WINC (AM)
WINC is a broadcast radio station licensed to Winchester, Virginia, United States. Launched on June 26, 1941, WINC was Winchester’s first radio station. It remained in the hands of the Lewis family until sold to North Carolina-based Centennial Broadcasting in 2007. The station’s current format, established in 1996, consists mostly of conservative talk programs and top-of-the-hour news from Fox News Radio.
About WINC (AM) in brief
WINC is a broadcast radio station licensed to Winchester, Virginia, United States. Launched on June 26, 1941, WINC was Winchester’s first radio station. It remained in the hands of the Lewis family until sold to North Carolina-based Centennial Broadcasting in 2007. The station’s current format, established in 1996, consists mostly of conservative talk programs and top-of-the-hour news from Fox News Radio. Sports programming from Virginia Tech is also broadcast. Prior formats heard on WINC include middle of the road music, adult contemporary, and classic hits. WINC is the station on which country music singer Patsy Cline made her debut in 1948, when Cline asked the leader of a \”hillbilly band\” for a chance to perform with them on air. In the late 1950s, the station’s chief engineer, Philip Whitney, designed a CONELRAD alarm device for FM stations to warn listeners in the event of an enemy attack during the Cold War. In that same year, the news department at WINC received an Associated Press Broadcasters Association national award for \”Best Radio Spot News\”. The entirety of WINC’s program schedule began simulcasting on sister-station WZFC on January 31, 2018. WINC participated in the war effort on the air and at its studios. A total of 150,525 in War Bonds were sold during the two-hour program, broadcast on 13-hour broadcast in Virginia and one in Washington, D.C.
On June 15, 1945, American Broadcasting Company formally renamed WINC an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network. The network changed its name to the American Blue Network. WINC remained an affiliates of the network until the end of the 1950s and 1960s, when it was renamed American Blue C. The station has been owned by the same family since the 1970s. It is now owned by Centennial Broadcasting of North Carolina, a subsidiary of Centennial Media, which also owns WXPN in New York City and WQPN in Los Angeles, California, and WVU in San Francisco. It has been known as WINC for more than 75 years, and is based at 520 North Pleasant Valley Road in Winchester. The address at launch was 520 Kerr Street, later incorporated into Pleasant Valley Road. At the time of WINc’s launch, Winchester had a population of 12,095, with only 2,968 radios. At launch, the radio station broadcast at 250 watts day and night. Two weeks later, on July 13, Virginia Senator Harry F. Byrd and Governor James Hubert Price attended the dedication of the station. In early March 1941, the FCC assigned the WINC call sign, derived from the first four letters in Winchester, In June 1941, WinC announced it would join theNBC Blue Network the following month. WinC carried live descriptions of the attack on Pearl Harbor and President Roosevelt’s \”Infamy Speech\” the following day.
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