WELD (AM)

WELD (690 kHz) is a commercial oldies and classic hits formatted broadcast AM radio station licensed to Fisher, West Virginia, serving the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia. WELD is owned and operated by Thunder Associates, LLC.

WELD

Fisher, West Virginia
Broadcast area	Potomac Highlands of West Virginia
Frequency	690 kHz
Branding	690 WELD Radio
Programming
Format	Oldies–classic hits
Affiliations	ABC News Radio Westwood One
Ownership
Owner	Thunder Associates, LLC
Sister stations	WELD-FM WQWV
History
First air date	1956
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	60923
Class	D
Power	3,000 watts daytime 500 watts critical hours 14 watts nighttime
Transmitter coordinates	39°3′8.4″N 79°0′20.1″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS

By day, WELD is powered at 3,000 watts, using a non-directional antenna. But because 690 AM is a Canadian and Mexican clear channel frequency reserved for Class A stations CKGM in Montreal and XEWW in Rosarito, WELD reduce power during critical hours, and reduce power at night to 14 watts.

History

By the 1950s, Richard Field Lewis Jr. (1907–1957) had added WELD (AM) to the Richard Field Lewis Jr. Stations (later Mid Atlantic Network Inc.).^[2][3][4]