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Was a 5000-day, 500-night watt station that could be picked up all over the area, but the power has been decreased. The station used to run programming from the BBC's world service, plus ethnic programming and music shows. Prior to that, the station played classical music. The station also broadcast in AM stereo for a time. In February, 2001, Birach Broadcasting signed an LMA with ABC/Disney to bring Radio Disney programming. The station's low frequency signal has been heard as far away as the Nation's Capital when conditions allowed.

This Adult Standards station has a rather weak signal in the Pittsburgh area. The signal is Southeast of Pittsburgh toward the West Virginia/Maryland border. Picked up Al Ham's "Music of Your Life" syndicated format in early 2003.

Once the dominant station in Westmoreland County, 620 kHz is now a regional station, with a daytime 5.5 kW signal reaching five states. It signed on in 1934 as WHJB (named for the owner, H.J. Brennan), and was a sister station to WJAS. WHJB was located in the Penn-Albert Hotel in Greensburg and later had an FM station on 107.1; WHJB also built one of the first local cable TV systems. After the sale of 107.1 to the owners of WAMO-FM, and the loss of its transmitter site, WHJB declined. In 1996, it was purchased by Robert and Ashley Stevens' Broadcast Communications Inc., which built a new transmitter site, increased the power, and relocated the studios to a new facility. WKHB now airs health-talk and advice shows during the day, and '60s and '70s oldies at night. WKHB has applications pending to move to Brentwood, Pa., and boost its nighttime signal. The station is co-owned with WKFB and Waynesburg stations WANB-AM/FM.

WISR is a part of the Butler County Radio Network and is teamed up with WLER-FM and WBUT-AM. Orignally, when all AM stations had to have an FM sister, WISR was assigned to FM at 97.7.

This is WORD-FM's sister station. Founded in 1947, WPIT-AM had an FM counterpart. (During the days when the FCC had you take an FM with an AM.) The studios were originally on Smithfield Street, then the Roosevelt Hotel, and Gateway Towers. The Berkman family (known for owning Steubenville's Channel 9) owned the station until the 1980's when it was sold to Pyramid Broadcasting. The station was sold to Salem Broadcasting (the current owners) in the late 80's as a part of Pyramid's consolidation with Federated Ventures. (This eventually became the CBS/Infinity Group.) Unfortunately, the deal with Federated, which was the reason for WPIT being sold in the first place, fell through a few months after the sale of the Pittsburgh properties was completed. What was left of Pyramid was merged with Evergreen Broadcasting, which eventually became part of the Clear Channel Communications empire. The biggest remaining element of Pyramid (beside their Flagship KISS-FM in Boston), was Broadcast Architecture, which is basically CC's consulting arm. WPIT was moved to 101.5 and a few years later the FM channel became home to WORD which was first heard at 104.7. WPIT's original FM frequency was 101.5, but it went dark when FM was not the dominant carrier. When the FM signed back on, it became eventually the Religious Broadcasting powerhouse in Pittsburgh. The format, which from the late 70's on became a mixture of Contemporary Christian Music and block religious programming proved to have a deep and loyal following. The proof was shown at the many "Pirate Family Nights" at The old 3 Rivers Stadium, the Gospel concerts at the 3 Rivers Arts Festival, or "Family Day" at Kennywood every Labor Day. When Salem came into the market in 1990 or so, their aim was to take WPIT down--it was not successful and eventually bought the stations from then financially-struggling Pyramid for $6.5 Million. WORD was then moved from 104.7 to WPIT's frequency at 101.5 in 1993, and the rest is history. Religion is not the only word of the day at WPIT, Network Talk Programming is also on the air with Michael Medved, Dr. Laura and Dave Ramsey. Michael Komichak still does his Ukrainian Program on WPIT on Sundays. He has been with WPIT since the beginning. In fact, he dug the furrows to put the ground wire down at the Transmitter site in the 40's!

This is the sister station of WKHB (620). WKFB was founded in the late 1960s by Al Calisti and was originally known as WBCW on 1530 kHz. The studios were on South Fourth Street in Jeannette, and the station ran ethnic music, talk shows, local sports and other programs. In 1999, the call letters were changed to WKTW, and the station was purchased by Broadcast Communications Inc. WKTW began sharing a building with WKHB in Greensburg and was known as "K-Talk." The FCC approved a change to the lower frequency of 770 in 2001. The frequency move, made in 2003, improved the station's range significantly, and it now covers much of the Pittsburgh market. Currently, WKFB runs '50s and '60s oldies, speciality talk programs, and ethnic shows.

