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FM Radio station in Columbus, Ohio located at 97.9MHz.
Plays mostly Top 40 music.
WNCI is consistently the #1 rated station in Central Ohio by Arbitron.
Currently owned by Clear Channel Communications. Previously owned by Jacor Communications Incorporated. Jacor acquired the assets of Nationwide Communications in 1997 for $620 million. WNCI was once the flagship station for the 17 radio station group Nationwide Communications, a division of the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. In fact, the call letters NCI stand for Nationwide Communications Inc.
Broadcast tower for the station is still located on the Nationwide building at One Nationwide Plaza in Columbus, along with the transmitters for sister stations WCOL and WFJX.
The station broadcasts with 175,000 watts of power, which is 3.5 times what would normally be permitted. The station is permitted to do so because it was operating with a 175,000 watt power output before current Federal Communications Commission regulations were enacted. There are only 6 FM stations in the United States that operate with more power.
WNCI started broadcasting in July of 1961 as WRFD-FM. (Although there is still a WRFD on the AM dial, it no longer has any affiliation with WNCI.)
Mornings, the station airs the popular WNCI Morning Zoo.
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