WTRG

WTRG
City	Gaston, North Carolina
Branding	The Great 98
Frequency	97.9 MHz
First air date	1988 (as WLGQ)
Format	Oldies
ERP	1,350 watts
HAAT	149 meters (489 feet)
Class	A
Facility ID	17568
Transmitter coordinates	36°27′38″N 77°33′52″W / 36.46056°N 77.56444°W / 36.46056; -77.56444
Former callsigns	WLGQ (1988-2003) WYTT (2003-2005)
Owner	First Media Radio
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	thegreat98fm.com

WTRG (97.9 FM) is an oldies formatted radio station licensed to Gaston, North Carolina, in the Roanoke Rapids market. WTRG is owned by First Media Radio Roanoke Rapids.

History

This station was assigned call letters as WLGQ on August 5, 1988 which it held until switching to WYTT on January 17, 2003. It switched again, this time to current call sign WTRG, on January 10, 2005.^[1]

The WTRG call letters once belonged to 100.7 FM in the Raleigh–Durham area, whose city of license at the time was Rocky Mount, North Carolina. It first took the calls as an adult contemporary station, and kept them when it flipped to oldies as "Oldies 100.7" in 1989, finally giving them up in 2004 (the station is now known as WRDU).^[2]

Ownership

In June 2003, the then-WYTT was sold to First Media by MainQuad Communications Inc. as part of a nine station deal with a total sale price of $11.35 million.^[3]

References

↑ "WTRG Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
↑ "WRDU Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
↑ BIA Financial Networks (2003-06-09). "Changing Hands". Broadcasting & Cable.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WTRG

Radio-Locator information on WTRG

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WTRG

Radio stations in the Roanoke Rapids/South Hill market

By AM frequency	860 890 980 1230 1370 1400 1520

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 89.3 90.1 90.1 90.5 90.9 91.1 91.7 92.5 93.5 94.3 97.9 98.3 98.3 99.5 100.7 101.9 102.3 104.3 104.7 105.5 106.9 107.3 107.7

By callsign	WAFX WARR WBBC-FM WBKU WCBT WDLZ WEVA WFXK WHNC WHLQ WHRL WJYA WJYK WKSK-FM WLUS-FM WMVE WPEX WPTM WPZZ WRDU WRTP WRTP WSHV WSMY WTRG WVRA WVRH WVRP WWDW WYFL WYTT WZRN WZRU

Virginia radio markets Bristol Fredericksburg Harrisonburg Norfolk–Newport News–Virginia Beach Richmond Roanoke–Lynchburg Winchester Other Virginia radio regions Blacksburg–Christiansburg–Radford–Pulaski Bluefield Charlottesville Eastern Shore Farmville Northern Neck Roanoke Rapids–South Hill Southside Southwest Virginia Virginia Highlands North Carolina radio markets Asheville Charlotte Fayetteville Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point Greenville–New Bern–Jacksonville Raleigh–Durham Other North Carolina radio regions Elizabeth City–Nags Head Roanoke Rapids–South Hill Rocky Mount–Wilson Wilmington See also List of radio stations in Virginia List of radio stations in North Carolina

Oldies radio stations in the state of North Carolina

By frequency	630 1050 1170 1230 1280 1300 1350 1410 1470 1500 1580 97.9

By callsign	WAIZ WCLN WHIP WLON WNNC WSAT WSMX WSYD WTIX WTOE WTRG WZKY

By city	Albemarle Clinton Concord Gaston Hickory Lincolnton Mooresville Mount Airy Newton Salisbury Spruce Pine Winston-Salem

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in North Carolina See also Oldies Classic Hits

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