WERX-FM

WERX-FM

City of license	Columbia, North Carolina
Branding	102.5 The Shark
Slogan	"Killer Hits of the 60's, 70's and 80's
Frequency	102.5 MHz
First air date	1982
Format	Classic Hits
ERP	64,000 watts
HAAT	210 meters
Class	C1
Facility ID	36764
Former callsigns	WZBO (1982-1983) WZBO-FM (1983-1992)
Owner	Lawrence Loesch & Margaret Loesch
Website	1025theshark.com

WERX-FM (102.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Classic Hits format. Licensed to Columbia, North Carolina, USA, it serves the Outer Banks and Hampton Roads areas. The station is currently owned by Lawrence Loesch & Margaret Loesch.

The station had originally been WZBO, running an adult comteporary format out of their Edenton, NC studio . In 1990, The Loesch family purchased the station and was able to raise the station's power to from 6 KW to 64 Kw and relocated its tower to Columbia N.C and its studios to Nags Head, N.C and went modern rock as WERX. In the mid 90s the station went to an Oldies format, and finally to its current Classic Hits format.

References

External links

Official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WERX

Radio-Locator information on WERX

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Radio stations in the Elizabeth City-Nags Head (North Eastern NC) market

By FM frequency	WVRL - 88.3 WUND-FM - 88.9 WRVS - 89.9 WBUX - 90.5 WURI - 90.9 WZPR - 92.3 WCMS - 94.5 WOBR - 95.3 WPNC - 95.9 WKJX - 96.7 WYND - 97.1 WGTI - 97.7 WOBX - 98.1 WDLZ - 98.3 WVOD - 99.1 WQDK - 99.3 WBXB - 100.1 WFMI - 100.9 WERX - 102.5 WTIB - 103.7 WCXL - 104.1 WFMZ - 104.9 WRSF - 105.7

By AM frequency	WGAI - 560 WCNC - 1240 WZBO - 1260 WOBX - 1530

North Carolina radio markets Asheville Charlotte Fayetteville Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville Raleigh-Durham Other North Carolina radio regions Elizabeth City-Nags Head Roanoke Rapids-South Hill Rocky Mount-Wilson Wilmington See also List of radio stations in North Carolina Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News Radio

Classic Hits radio stations in North Carolina

By frequency	1080 1380 1400 1440 1490 94.5 95.7 96.5 100.7 102.5 102.9 102.9 105.5 107.9

By callsign	WAVQ WELS-FM WERX-FM WFJA WFLB WKGX WKIX-FM WKXS-FM WLXN WNCT-FM WSVM WTOB WXRC WZJS

By city	Banner Elk Columbia Greenville Hickory Jacksonville Kinston Laurinburg Lenoir Leland Lexington Raleigh Sanford Valdese Winston-Salem

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in North Carolina See also Oldies Classic Hits

Coordinates: 35°55′05″N 76°20′46″W / 35.918°N 76.346°W / 35.918; -76.346