WNCB
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| City | Cary, North Carolina |
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| Broadcast area |
Raleigh/Durham Research Triangle Fayetteville |
| Branding | B93.9 |
| Slogan | Carolina's New Country |
| Frequency | 93.9 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | February 24, 1947 (as WFNS-FM) |
| Format | Country |
| Audience share | 2.7 (Fall'08 P2, R&R) |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 453 meters (1,486 ft) |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 53596 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°42′50.00″N 78°49′4.00″W / 35.7138889°N 78.8177778°W |
| Callsign meaning | New Country B93.9 |
| Former callsigns | WFNS-FM (1947-1960) WBAG-FM (1960-1983) WBAG (1983-1984) WZZU (1984-1996) WRSN (1996-2006) WKSL (2007-2014) |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Capstar TX LLC) |
| Sister stations | WDCG, WRDU, WTKK, W237BZ |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | b939online.com |
WNCB, known as "B93.9", is a country music radio station that serves the Raleigh-Durham market of North Carolina. It is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc., whose sister stations include G105, 106.1 FM, Classic Rock 100.7 WRDU and 95X (WDCG-HD2).
The station was formerly licensed to Burlington, North Carolina, which is part of the Piedmont Triad market. However, the station changed its city of license to Cary after moving its transmitter from Terrell's Mountain in Chatham County to the former WLFL-TV analog tower in Apex, along with G105 in the spring of 2008. WNCB's studios are located at Clear Channel's Triangle facility in Raleigh.
WNCB broadcasts in the HD radio format.
WFNS 1150 and WFNS-FM 93.9 simultaneously signed on from Burlington February 24, 1947. The stations were owned by the Burlington-Graham Broadcasting Company. In 1964, the stations became WBAG and WBAG-FM. Prior to its move into the Triangle market, the station went by the call letters WBAG-FM. It was also the place that John Isley of John-Boy and Billy fame got his start in the radio business in the mid-1970s.
In 1984, WBAG-FM successfully completed its move and changed its call letters to WZZU-FM, It went by the handle "94Z" and carried a Top 40 format to compete with future sister station G105. At the time, WZZU was owned by Chapel Hill-based The Village Companies (now VilCom), who also owned WCHL. 94Z was credited with pioneering the "Morning zoo" concept in the Triangle area, which featured mostly on-air banter amongst the personalities and numerous comedic bits. In 1989, the station changed formats from Top 40 to rock and branded itself "U93.9", competing with WRDU. WZZU also picked up the UNC Tar Heels from WQDR-FM.
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