WVSG (AM)
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WVSG "St.Gabriel Radio" (for "V oice of Saint Gabriel") is a planned non-commercial radio station which is scheduled to take the place of the current WOSU (AM)
820 kHz in Columbus, Ohio
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St.Gabriel Radio airs local Catholic programming in addition to programming from EWTN Global Catholic Radio. AM 820 broadcasts with 5,000 watts daytime and 790 watts directional in the evenings and overnights from their respective transmitter sites located near Upper Arlington and Grove City. St.Gabriel programming currently exists on WVKO (AM)
1580 kHz until the sign-on of WVSG takes place and St.Gabriel programming on WVKO will cease.
St. Gabriel Radio is the first fulltime Catholic radio broadcaster in central Ohio.
The transition of St. Gabriel from 1580 to 820 AM is scheduled to take place on Tuesday December 20, 2011 at 6pm during the local airing of "The Local Spotlight Show" beginning at 5pm on WVKO (AM)
1580 kHz in Columbus
and the program continuing and concluding on WVSG afterward. WOSU radio programming as a news/talk format from National Public Radio will continue on WOSU-FM
89.7 mHz while WVKO's format switch is unknown at this time.
The final broadcast day (with its final sign-off and demise) for WOSU-AM is planned for December 9, 2011.
1580 in Columbus from owner Bernard Ohio LLC with intention to later purchase the station as its signal better reaches Columbus than the directional and less powerful signal of WUCO. WVKO-AM previously aired a liberal progressive talk format. Both WUCO and WVKO aired in simulcast until WUCO was sold in January of 2010 to ICS Communications which is now WQTT airing an oldies format with the studio moved back to Marysville. It was that same year when The Ohio State University announced that WOSU (AM)
with a powerful five thousand watt daytime signal (790 watts evenings) covering most of Central Ohio and surrounding regions was put up for sale...which convinced St.Gabriel Radio to purchase it on September 21, 2011 instead of WVKO. Their fundraiser "Leave a Legacy" then focused on purchasing WOSU-AM. The sale and transfer of license from The Ohio State University was approved by the FCC on November 7, 2011.
St.Gabriel Radio also owns and operates WFOT-FM 89.5 mHz licensed to Lexington
and serving the Mansfield
area as a near-simulcast of the AM station. WFOT made its on-air debut in February of 2007.
WOSU (AM)
WOSU WOSU WOSU (820 AM is a National Public Radio news and talk radio station located in Columbus, Ohio and serving the Columbus metro area. WOSU is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as a daytime and nighttime radio station, operating with a non-directional power of 5 kW...
820 kHz in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...
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St.Gabriel Radio airs local Catholic programming in addition to programming from EWTN Global Catholic Radio. AM 820 broadcasts with 5,000 watts daytime and 790 watts directional in the evenings and overnights from their respective transmitter sites located near Upper Arlington and Grove City. St.Gabriel programming currently exists on WVKO (AM)
WVKO (AM)
WVKO is an American AM radio station licensed to broadcast in Columbus, Ohio.WVKO changed from a progressive talk format to Catholic radio programming, provided by Columbus-based St. Gabriel Radio....
1580 kHz until the sign-on of WVSG takes place and St.Gabriel programming on WVKO will cease.
St. Gabriel Radio is the first fulltime Catholic radio broadcaster in central Ohio.
The transition of St. Gabriel from 1580 to 820 AM is scheduled to take place on Tuesday December 20, 2011 at 6pm during the local airing of "The Local Spotlight Show" beginning at 5pm on WVKO (AM)
WVKO (AM)
WVKO is an American AM radio station licensed to broadcast in Columbus, Ohio.WVKO changed from a progressive talk format to Catholic radio programming, provided by Columbus-based St. Gabriel Radio....
1580 kHz in Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...
and the program continuing and concluding on WVSG afterward. WOSU radio programming as a news/talk format from National Public Radio will continue on WOSU-FM
WOSU-FM
WOSU-FM — branded 89.7fm NPR News — is a National Public Radio news and talk radio station licensed to Columbus, Ohio and serving the Columbus metro area. It is owned by Ohio State University. The station has multiple repeaters throughout the U.S...
89.7 mHz while WVKO's format switch is unknown at this time.
The final broadcast day (with its final sign-off and demise) for WOSU-AM is planned for December 9, 2011.
St.Gabriel Radio breif history
St.Gabriel Radio Inc.purchased WUCO 1270 kHz in Marysville from Frontier Broadcasting in 2005 making it the first fulltime Catholic station in Ohio. WUCO previously aired country music when it first signed-on in 1984. In the 1990s it later switched to Adult Contemporary. It moved its studio and office base to Columbus as it is the hub of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus, thus increasing its volunteer and listener base. In 2007,St. Gabriel Radio proposed to lease WVKO (AM)WVKO (AM)
WVKO is an American AM radio station licensed to broadcast in Columbus, Ohio.WVKO changed from a progressive talk format to Catholic radio programming, provided by Columbus-based St. Gabriel Radio....
1580 in Columbus from owner Bernard Ohio LLC with intention to later purchase the station as its signal better reaches Columbus than the directional and less powerful signal of WUCO. WVKO-AM previously aired a liberal progressive talk format. Both WUCO and WVKO aired in simulcast until WUCO was sold in January of 2010 to ICS Communications which is now WQTT airing an oldies format with the studio moved back to Marysville. It was that same year when The Ohio State University announced that WOSU (AM)
WOSU (AM)
WOSU WOSU WOSU (820 AM is a National Public Radio news and talk radio station located in Columbus, Ohio and serving the Columbus metro area. WOSU is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as a daytime and nighttime radio station, operating with a non-directional power of 5 kW...
with a powerful five thousand watt daytime signal (790 watts evenings) covering most of Central Ohio and surrounding regions was put up for sale...which convinced St.Gabriel Radio to purchase it on September 21, 2011 instead of WVKO. Their fundraiser "Leave a Legacy" then focused on purchasing WOSU-AM. The sale and transfer of license from The Ohio State University was approved by the FCC on November 7, 2011.
St.Gabriel Radio also owns and operates WFOT-FM 89.5 mHz licensed to Lexington
Lexington, Ohio
Lexington is a village in Richland County in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is part of the Mansfield, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,822 at the 2010 census, an increase from 4,165 in 2000....
and serving the Mansfield
Mansfield, Ohio
Mansfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Richland County. The municipality is located in north-central Ohio in the western foothills of the Allegheny Plateau, approximately southwest of Cleveland and northeast of Columbus....
area as a near-simulcast of the AM station. WFOT made its on-air debut in February of 2007.