WNOC is a non-commercial educational

Non-commercial educational

The term non-commercial educational applies to a radio station or TV station that does not accept on air advertisements , as defined in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission . NCE stations do not pay broadcast license fees for their non-profit uses of the radio spectrum...

 radio station licensed to serve the community of Bowling Green, Ohio

Bowling Green, Ohio

Bowling Green is the county seat of Wood County in the U.S. state of Ohio. At the time of the 2010 census, the population of Bowling Green was 30,028. It is part of the Toledo, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bowling Green is the home of Bowling Green State University...

 and serving the Toledo and Bowling Green areas with Catholic programming within the northern portion of the Toledo diocese. It is the second Catholic station to make its debut in the Toledo Diocese in the summer of 2010, the other being WJTA

WJTA

WJTA "Holy Family Radio" is a non-commercial FM broadcasting station licensed to Glandorf, Ohio with studio and transmitter located near Leipsic in rural Putnam County. WJTA transmits at 88.9 mHz on the FM band...

 "Holy Family Radio" licensed in Glandorf, Ohio

Glandorf, Ohio

Glandorf is a village in Putnam County, Ohio, United States. The population was 919 at the 2000 census.- History :Glandorf was founded by Johann Wilhelm Horstmann and six other men from Glandorf, Germany in 1834. They embarked on the ship Columbus on September 7, 1833 in Amsterdam, landed November...

 and transmitting from Leipsic

Leipsic, Ohio

Leipsic is a village in Putnam County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,236 at the 2000 census.-History:Leipsic was platted in 1857....

. WNOC airs local programming in addition to programs from EWTN Radio, and Ave Maria Radio.

History

Annunciation Radio began in 2006 as a venture by Toledo businessman and Deacon Mike Learned who, on February 3, 2008, launched a Sunday afternoon program on Toledo daytime talk station WTOD 1560 AM until it was sold by Cumulus Media

Cumulus Media

Cumulus Media, Inc. is the second largest Owner and Operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States, behind Clear Channel Communications, operating 570 stations in 150 markets as of September 16, 2011. The company also owns Cumulus Media Networks...

 to CSN Radio in March 2010 which is now WWYC....hence the program briefly moved to Cumulus-owned WLQR

WLQR

WLQR is a sports/talk radio station on 1470 kHz in Toledo, Ohio. It is the Toledo affiliate of ESPN Radio and is owned by Cumulus Media. Since June 2009 the station has been simulcast on 106.5 MHz as WLQR-FM, calling itself "106-5 The Ticket"....

 (1470 AM) until the new station made its initial sign-on on August 14, 2010. More information can be found on its website. The construction permit was at first held by MCCR Inc.(for: Ministry for Catholic Charismatic Renewal)

WNOC serves the Bowling Green and Toledo areas while sister station WHRQ

WHRQ

WHRQ is a new radio station with a FCC issued construction permit for Sandusky, Ohio, USA airing catholic programming. The station serves the Sandusky and Port Clinton areas. The station began as a construction permit in start up phase in 2009 by Port Clinton Knights of Columbus Home Association...

 in Sandusky at 88.1 FM made it on-air debut on Monday April 25, 2011 (initially as a WNOC simulcast). The Annunciation Radio audiostream commenced on its website on August 26, 2010.

Call sign history

WNOC's call letters were previously used at 94.1 FM in Old Forge New York (later WNOB now defunct),on Channel 26 in Jamestown,New York (which is now WNYB

WNYB

WNYB is a television station in the Buffalo, New York market that runs Christian-oriented religious programming. Owned by Tri-State Christian Television, WNYB broadcasts on digital channel 26 from a main transmitter at 9030 Center Road in Arkwright and studios at 5775 Big Tree Road in Orchard Park...

),on Channel 24 in Flora,Illinois (later WNOI-LP now defunct),at 720 AM in Wake Forest, North Carolina (now defunct since 1986) and before that at 1310 AM in Norwich, Connecticut..the present-day WICH

WICH

WICH is a radio station licensed to serve Norwich, Connecticut. The station is owned by Hall Communications and licensed to WICH, Inc. It airs a Talk/Nostalgia format....

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External links

• Official Annunciation Radio site (with streaming audio)
• Additional WNOC information from REC Networks site
• EWTN Radio official site
• Ave Maria Radio official site

See also

• WHRQ
  WHRQ
  WHRQ is a new radio station with a FCC issued construction permit for Sandusky, Ohio, USA airing catholic programming. The station serves the Sandusky and Port Clinton areas. The station began as a construction permit in start up phase in 2009 by Port Clinton Knights of Columbus Home Association...
  
   88.1 FM serving Sandusky/Port Clinton,Fremont and northcoast areas as a WNOC simulcast.
• WJTA
  WJTA
  WJTA "Holy Family Radio" is a non-commercial FM broadcasting station licensed to Glandorf, Ohio with studio and transmitter located near Leipsic in rural Putnam County. WJTA transmits at 88.9 mHz on the FM band...
  
   88.9 FM owned by Holy Family Communications in Leipsic
  Leipsic, Ohio
  Leipsic is a village in Putnam County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,236 at the 2000 census.-History:Leipsic was platted in 1857....
  
  compliments both the WNOC and WHRQ signals in the Ottawa,Findlay,Napoleon,Paulding,Lima and Definace areas as an EWTN affiliate.