WSML

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WSML
Broadcast area Piedmont Triad
Frequency 1200 kHz
BrandingMaverick 95.1★94.3
Programming
Format Country music
Affiliations Compass Media Networks
Ownership
Owner
  • Charles and Rebecca Marsh
  • (Alamance Media Partners, Inc.)
History
First air date
December 2, 1967
(57 years ago) (1967-12-02)
Former call signs
  • WSML (1967–1981)
  • WWOK (1981–1982)
Former frequencies
1190 kHz (1967–1991)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 740
Class B
Power
  • 10,000  watts (day)
  • 1,000 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates
 36°8′1.49″N79°28′13.08″W / 36.1337472°N 79.4703000°W / 36.1337472; -79.4703000
Translator(s)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website maverickradionc.com

WSML (1200 AM) is a radio station located in Graham, North Carolina. The station airs a country music format branded as Maverick 95.1-94.3.

Contents

History

WSML signed on December 2, 1967, [2] as a daytimer operating at 1190 AM, owned by Smiles of Graham, Inc. [3] In its early years, the station had a top 40 format, but by 1970 it had become a country music station. [3] This gave way to a rock music format by 1973, [4] and a blend of country and rock soon thereafter. [5] By 1975, WSML had integrated beautiful music into the format and cut back its country music programming; [6] however, after a sale of the station to Acme Communications (no relation to the current television station owner) in 1976, it reverted to a full-time country music format. [7] [8] [9]

In 1981, the station was sold to Graycasting, Inc. [10] and became WWOK; [11] a year later, Evans Communications Corporation took over the station [12] and reinstated the WSML call sign. [11] By this time, the station had added religious programming to its country music format; [12] religion had become its full-time format by 1987, after having been acquired by Gray Broadcasting Company (unrelated to Gray Television) two years earlier. [13] WSML moved to 1200 AM in 1991, allowing the station to begin 24-hour operation. [14] [15] [16] [17] By the 1990s, programming consisted of gospel music.

What had become Graycasting Media sold WSML to Clear Channel Communications in 1998. [18] Clear Channel converted the station to a news/talk format, largely simulcasting sister station WSJS from Winston-Salem; this filled in a gap in WSJS' coverage of Greensboro and the eastern part of the Piedmont Triad (especially at night). There was some separate programming — predominantly NC State Wolfpack sports and Sunday morning programming.

After Clear Channel was forced to divest some of its stations in order to merge with AMFM Broadcasting, WSML and WSJS were sold in 2000 to Infinity Broadcasting Corporation, which also purchased WMFR from AMFM. [19] CBS Radio (which Infinity became in 2005), in turn, sold the three stations to Curtis Media Group in 2007. [20] Curtis dropped the WSJS simulcast from WSML on July 15, 2010, replacing it with sports radio programming. [21]

Effective February 11, 2019, Curtis Media Group sold WSML and translators W232DT and W236BQ to Alamance Media Partners, Inc. for $397,500.

Translators

Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class Transmitter coordinatesFCC info
W232DT94.3 FM Mebane, North Carolina 203181100D 36°3′56.5″N79°13′45.1″W / 36.065694°N 79.229194°W / 36.065694; -79.229194 (W232DT) LMS
W236BO95.1 FM Burlington, North Carolina 141747250D 36°5′51.5″N79°29′10.1″W / 36.097639°N 79.486139°W / 36.097639; -79.486139 (W236BO) LMS

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