Editing WPGC-FM (section)

===WBUZ===
The station [[signed on]] the air on January 18, 1948, at 7&nbsp;a.m., on the 96.7 frequency with the WBUZ [[call letters]]. WBUZ was owned by Arthur Baldwin Curtis, president of Chesapeake Broadcasting Company, Incorporated, and was located in Bradbury Heights.<ref>{{cite web|title=AM/FM Morningside|url=http://www.amandfmmorningside.com/wpgc_a_brief_history.html|publisher=AMFM Morningside}}</ref> WBUZ-FM broadcasting at 420 watts effective radiated power. The call letters were a play on the word "bus", as WBUZ broadcast background music for a [[Prince George's County, Maryland]] based bus company.<ref name="amandfm">{{cite web|title=AM/FM Morningside WBUZ era of WPGC|url=http://www.amandfmmorningside.com/wpgc_saga_of_wbuz.html|publisher=AMFM Morningside}}</ref>

In May 1953, WBUZ-FM raised power to 6,300 watts and its [[city of license]] was changed to Oakland, Maryland (near [[District Heights, Maryland|District Heights]];<ref>{{cite web|title=GNIS Detail - Oakland|url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:3:2053617857172::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:597837,Oakland|publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names}}</ref> not the [[Oakland, Maryland|Western Maryland town]]). Then on June 8, 1953, the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) granted a permit to the station to raise power from 6.3 to 18 kilowatts. WBUZ-FM changed frequency from 96.7 to 95.5 Megahertz and power was reduced to 16.5 kilowatts from a new transmitter and tower site on Walker Mill Road in Oakland. The calls were changed to WRNC on March 30, 1956. By the end of the year, WRNC was simulcasting WPGC (AM). The ERP was reduced to 15.7 kilowatts while the power increase authorized for WPGC (AM) in 1955 to 10,000 watts daytime only.