WRCW
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| City | Warrenton, Virginia |
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| Broadcast area |
Warrenton, Virginia Fauquier County, Virginia |
| Branding | "1260 The Answer" |
| Slogan | "News. Intelligent Talk. Insight." |
| Frequency | 1250 AM kHz |
| First air date | November 21, 1957 |
| Format | Talk (WWRC simulcast) |
| Power | 3,000 Watts daytime 125 Watts nighttime |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 53368 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°43′52.0″N 77°46′42.0″W / 38.731111°N 77.778333°W |
| Callsign meaning | WRC Warrenton |
| Former callsigns | WEER (1957-1982) WPRZ (1982-2007) WKDL (2007-2014) |
| Owner |
Salem Media Group (Salem Media of Virginia, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WAVA, WAVA-FM, WWRC |
| Webcast | WRCW Webstream |
| Website | WRCW Online |
WRCW, 1250 AM, is a Talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Warrenton, Virginia, serving Warrenton and Fauquier County, Virginia. The station power is 3,000 watts daytime, and 125 watts at night. WRCW is a full-time relay of sister station WWRC "The Answer" in Washington, D.C., which operates on the first-adjacent frequency of 1260 kHz. WRCW is owned and operated by Salem Communications.
WRCW's original call letters were WEER. In September 1957 the O.K. Broadcasting Company was issued a Construction Permit for a 500 watt, daytime-only station on 1250 AM in Warrenton, Virginia. WEER received its first license on January 18, 1958.
On January 26, 1982, the station's call letters were changed to WPRZ, for "Praise Radio", as the station adopted a Christian religious format. On September 30, 2007, WPRZ signed off after being sold to Metro Radio, Inc. on August 15, 2007 for $1.1 Million. The Christian format was continued online at WPRZ.org.
On October 12, 2007, the call letters became WKDL, and the station adopted a Spanish language talk format. The WKDL call letters had been used in the mid-1990s at 1050 AM in Silver Spring, Maryland (current WBQH), which at the time was co-owned with WKDV 1460 AM in Manassas, Virginia, with both stations affiliates of the children-oriented Radio AAHS network.
On May 21, 2008 the station switched to a Classic Country format. In Mid-November, the country format was abruptly dropped for brokered programming.
From January 31, 2011 until February 2012, WKDL simulcast the talk format of WTNT (730 AM) in Alexandria, Virginia on a full-time basis. Its programming lineup consisted mostly of Talk Radio Network offerings, particularly America's Morning News, The Laura Ingraham Show, America's Radio News Network, The Jerry Doyle Show, The Savage Nation, The Rusty Humphries Show and The Phil Hendrie Show.
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