A small station within the confines of Allegheny County which was where famed announcer Al McDowell made is debut. WEDO is a daytime-only station and airs various time brokered programming. The station is owned by 810 Incorporated.

Partial Simulcast of WAMO-FM and WSSZ-FM.

Although religious, this station boasts a daily morning show with news, music, weather, traffic and sports. Their mission statement states that they offer an alternative to secular mainstream radio for the churched and unchurched. Currently, the station is preparing to trade signals with WPTT on 1360.

WFGI is sister to WOGI-FM and the other Froggy Stations (formerly WESA-AM & FM). South of the city on route 51, the signal is weak most of the time and more reachable in the South Hills areas. WFGI is a simulcast station for WOGI-FM in from Duquesne broadcasting the Froggy Country Format. Before its current simulcast, the station was WPNT and aired a nostalgic format.

Sister to its FM counterpart, it once simulcasted the FM oldies programming. The AM side was once known as "Double Country". Double most likely stood for the fact that WWSW was often referred to as "Double Double". For a time, this was "Talkin' Pittsburgh WTKN. Many Pittsburghers thought it was blasphemous to change the historic WWSW callsign into WTKN. In the mid 80's WWSW returned to the AM waves as well as to it's FM signal on 94.5 after a stint as top-40 WPEZ. The two stations were a simulcast of the oldies programming. August 28, 2000 saw a big switch as WWSW-AM became a part of the newly formed Fox Sports Radio Network. This event had been highly discussed time and time again through the rumor mill and finally becoming reality. The WBGG callsign came in October of 2000. WBGG is a Clear Channel sister to WWSW, WDVE, WXDX, WKST & WPGB.

Yes, the station where it all started! Frank Conrad was a man of great knowledge at Westinghouse in the early 1900's. He had a small ham radio set up in his Wilkinsburg garage where he communicated with the world. His 8XK made way for KDKA on November 2, 1920 when it became the first commercially licenced radio station in history...although some stations and enthusiasts would argue that it was not the first. For many years, the station was considered the go-to source for information and news and was the first AM station to broadcast in stereo in 1983. This remained so until a new tower was erected in 1989. The 50,000 watt powerhouse tower is located in Allison Park. Larry Richert took over the morning show in late 2001 eventually being joined by John Shumway and Shelly Duffy. Ironically enough, it was Larry who played the last song on KDKA in 1993 just before it became a news/talk station. Between these stints on KD Radio, Larry was the weather man and a feature reporter on KDKA-TV. Morning men before him included John Cigna, Jack Bogut, Art Pallan, and the famed Rege Cordic with his "and Company" Bob Trow and Karl Hardman. "Uncle" Ed Schaughnessy hosted the morning show before the arrival of "Cordic and Company" from WWSW. He then remained in the mornings as newsman through Jack Bogut's tenure.

WBUT is sister to WLER (note the trend --- BUT and LER) and plays host to a partial simulcast of the FM sister. WBUT is primarily a News/Talk outlet.

Contemporary Christian. Perhaps long recognized as WEEP, this station competed with KQV's top-40 format in its early days. It was in the 60's that WEEP became a country station and carried the reigns until its FM sister station became WDSY in the 70's. The station soon went all news and in the mid-90's, it simulcast WDSY's Country signal for a while. Soon after, Mortenson Broadcasting took over and made it Gospel-formatted WPGR. In 1999, Mortenson took the station callsign of WPGR and the format to 1510 WXVX in Monroeville, leaving 1080 dark for about a month. WWNL was unveiled in September of 1999 creating a newer religious-style format in town. Owned by Wilkins Communications Network.

WKZV started out a number of years ago as WKEG and now boasts a Country format. Owned by My-Key Broadcasting.

WASP had long been a station that served the Brownsville area as News/Talk. When Forever Broadcasting purchased the station in 2000, the format became Nostalgia as FM counterpart WASP-FM became WOGG. In 2001, when WPKL signed on with the classic oldies format, WASP became one of the simulcasters of its newer FM sister.

Once a top-40 style WKPA and sister to WYDD-FM, WGBN is now owned by The Rev. Loran Mann (A former WPXI anchor). The station, begun in 1992, was the first to air gospel 24 hours a day and offers news, sports and weather. Salem Broadcasting owned the station - then WKPA - and WYDD 104.7 in the late 80s. 104.7 later became WEZE-FM and simulcast its beautiful music programming on WKPA. When WEZE become WORD-FM, Salem donated the station to Pentecostal Temple Development Corporation & Rev. Mann in order to meet ownership limits while purchasing WPIT-AM/FM. The station still broadcasts from a location near its original home in New Kensington. At one time the station (and 104.7) were owned by Nelson Goldberg.

