WDGG (93.7 FM) is a

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

– formatted

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to Ashland,

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, serving

Huntington, West Virginia Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is the county seat of Cabell County, and the largest city in the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as the Tri-State Area. A h ...

and the greater

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. The station is owned by Kindred Communications as part of a conglomerate with Huntington–licensed

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–affiliated

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station WRVC (930 AM), Huntington–licensed

–affiliated

station WCMI (1340 AM),

Catlettsburg, Kentucky Catlettsburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Boyd County, Kentucky, United States. The city population was 1,856 at the 2010 census. Catlettsburg is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area ...

–licensed

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station

WCMI-FM WCMI-FM (92.7 MHz) is an active rock– formatted radio station licensed to Catlettsburg, Kentucky, United States, and serving the greater Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by Huntington, West Virginia–bas ...

(92.7 FM),

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–licensed

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...

station

WMGA WMGA (97.9 FM, "The River") is an adult contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Kenova, West Virginia, serving Huntington, West Virginia, Ironton, Ohio, and Ashland, Kentucky Ashland is a home rule-class city in Boyd Cou ...

(97.9 FM), and

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–licensed

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station

WXBW WXBW (Big Buck Country 101.5) is an FM radio station located in Gallipolis, Ohio. The station has an additional booster station, WXBW-FM1 located in Huntington, West Virginia. The stations are licensed to Fifth Avenue Broadcasting Company, Inc. ...

(101.5 FM). All six stations share studios on Fifth Avenue in downtown Huntington, while its transmitter facilities off of Park Avenue near

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in southwestern Huntington. In addition to its country music format, WDGG serves as the flagship station for the

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History

The station signed on the air in October 1948 as WCMI-FM in Ashland as a simulcast of its AM sister station WCMI's broadcast schedule. The call letters were said to refer to the steel industry of Ashland as "Where Coal Meets Iron". On November 20, 1970, the call letters were changed to WAMX-FM and ownership was transferred to W. Richard Martin and Stereo 94, Inc. The station broadcast with an

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format and experimented with an

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format at night during the early 1970s. In the mid-1970s, WAMX-FM (also known as 94X) adopted a

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(CHR) format until its sale to Storer broadcasting in 1983. With the sale, the studios moved to nearby Huntington, and the station adopted an

format (AOR). On April 30, 1988, the call letters representing the River Cities were adopted and the license became known as WRVC-FM. The dormant

WAMX WAMX (106.3 FM, "106.3 The Brew") is a classic rock radio station licensed to Milton, West Virginia, serving the Huntington metro area. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The WAMX studios are located in Huntington, while the station transmitter res ...

call sign was adopted by an unrelated station (at 106.3 MHz) in the Huntington market on January 6, 1997. In the fall of 1992, they changed the format to oldies (mostly concentrating on the 60s), and changed the tag to "Oldies 93 RVC". The WDGG call letters were granted by the FCC on February 6, 1995. At this time, the WRVC call sign and oldies format were moved to 92.7

, which continued the simulcast with

WRVZ WRVZ (98.7 FM) is a Rhythmic CHR formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Pocatalico, West Virginia and serving the Charleston area. History WRVC Repeater Originally, WRVZ was launched on January 24, 1994 by WRVC in Huntington as a br ...

in Charleston.

References

External links

The Dawg WDGG official websiteFCC Database Return for WDGG
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