WPGP
FCC | |
Facility ID | 65691 |
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Class | B |
Power | 5,000 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°23′50.00″N 79°57′43.00″W / 40.3972222°N 79.9619444°W |
Translator(s) | 92.5 W223CS (Pittsburgh) |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen live Listen live (via Audacy) |
Website | www |
WPGP (1250
History
The station is one of the five original Pittsburgh stations, signing on May 4, 1922, as WCAE.
WCAE was acquired by
WCAE began stunting on May 27, 1961, promoting a new format to begin two days later; at that time, the station changed its call letters to WRYT and began playing beautiful music.[20] Another call letter change occurred five years later, when the station became WTAE to match its television sister station (which had become wholly owned by Hearst by this time);[21] soon afterward, the station shifted to a middle-of-the-road format.[7]
WTAE shifted its format again in 1973, this time to an
After 66 years of ownership, Hearst sold WTAE, along with what had become WVTY (now
Soon after the sale to ABC, WEAE lost the Steelers rights to WDVE (itself formerly owned by ABC) and WWSW (now WBGG) after nearly thirty years;[35] a year earlier, WTAE had lost the Pittsburgh Panthers to KQV.[23] The station subsequently picked up the Penn State Nittany Lions.[32][36]
Although WEAE was generally the top-rated sports station in Pittsburgh, ahead of WBGG, it was a financial failure (at one point losing as much as $2 million)—a problem that only worsened when
On August 13, 2014, Disney put WDDZ and twenty-two other Radio Disney stations up for sale, to focus on digital distribution of the Radio Disney network.[41][42] Disney originally planned to temporarily shut down the station on September 26, 2014.[43] However, Disney changed its plans at the last minute, and all stations remained on the air and continued carrying Radio Disney programming until they were sold.[44]
On February 25, 2015, Sports Radio Group (the Disney subsidiary that held the station's license) filed to sell WDDZ to the Pennsylvania Media Associates, Inc.,[45] a subsidiary of the Salem Media Group.[46] Salem bought the station for $1 million.[47] Following the sale's completion, Salem introduced its "Answer" conservative talk format on the station on May 13.[48][49][50] The FCC granted the sale on April 13, 2015.[51] The sale was consummated on May 12, 2015,[52] and the call sign was changed to WPGP.[53]
See also
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External links
- Official website
- WPGP in the FCC AM station database
- WPGP in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- FCC History Cards for WPGP
- Jeff Roteman's tribute to 1250 WTAE