WDGR1210, Dahlonega, GA

[alok]

This station no longer exist, but does anybody remember it ?

I recall when it went on the air in the 80's, at first it stayed on at night, naturally 1210 in Philadelphia complained but the GA station said their license gave them nightime operation too.
I don't know what exactly happened, maybe an FCC error?
The station quickly stopped transmitting at night and became a daytimer at 10kw, as intended.

It looks like the station went off the air sometime in the early 2000's.

Anybody remember this ?

Al

 

[knoxbob]

According to Broadcast yearbook it signed on as a 500 daytimer in March of '82 @1520. And then moved to 1210 at 10kw daytimer about a year later. Nothing noted about nighttime power. Michael Hollifield president and GM. Kevin Croom VP.

 

[alok]

Thanks for the info. I recall the DX club I am in talked much about this station, when it stayed on at night, back years ago. They didn't stay on long after 1210 in Philadelphia, as I said complained. I doubt it was more then afew days to a week at the most.

Al

 

[Voicetrack of Reason]

WDGR filed a couple different upgrade applications to change their TL and COL to Lawrenceville, with the goal of providing coverage over Atlanta, but couldn't quite get it together. The plan was to serve the Asian population. Years of both money and time were wasted on this endeavor. I am sure the great recession didn't help. There's probably someone else here who can elaborate on this.

 

[trusty]

According to Broadcast yearbook it signed on as a 500 daytimer in March of '82 @1520. And then moved to 1210 at 10kw daytimer about a year later. Nothing noted about nighttime power. Michael Hollifield president and GM. Kevin Croom VP.

According to my records, WDGR/1210 went silent in 2008 (but not all the time). It then returned in 2010 with 10kw-D and 2.5kw critical hours with a CP to move to Lawrenceville with 20kw-D, 12kw-CH and 1kw-N (which was never granted) (and it was still not on the air all the time). It then gave up when its tower and office/studios (in a trailer at the base of the tower) were demolished in 2017.

Now, to make the story more complicated, there was WISK/1390, a 5kw Daytimer down in Americus, that moved to Lawrenceville in 2011 on 990kHz with 1kw-D (and tried to add 25 watt-N, but didn't get it). It later upped to 2.5kw-D in 2016.

There MAY be a relationship between the ownership of WDGR and WISK, but I'm not sure.

Also, WDGR could have maybe stayed on the air in Dahlonega if its management had just walked out the door of the trailer and did some panning in the creek that flowed through its property (the creek was loaded with gold).