WDLX (930 AM) and WGHB (1250 AM) are

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s broadcasting a

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format. The WDLX/WGHB simulcast is currently owned by Pirate Media Group. Licensed to

Washington, North Carolina Washington is a city in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States, located on the northern bank of the Pamlico River. The population was 9,744 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Beaufort County. It is commonly known as "Original Wa ...

, United States, WDLX serves the Greenville-New Bern area. The station signed on the air March 3, 1942 as WRRF. The calls stood for "We Radiate Real Friendship". In 1962, the call letters were changed to WITN, owing largely to the

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format adopted by owner Bill Roberson's television station,

WITN-TV WITN-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Washington, North Carolina, United States, serving Eastern North Carolina as an affiliate of NBC and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Gray Television, the station has primary studio facilities on Eas ...

. Roberson had also signed on sister FM station WITN-FM at 93.3 MHz (today's

WERO Wero (meaning "to cast a spear"), also known as taki, is a traditional Māori Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori ...

) on September 6, 1961.http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1972/B-2%20YB%201972%20All-12.pdf These stations shared the same callsigns on FM and AM until 1985, when the FM facility became WDLX and the AM reverted to the WRRF calls. They shared the same building until about 2004. In 1996, new owner Pinnacle Broadcasting changed the calls for WDLX to WERO as the station adopted an Arrow 93.3 moniker and a

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format; to protect the copyright to the call letters, they switched WRRF to WDLX, although no change was made in its

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format. WDLX is today the flagship station for

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Pirates athletics and also broadcasts

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games. Starting in 2010, WDLX aired the

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. WGHB is licensed to

Farmville, North Carolina Farmville is a town in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States, eight miles to the west of Greenville. At the 2010 Census, the population was 4,654. Farmville is a part of the Greenville Metropolitan Area located in North Carolina's Inner ...

and was once WFAG, meaning "Watch Farmville Area Grow". It exists mainly to improve WDLX' nighttime coverage in the Greenville area. WDLX must adjust its coverage to protect a silent clear-channel station in

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at AM 940, limiting its nighttime coverage to the immediate area around Washington. These two stations are not related to

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, deriving their name instead from the East Carolina Pirates.

References

External links

Official website
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