Branding Pirate Radio | ||
Frequency WDLX: 930 kHzWGHB: 1250 kHz Power WDLX: 5,000 watts day1,000 watts nightWGHB: 5,000 watts day2,500 watts night | ||
WDLX (930 AM) and WGHB (1250 AM) are radio stations broadcasting a Sports Talk format. The WDLX/WGHB simulcast is currently owned by Pirate Media Group.
Licensed to Washington, North Carolina, USA, WDLX serves the Greenville-New Bern area. The station signed on the air 3 Mar 1942 as WRRF. The calls stood for "We Radiate Real Friendship". By 1963, the calls had changed to WITN, owing largely to the eyeWITNess news format adopted by owner Bill Roberson's also-run TV station. Roberson had also signed on sister FM station WITN-FM at 93.3 mHz (today's WERO) on 6 Sep 1961. These stations shared the same callsigns on FM and AM until 1985, when the FM facility became WDLX-FM 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-FM to WERO as the station adopted an Arrow 93.3 moniker and a classic hits format; to protect the copyright to the call letters, they switched WRRF-AM to WDLX-AM, although no change was made in its talk format.
WDLX is today the flagship station for East Carolina University Pirates athletics and also broadcasts Carolina Hurricanes games. Starting in 2010, WDLX aired the Baltimore Orioles.
WGHB is licensed to Farmville, North Carolina and was once WFAG, meaning "Watch Farmville Area Grow". These two stations are not related to pirate radio, deriving their name instead from the East Carolina Pirates.