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WEGO call letters no longer on 1410 in Concord

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Matt

According to the FCC database, GHB Broadcasting has switched the WEGO calls with a station they own and are in the process of selling in Winston-Salem.

The new calls for the Concord station are WTIX. It is still a simulcast of WAVO in Rock Hill, SC. The WEGO calls and 1410 in Concord were married for 68 years, beginning in 1942.

Those venerated calls are now on 980 in Winston-Salem, which was originally WAAA, but had been changed a couple of years back to WTIX, which originally came from New Orleans, I believe.

Ol' George Buck (the GHB of GHB Broadcasting) really loves to move his call signs around.

Later . . . .
 
According to yesterday's (Wed, Jan 6) "Taylor on Radio-Info" newsletter, WIST AM 690 in New Orleans has flipped formats from Standards to Sports. Maybe the WIST calls can return to the Charlotte area?

What is it with owners/operators dumping heritage callsigns just for the sake of flipping calls? The aforementioned "WIST" should've never left Charlotte, but thanks to GHB they did; now, ditto, to WEGO. "We go" and "Wave oh" -- don't that just wonderfully roll off the tongue?

Eric
 
You scared me there for a minute. I was afraid the format was gone. I was going to Concord this week and realized, since I'd rather go in the morning, the college library where I go after dark will be open then a week from now.
 
I don't know what happened to the FCC call letter hsitories. There's a site you can go to which a lot of people have used for sources in Wikipedia articles. It doesn't work now and that's bad. How else will people fid out call letter hsitories?

On the other hand, as I searched for evidence of when the change took place--after renaming both stations' articles last night, or at least starting the process since a trade requires administrator intervention--I discovered the new WEGO is Spanish Christian. And someone had updated that on Wikipedia already in two different places.
 
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