WEMM-FM

WEMM-FM

City	Huntington, West Virginia
Broadcast area	Huntington, West Virginia Charleston, West Virginia
Branding	"Gospel 107.9"
Slogan	"The Legendary Station Where You Will Always Find Hope!"
Frequency	107.9 MHz
First air date	1971
Format	Southern Gospel Religious
ERP	50,000 Watts
HAAT	152 Meters
Class	B
Facility ID	43860
Transmitter coordinates	38°28′37.0″N 82°15′20.0″W / 38.476944°N 82.255556°W / 38.476944; -82.255556
Callsign meaning	W Dr. E. M. Mortenson (original owner)^[1]
Former callsigns	WEMM (1971-2004)^[2]
Owner	Mortenson Broadcasting (Mortenson Broadcasting Company of West Virginia, LLC)
Sister stations	WZPS
Webcast	WEMM-FM Webstream
Website	WEMM-FM Online

WEMM-FM (107.9 FM, "Gospel 107.9") is a Southern Gospel and religious formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Huntington, West Virginia, serving the Huntington/Charleston area. WEMM-FM is owned and operated by Mortenson Broadcasting.

Programming

WEMM-FM broadcasts a Southern Gospel and Religious format to the Tri-State Region.^[3] This format includes sermons from area pulpits, national Bible teaching ministries, and Southern Gospel music.^[4]^[5] The station also airs a radio simulcast of the WSAZ NewsChannel 3 Six O'Clock newscast on weekdays.

History

WEMM was first established on September 6, 1971, and has since then maintained its current Gospel format.^[4] The station signed on as the third station on the Tower of Faith Radio Network.^[6]

Former logo

The call letters were changed to WEMM-FM on February 2, 2004,^[2] when an AM sister station (then known as WHRD) was made a simulcast of the FM signal and its call sign was changed to WEMM.^[7] That simulcast arrangement ended and the AM station's callsign was changed to WRWB in September 2008 but the FM station remains at the WEMM-FM callsign.^[7]

References

↑ Miller, Jeff (August 3, 2008). "Origins of Broadcast Call Letters in West Virginia".
1 2 "WEMM-FM Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
1 2 "About Us". WEMM-FM. Retrieved November 30, 2008.
↑ Rice, Holly (October 12, 2007). "Contemporary station offers different sound for listeners". The Parthenon.
↑ "24 Hour Christian Radio". Charleston Gazette. September 4, 1971. p. 16.
1 2 "WRWB Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.

External links

Gospel 107.9 WEMM official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WEMM

Radio-Locator information on WEMM

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WEMM

Radio stations in the Huntington / Ashland, WV–KY–OH market

By AM frequency	800 930 1080 1110 1200 1230 1340 1340 1370 1420 1520 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 89.1 89.9 90.3 91.1 91.9 92.3 92.7 93.7 94.9 96.1 97.1 97.5 97.9 98.3 99.7 100.5 100.9 101.5 102.7 103.3 104.1 104.5 105.1 105.7 106.3 107.1 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio	162.550

By callsign	KIH39 WAMX WASP-LP WBVB WCMI WCMI-FM WDGG WEKV WEMM-FM WGOH WHKU WIRO WKAO WKEE-FM WKLC-FM WKWS WLGC WLGC-FM WLRX WMGA WMKY WMUL WMUX WOKE WONS WOUB WOUL WNKE WQBE-FM WRVC WXBW WTCR WTCR-FM WUGO WVSR-FM WVHU WVWV WZAQ WZPS WZZW

Defunct	WPAY

West Virginia radio markets Beckley Bluefield Charleston Huntington Morgantown–Clarksburg–Fairmont Parkersburg Wheeling Other West Virginia radio regions Cumberland, MD East-Central Eastern Panhandle Elkins–Buckhannon–Weston Kingwood Southern West-Central Winchester, VA Kentucky radio markets Ashland Cincinnati, OH Lexington–Fayette Louisville Other Kentucky radio regions Bowling Green Hopkinsville Owensboro Paducah Ohio radio markets Akron Canton Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dayton Lima Marietta Toledo Youngstown–Warren Other Ohio radio regions Ashtabula Ironton Mid-Ohio Sandusky Southern Ohio Wheeling/Steubenville See also List of radio stations in West Virginia List of radio stations in Kentucky List of radio stations in Ohio

Radio stations in the Charleston, West Virginia market

By AM frequency	560 580 680 950 1080 1110 1240 1300 1340 1410 1450 1490

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 90.9 92.5 92.9 93.3 94.5 96.1 96.9 97.5 98.7 99.9 100.9 102.7 103.7 105.1 106.9 107.3 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio	162.55

By callsign	WAXE-LP WBES WCHS WCIR-FM WCWV WEMM-FM WJLS WJYP WKAZ WKAZ-FM WKLC-FM WKVW WKWS WLUX WMON WMUX WMXE WONS WQBE-FM WRVZ WSCW WSWW WTSQ-LP WVAF WVPB WVSR-FM WVTS WWSA-LP WXAF WXJ84 WYNL WZAC-FM

Defunct stations	WXDB-LP

West Virginia radio markets Beckley Bluefield Charleston Huntington Morgantown–Clarksburg–Fairmont Parkersburg Wheeling Other West Virginia radio regions Cumberland, MD East-Central Eastern Panhandle Elkins–Buckhannon–Weston Kingwood Southern West-Central Winchester, VA See also List of radio stations in West Virginia

Religious radio stations in the state of West Virginia

Stations	WBHZ – Elkins WBKW – Beckley WBWG-LP – Fairmont WDTF-LP – Berkeley Springs WEMM-FM – Huntington WHMG-LP – Purgitsville WKJL – Clarksburg WMCC-LP – Spencer WMLJ – Summersville WOAY – Oak Hill WOTR – Lost Creek WPWV – Princeton WSCW – South Charleston WTCF – Wardensville WVPP-LP – Beckley WXAF – Charleston

Defunct	WVBL-LP – Salem

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in West Virginia See also Classical Jazz Religious Spanish Smooth Jazz Other

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