Programming
WWVA's weekday programming is identical to that of most Clear Channel news talk stations, carrying Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, and George Noory. The station opts for paid programming in the late nights.
Until 2009, unlike most Clear Channel news talk stations, WWVA did not air Coast to Coast AM. Instead, it aired America's Trucking Network (still listing it as Truckin' Bozo on the schedule, even several years after the show changed its name) originating from sister station WLW. The truck show had been a longtime staple of WWVA's nighttime schedule. WWVA was one of the first stations to syndicate The Truckin' Bozo (as well as one of the last; outside of WLW, only one other terrestrial station still carries the syndicated program), and even before that, Buddy Ray hosted a longtime truck show on the station. The truck programming was unceremoniously dropped in 2009, replaced with Coast to Coast, already available from the many other AM signals that penetrate the area.
Its radio signals can be picked up quite strongly in as far away as Toronto, Ontario, giving Toronto the ability to hear such programs which are not permitted to air in Toronto due to Canadian content regulations.
WWVA relies on a fairly large amount of paid and religious programming during the evening and weekend hours. It is one of a handful of 50,000 watt AM stations that still do this practice, including WCKY in Cincinnati, Ohio and KXEL in Waterloo, Iowa.
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