WGNZ

WGNZ
City	Fairborn, Ohio
Frequency	1110 kHz
First air date	October 26, 1968 (as WELX)
Format	Southern gospel
Power	5,000 watts day 1,700 watts critical hours 2 watts night
Class	D
Facility ID	36075
Transmitter coordinates	39°39′53.00″N 83°56′38.00″W / 39.6647222°N 83.9438889°W / 39.6647222; -83.9438889
Callsign meaning	Good Newz 1110^[1]
Former callsigns	WELX (1968-1984) WMMX (1984-1993)
Affiliations	Greenview Calvary Tabernacle
Owner	L&D Broadcasters Inc.
Sister stations	W282CD 104.3 FM in Dayton
Website	Official WGNZ site (with streaming audio)

WGNZ "Good News 1110" is an AM broadcasting station operating at 1110 kHz licensed to Fairborn, Ohio with studios in Dayton, Ohio and transmitter in Xenia (the original city of license.) It airs National/Local teaching programs with a Southern Gospel music format. Its power output is 5,000 watts day and 2 watts night with a critical hours authorization of 1,700 watts in addition to internet audiostreaming. WGNZ is also heard on FM translator W282CD 104.3 mHz in Dayton.

History

WGNZ was founded in 1968 as 250 watt daytimer WELX, by West Central Ohio Broadcasters Inc...as the AM sister of WHBM-FM (now WZDA). WELX (for: Ernie and Lowell

- Xenia the sons of founders Harry and Ernestine Miller) was sold in 1979 to L&D Broadcasters Inc.and returned to the air in 1980 airing soul gospel in the morning and early evenings and southern gospel in the afternoons. It was during the afternoon drive time when Rev. Norman Livingston of Dayton, a local independent church pastor who also promoted Southern Gospel Music concerts, began to work with WELX and became the afternoon co-host and eventually moved into managing and promoting the station in 1981 when soul gospel music was dropped in favor of full-time southern gospel music. In 1984, the station switched the call sign from WELX to WMMX "Message Music Radio" or "Gospel Music's Best MIX" Eventually that call sign was replaced with WGNZ and its new slogan "Good News 1110". The released call sign "WMMX" was taken by 107.7 FM. As of November 1, 2008 the old tower site has been razed. In the Summer of 2008 WGNZ built a new state of the art transmitter/tower facility.

WGNZ today

WGNZ is one of the last locally owned commercial stations in the Dayton, Ohio market. The station features National and Local Christian teaching/talk programs. As well as being the only radio station in the Miami Valley that is primarily Southern Gospel, but also features Bluegrass and Local Artists. WGNZ has streamed its programming on the internet Live since July 9, 1996. WGNZ was at that time the second Christian Radio Station in Ohio to stream "live" on the internet.

References

↑ "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web.

External links

Official WGNZ site (with streaming audio)

Radio stations in the Dayton, Ohio market

By AM frequency	910 980 1110 1130 1210 1290 1340 1410 1500 1570 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.3 89.5 89.5 89.9 90.3 91.3 92.1 92.9 93.7 94.5 94.9 95.3 95.7 96.5 96.9 97.3 98.1 98.3 98.7 98.7 99.1 99.9 100.7 101.1 101.5 102.5 102.9 103.3 103.5 103.9 104.7 105.9 106.5 106.7 106.9 107.1 107.3 107.7

By callsign	W254BA W254BJ W266BG W273BQ W277AO WALH-LP WBZI WCHD WCLI-FM WCSU-FM WCWT-FM WDAO WDHT WDPG WDPR WDPS WEDI WEEC WFCJ WFTK WGNZ WGRR WGTZ WHIO WHIO-FM WHKO WING WIZE WKCD WKET WMMX WNKN WONE WPFB WPTW WQRP WREW WROU-FM WRZX WSWO-LP WTJN-LP WTUE WUDR WULM WUSO WWSU WYDA WYDB WYNS WYSO WZDA WZLR

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