WBES

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WBES
Broadcast areaSouth-Central West Virginia
Frequency 950 AM kHz
Branding95 The Sports Fox
Programming
Format Sports [1]
Affiliations Fox Sports Radio
Ownership
Owner Bristol Broadcasting Company
WQBE-FM, WVSR-FM, WVTS, WYNL
History
First air date
February 16, 1957 (as WKAZ) [2]
Former call signs
WKAZ (1957–1983)
WQBE (1983–2001)
WVTS (2001–2010)
WBES (2010–Present) [3]
Call sign meaning
"Beautiful Entertainment in Stereo"
Technical information [4]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 6873
Class B
Power 5,000 watts daytime
1,000 watts nighttime
Transmitter coordinates
 38°23′11.0″N81°42′51.0″W / 38.386389°N 81.714167°W / 38.386389; -81.714167
Translator 92.7 W224EE (Charleston)
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Public license information

WBES (950 AM) is a sports formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Charleston, West Virginia, serving South-Central West Virginia. [1] WBES is owned and operated by Bristol Broadcasting Company. [5]

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History

WKAZ signed on the air as a Top 40 station on February 16, 1957, and remained as a popular Top 40 station for the Charleston area for almost three decades. After losing the CHR battle against dominant leader WVSR-FM as well as many listeners flipping to FM for contemporary hits in the early-1980s, WKAZ changed its call letters to WQBE and dropped Top 40 in 1983 and flipped to a country format. The station remained with the format until the station dropped music altogether in 2001 for talk and remained like that until 2010 when the station flipped to sports after changing its callsign to WBES, featuring programming from Fox Sports Radio.

References

  1. 1 2 "Arbitron Station Information Profiles". Nielsen Audio/Nielsen Holdings . Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 2010 (PDF). ProQuest, LLC/Reed Publishing (Nederland), B.V. 2010. p. D-587. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Call Sign History". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved December 20, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WBES". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  5. ↑ "WBES Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved March 8, 2016.


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