Radio station in New Orleans, Louisiana
WLNO
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Broadcast area
| New Orleans
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Frequency
| 1060
kHz
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Branding
| WLNO 1060 AM
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Format
| Urban Gospel
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Owner
| - Donald Pugh, Sr.
- (Eternity Media Group LLC)
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| WGRM
,
WGRM-FM
,
WFRK
,
WABF
,
WNRR
,
WERM
,
WHJA
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First air date
| January 1, 1924
; 100 years ago
(
1924-01-01
)
[1]
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| W
e
L
ove
N
ew
O
rleans
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Facility ID
| 58393
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Class
| B
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Power
| 50,000
watts
(daytime)
5,000 watts (nighttime)
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Transmitter coordinates
| 29°52′46.00″N
89°59′51.00″W
/
29.8794444°N 89.9975000°W
/
29.8794444; -89.9975000
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Website
| wlnoradio
.com
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WLNO
(1060
AM
) ? branded
WLNO 1060 AM
? is a
commercial
urban gospel
radio station
licensed to serve
New Orleans
,
Louisiana
. Owned by Eternity Media Group LLC, the station serves the
New Orleans metropolitan area
.
[2]
[3]
The WLNO transmitter site in located in
Belle Chasse
.
History
[
edit
]
WLNO traces its roots back to January 6, 1924, when WABZ, a 50 W AM station licensed to Coliseum Place Baptist Church in New Orleans first went on air.
[4]
The station changed its frequency, and call letters several times, becoming WBBX in 1933 and WBNO in 1934, before the license was acquired by former
Louisiana Governor
James A. Noe
, who renamed the station WNOE in 1941.
[5]
WNOE was the market's first
Top 40
outlet during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. When it began broadcasting around the clock on February 14, 1955, it
stunted
by playing the record "Shtiggy Boom" by The Nuggets nonstop for 58 hours and 45 minutes.
[6]
[7]
[8]
Some of the most famous
disc jockeys
on the 1960s WNOE included
Gary Owens
, Greg Mason, C. C. Courtney and Frank Jolley (with his alter-ego - Count Down).
WNOE, which shifted to
1060
kHz
in 1950 to operate at its daytime 50,000 watts of power, was a favorite at the
Gulf Coast
beaches in
Mississippi
,
Alabama
, and even as far east as
Pensacola Beach
,
Florida
. With its big daytime signal, WNOE was even sometimes receivable in areas like
Tampa
if you were near the
Gulf of Mexico
. WNOE abandoned its Top 40 format gradually in the early 1970s and evolved into one of the few
Album Rock
stations on AM dial in the U.S. In a sense, rival WTIX had the market to itself during that time, though some FM stations flirted with formats musically close to Top 40. However, with the slogan Real Rock (a slam at WTIX, who without competition, had softened its top 40 sound considerably) WNOE returned to AOR leaning top 40 format in 1973, and competed vigorously with WTIX into the early 1980s. By 1977, WNOE was a pop leaning AOR station somewhat softer than its FM sister station.
On January 27, 1981, WNOE flipped to an
adult contemporary
-leaning
Country music
format, using crossover artists such as
Kenny Rogers
,
Anne Murray
,
John Denver
,
Linda Rondstadt
,
Olivia Newton-John
and
Willie Nelson
.
WNOE-FM
, its
sister station
, had gone to a pure country format, also leaving album rock the previous August. WNOE moved away from an AC lean by 1985 but remained country. The station began to play more
classic country
and also play some southern sounding pop hits mixed in by 1990. WNOE stayed with this Country oldies format until March 1, 1995, when it was sold to Communicom Co. of Louisiana, L.P., who flipped it to its current format. Communicom Company of Louisiana, L.P. is a subsidiary of Denver-based Communicom Company, which also owns KXEG and KXXT in Phoenix, Arizona, and WDRJ in Detroit, Michigan.
On June 2, 2014, the station went
dark
. Effective January 9, 2015, WLNO's license was assigned to the WLNO Trust, due to the bankruptcy of Communicom. Effective December 16, 2015, WLNO was sold to Donald Pugh, Sr.'s Eternity Media Group LLC for $1,000 plus a $94,000 payment for access to station property. Pugh returned the station to the air, with an
urban gospel
format, with segments of the day
sold
to local preachers.
References
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"AM Query Results -- Audio Division (FCC) USA"
. Archived from
the original
on 2017-10-08.
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"WLNO Facility Record"
.
United States
Federal Communications Commission
, audio division
.
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"WLNO Station Information Profile"
.
Arbitron
.
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Hastings, L.T. (1989).
Autobiography of L. T. Hastings: Pastor, Educator
. C. B. Hastings
. Retrieved
September 7,
2020
.
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Pusateri, C. Joseph (1980).
Enterprise in Radio: WWL and the Business of Broadcasting in America
. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America. p. 159.
ISBN
978-0-8191-0955-2
. Retrieved
7 September
2020
.
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"Disk Jockeys in Second Day of Record Marathon"
.
The Times-Mail
. Bedford, Indiana. February 15, 1955. p. 6
. Retrieved
February 2,
2022
– via
Newspapers.com
.
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"Shtiggy Boom -- Shtiggy Boom Setting Record Playing Record"
.
The Times and Democrat
. Orangesburg, South Carolina. February 16, 1955. p. 7
. Retrieved
February 2,
2022
– via
Newspapers.com
.
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Billboard
. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1955-02-26. p. 44.
ISSN
0006-2510
. Retrieved
2014-12-10
.
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