WLOR
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| City of license | Huntsville, Alabama |
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| Broadcast area | Tennessee Valley |
| Branding | Jammin 1550 |
| Frequency | 1550 kHz |
| Format | Urban Adult Contemporary/Talk |
| Power | 50,000 watts (day) 500 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 39508 |
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| Former callsigns | WHBS, WAAY, WAAJ[1] |
| Owner | Rocket City Broadcasting LLC (BCA Radio, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WAHR, WRTT-FM |
| Webcast | mms://72.236.125.114/wlor |
| Website | http://www.jammin1550.am |
WLOR (1550 AM, "Jammin 1550") is a radio station licensed to Huntsville, Alabama, USA, that serves the greater Tennessee Valley area. The station carries a mix of urban adult contemporary music, talk radio, and sports coverage.
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[edit] History
The station originally started in 1946 as WHBS on 1490 AM, which was owned by The Huntsville Times. They later added an FM simulcast on 95.1 FM which they later pulled the plug on in around 1959. (As FM was not doing well at the time.) They moved the station to 1550 and increased the daytime power to 5000 watts (daytime) around 1960. From 1961 to the late 1980s, this station used the call letters WAAY as the Top 40-formatted AM sister station of WAAY-TV. The station went to 50,000 watts-daytime power in 1980 (the maximum output for US AM radio stations) and then operated from a separate daytime and nighttime site until 1991. WAAY-AM also rolled out AM Stereo in the Huntsville market in 1984 using the Kahn-Hazeltine stereo system. Both WAAY AM/TV stations were owned and operated by Smith Broadcasting.
When the AM station was sold, the new owners were required to change the call letters. They chose WAAJ in April 1989 to accompany the station's change to a gospel music and religious format. This format and calls ran until April 1993 when the station became WLOR.[1] Around 1998 WLOR returned to the air with a Black-Gospel format (daytime only as the nighttime site had been demolished).
In March 2000, the station was purchased by STG Media LLC (Steven J. Shelton, president) for a reported sale price of $425,000.[2] Around 2002 the station began the "Jammin' 1550" branding and nighttime operations resumed from the daytime site.
[edit] Technical changes
On June 19, 2007 the station was granted a construction permit to become a class D station using a single transmitter site and a nighttime power of just 44 watts. This permit expires on June 19, 2010.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- WLOR official website
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WLOR
- Radio Locator Information on WLOR
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for WLOR
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