WNOH (105.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Windsor, Virginia, serving the Hampton Roads radio market in Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. WNOH is owned and operated by iHeartMedia. The station airs an African American-oriented all-news radio format, as an affiliate of the Black Information Network. WNOH's studios and offices are on Norfolk Square in Norfolk, Virginia. The transmitter is off Nansemond Parkway in Suffolk, Virginia. WNOH broadcasts at 50,000 watts, the maximum power for the Hampton Roads section of Virginia, although a few FM stations in the market are powered at 100,000 watts if their towers are located near or over the North Carolina state line. (WGH-FM is grandfathered at 74,000 watts.) WNOH broadcasts in the HD Radio format; its HD-2 subchannel carries hip hop/R&B music from iHeartRadio's "Master of the Mix" service, while its HD-3 subchannel carries "K-Love," a contemporary Christian format from the Educational Media Foundation. History Early years as WXRI On August 3, 1962, WXRI signed on the air on 104.5 MHz, licensed to Norfolk. It was owned by the Christian Broadcasting Network, headed by Pat Robertson, and carried a Christian radio format for 27 years, but it started with an antiquated 3,000-watt transmitter located in an abandoned garage. A year after signing on, it was approved to move to its present 105.3 MHz and increased its transmitter power to 50,000 watts. CBN, then headquartered in Portsmouth, also owned WYAH-TV (channel 27, now WGNT), and the two stations shared studio facilities on Spratley Street in Portsmouth. In 1981, the format was modified to what was described as a "sanitized secular format" in preparation for planned syndication throughout the U.S. by CBN's Continental Radio division. The format mixed Christian contemporary songs with adult contemporary music, avoiding overt proselytism of religious views. Oldies WZCL and smooth jazz WJCD The 1989 sale of WXRI to Win Communications severed CBN's ties to the station and prompted the station's call sign to change to WZCL. The Christian format initially moved to 96.1 WKSV, which received CBN's music library, hired most of its former DJs and even considered changing its call letters to WXRI. WZCL went through a period of stunting with everything from album rock to beautiful music. On May 19, the new WZCL became "Cool 105" with an oldies format. On September 3, 1990, after briefly stunting with country music, WZCL became adult contemporary-formatted WMXN, "Mix 105".