WBVP was sister to WWKS before WXDX took over 106.7 in 1996. Now the station is co-owned with WMBA by Iorio Broadcasting.

One of the five original stations in town, it signed on as WCAE on May 3, 1922. When WTAE Channel 4 came to life in 1958, The radio station became WTAE as well. This played host to a mostly talk outlet until SFX purchaced WTAE-AM and WVTY-FM from Hearst. 99% of the staff at both stations were fired at the time. WVTY became WDRV and WTAE went from all talk to sports, with the exception of Doug Hoerth. Mr. Hoerth later moved over to WPTT 1360. When Chancellor Media (now Clear Channel) bought out SFX in 1998, Chancellor traded WTAE for a station in Cleveland from Jacor (now ironically Clear Channel). Before being sucked up by Clear Channel, Jacor sold WEAE to ABC/Disney. Under Jacor's ownership, the heritage WTAE callsign was switched to WEAE. The station is still located with its former sister WTAE-TV on Ardmore Boulevard. Jeff Roteman has a tribute page to the old WTAE-AM which can be reached at: http://1250wtae.andmuchmore.com/.

One of the first five Pittsburgh radio stations, WJAS was licensed as of August 4, 1922. In the course of 80 + years, you may have heard announcers like Hillary Bogden on the air. Sam Nicotero and Jack Wheeler held the position of morning host in the past. Presently, Jack Bogut (formerly of sister WSHH, WTAE Radio/TV & KDKA Radio/TV) takes the morning drive and Chilly Billy Cardille (former Channel 11 weather man and program host) hosts the Mid-day. Former WTAE Radio personality Mike McGann came to the station in early 2003 as PD and PM drive host. WJAS went through a "rebellious" period in the 1970's where it became the infamous 13Q. Always housed with its FM sister on 99.7 WKTQ was purchased from Nationwide Broadcasting by Benni Broadcasting at the same time WSHH was purchased by Renda. WKTQ returned as WJAS with adult standards and remained in the same building as WSHH. Renda bought WJAS a year later in the early 80's. Jeff Roteman has a page dedicated to the old 13Q - WKTQ. This page can be reached at http://13q.andmuchmore.com/ . WJAS is still sister to WSHH-FM and WPTT-AM and owned by Renda Broadcasting.

Long a local favorite with Connellsville listeners, WCVI went through some legal problems with it's sister station WPQR (99.3 FM). (See WPKL on the FM page.) As much as people hated to see their local station go, WCVI came back on the air after an ownership change to simulcast its FM sister station now known as WPKL.

WIXZ was owned in the late 60's by Wain & Weiss who made the station a carbon copy of their successful top-40, 1260 WIXY in Cleveland. Jeff Christie (now known as the talk host Rush Limbaugh) and voice-over artist Mark Roberts were a couple of the voices you could hear on the air. If you take a further step back, you will find that 1360 was once WMCK with a callsign that could truly identify its location. Introduced during that time was the "TL" Sound and Terry Lee's Music for Young Lovers which carried over to WIXZ. In 1974, the station was the first to be owned by a new local company called Renda Broadcasting. Later, it would be sold off so that Renda could buy WSHH (99.7) In the mid-90's, Serena Communications and Renda Broadcasting became one, joining WIXZ with WSHH and WJAS. WIXZ was the first station to carry all-sports and was running Prime Sports Radio and then Sports Fan Radio. When Jack Bogut started at WJAS in 1997, Bruce Keidan's show was moved over to SportsRadio WIXZ. Not long after, WTAE-AM decided it was going to fully change formats. WIXZ soon became 1360 WPTT with a talk radio format. Bruce Keidan did a short-lived non-topical show and Doug Hoerth and Lynn Cullen were brought in from the old WTAE Radio. Keidan later returned to the Post-Gazette. The station carries several syndicated talk shows and simulcasts WTAE-TV's morning newscast from 5-7 AM. WPTT has filed to swap frequencies with WAVL (910) in Apollo. The new 910 will originate in the South Hills and is expected to air at a higher ERP.

Owned by Vernal Enterprises, WTYM plays oldies. The station signed on in 1948 as WACB.

