WHAN (AM)

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WHAN
City of license	Ashland, Virginia
Slogan	Hanovers Own
Frequency	1430 kHz
First air date	1981-05-12 (as WIVE)
Format	News Talk Information
Power	50,000 watts day 1,000 watts day 31 watts night
Class	D
Facility ID	8438
Transmitter Coordinates	37°44′46.00″N 77°29′44.00″W / 37.7461111, -77.4955556
Former callsigns	WIVE (1965-1977 & 1981-1987) WKDH ( 1977-1981)WMMM (1987-1989) WPES (1989-1998)
Affiliations	CNN Radio, Westwood One, Jones Radio Network
Owner	Fifth Estate Communications, LLC
Website	whan1430.com

WHAN (1430 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format.Licensed to Ashland, Virginia, USA. The station is currently owned by Fifth Estate Communications, LLC and features programing from CNN Radio, Westwood One and Jones Radio Network.^[1]

WHAN holds a construction permit to move to 650 kHz, with a new city of license in Victoria, VA. The station will broadcast with a powerful 50kW during the daytime only.

[edit] History

The station signed on the air around 1965 as WIVE. In 1970, an FM was signed on at 100.1 as WIVE-FM. During the seventies the stations broadcast a religious format and also operated a Christian Book Store out of their studios on Ashcake Rd in Hanover County. In 1977, WIVE-AM changed to an adult contemporary format as WKDH, the calls meant to latch on to the popularity of local Hanover county theme park , Kings Dominion. By 1981 the station abandoned the format and returned to religion as WIVE-AM on 5/12/81 . WIVE-FM was also sold off around this time and became WYFJ. WIVE-AM continued broadcasting alone from Ashcake Rd, while WYFJ-FM moved to a new facility on Washington Highway. On 10-01-87, the station changed it's call sign to WMMM ( these calls are now on an FM station in Madison Wisconsin ) . On 1989-07-01 to WPES. On 8-28-98 to the current WHAN.^[2]