WANY (AM)

Last updated
WANY
Frequency 1390 kHz
Programming
Format Defunct (was Country)
Ownership
Owner
  • Albany Broadcasting Company
  • (Pamela Allred DBA Albany Broadcasting Company)
WANY-FM
History
First air date
October 1958;65 years ago (1958-10) [1]
Call sign meaning
AlbaNY [2] [3]
Technical information
Facility ID 835
Class D
Power 1,000 watts day
Transmitter coordinates
 36°41′54″N85°9′0″W / 36.69833°N 85.15000°W / 36.69833; -85.15000

WANY (1390 AM) was a radio station licensed to Albany, Kentucky, United States. The station operated from 1958 until 2019.

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History

The station began its first broadcasts in October 1958 under management by Welby Hoover, who would later put WJRS-FM on the air in Jamestown, Kentucky. [1] : 144, 145 

The station began simulcasting through its companion station WANY-FM upon that station's launch in 1966. [1] : 145 

WANY was last owned by Pamela Allred, through the Albany Broadcasting Company. Its license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on August 3, 2020, due to the station having been silent for more than a year. [4] The station's final broadcast took place in 2019.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Nash, Francis M. (1995). Towers Over Kentucky: A History of Radio and TV in the Bluegrass State (PDF). ISBN   9781879688933 – via World Radio History.
  2. ↑ "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web.
  3. ↑ "Call Letter Origins: The List". nelson.oldradio.com. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  4. ↑ "FCCInfo".


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