WSIG

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WSIG
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City of license Mount Jackson, Virginia
Broadcast area Mount Jackson, Virginia
Winchester, Virginia
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Branding "Real Country 96-9 WSIG"
Slogan "Your Home for Real Country"
Frequency 96.9 MHz
First air date June 5th, 1987
Format Classic Country
Power 4,300 Watts
Class B1
Callsign meaning W Shenandoah Valley Gold
play on former AM sister's calls
Former callsigns WSIG-FM (1987-2004)
WSIG (2004-Present)
Affiliations ABC Radio News
ABC Radio's "Real Country"
Owner Vox Communications Group, LLC
Sister stations WBOP
Webcast WSIG Webstream
Website WSIG Online

WSIG is a Classic Country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Mount Jackson, Virginia in Shenandoah County, while studios are located in Mount Crawford, Virginia in Rockingham County.

[edit] History

Always a Country station, WSIG-FM signed on the air in June of 1987 as a simulcaster of its popular sister WSIG-AM (now WSVG-AM). Through most of the 80s, 90s, and even into the 2000s, WSIG was a very difficult catch in Winchester, but was considered part of the Winchester DMA.

During 1988, WSIG-FM was sold to Tuschedy Broadcasting and began simulcasting Tuschedy owned WSKO (now WBOP and now on 95.5) as "Super Country". It was an effort to compete with country powerhouses WUSQ in Winchester and WKCY in Harrisonburg but it wasn't to last.

By 1992, WSKO switched to Hot Adult Contemporary, while WSIG remain country.

WSIG was sold in 2002 to Vox Communications, oddly that owns the incarnation of WSKO, WBOP. After going silent for 6 months, WSIG came back on the air in July 2003, with studios now in Mount Crawford, Virginia, but broadcasting from a new tower near Mount Jackson. This would, for the first time, give WSIG a clear signal into Winchester, while at the same time a clear signal into Harrisonburg.

In November of 2007, WSIG began streaming their signal online.

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