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WNAV (1430 AM) is an oldies-formatted radio station located in Annapolis, Maryland.
WNAV signed on along with WNAV-FM (99.1 FM) on April 22, 1949, with studios located at 89 West Street in Annapolis. The original owners were the Capital Broadcasting Company, and the first president and general manager was Albert H. MacCarthy. From the beginning, its programming has been adult-focused music (initially middle of the road) with coverage of local news and the Navy Midshipmen and other local sports. Beginning in 1953, the stations were co-managed with WITH (1230 AM) in Baltimore.
In 1956, WITH and WNAV received attention for organizing a marathon, run from the Maryland State House to Baltimore, in order to raise money and develop athletes for the 1956 Summer Olympics later that year in Brisbane.
In 1959, WNAV received approval to increase power from 1 kW to 5 kW during the day. In 1963, Capital Broadcasting sold WNAV and WNAV-FM to Henry Rau, the owner of WDOV in Dover, Delaware.
In 1970, WNAV and WDOV were two of six Mutual affiliates that filed a lawsuit claiming the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, which banned the advertising of cigarettes on radio and television, was a violation of the broadcasters' free speech rights. Lower-court rulings upholding the law were appealed all the way to the United States Supreme Court, which declined to intervene in April 1972.
Rau died in 1981, and his estate decided to sell all of his broadcast interests. WNAV and the recently renamed WLOM were sold in 1983 to ABW Broadcasting for $2.8 million; ABW had previously sold the original WHFS (102.3 FM) to Outlet Broadcasting. The stations made headlines in 1984 and 1985 when they briefly gave a daily call-in show to former Governor of Maryland Marvin Mandel, who had been convicted of fraud and racketeering and imprisoned while in office in 1977.
In 1987, the two stations were sold to Chicago-based Duchossois Communications for $8.2 million. The combination was subsequently broken up as WNAV was re-sold to former WHFS manager (and ABW Broadcasting partner) Jake Einstein two years later for $1.63 million.
In 1997, Einstein, who by then owned all three Annapolis-based radio stations (WNAV, WYRE and WXZL) decided to retire. He sold off the other two stations but kept WNAV. In 1999, Einstein sold WNAV to Wheel of Fortune host and Anne Arundel County resident Pat Sajak for $2.2 million.
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WNAV
WNAV (1430 AM) is an oldies-formatted radio station located in Annapolis, Maryland.
WNAV signed on along with WNAV-FM (99.1 FM) on April 22, 1949, with studios located at 89 West Street in Annapolis. The original owners were the Capital Broadcasting Company, and the first president and general manager was Albert H. MacCarthy. From the beginning, its programming has been adult-focused music (initially middle of the road) with coverage of local news and the Navy Midshipmen and other local sports. Beginning in 1953, the stations were co-managed with WITH (1230 AM) in Baltimore.
In 1956, WITH and WNAV received attention for organizing a marathon, run from the Maryland State House to Baltimore, in order to raise money and develop athletes for the 1956 Summer Olympics later that year in Brisbane.
In 1959, WNAV received approval to increase power from 1 kW to 5 kW during the day. In 1963, Capital Broadcasting sold WNAV and WNAV-FM to Henry Rau, the owner of WDOV in Dover, Delaware.
In 1970, WNAV and WDOV were two of six Mutual affiliates that filed a lawsuit claiming the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, which banned the advertising of cigarettes on radio and television, was a violation of the broadcasters' free speech rights. Lower-court rulings upholding the law were appealed all the way to the United States Supreme Court, which declined to intervene in April 1972.
Rau died in 1981, and his estate decided to sell all of his broadcast interests. WNAV and the recently renamed WLOM were sold in 1983 to ABW Broadcasting for $2.8 million; ABW had previously sold the original WHFS (102.3 FM) to Outlet Broadcasting. The stations made headlines in 1984 and 1985 when they briefly gave a daily call-in show to former Governor of Maryland Marvin Mandel, who had been convicted of fraud and racketeering and imprisoned while in office in 1977.
In 1987, the two stations were sold to Chicago-based Duchossois Communications for $8.2 million. The combination was subsequently broken up as WNAV was re-sold to former WHFS manager (and ABW Broadcasting partner) Jake Einstein two years later for $1.63 million.
In 1997, Einstein, who by then owned all three Annapolis-based radio stations (WNAV, WYRE and WXZL) decided to retire. He sold off the other two stations but kept WNAV. In 1999, Einstein sold WNAV to Wheel of Fortune host and Anne Arundel County resident Pat Sajak for $2.2 million.