History of Broadcasting in West Virginia

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• A list of the earliest West Virginia radio stations
• Complete lists of West Virginia stations: 1922 through 1950, 1935, 1947 (FM), 1956, 1969, 1986, 1995, 1997, 2001
• Origins of West Virginia broadcast call letters
• Did a West Virginian invent radio?
• Beckley: WJLS, WWNR, WCIR, WCFC, WSWP-TV
• Bluefield: WHAJ (1922), WHIS, WHIS-TV/WVVA
• Buckhannon: WBUC, WBTQ, and WBUC-FM/WBRB
• Charleston: WAAO, WOBU/WCHS, WCHS-TV, WKNA/WKAZ/WQBE, WKNA-TV, WKNA(FM) (1960), WCAW & WVAF, WTIP, WGKV/WHMS/WTGR/WHMS/WGKV/WXIT/WCZR/WSWW, WTSQ
• Clarksburg: WBOY-TV, WBLK, WHAR
• Fairmont: WMMN, WTCS
• Fayetteville: WVBD
• Fisher: WELD
• Frost: WVMR
• Grafton: WVVW/WKGA/WTBZ/WVUS
• Hinton: WMTD
• Huntington: WSAZ/WGNT/WRVC, WSAZ-TV, WCMI and WCMI-FM/WAMX/WRVC-FM/WDGG, WHTN/WKEE, WHTN-TV/WOWK, WPLH/WWHY/WKSD/WWHY/WHRD/WEMM WTCR and WVQM/WTCR-FM
• Hurricane: WPNS/WZTQ/WVKV/WOKU/WIHY/WMUX
• Keyser: WKYR
• Lewisburg: WVSX/WVNS-TV
• Logan: WLOG, WVOW
• Madison: WWBB
• Matewan: WHJC(AM) and WVKM(FM)
• Miami: WVCM/WLZT/WKAZ
• Middlebourne: WRSG
• Milton: WNST/WZZW and WNST-FM/WAEZ-FM/WZZW/WZZW-FM/WAMX
• Morgantown: WHD, WAJR, WCLG
• Mount Hope: WTNJ
• Oak Hill: WOAY Radio/TV
• Parkersburg: WCEF/WADC and WCEF-FM/WIBZ/WMGP, WPAR/WIKS/WLTP, WCOM/WTAP/WKYG, WTAP-TV
• Pineville: WWYO
• Princeton: WLOH/WAEY/WPVO
• Rainelle: WRRL
• Ravenswood: WMOV
• Ronceverte: WRON
• St. Albans: WKLC
• St. Mary’s: WRRR-FM and WVVW/WJAW
• South Charleston: WRDS/WSCW and WSCW-FM/WJYP/WMXE
• Spencer: WSPZ/WVRC
• Welch: WBRW and WMCD/WOVE/WXEE, WELC
• Weston: WJPB-TV/WDTV, WHAW and WHAW-FM/WSSN/WFBY
• Wheeling: WWVA, WTRF, WBZE/WNEU/WUNI/WZMM/WBBD/WOHZ/WKKX, WKWK
• Williamson: WBTH/WXCC
• Non-commercial Stations
• Summit Media Stations
• W. Va. Broadcasting Hall of Fame
• Marshall University Tragedy
• Sound Files
• Mountainet
• Links to other West Virginia broadcasting web pages

This site is maintained by Jeff Miller (Box 641, New Port Richey FL 34656), who worked at WJLS in the 1970s.