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| Broadcast area | South-Central West Virginia |
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| Frequency | 950 AMkHz |
| Branding | 95 The Sports Fox |
| Programming | |
| Format | Sports[1] |
| Affiliations | Fox Sports Radio |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Bristol Broadcasting Company |
| WQBE-FM,WVSR-FM,WVTS,WYNL | |
| History | |
First air date | February 16,1957 (as WKAZ)[2] |
Former call signs | WKAZ (1957–1983) WQBE (1983–2001) WVTS (2001–2010) WBES (2010–Present)[3] |
Call sign meaning | "Beautiful Entertainment in Stereo" |
| Technical information[4] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 6873 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 5,000watts daytime 1,000watts nighttime |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°23′11.0″N81°42′51.0″W / 38.386389°N 81.714167°W /38.386389; -81.714167 |
| Translator | 92.7 W224EE (Charleston) |
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Public license information | |
WBES (950 AM) is asports formattedbroadcastradio station licensed toCharleston, West Virginia, serving South-Central West Virginia.[1] WBES is owned and operated byBristol Broadcasting Company.[5]
WKAZ signed on the air as aTop 40 station on February 16, 1957, and remained as a popular Top 40 station for the Charleston area for almost three decades. After losing the CHR battle against dominant leaderWVSR-FM as well as many listeners flipping to FM for contemporary hits in the early-1980s, WKAZ changed its call letters to WQBE and dropped Top 40 in 1983 and flipped to a country format. The station remained with the format until the station dropped music altogether in 2001 fortalk and remained like that until 2010 when the station flipped tosports after changing its callsign to WBES, featuring programming fromFox Sports Radio.
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