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WghWGH was an AM radio station licensed to Newport News, Virginia. The letters of WGH (1310 kHz AM) stood for "Worlds Greatest Harbor" for Hampton Roads. The station took to the airwaves in October 1928 as WNEW (for Newport News). Call letters were changed when the station was authorized to be begin broadcasting with its distinctive 3 letter call sign "WGH" on November 11, 1928 and signed on for the first time with the new call sign on November 20, 1928. Long known as the "Voice of Old Virginia", WGH usually made the required federal station identification announcements as "WGH - Newport News - Norfolk, Virginia." WGH announcers broadcast from several studio locations, including Military Circle Studios in Norfolk, at Ocean View Amusement Park at Ocean View (where the broadcast booth was located under the famous roller coaster), and at the Todd Center studios in Hampton. The multiple tower transmitter site on Todds Lane in Hampton became a visible landmark when Interstate 64 was built through the area in 1960s. For many years, WGH was owned by the Newport News Daily Press and Times Herald newspapers. WGH was the number one station in Tidewater from the late 50s until the mid-70s. In 1983, the station was sold to a Pennsylvania broadcast group and is now known as WCSM ESPN 1310. A sister station, WGH-FM, broadcasts at 97.3 MHz. Trivia - The three letter call sign (versus the customary four letters) of a U.S. radio or television station generally indicates one of the older broadcasting stations in the United States. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) required four letter call signs for new broadcasters after January, 1930. Transfers, and addition of television and FM frequencies were grandfathered under the FCC rules.
- While newspapers were often the source of financing for new radio and television stations in the early years of development, later FCC rules discouraged common ownership of both print and broadcast media in major markets in order to ensure public access to independent sources of news.
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