WLIN (AM)

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WLIN
WLIN TheLine100.9-1380 logo.jpg
Broadcast area
Frequency 1380 kHz
BrandingThe Line
Programming
Format
Affiliations CBS Sports Radio
Ownership
Owner
  • Verstandig Broadcasting
  • (HJV Limited Partnership)
History
First air date
1953(71 years ago) (1953)
Former call signs
  • WAYZ (1953–1993)
  • WHGT (1993–2005)
  • WCBG (2005-2019) [1]
Call sign meaning
The Line
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 27402
Class D
Power
Transmitter coordinates
 39°44′20.0″N77°36′10.0″W / 39.738889°N 77.602778°W / 39.738889; -77.602778
Translator(s) 100.9 W265DU (Waynesboro)
Links
Public license information
Website www.thelinenews.com

WLIN is a talk/sports formatted broadcast radio station affiliated with CBS Sports Radio.

Contents

WLIN is licensed to Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, serving the Waynesboro/Chambersburg area. WLIN is owned and operated by VerStandig Broadcasting.

History

The WCBG calls were on AM 1590 until January 1, 2005. VerStandig Broadcasting "donated" the station to Emmanuel Baptist Temple after a very public battle over the station's tower, which was in Chambersburg city limits. On January 1, WCBG switched calls with then sister WHGT and moved all programming to AM 1380 and AM 1590 fell silent. AM 1590 would remain silent until December 4, 2005.

In the 1950s, its earlier call "WAYZ" was owned by Richard Field Lewis Jr. (1907–1957), owner of the Richard Field Lewis Jr. Stations (later Mid Atlantic Network Inc.). [3] [4] [5]

AM 1380 spent years as country formatted WAYZ, later gaining an FM station at 101.5 (today WAYZ resides at FM 104.7). WAYZ changed calls in 1992 to WHGT pending a format change that never happened. When country WAYZ moved to FM 104.7 in 2000, AM 1380 changed to simulcasting then classic hits "Star 92.1" WSRT. In 2006 when FM 92.1 changed format to CHR as "The Point", sister AM WCBG was sold and the calls and talk format moved to AM 1380.

On August 12, 2019, the station changed its call sign to WLIN. On August 15, 2019, WLIN changed their format from ESPN sports to talk/sports, branded as "The Line" to match the new call sign. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "FCC History Cards for WLIN" (PDF). FCC .
  2. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WLIN". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ↑ "Lewis, Multiple AM Owner, dies" (PDF). Broadcasting. October 28, 1957. p. 74. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Obituary" (PDF). Television Digest. October 1957. p. 6. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Marion P. Lewis". Free Lance-Star. April 14, 2001. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  6. ↑ WCBG Becomes The Line Radioinsight - August 15, 2019
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