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Radio station

WNOS
New Bern, North Carolina
Frequency 1450 kHz
Branding NEWS Talk 103.9 FM 1450 AM
Programming
Format News/Talk/Sports
Affiliations Fox Sports Radio, Westwood One, ABC Radio, Wall Street Journal, Talk Radio Network
Ownership
Owner CTC Media Group
History
First air date 1942 (as WHIT)
Former call signs WHIT (1942-?)WJQI (?-1988)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority FCC
Facility ID 54363
Class C
Power 1,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates 35°06′03″N 77°04′33″W / 35.10083°N 77.07583°W / 35.10083; -77.07583
Translator(s) 102.3 MHz W272EK (New Bern)
Links
Public license information Public fileLMS
Webcast Listen Live
Website WNOS Online

WNOS (1450 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a talk radio format. Licensed to New Bern, North Carolina, it serves the New Bern area. The station is owned by CTC Media Group. In addition to sports talk from Fox Sports Radio, it also carries Westwood One's Dennis Miller show, the self-syndicated Laura Ingraham show, and Salem Media's Michael Medved and Dennis Prager.

WHIT signed on in 1942 as the first radio station in Craven County, North Carolina. The letters stood for "Where Hospitality Is Traditional".[2] Later, WHIT was a country station. However, WHIT was a successful Top-40 station in the 70's, taking advantage of the "HIT" moniker.

In 1982, what was then WJQI "Radio Joy" hired Bill Benjamin, who left after the station was sold the next year. Benjamin was asked in 1988 by investors to manage the station and be one of the owners of what by then was WNOS; the transaction never happened.[3]

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WNOS". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ Auyer, Steve. "Radio Postcards". antiqueradio.com. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
  3. ^ "Magic 95.9FM, THE Music Lovers Station, Plymouth, NC". Retrieved 2010-06-16.