Broadcast area | Charlotte metropolitan area |
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Frequency | 1370 kHz |
Branding | Streetz 103.3 & 100.5 |
Programming | |
Format | Mainstream urban |
Ownership | |
Owner | Frank Neely |
Operator | Core Communications |
History | |
First air date | 1948 |
Former call signs | WLTC (1948–2005) |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 22027 |
Class | D |
Power |
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Transmitter coordinates | 35°12′45.00″N 80°52′6.00″W / 35.2125000°N 80.8683333°W |
Translator(s) |
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Repeater(s) | 1220 WDYT (Kings Mountain) |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | streetz1033clt.com |
WGIV (1370 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Pineville, North Carolina, and serving the Charlotte metropolitan area. It airs an mainstream urban radio format. WGIV is owned by Frank Neely, but the station is operated by Steve Hedgwood's Core Communications, which owns a similar trimulcast in Atlanta of W233BF, WIPK and WFDR.
By day, WGIV is powered at 16,000 watts. To protect other stations on 1370 AM, it reduces power at night to 45 watts. WGIV is simulcast on FM translators W277CB at 103.3 MHz and W263CY at 100.5 MHz, both of which are licensed to Charlotte. Programming is also heard on WDYT (1220 AM) in Kings Mountain and its FM translator on 104.1 MHz.