WNCO (1340 kHz) – branded ''Fox Sports 1340'' – is a commercial AM

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licensed to

Ashland, Ohio Ashland is a city in and the county seat of Ashland County, Ohio, United States, 66 miles southwest of Cleveland and 82 miles northeast of Columbus. The population was 20,362 at the 2010 census. It is the center of the Ashland Micropolitan S ...

. The station serves the Ashland, Mansfield and

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areas, collectively identified as the Mid-Ohio region. The station is under ownership of

iHeartMedia, Inc. iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc.), a company fou ...

Since September 10, 2012, WNCO runs a

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format, airing content from Fox Sports Radio and

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. It originally aired an adult standards/

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music format from

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's Timeless satellite feed until June 14, 2009, when it switched to an all-talk format. It is also the flagship station for Ashland University Eagles football. The station signed on May 18, 1950 as WATG, owned by Ashland Broadcasting Corp. headed by R. S. Burke. It was acquired by Radio Ashland, Inc. on January 15, 1957Broadcasting Yearbook 1959
p. B-108. and became WNCO two years later.

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