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WANA
City of license Anniston, Alabama
Broadcast area Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Area
Frequency 1490 kHz
Format Sports talk
Power 1,000 watts unlimited
Class C
Facility ID 2311
Transmitter Coordinates 33°41′15.00″N 85°49′49.00″W / 33.6875, -85.8302778
Owner Jacobs Broadcast Group, Inc.
Website http://www.1490wana.com

WANA (1490 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports talk format.[1] Licensed to Anniston, Alabama, USA, the station serves the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Area. The station is currently owned by Jacobs Broadcast Group, Inc.[2] In the United States (and potentially elswhere), each radio station or TV station is assigned a city of license by the Federal Communications Commission that they must serve. While this has become far less meaningful over the decades, stations are still required to post their public file somewhere within the... Nickname: The Model City Location in Alabama Coordinates: County Calhoun Settled April 1872 Incorporated 3 July 1883 Mayor Hoyt W. “Chip” Howell, Jr. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... The Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area is the most populated metropolitan area in Northeast Alabama. ... For other uses, see Frequency (disambiguation). ... A kilohertz (kHz) is a unit of frequency equal to 1,000 hertz (1,000 cycles per second). ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... Sports Talk consists of radio talk shows which the subject revolves around sports entertainment. ... 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 facility ID is used in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission to identify broadcast TV stations. ... 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 more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... 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. ... Sports Talk consists of radio talk shows which the subject revolves around sports entertainment. ... Nickname: The Model City Location in Alabama Coordinates: County Calhoun Settled April 1872 Incorporated 3 July 1883 Mayor Hoyt W. “Chip” Howell, Jr. ... The Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area is the most populated metropolitan area in Northeast Alabama. ...


It is anticipated that WANA will soon change to a Soft Adult Contemporary music format, and will simulcast the station on an FM translator in Anniston. Adult contemporary music, frequently abbreciated to just AC, is a type of radio format that plays mainstream and pop music, without hip-hop or rap since, as per the name, it is geared more towards adults than teens. ... Simulcast is a contraction of simultaneous broadcast, and refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium at the same time. ... In broadcasting, a translator is an FM radio station or a TV station which acts as a full-duplex repeater. ...


References

  1. ^ WANA Facility Record. United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ^ Station Information Profile. Arbitron.

FCC redirects here. ...

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Alabama Radio Markets: Birmingham • Dothan • Florence-Muscle Shoals • Huntsville • Mobile • Montgomery • Tuscaloosa
Other Alabama Radio Regions: Anniston • Auburn • Columbus, GA • Gadsden • Meridian, MS 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. ... Nickname: The Model City Location in Alabama Coordinates: County Calhoun Settled April 1872 Incorporated 3 July 1883 Mayor Hoyt W. “Chip” Howell, Jr. ... FM radio is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. ... For other uses, see Frequency (disambiguation). ... // Station Summary WVOK-FM[1] is a 6,000-watt commercial FM radio station locally owned and operated in Oxford, Alabama. ... AM radio is radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation. ... For other uses, see Frequency (disambiguation). ... // Station Summary WVOK-FM[1] is a 6,000-watt commercial FM radio station locally owned and operated in Oxford, Alabama. ...

See also: List of radio stations in Alabama
A complete list of radio stations licensed to places in Alabama. ...

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