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WVNA (AM)

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City
  
Tuscumbia, Alabama

Frequency
  
1590 kHz

Format
  
News/Talk

Branding
  
Newstalk 1590

First air date
  
April 5, 1955

Broadcast area
  
Florence-Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Area

WVNA (1590 AM) is licensed to Tuscumbia, Alabama. The format is news/talk. The station featured talk programming and extensive local/regional news coverage with a local news department on staff. The station is owned by URBan Radio Broadcasting and is part of a six station cluster operated by URBan in North Alabama/Southern Tennessee.

The station ceased transmitting on December 15, 2014.

WVNA positioned itself as a radio station "where all sides have their say". Thus, the station aired both conservative and liberal talk show hosts.

The WVNA call letters stand for "(The) Voice of North Alabama".

Presently, the station's News Director is Ron Jordan, Commander Chuck oversees the Weather department and Brian Rickman is the Program Director.

Overnight, the station broadcast the syndicated Coast to Coast AM hosted by George Noory.

References

WVNA (AM) Wikipedia