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Overview
Licensed to Leland, North Carolina, WAAV is a news/talk radio station broadcasting on 980 AM. Listeners know it as “107.9 and 980 The WAAV.” It first signed on in 1957.
License and signal
- Call sign
- WAAV
- Frequency
- 980 AM
- Format
- News/talk/sports
- On-air name
- 107.9 and 980 The WAAV
- City of license
- Leland, NC
- Market
- Wilmington, NC
- Licensee
- Cumulus Licensing LLC
- Power
- 5,000 watts day; 85 watts night
- Station class
- D
- First on air
- 1957
- FCC facility ID
- 25999
- FCC public file
- publicfiles.fcc.gov
- Wikipedia
- Read the article
Its lineup draws on Fox News Radio, Compass Media Networks, Premiere Networks and Westwood One. Cumulus Licensing LLC holds the station’s FCC license. It has used the WAAV call letters since May 1984.
Leland is in the Wilmington, NC market. Its sister stations are WGNI, WKXS-FM, WMNX and WWQQ-FM.
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WAAV at a glance
- Frequency
- 980 AM
- On air as
- 107.9 and 980 The WAAV
- Format
- News/talk/sports
- Licensed to
- Leland, NC
- Market
- Wilmington, NC
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