WCRL

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WCRL
City of license Oneonta, Alabama
Branding WCRL 1570 AM
Slogan "Good Times Great Oldies"
Frequency 1570 AM (kHz)
Repeaters 95.3 W237DH (Cleveland)
First air date 1952
Format Oldies
Power 2,500 watts (day)
64 watts (night)
Class D
Facility ID 5888
Owner Blount County Broadcasting Service Inc.
Website wcrl1570.com

WCRL (1570 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Oneonta, Alabama. The station is owned by Blount County Broadcasting Service Inc. and began operation on July 29, 1952. WCRL airs an oldies music format.[1]

The station was assigned the WCRL call letters by the Federal Communications Commission.[2] The station has been owned by the L.D. Bentley Jr. family since the early 1950s. In November 2002, control of Blount County Broadcasting Service legally passed from Luther Daniel Bentley Jr. to Luther Daniel Bentley III.[3] The younger Bentley and his sister, Teresa B. Lowry, now respectively own 51% and 49% of the corporation.

In 1968 the station added an FM sister, WKLD. That station was sold to Great South Wireless LLC in a deal that was completed in September 2008.[4]

Translators

Call sign MHz City of license Power
(W)		 Class
 Additional Information
W237DH 95.3 Cleveland, Alabama 100 D FCC

References

  1. ^ "Winter 2008 Station Information Profile". Arbitron. http://www1.arbitron.com/sip/displaySip.do?srvy_id=WI08&surveyID=WI08&band=fm&callLetter=WCRL. 
  2. ^ "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=5888&Callsign=WCRL. 
  3. ^ "Application Search Details (BTC-20020725AAF)". FCC Media Bureau. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=607090. Retrieved 2008-10-19. 
  4. ^ "Application Search Details (BALH-20080417ABT)". FCC Media Bureau. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1243029. Retrieved 2008-10-19. 

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