AM Technical Profile: WEVG

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Frequency:

1470

Format:

Sports Talk

Transmitter Location:

[map] [street view: tower | studio] On Perryman Street (US-84/US-31/AL-12) just east of town near the intersection of Smithwood Heights Road.

Power (ERP):

Day: 1 kW

Night: 177 watts

Antenna:

1 tower

Other Information:

[FCC]

[Radio-Locator]

[Wikipedia]

History:

This station originally had the oh so wonderful WBLO calls [no jokes, please.]  After blowing off the WBLO calls the station aquired the WIJK calls, and eventually began simulcasting on WTID-FM out of Repton. Summer of 2002 and a field report has this station switching to an all sports talk format, except on Sundays, when black gospel music reigns.   In the summer of 2006 the calls of former Evergreen FM WPGG landed here, along with their "Power Pig" country format. The simulcast went on until the FM was spun off and in the summer of 2008 the FM took the similar WPPG calls, along with the "Power Pig" country format.

 

With the loss of the "Power Pig" format, the station flipped to news/talk in late 2008.  The station was noted to be silent in December, 2010, and back on the air in April, 2011, with sports talk again.  In July, the calls changed to WEVG.