WTGR
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WTGR is a radio station
broadcasting a Country music
format. Licensed to Union City, Ohio
, USA. The station is currently owned by Positive Radio Group of Ohio and features programing from CNN Radio.
It briefly owned an AM sister, WBOL, a daytimer at 1030 kHz from 1993 to 1996 which previously had the country format along with farm programming from Ed Johnson
's ABN. It was decided in 1996 to return the licence back to the FCC. Since that time,the FCC has granted a construction permit for WGYV
to move from 1380 kHz in Greenvile, Alabama to Aurora, Indiana to take over the 1030 frequency with a critical hours pattern reaching into portions of the former WBOL coverage area. WGYV airs an arch-conservative talk format. Also, WNVR
, a Polish-language station in Vernon Hills, Illinois serving the Chicago area was granted a construction permit by the FCC to increase its coverage area on the same frequency during critical hours by upgrading its signal from 5,000 watts to 10,000 watts.
WTGR's transmitter site is located in Union City just east of the Ohio-Indiana state line with its studios and offices located in a building which formerly housed a carpet business on Martin Street (U.S. Route 36 East) in Greenville. Since the demise of the former WDRK (later WLSN,WBKI,WDJO-FM and currently WDSJ
) and its departure to Dayton. WTGR remains as Darke County's only locally originating commercial radio station.
format as "97.5 The Tiger" before its switch to country.
The WBOL
callsign is now used at another AM station in Bolivar, Tennessee.
WTGR was also the callsign for the University of Memphis Tiger's campus radio station (TGR for Tiger Radio) in the late 1960's and early 1970's as a low power, AM educational radio station with an effective radiating power of 10 watts.
Radio station
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broadcasting a Country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
format. Licensed to Union City, Ohio
Union City, Ohio
Union City is a village in Darke County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,767 at the 2000 census.-History:Union City was platted in 1838 and incorporated on December 6, 1853...
, USA. The station is currently owned by Positive Radio Group of Ohio and features programing from CNN Radio.
History
The station went on the air as WFOW on 1989-11-13. on 1990-03-30, the station changed its call sign to WBNN, on 1991-04-23 to the current WTGR,It briefly owned an AM sister, WBOL, a daytimer at 1030 kHz from 1993 to 1996 which previously had the country format along with farm programming from Ed Johnson
Ed Johnson (broadcaster)
Ed Johnson was the founder of Agri Communicators, Inc., the parent company of the Agri Broadcast Network .-The ABN:...
's ABN. It was decided in 1996 to return the licence back to the FCC. Since that time,the FCC has granted a construction permit for WGYV
WGYV
WGYV is a radio station licensed to serve Greenville, Alabama, USA. The station, established in August 1948, is currently owned by Robert John Williamson...
to move from 1380 kHz in Greenvile, Alabama to Aurora, Indiana to take over the 1030 frequency with a critical hours pattern reaching into portions of the former WBOL coverage area. WGYV airs an arch-conservative talk format. Also, WNVR
WNVR
WNVR is a radio station licensed to serve Vernon Hills, Illinois, USA. WNVR is one of eight stations owned by Polnet Communications.It broadcasts a World Ethnic format featuring Polish language programming 24 hours a day....
, a Polish-language station in Vernon Hills, Illinois serving the Chicago area was granted a construction permit by the FCC to increase its coverage area on the same frequency during critical hours by upgrading its signal from 5,000 watts to 10,000 watts.
WTGR's transmitter site is located in Union City just east of the Ohio-Indiana state line with its studios and offices located in a building which formerly housed a carpet business on Martin Street (U.S. Route 36 East) in Greenville. Since the demise of the former WDRK (later WLSN,WBKI,WDJO-FM and currently WDSJ
WDSJ
WDSJ is a radio station licensed to Greenville, Ohio and is based in the Dayton metropolitan area. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications.- Early history :...
) and its departure to Dayton. WTGR remains as Darke County's only locally originating commercial radio station.
Call sign history
WTGR's call letters and it's popular nickname "Tiger Radio" have been used originally at Top Forty-formated AM stations in Charleston, West Virginia and Point Pleasant West Virginia in the 1960s and again in the 1970s at yet another AM station in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The local station formerly employed a classic rockClassic rock
Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...
format as "97.5 The Tiger" before its switch to country.
The WBOL
WBOL
WBOL is a radio station licensed to Bolivar, Tennessee, USA. The station is currently owned by Shaw's Broadcasting Co..-History:The station was assigned the call letters 1984-02-13. On 1985-04-29, the station changed its call sign to WQKZ and on 1986-03-01 to the current WBOL....
callsign is now used at another AM station in Bolivar, Tennessee.
WTGR was also the callsign for the University of Memphis Tiger's campus radio station (TGR for Tiger Radio) in the late 1960's and early 1970's as a low power, AM educational radio station with an effective radiating power of 10 watts.