WNOS

WNOS (1450 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a talk radio format. Licensed to New Bern, North Carolina, it serves the New Bern area. The station is owned by CTC Media Group. In addition to sports talk from Fox Sports Radio, it also carries Westwood One's Dennis Miller show, the self-syndicated Laura Ingraham show, and Salem Media's Michael Medved and Dennis Prager.

WNOS

New Bern, North Carolina
Frequency	1450 kHz
Branding	NEWS Talk 103.9 FM 1450 AM
Programming
Format	News/Talk/Sports
Affiliations	Fox Sports Radio, Westwood One, ABC Radio, Wall Street Journal, Talk Radio Network
Ownership
Owner	CTC Media Group
History
First air date	1942 (as WHIT)
Former call signs	WHIT (1942-?) WJQI (?-1988)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	54363
Class	C
Power	1,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates	35°06′03″N 77°04′33″W
Translator(s)	102.3 MHz W272EK (New Bern)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	WNOS Online

History

WHIT signed on in 1942 as the first radio station in Craven County, North Carolina. The letters stood for "Where Hospitality Is Traditional".^[2] Later, WHIT was a country station. However, WHIT was a successful Top-40 station in the 70's, taking advantage of the "HIT" moniker.

In 1982, what was then WJQI "Radio Joy" hired Bill Benjamin, who left after the station was sold the next year. Benjamin was asked in 1988 by investors to manage the station and be one of the owners of what by then was WNOS; the transaction never happened.^[3]