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WZGV
WZGV (730 AM) is a commercial radio station, licensed to Cramerton, North Carolina and serving the Charlotte metropolitan area. It carries a sports gambling format and is owned by Marty Hurney's 2G Media, Inc. Most programming comes from the VSiN Network, with a local afternoon show called "The Afternoon Rush." It is also the exclusive outlet for Charlotte Knights minor league baseball and the Charlotte affiliate for Atlanta Braves baseball, Carolina Hurricanes hockey, and Clemson Tigers football and basketball. The radio studios are on Morehead Street just outside downtown Charlotte.
WZGV’s daytime transmitter power is 10,000 watts, but because 730 AM is a Canadian and Mexican clear channel frequency, WZGV greatly reduces power at night to 190 watts to avoid interference. The transmitter is on Tar Heel Road in Charlotte. Programming is heard around the clock on 250-watt FM translator 97.5 W248CO, also in Charlotte.
Robert Wallace formed Western Carolina Radio Corporation in 1945 with the intent to sign on a station in Western North Carolina. He was granted a construction permit for 730 AM with the call sign WOHS. The transmitter was located in Shelby just off Hwy 74 East. The station signed on the air August 21, 1946.
Wallace then turned over the programming to Hugh Dover. Dover was known as the 'Happy Birthday Man' for his daily renditions to whoever was celebrating that particular day. A mainstay of homes in the community, Dover's popular "Carolina in the Morning" show would run 38 years until Dover's semi-retirement in 1984. One popular guest on the show was Cleveland County native and bluegrass music legend, Earl Scruggs. Scruggs and Dover had been childhood friends, growing up in the Flint Hill Community of Cleveland County[citation needed].
When Don Gibson hosted "Sons of the Soil" in the early 1950s, he told Jonas Bridges, an announcer on the show, that he would write a song that would make him rich. Bridges didn't believe him, but he ended up playing "Oh Lonesome Me" on WKMT in 1957.
Doug Limerick, later an ABC News Radio anchor, worked at WOHS at night while in high school, playing Top 40.
In 1992, Calvin Hastings, who bought WCSL in Cherryville in 1983 and WGNC in Gastonia six years later, bought WOHS and began calling the three stations Piedmont Superstations.
On April 1, 1993, Hastings' KTC Broadcasting took over WLON in Lincolnton in a lease agreement. WLON's Tim Biggerstaff would remain as morning DJ, and his show would be heard on all four KTC stations. News for the entire area would be expanded. The four stations aired UNC-Chapel Hill football and basketball, Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins NFL football, and CBS coverage of such events as The World Series and The Super Bowl.
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WZGV
WZGV (730 AM) is a commercial radio station, licensed to Cramerton, North Carolina and serving the Charlotte metropolitan area. It carries a sports gambling format and is owned by Marty Hurney's 2G Media, Inc. Most programming comes from the VSiN Network, with a local afternoon show called "The Afternoon Rush." It is also the exclusive outlet for Charlotte Knights minor league baseball and the Charlotte affiliate for Atlanta Braves baseball, Carolina Hurricanes hockey, and Clemson Tigers football and basketball. The radio studios are on Morehead Street just outside downtown Charlotte.
WZGV’s daytime transmitter power is 10,000 watts, but because 730 AM is a Canadian and Mexican clear channel frequency, WZGV greatly reduces power at night to 190 watts to avoid interference. The transmitter is on Tar Heel Road in Charlotte. Programming is heard around the clock on 250-watt FM translator 97.5 W248CO, also in Charlotte.
Robert Wallace formed Western Carolina Radio Corporation in 1945 with the intent to sign on a station in Western North Carolina. He was granted a construction permit for 730 AM with the call sign WOHS. The transmitter was located in Shelby just off Hwy 74 East. The station signed on the air August 21, 1946.
Wallace then turned over the programming to Hugh Dover. Dover was known as the 'Happy Birthday Man' for his daily renditions to whoever was celebrating that particular day. A mainstay of homes in the community, Dover's popular "Carolina in the Morning" show would run 38 years until Dover's semi-retirement in 1984. One popular guest on the show was Cleveland County native and bluegrass music legend, Earl Scruggs. Scruggs and Dover had been childhood friends, growing up in the Flint Hill Community of Cleveland County[citation needed].
When Don Gibson hosted "Sons of the Soil" in the early 1950s, he told Jonas Bridges, an announcer on the show, that he would write a song that would make him rich. Bridges didn't believe him, but he ended up playing "Oh Lonesome Me" on WKMT in 1957.
Doug Limerick, later an ABC News Radio anchor, worked at WOHS at night while in high school, playing Top 40.
In 1992, Calvin Hastings, who bought WCSL in Cherryville in 1983 and WGNC in Gastonia six years later, bought WOHS and began calling the three stations Piedmont Superstations.
On April 1, 1993, Hastings' KTC Broadcasting took over WLON in Lincolnton in a lease agreement. WLON's Tim Biggerstaff would remain as morning DJ, and his show would be heard on all four KTC stations. News for the entire area would be expanded. The four stations aired UNC-Chapel Hill football and basketball, Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins NFL football, and CBS coverage of such events as The World Series and The Super Bowl.