WWCS is a Spanish music radio station

Radio station

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 serving the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...

 market. The station is owned by Birach Broadcasting Corporation

Birach Broadcasting Corporation

Birach Broadcasting Corporation is a Southfield, Michigan-based company that owns several AM radio stations and one low-power television station in the US....

. WWCS broadcasts on 540 kHz with a power of 5,000 watts daytime (500 watts at night) and is licensed to Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

Canonsburg is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, southwest of Pittsburgh. Canonsburg was laid out by Colonel John Canon in 1789 and incorporated in 1802....

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History

Prior to being s Spanish music radio station, it had also been a Radio Disney affiliate. The station's previous formats included classical music, ethnic programming, oldies

Oldies

Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....

, and religious programming.

The station's previous and long-held call letters were WARO

WARO

WARO is a commercial radio station located in Fort Myers, Florida, broadcasting to the southwest Florida area on 94.5 FM. WARO airs a classic rock music format branded as "94.5 The Arrow".-External links:*...

; it had originally debuted as WCNG

WCNG

WCNG is a radio station broadcasting a Soft Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Murphy, North Carolina, USA. The station is currently owned by Cherokee Broadcasting Co., Inc. and features programing from AP Radio....

. 540 was also known as "Radio One" during its days as WARO.

Following ABC's LMA

LMA

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 of WWCS from owner Birach Broadcasting, operations for the station moved from its transmitter building in Canonsburg to 400 Ardmore Boulevard in Wilkinsburg, the home of WEAE (ESPN Radio

ESPN Radio

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 1250) and WTAE-TV

WTAE-TV

WTAE-TV is the ABC affiliated television station for Western Pennsylvania that is licensed to Pittsburgh, broadcasting on UHF channel 51 and identifying via PSIP as channel 4 . It also serves as an ABC affiliate for the Wheeling/Steubenville and Clarksburg/Weston, West Virginia market areas...

. Under ABC, the station carried Radio Disney

Radio Disney

Radio Disney is a radio network based in Burbank, California and headquartered out of the Disney Channel headquarters on West Alameda Ave., from where it has been based since November 2008. Prior to that, the network was based in Dallas, Texas...

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WWCS ceased to carry Radio Disney upon the expiration of ABC's lease of WWCS on December 31, 2010; the network's programming then moved to Disney-owned WEAE (renamed WDDZ), which disaffiliated from ESPN Radio. The station is currently airing a music loop

Music loop

In electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material. Short sections of material can be repeated to create ostinato patterns...

directing listeners to WDDZ.