WZGV
| City | Cramerton, North Carolina |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Branding | ESPN 730 |
| Frequency | 730 kHz |
| First air date | August 21, 1946 (as WOHS) |
| Format | Sports talk |
| Power | 10,000 watts day 190 watts night |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 26179 |
| Former callsigns | WOHS (1946–2009) |
| Affiliations | ESPN Radio |
| Owner | HRN Broadcasting |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 730espn.com |
WZGV "ESPN 730" is a Sports talk radio station, affiliated with ESPN Radio. Licensed to Cramerton, North Carolina and owned by HRN Broadcasting, the station broadcasts to the Charlotte, North Carolina area.
Robert Wallace formed Western Carolina Radio Corporation in 1945 with the intent to sign on a station in Western North Carolina. He was granted a license for 730 AM with the call letters WOHS, with the transmitter located in Shelby just off Hwy 74 East. The station signed on the air August 21, 1946. Wallace signed the station on and then turned over the programming to Hugh Dover. Dover was known as the 'Happy Birthday Man' for his daily renditions to whoever was celebrating that particular day. A mainstay of homes in the community, Dover's popular "Carolina in the Morning" show would run 38 years until Dover's semi-retirement in 1984. One popular guest on the show was Cleveland County native and bluegrass legend, Earl Scruggs. Scruggs and Dover had been childhood friends, growing up in the Flint Hill Community of Cleveland County.
When Don Gibson hosted "Sons of the Soil" in the early 1950s, he told Jonas Bridges, an announcer on the show, that he would write a song that would make him rich. Bridges didn't believe him, but he ended up playing "Oh Lonesome Me" on WKMT in 1957.
Doug Limerick, now an ABC News anchor, worked at WOHS at night while in high school, playing Top 40.
In 1992, Calvin Hastings, who bought WCSL in Cherryville in 1983 and WGNC in Gastonia six years later, bought WOHS and began calling the three stations Piedmont Superstations.
WCSL, WGNC and WOHS began airing Atlanta Braves baseball in 1993.
On April 1, 1993, Hastings' KTC Broadcasting took over WLON in Lincolnton in a lease agreement. WLON's Tim Biggerstaff would remain as morning DJ, and his show would be heard on all four KTC stations. News for the entire area would be expanded. The four stations aired UNC-Chapel Hill football and basketball, Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins NFL football, and CBS coverage of such events as The World Series and The Super Bowl.
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