pineville.

[edit] 2007 Fire

Just after celebrating 50 years on the air, arsonists set fire to WANO's broadcasting facilities on the night of March 18, 2007. The result was a complete loss of the station's broadcasting equipment, leaving WANO off the air. Immediately, rebuilding efforts began, as the community rallied around the station. In record time, the station was back on the air, signing back on little more than a month later on April 20th. The resulting rebuild made WANO state-of-the-art in every way, for the first time since 1957.

[edit] Programming

The station broadcasts an Oldies format, featuring hit music of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as local newscasts and obituaries six times per day. Additionally, WANO simulcasts Tri-State Tradio, with hosts Brian O'Brien and Larry Posner.

The station is an affiliate of the Atlanta Braves radio network, the largest radio affiliate network in Major League Baseball.^[1]