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| Broadcast area | Greenville-New Bern |
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| Branding | Pirate Radio |
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| Format | Sports |
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| Owner | Pirate Media Group |
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| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | pirateradio930.com |
WDLX (930AM and 104.1 FM) andWGHB (1250AM and 92.7 FM) areradio stations broadcasting asports format. The WDLX/WGHB simulcast is currently owned by Pirate Media Group, LLC.
Licensed toWashington, North Carolina, United States, WDLX serves the Greenville-New Bern area. The station signed on the air March 3, 1942 as WRRF.[4] The calls stood for "We Radiate Real Friendship". In 1962, the call letters were changed to WITN, owing largely to theeyeWITNess news format adopted by owner Bill Roberson's television station,WITN-TV. Roberson had also signed on sister FM station WITN-FM at 93.3 MHz (today'sWERO) on September 6, 1961.[5] These stations shared the same callsigns on FM and AM until 1985, when the FM facility became WDLX and the AM reverted to the WRRF calls. They shared the same building until about 2004.
In 1996, new owner Pinnacle Broadcasting changed the calls for WDLX to WERO as the station adopted an Arrow 93.3 moniker and aclassic hits format; to protect the copyright to the call letters, they switched WRRF to WDLX, although no change was made in itstalk format.
WDLX and WGHB now operate as 104.1 FM and 92.7 FM in the Greenville/Washington/New Bern media market. They are simulcast and they operate as Pirate Radio. They are known as "The Voice of the Pirate Nation." The current format is sports talk radio and they have and they broadcast live shows from Greenville, NC. They are focused around East Carolina University Athletics with live local shows Pirate Radio Live (3-6 PM weekly), The Brian Bailey Show, and the Holton Ahlers Show (among others). During ECU Football games, they host a pregame show as well as a post game call-in show. Starting in 2010, WDLX aired theBaltimore Orioles.
These two stations are not related topirate radio, deriving their name instead from the East Carolina University Pirates.
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