WNCC (FM)

WNCC
City	Franklin, North Carolina
Slogan	Your home for today's hot new country and your all-time favorites!
Frequency	104.1 MHz
Translator(s)	WNCC-FM1 Bryson City
Format	Country
ERP	277 watts
HAAT	681 m (2,234 ft)
Class	A
Facility ID	14551
Transmitter coordinates	35°12′40.00″N 83°22′7.00″W / 35.2111111°N 83.3686111°W / 35.2111111; -83.3686111
Former callsigns	WRFR (?-1999) WNCC-FM (1999-2004) WNCC (2004-2005) WNCC-FM (2005-2014)
Former frequencies	96.7 MHz (?-2016)
Affiliations	ABC Radio , Jones Radio Network
Owner	Sutton Radiocasting Corporation
Website	967wncc.com

WNCC FM 104.1 is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to serve Franklin, North Carolina, USA, the station is currently owned by Sutton Radiocasting Corporation, and features programming from ABC Radio and Jones Radio Network. Its main radio tower is located on Cowee Mountain, along with W267AD 101.3 and W285FD 104.9, and construction permits for W265AZ 100.9 and W262CE on 92.9.

W267AD and W285FD are listed as having WNCC as their primary station, and WNCC provided digital notification to the FCC, indicating that they are being used as a legal fiction for circumventing both local ownership caps and the rulemaking process of getting new stations on the air by simulcasting on WNCC's "HD Radio" digital subchannels. These supposed "broadcast translators" are instead intended to retransmit the main analog audio to areas blocked by the mountains, and are prohibited from carrying their own programming. W265AZ also shows WNCC as its primary station, but is still located atop Wayah Bald west of Franklin, and unlike the first two is not owned by Sutton. W262CE is owned by Sutton, but lists WFSC AM 1050 in Franklin as its primary station, and is currently at 100.3 on Black Rock Mountain in a state park near Clayton, Georgia (where it is outside of WFSC's broadcast range, which is not permitted by the FCC). W267AD has Cherokee, North Carolina as its city of license, the others are all Franklin. W262CE has an effective power of 130 watts, while all of the others (including WNCC itself) are at or very close to 115 watts at the same height, indicating that they all share a single radio antenna through a diplexer.

History

At one time, this station played adult contemporary music with the broadcast callsign WRFR.^[1] It became WNCC-FM in 1999, just WNCC in 2004, re-adding the suffix again in 2005 until removing it yet again in 2014.

Due to RF interference with several other nearby stations on the same frequency or adjacent frequencies, WNCC had applied to move to 104.1 MHz.^[2] The station was issued a license to operate on that frequency on April 21, 2016, having previously been on 96.7 with 6000 watts at −101 meters (−331 ft) below the average local terrain. In July 2016, it signed on a co-channel booster station WNCC-FM1, located immediately south of downtown Bryson City and transmitting 40 watts of effective radiated power.

References

↑ "Salo Online Reports". Retrieved 2009-08-25.
↑ http://news.radio-online.com/fcc/actions/AC090227.PDF,[] Retrieved on 2009-08-25.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WNCC

Radio-Locator information on WNCC

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WNCC

Country radio stations in the state of North Carolina

Stations	WACB – Taylorsville WAGY – Forest City WBHN – Bryson City WBRM – Marion WCAB – Rutherfordton WCBT – Roanoke Rapids WCMS-FM – Hatteras WCOK – Sparta WCVP – Murphy WCVP-FM – Robbinsville WDSL – Mocksville WDWG – Rocky Mount WFSC – Franklin WHKP - Hendersonville WIST-FM – Thomasville WIXE – Monroe WIZS – Henderson WKBC – North Wilkesboro WKJO- Smithfield WKKT – Statesville WKML – Lumberton WKRK – Murphy WKRX – Roxboro WKSF – Old Fort WKSK – West Jefferson WKVS – Lenoir WKXR – Asheboro WKYK – Burnsville WMMY – Jefferson WMNC – Morganton WMNC-FM – Morganton WMPM – Smithfield WNBB – Bayboro WNCB – Cary WNCC – Franklin WNTB – Topsail Beach WOHS – Shelby WPAQ – Mount Airy WPAW – Winston-Salem WPCM – Burlington-Graham WPTL – Canton WPTM – Roanoke Rapids WPYB – Benson WQDK – Gatesville WQDR-FM – Raleigh WQSL – Jacksonville WQZL – Belhaven WRHD – Williamston WRHT – Morehead City WRNS – Kinston WRNS-FM – Kinston WRSF – Columbia WSME – Camp Lejeune WSOC-FM – Charlotte WTAB – Tabor City WTQR – Winston-Salem WUDE – Bolivia WWGP – Sanford WWMY – Beech Mountain WWQQ-FM – Wilmington WYRN – Louisburg WZGM – Black Mountain WZKT – Walnut Creek

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in North Carolina

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/31/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.