WWNC

WWNC, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1006184 / CC BY SA 3.0 #Radio_stations_in_Asheville,_North_Carolina #News_and_talk_radio_stations_in_the_United_States #IHeartMedia_radio_stations #Radio_stations_established_in_1927 WWNC （570 AM） is a radio station in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. It transmits at 5,000 watts of power. It currently has a News/Talk format and is affiliated with Fox News Radio. WWNC is under the ownership of iHeartMedia, Inc. . WWNC, whose call letters stand for "Wonderful Western North Carolina", signed on the air on February 21, 1927, as Asheville's first radio station, broadcasting from the Vanderbilt Hotel. Other broadcast locations have included the Flatiron Building and the Citizen-Times building. In its early days, WWNC, started by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, provided weather and road reports, and music at night. Jimmie Rodgers was among the stars who performed on the station. On October 10, 1931, WWNC changed its network affiliation from CBS to NBC. On September 10, 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt spoke at McCormick Field. WWNC broadcast the speech. The first time the world heard Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys was February 2, 1939, at 3:30 pm when the group played a fifteen-minute segment on Mountain Music Time. At the time, WWNC was an NBC affiliate, owned by the Asheville Citizen-Times. Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys played the daily 3:30-3:45 Mountain Music spot until April 1, 1939, when WWNC became a CBS affiliate and moved to the Asheville Citizen-Times building. At one time, the station was home to Amos and Andy, Fibber McGee and Molly and Jack Benny. In 1938, WWNC was one of the many stations broadcasting Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds. Before 1969, when the format changed to country music, WWNC played middle of the road music. In the days before FM became popular, WWNC was sometimes the most popular station in the United States with an Arbitron share over 40 percent, sometimes ...