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WEAL
WEAL ("Big WEAL") is a gospel radio station in Greensboro, North Carolina targeting African Americans. It is located at 1510 and broadcasts only during daylight hours allowing "clear channel" station WLAC in Nashville, Tennessee to cover the southern portion of the Atlantic coast. Owned by Entercom, the station's studios are located near Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, and a transmitter site is located downtown.
History.
After success with a similar station in Charlotte, Francis Fitzgerald started Greensboro's first
several choices.
Among WEAL's best-known DJs were Alfred G. Richard and "Merrill the Pearl" Watson. Fitzgerald hired Richard, who was already well known in South Carolina, for twice the money he was receiving. Additional announcers were Prince Ike, Sam the Sham Tate, The "Cookin Ty Miller", Tony "TonyB" Welborne, and Bob Jones.
Competition from FM radio and a daytime-only signal resulted in WEAL's decline.
In 1997, Sinclair Broadcast Group purchased WEAL and WQMG