City | Chincoteague, Virginia |
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Broadcast area |
Chincoteague, Virginia Accomac, Virginia Pocomoke City, Maryland |
Branding | "Wow 101-5" |
Slogan | "That's Country!" |
Frequency | 101.5 FM MHz |
First air date | August 29, 2016 |
Format | Country |
Power | 5,000 Watts |
HAAT | 72 meters (236 ft) |
Class | A |
Facility ID | 198743 |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°51′15.0″N 75°33′19.0″W / 37.854167°N 75.555278°W |
Former callsigns | WOWZ (2016-2017) WIEZ (2017) |
Affiliations | CBS Radio News |
Owner | GSB Broadcasting (Jackman Holding Company, LLC) |
Sister stations | WCTG, WICO-FM |
Webcast | WOWZ-FM Webstream |
Website | WOWZ-FM Online |
WOWZ-FM is a Country-formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Chincoteague, Virginia, serving Chincoteague and Accomac in Virginia and Pocomoke City in Maryland. WOWZ-FM is owned and operated by GSB Broadcasting.
WOWZ-FM signed on for the first time on August 29, 2016 as WOWZ and began stunting with a "wheel of formats". At 10 AM the next day, the station officially launched with a Country format, branded as "Wow 101-5". The first song on "Wow" was "Gone Country" by Alan Jackson. The station changed its call sign to WIEZ on April 3, 2017, and to the current WOWZ-FM on May 5, 2017.