From the Albany Herald. It's from 2010, but is an interesting read.
He's currently doing afternoons from 2 to 7 pm on WKAK, K-Country 104 in Albany.
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2010/jul/31/jaxon-riley-an-enduring-broadcast-personality/
I remember the days back in the mid to late 1970s before WJAD increased their power and tower height, all the young folks in Worth County were listening to Jaxon Riley on Super Q 1250 with static and everything. WALG was very popular although they were harder rock than Top 40 but GM Mark Shor was a super salesman and it was the top biller in the South GA area. Later the FM WWCW for the owner's initials, went country and took on daytimer 960 WJAZ which was a great sounding community oriented station owned and operated by Roy Dowdy. WJAZ gave WALG a run for their money on the local news image plus its 5KW on 960 covered a lot more ground than WALG's 5KW on 1590.
Originally WALB(become WALG when Gray sold radio off from TV in 1960 or 61) was gonna be on 1260 and the call sign was gonna be WHPB for Herald Publishing Broadcasting. However, owner Albany Herald used their influence to get a full time frequency in the newly expanded AM band which til 1941 only went to 1500. 1KW day and night using a two tower directional was assigned by the FCC. AM directionals were a new technology,. WALB and the other station in Albany, WGPC(moved in from Americus) were expensive to operate stations. Both had remote tower sites and in those days you had to have a full time engineer at the tower all the time. WGPC got into a long drawn out fight with WGOW in Valdosta then on 1450 (1420 before '41) and the compromise was to put WGPC's tower out several miles west of Albany. I think the FCC even gave them a waiver of certain signal requirements over the city of license.
When WJAD moved from the AM tower in Bainbridge with some 28,000 watts at 225 feet to 100KW on a 600 ft tower at Climax, the death of top 40 music on AM in South Georgia, began.That was about 1978 as I recall. WQDE was a daytimer and they had a unique sign off voiced by Jaxon. He would invite WQDE listeners to now tune to great radio stations like WABC, WLAC, WLS or WOWO then join us back here tomorrow
morning at 6 a.m. for another day of broadcasting on the Super Q....keep em away from WALG!
PS. Thank you, Cumulus Albany, for streaming K-Country 104!