"You give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world!" KQV was also one of the original five in town and is one of two "K" stations in town. Originally, KQV was "8ZAE" signing on November 19, 1919. Some will that KQV was the first commercially-licensed station but 8ZAE was not a commercial license like KD's predecessor 8XK. The KQV calls weren't used until 1921 and officially licensed on January 9, 1922. Until the 70's, KQV was "King of the Quaker Valley" with the "Fun-lovin' Five." "Groovy QV" was the top 40 station in town located in the Chamber of Commerce Building. The studios were on the first floor inside the large picture windows. You were once able to walk by and wave hello to your favorite member of the "Fun-lovin' five." KQV was the station that welcomed the Beatles to town in 1964. (KDKA was extremely jealous too!) Jeff Christie (now known as Rush Limbaugh) once held an airshift at the station as did local talk man Jim Quinn. Rumor has it that Rod Roddy (who later would be the voice of the Price is Right) held a short-lived airshift at KQV. Jeff Roteman created a page about 1410 KQV in its Top 40 heyday -- back when the station was owned by ABC. Here is the address: http://14kqv.andmuchmore.com/.

WJPA is sister to WJPA-FM which also airs olides. Most of the AM signal is a simulcast of the FM signal with regular sports coverage from teams like Washington & Jefferson football to high school wrestling matches. Owned by Washington Broadcasting Company.

WMBA is sister to WBVP and the stations together are simulcast. WMBA went on the air in the late 50's and was direct competition for WBVP. The two operations became one in 2000 and moved in with WBVP. Both stations served as "training grounds" for some of Pittsburgh's well-known broadcasters. Owned by Iorio Broadcasting.

This oldies station serves Westmoreland County and is owned by Longo Media Group whose chief, John Longo, got his start at the station 30 years before purchasing the station.

The Thompson family originally owned the station when the late Bill Lynch helped them put 250 watt daytime WPSL on the air in the 60's. Back in those days, Charlie Appel (the famed doo-wop guru) held down the fort at WPSL. The Broadcast Arts Academy of Monroeville was hosted by WPSL in those days before going dark in 1978. WRUA was eventually the replacement after Dr. Barua from Greensburg purchased the station. A soft AC format took over with the daily lineup including Jeff Roteman, Dave Garrett, Gregg Stone -- Mornings from State College -- and Dennis Reed. Many financial problems plaugued the station which soon became WCXJ and was an urban format untder the direction of Del King. Just before that former jocks, such as WLOA's (96.9) Chauncey Ross and WIXZ's Terry Lee tried to make it go. Back in the late 80s and early 90s this became WXVX, "X-15," a progressive/alternative rock station under the direction of Bree Freeman. It took on the format after "Rock Of The 80s" was dumped from 100.7, then WXXP-FM. The format is now Gospel. In 1999, Mortenson Broadcasting took their WPGR callsign from the sister station at 1080 and began full operation on 1510.

This station used to be the AM sister to WRRK-FM (then WHYW-FM), used to run an urban adult format and was owned by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh. The station was later acquired by WHAT-AM/Philladelphia. It flipped to a black news/talk format with some shows tailored for Pittsburgh and some shows with a statewide feel. The owners decided that most of the programming would originate from WHAT-AM in Philly due to the lack of advertising in Pittsburgh and complaints that certain callers would dominate the shows coming from WCXJ. In 2000, the station was purchased by a New York Company which brought a Gospel religious format. It became WURP. In early 2002, the station went dark due to a little budget. The station is 1000 watts-day and 4 watts-night/critical hours. It was then operated under an LMA by Pittsburgh Radio Werks Inc. with talk various syndicated talk programming. The station is owned by Business Talk Radio with their own programming.

Simulcast of WLSW Scottdale. Owned by L. Stanley Wall. Wall purchased the station in 1984, but the station's history goes back to 1952 as the second station in Westmoreland County behind WHJB.

WANB-AM is sister to WANB-FM with a current format of country. The station's callsign comes from the city of license, WAyNesBurg. The station is owned by Broadcast Communications who recently filed for a permit to move the station to a lower frequency.

WZUM was on the air in the 70's as a rock station. Bob Hickling bought the station and it became WPLW and took over the format with religious programming. WZUM originally played the same rock that a young, but strong 102.5 WDVE was playing. Michael Horvath got his start at WZUM, purchased the Crafton/Carnegie station WPLW following Bob Hickling's death in late 1998 and turned it back into WZUM. The station remained on the air playing a "smooth jazz" blend of music til 1999 when the signal went dark. The signal has had some renovation work and WZUM returned to the air. It carried time brokered programming for a few years before picking up a Catholic programming network. Now the station is owned by Starboard Broadcasting with the "Relavant Radio Christian Network."