WWVA is an AM radio station that broadcasts on a frequency of 1170 kHz with studios in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA and its transmitter in St. Clairsville, Ohio. It is a class A 50,000 watt clear-channel station, sharing the frequency with KFAQ (formerly KVOO) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. WWVA can be heard in most of the eastern two-thirds of the United States at night, as well as most of Canada. The station is currently owned by Clear Channel Communicati...
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WWVA is an AM radio station that broadcasts on a frequency of 1170 kHz with studios in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA and its transmitter in St. Clairsville, Ohio. It is a class A 50,000 watt clear-channel station, sharing the frequency with KFAQ (formerly KVOO) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. WWVA can be heard in most of the eastern two-thirds of the United States at night, as well as most of Canada. The station is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications and uses the on-air nickname "The Big One" (borrowed from sister stations WLW and WTAM).
WWVA began broadcasting in at 2:00 a.m. on December 13, 1926. Electronics wizard, physics teacher, and inventor John Stroebel threw the switch that sent power surging through the tiny, home-built 50-watt transmitter in the basement of his home. One week earlier, the Federal Communications Commission had granted a broadcast license on 860 kilocycles to the radio station WWVA. In its first year of operation, it broadcast to listeners with home-made...
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