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- WKXQ_(defunct) abstract "WKXQ (1600 AM) was an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Reidsville, North Carolina. WKXQ was one of three radio stations licensed to operate in the city and one of seven that once operated in Rockingham County, North Carolina. The station was licensed to broadcast on 1600 kHz. Its power output was 1,000 watts and used a three tower antenna system, broadcasting both day and night at full power from the transmitter site located on North Carolina Highway 87, west of Reidsville.The station was initially licensed in 1947 as WFRC. The original studios were located in downtown Reidsville at the corner of South Scales and Gilmer Streets, one block south of the city's American Civil War memorial monument. The programming audio was fed by a telephone loop to the transmitter site on NC Highway 87, which also served as residence for the engineering staff. In the early 1970s, the owners of WFRC moved the studios and offices to the transmitter site.Around 1979 or 1980, the station owners changed the call letters to WKXQ, which was changed again to WRNC in 1982. In 1987, due to competition from FM stations in the nearby Greensboro, North Carolinam market, the station signed off for several months under silent authority, but later returned as a daytime broadcast only station. With failing equipment and revenue, WRNC finally signed off the air for good later that year and the owners surrendered the license to the FCC. In the early 1990s, all of the station's equipment and property was auctioned off, and the station and transmitter site is now owned by the Sunnycrest Church of Christ of Reidsville and used for youth related activities.The three tower array was used only at night. During daytime operations, only the center tower emitted the broadcast signal. The night signal pattern was northwest and southeast. Until the late 1970s, the station used one transmitter, a tube type Raytheon RA-1000, but it later became a back-up when the station purchased a solid state Harris Corporation transmitter. The station switched signal patterns at night using a Gates antenna phasor. Under all three call signs, the station was an ABC News Radio affiliate station and aired news and sports from the ABC Entertainment Network. It was also an Associated Press newswire station as well as a Tobacco Radio Network affiliate.".
- WKXQ_(defunct) broadcastArea Rockingham_County,_North_Carolina.
- WKXQ_(defunct) city North_Carolina.
- WKXQ_(defunct) city Reidsville,_North_Carolina.
- WKXQ_(defunct) frequency "1600000.0".
- WKXQ_(defunct) language English_language.
- WKXQ_(defunct) wikiPageID "20767614".
- WKXQ_(defunct) wikiPageRevisionID "563040808".
- WKXQ_(defunct) area Rockingham_County,_North_Carolina.
- WKXQ_(defunct) city North_Carolina.
- WKXQ_(defunct) city Reidsville,_North_Carolina.
- WKXQ_(defunct) frequency "1600.0".
- WKXQ_(defunct) hasPhotoCollection WKXQ_(defunct).
- WKXQ_(defunct) language English_language.
- WKXQ_(defunct) name "WKXQ".
- WKXQ_(defunct) power "1000".
- WKXQ_(defunct) subject Category:1947_establishments_in_North_Carolina.
- WKXQ_(defunct) subject Category:Defunct_radio_stations_in_the_United_States.
- WKXQ_(defunct) subject Category:Radio_stations_established_in_1947.
- WKXQ_(defunct) subject Category:Radio_stations_in_North_Carolina.
- WKXQ_(defunct) type Artifact100021939.
- WKXQ_(defunct) type BroadcastingStation102903405.
- WKXQ_(defunct) type DefunctRadioStationsInTheUnitedStates.
- WKXQ_(defunct) type Facility103315023.
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- WKXQ_(defunct) type RadioStation104044119.
- WKXQ_(defunct) type RadioStationsInNorthCarolina.
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- WKXQ_(defunct) comment "WKXQ (1600 AM) was an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Reidsville, North Carolina. WKXQ was one of three radio stations licensed to operate in the city and one of seven that once operated in Rockingham County, North Carolina. The station was licensed to broadcast on 1600 kHz.".
- WKXQ_(defunct) label "WKXQ (defunct)".
- WKXQ_(defunct) sameAs m.056qd8j.
- WKXQ_(defunct) sameAs Q17063806.
- WKXQ_(defunct) sameAs Q17063806.
- WKXQ_(defunct) sameAs WKXQ_(defunct).
- WKXQ_(defunct) wasDerivedFrom WKXQ_(defunct)?oldid=563040808.
- WKXQ_(defunct) isPrimaryTopicOf WKXQ_(defunct).
- WKXQ_(defunct) name "WKXQ".