WLOA

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WLOA

City of license	Farrell, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area	Youngstown, Ohio
First air date	October 3, 1954 (as WFAR)
Frequency	1470 (kHz)
Format	oldies
Power	1,000 watts daytime 500 watts nighttime
Class	B
Owner	Beacon Broadcasting

WLOA is an AM radio station in Farrell, Pennsylvania, USA broadcasting at 1470 kHz. It is owned, along with other stations in nearby Warren, Ohio and Greenville, Pennsylvania, by Beacon Broadcasting, headed by Warren steel supply magnate Harold Glunt.

WLOA currently simulcasts an oldies format originating at Warren's WANR, which is also heard on WGRP in Greenville. WLOA and WGRP are also the Mercer County outlets for Pittsburgh Pirates baseball, broadcasts which are aired separately from WANR's oldies format.

The station first signed on the air as WFAR on October 3, 1954. After becoming WMGZ by 1986, the station has undergone a number of callsign changes—to WOJY in 1989; to WRQQ on March 18, 1991; to WICT on March 29, 1996; to WPAO on March 3, 1997; and to WLOA on February 18, 2003. Formats ranged from top 40 to oldies to easy listening music, with a number of religious formats along the way.

WPAO was sold by D&E Broadcasting to Holy Family Communications, which changed the call sign to WLOA on February 18, 2003 (to complement WLOF in Buffalo already owned by Holy Family) and which took over operations on March 4, 2003, making it the 60th Catholic radio station on the air in the United States. It was purchased by Glunt's Beacon Broadcasting on July 7, 2005.

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WLOA