WGYE

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WGYE
Simulcasting WMMN Fairmont
Broadcast area North-Central West Virginia
Frequency 102.7 MHz
BrandingThe Torch
Programming
Format Conservative talk
Affiliations Genesis Communications Network
Townhall News
Westwood One
Ownership
OwnerLHTC Media
WGIE, WHTI
History
First air date
1992 (as WTUS)
Former call signs
WTUS (1989-2001)
Call sign meaning
play on "Froggy" (former format)
Technical information
Facility ID 32202
Class A
ERP 3,200 watts
HAAT 138 meters
Transmitter coordinates
39°28′3.0″N80°12′20.0″W / 39.467500°N 80.205556°W / 39.467500; -80.205556
Translator(s) 103.9 W280FF (Morgantown)
Links
Webcast Listen Live
Website wvthetorch.com

WGYE (102.7 FM) is a conservative talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Mannington, West Virginia, serving North-Central West Virginia. WGYE is owned and operated by LHTC Media.

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History

Tower on Tower Hill Road, Fairmont, West Virginia, seen from the adjacent Grove Cemetery WMMN-WGYE tower 1.jpg
Tower on Tower Hill Road, Fairmont, West Virginia, seen from the adjacent Grove Cemetery

This radio station first began as WTUS, and was assigned these call letters on October 31, 1989, more than a year after the construction permit was first granted in May 1988. However, the permit was sold to Joseph Donald Powers and partner Al Sergi in 1991 for $23,000.

Powers and Sergi finally brought the station on the air in the fall of 1992, with the moniker "Today's U.S. Country", maintaining studios and offices along Locust Avenue in neighboring Fairmont, where the station remains today.

Powers and Sergi sold WTUS in the late 1990s to Pittsburgh-based Burbach Broadcasting, which still owns the station today. Sergi today owns WSGB in Sutton, West Virginia, and three other area stations.

The station had a country format for its entire existence until it was sold to LHTC Media in September 2023; upon closure of the sale on the 11th of the month, the station flipped to contemporary hit radio, assuming the format of WHTI, as "Hot 102.7". [1]

On February 5, 2024, WGYE changed their format to a simulcast of conservative talk-formatted WMMN 920 AM Fairmont, branded as "The Torch". [2]

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Translator

WGYE also simulcasts on a 220-watt translator station W280FF, which transmits on 103.9 MHz. W280FF is licensed to and serves Morgantown, West Virginia.

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