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Encyclopedia > WMBS
WMBS
Broadcast area Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Morgantown, West Virginia
Branding "Your Local Station"
Frequency 590 kHz
First air date July 15, 1937
Format Nostalgia, news, sports
Power 1000 Watts
Class B
Owner Fayette Broadcasters, Inc.
Website WMBS Online

WMBS (590 AM} is a radio station which broadcasts in the southwestern Pennsylvania area originating from Uniontown. It currently features a mix of sports, weather, news, talk, and nostalgia music. Uniontown is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Pittsburgh and part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. ... Pittsburgh redirects here. ... Morgantown is a city in Monongalia County,GR6 West Virginia, on the banks of the Monongahela River. ... For other uses, see Frequency (disambiguation). ... A kilohertz (kHz) is a unit of frequency equal to 1,000 hertz (1,000 cycles per second). ... is the 196th day of the year (197th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... Nominal power is a measurement of a mediumwave radio stations output used in the United States. ... For other uses, see Watt (disambiguation). ... This is a list of broadcast station classes applicable in much of North America under international agreements between the United States, Canada and Mexico. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... AM broadcasting is radio broadcasting using Amplitude Modulation. ... A radio station is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Uniontown is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 50 miles (80 km) south by east of Pittsburgh and part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. ...

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History

WMBS became the very first station to sign on the air in all of Fayette County, doing so on July 15, 1937. This was also the very first suburban station outside of Pittsburgh in southwestern Pennsylvania to go on the air. WHJB (now WKHB) in Greensburg, about 30 miles northeast of Uniontown, and WKST in New Castle would do so the following year. WKHB is an AM radio station licensed to Irwin, Pennsylvania, which serves the greater Pittsburgh area. ... WKST is the callsign of two radio stations: WKST-AM, New Castle, Pennsylvania WKST-FM, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Category: ...


WMBS bears the distinction of being under the same ownership since it first went on the air. Though the principals have changed over the years, it has had the same family line for generations. Robert Pritts is the most recent owner principal, who controls the majority of the station. Pritts is the nephew of H.S. Dumbauld, one of the station's co-founders. With the 1997 passing of Dumbauld's son Edward, the family's interest was passed on to Pritts, a retired school district administrator from Columbus, Ohio.


Brian Mroziak is the current general manager, who ascended to that position at the age of 24 [1], making him one of radio's youngest top executives in the country [2]. Ken Hawk, of the former WKPA (now WGBN) 50 miles north in New Kensington, was another, becoming general manager of that station at age 21 in 1991. WGBN is a gospel music radio station serving the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania market. ...


WMBS also bears the distinction of being a highly successful AM station without an FM in its portfolio, despite its average listener age of over 65 [3]. WMBS did have an opportunity to acquire an FM property, following the bankruptcy liquidation sale of Uniontown-licensed WPQR-FM (now WPKL) in 2001. That station had been silent for almost two years due to financial problems that eventually forced it and its AM sister WCVI (now silent WYJK) into bankruptcy proceedings. Owner Bob Pritts, who attended the bankruptcy sale, had offered $452,000, but was outbid by current owner Keymarket Licenses, LLC. WPKL is an oldies-formatted radio station in Pennsylvania licensed to Uniontown at 99. ... WYJK is a commercially-licensed AM radio station, licensed to operate at the federally-assigned frequency of 1340 khz, with a maximum power output of 1,000 watts. ...


As part of a long-term plan for WMBS' future in the late 1990's, the station moved from its longtime rented location on Fayette Street (It's original location in 1937 was in the Fayette Bank Building in downtown Uniontown), to a large Victorian house on South Mount Vernon Avenue owned by Pritts' cousin, the late federal judge Edward Dumbauld, thus eliminating the station's monthly rental bill. The station also incorporated more off-site music programming, putting existing local disc jockeys to other uses. The moves strengthened the station financially and improved its overall sound.


On Monday, January 27, 2003, WMBS flipped from its format of rock 'n roll oldies to its present nostalgia format. Oldies is a generic term commonly used to describe a radio format that usually concentrates on Top 40 music from the 50s, 60s and 70s. ...


WMBS in the News

Jack McMullen, one of WMBS' pioneers, who completed an 11-year stint with the station beginning in 1945, died in a hit-and-run vehicle-pedestrian accident on West Main Street in Uniontown. Though McMullen underwent surgery to repair two broken legs and his right arm, his condition swiftly declined. A Papa John's Pizza delivery driver later admitted to police that he was behind the wheel, and had taken his eyes off the road to read a delivery slip when he struck McMullen. [4]


WMBS Today

WMBS has a reputation for its tenured personnel over the years. Morning DJ Jim Morgan and midday DJ Tim Schwer have been a part of the WMBS staff for more than three decades. WMBS is an affiliate of Westwood One/Dial Global "Adult Standards" nostalgia format, and has been an affiliate of the CBS radio news network for virtually its entire existence. WMBS is the only station in the Pittsburgh Radio Market to carry the CBS World News roundup which celebrated its 70th Anniversary on the air in 2008.[5] Adult Standards is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations. ...


WMBS is also the Fayette County exclusive radio outlet for the live play-by-play game broadcasts of Pittsburgh Steelers football, Pittsburgh Pirates baseball, Pittsburgh Panthers basketball and football, and Pittsburgh Penguins hockey. WMBS also airs Uniontown high school football and basketball, Laurel Highlands high school baseball, NCAA basketball and football, and The NFL on Westwood One. Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. ... Steelers redirects here. ... This article is about the baseball team. ... The Pittsburgh Panthers is the name given to the sports teams of University of Pittsburgh. ... The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... The rights to all NFL games on the radio is currently owned by Westwood One, which co-produces the radiocast with CBS Radio. ...


External links

The following radio stations are located in West Virginia by market area. ...

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