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WMIT (106.9 MHz, "106.9 The Light") is a non-profit FM radio station licensed to Black Mountain, North Carolina, United States and serving Asheville.
WMIT is a listener-supported ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. It airs a mix of Contemporary Christian music with some Christian talk and teaching programs, including national religious leaders Jim Daly, John MacArthur, David Jeremiah, Chuck Swindoll and Charles Stanley. Its studios and offices are on Porters Cove Road in Asheville.
Programming is simulcast in the Charlotte area on full-power WAVO (1150 AM) in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and low-powered FM translators W282BP (104.3 MHz) in Matthews, North Carolina and W268DM (101.5 MHz) in Rock Hill. In the North Carolina High Country, WMIT is simulcast on low-powered W234CF (94.7 MHz) in Boone, North Carolina. Most of WMIT's schedule is also simulcast on 106.7 WFGW in the Knoxville, Tennessee radio market.
In 2007, WMIT began broadcasting in the HD Radio format, adding "theEdge 106.9" on the HD2 digital subchannel. It features Christian rock music for teenagers and young adults, which is also heard on translator W292CJ (106.3 FM) in Asheville.
WMIT has one of the largest coverage areas for an FM radio station in the Eastern United States. It claims a potential audience of five million people in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia. This is because its transmitter is located on Clingmans Peak, with the combined mountain and transmitter tower elevation at over 6,700 feet (2,000 m) above sea level, with the highest transmitter site east of the Mississippi River. Its transmitter rises 180 feet (55 m) above 6,557-foot (1,999 m) on Clingmans Peak, putting WMIT tower's light higher than anything else east of the Mississippi.
Its effective radiated power (ERP) is 36,000 watts. Many FM stations nearby run at 100,000 watts but their towers are only a third the height of WMIT. Due to its unusual height above average terrain (HAAT), WMIT is grandfathered with a "superpower" signal.
In addition to its home market of Asheville, WMIT provides at least secondary coverage to large portions of the Greenville/Spartanburg, Charlotte, and Tri-Cities markets. Long before the installation of the translators and the WAVO simulcast, WMIT had a particularly large following in the Charlotte area, garnering a 1.4 rating in the Charlotte market in January 2014. Since 2014, WMIT has identified as "Black Mountain/Charlotte/Asheville" to acknowledge its large listenership in the Charlotte area, which has as many people as the rest of its coverage area combined. However, it could only be heard clearly in the market's western portion until the addition of the translators and the WAVO simulcast.
WMIT was the first FM station in North Carolina, and among the earliest in the United States. On May 24, 1940, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the establishment, effective January 1, 1941, of an FM radio band consisting of 40 channels spanning 42–50 MHz, with the first five channels (42.1 to 42.9 MHz) reserved for educational stations, and the other 35 (43.1 to 49.9 MHz) available for commercial operation. WMIT was first authorized on August 25, 1941, as W41MM, for 50,000 watts on 44.1 MHz. The station was licensed to 32-year-old Gordon Gray, described as "one of the nation's wealthiest young men", who was president of the Piedmont Publishing Company, publishers of the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel, and owner of AM radio station WSJS in Winston-Salem.
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WMIT
WMIT (106.9 MHz, "106.9 The Light") is a non-profit FM radio station licensed to Black Mountain, North Carolina, United States and serving Asheville.
WMIT is a listener-supported ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. It airs a mix of Contemporary Christian music with some Christian talk and teaching programs, including national religious leaders Jim Daly, John MacArthur, David Jeremiah, Chuck Swindoll and Charles Stanley. Its studios and offices are on Porters Cove Road in Asheville.
Programming is simulcast in the Charlotte area on full-power WAVO (1150 AM) in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and low-powered FM translators W282BP (104.3 MHz) in Matthews, North Carolina and W268DM (101.5 MHz) in Rock Hill. In the North Carolina High Country, WMIT is simulcast on low-powered W234CF (94.7 MHz) in Boone, North Carolina. Most of WMIT's schedule is also simulcast on 106.7 WFGW in the Knoxville, Tennessee radio market.
In 2007, WMIT began broadcasting in the HD Radio format, adding "theEdge 106.9" on the HD2 digital subchannel. It features Christian rock music for teenagers and young adults, which is also heard on translator W292CJ (106.3 FM) in Asheville.
WMIT has one of the largest coverage areas for an FM radio station in the Eastern United States. It claims a potential audience of five million people in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia. This is because its transmitter is located on Clingmans Peak, with the combined mountain and transmitter tower elevation at over 6,700 feet (2,000 m) above sea level, with the highest transmitter site east of the Mississippi River. Its transmitter rises 180 feet (55 m) above 6,557-foot (1,999 m) on Clingmans Peak, putting WMIT tower's light higher than anything else east of the Mississippi.
Its effective radiated power (ERP) is 36,000 watts. Many FM stations nearby run at 100,000 watts but their towers are only a third the height of WMIT. Due to its unusual height above average terrain (HAAT), WMIT is grandfathered with a "superpower" signal.
In addition to its home market of Asheville, WMIT provides at least secondary coverage to large portions of the Greenville/Spartanburg, Charlotte, and Tri-Cities markets. Long before the installation of the translators and the WAVO simulcast, WMIT had a particularly large following in the Charlotte area, garnering a 1.4 rating in the Charlotte market in January 2014. Since 2014, WMIT has identified as "Black Mountain/Charlotte/Asheville" to acknowledge its large listenership in the Charlotte area, which has as many people as the rest of its coverage area combined. However, it could only be heard clearly in the market's western portion until the addition of the translators and the WAVO simulcast.
WMIT was the first FM station in North Carolina, and among the earliest in the United States. On May 24, 1940, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the establishment, effective January 1, 1941, of an FM radio band consisting of 40 channels spanning 42–50 MHz, with the first five channels (42.1 to 42.9 MHz) reserved for educational stations, and the other 35 (43.1 to 49.9 MHz) available for commercial operation. WMIT was first authorized on August 25, 1941, as W41MM, for 50,000 watts on 44.1 MHz. The station was licensed to 32-year-old Gordon Gray, described as "one of the nation's wealthiest young men", who was president of the Piedmont Publishing Company, publishers of the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel, and owner of AM radio station WSJS in Winston-Salem.