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| Broadcast area | Apollo, Pennsylvania |
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| Branding | PA Talk 98.7 FM/910 AM |
| Frequency | 910 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 98.7 W254CR (Latrobe) |
| First air date | April 15, 1947 |
| Format | Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts (Daytime) 69 watts (Night) |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 67662 |
| Callsign meaning | Apollo Vandergrift Leechburg |
| Owner | Jim Kail (LHTC, Inc.) |
| Website | pa-talk.com |
WAVL (910 AM) is an American radio station serving the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. The station is owned by LHTC, also known as Laurel Highland Total Communications, licensee of WCNS radio in Latrobe.
WAVL broadcasts on 910 kHz with a maximum power output of 5,000 watts daytime and 69 watts nighttime. It is licensed to the borough of Apollo, Pennsylvania.
WAVL, after a long history of religious radio broadcasting, became a secular broadcaster in December 2015 with a Variety Hits format. As of Monday, August 29, 2016, WAVL adopted a conservative talk format.
The construction permit for this radio station was first issued on February 1, 1947. The station's original assigned frequency was 890 kHz and power output at 250 watts daytime. The FCC allowed the change in May 1947. [1]
WAVL first signed on the air April 15, 1947. For many years, this station operated as a 1,000 watt, non-directional, daytime-only station. After being denied an STA to broadcast high school football games in 1948, ownership applied for permission to operate at 100 watts during the night in 1949, but that was denied in 1951 following a hearing on the matter. However, in 1968, WAVL was granted pre-sunrise authorization of 350 watts, which allowed it to sign on daily at 6:00am year-round.
In 1978, then-owner Tri-Borough Broadcasting raised a second tower, adopted a directional antenna pattern, and increased its power to 5,000 watts, but still retained its daytime-only status. WAVL was granted permission to operate at a limited nighttime power of 69 watts in the late 1990s.
For much of its existence, WAVL was a conservative Christian radio station, broadcasting inspirational music and time-brokered sermons from its studios located with its transmitter site in the Kiskiminetas Township village of Orchard Hills, just on the outskirts of Apollo, its city of license. WAVL was also the very first radio station in Armstrong County, with WACB (now WTYM) coming on the air the following year.
For a time at the beginning, WAVL maintained studios and offices at the corner of Fourth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Apollo, until they were destroyed by a fire in 1956.
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