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iheart to launch black information network on WGST

Rick Rose 2.0 said:
i see that iheart decided to ditch the WGST calls, no sign of them being parked anywhere.
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IMHO: The WGST call letters are just call letters. Call letters mean very little to most of the folks that don't visit this site. The Atlanta Constitution has WGM The “second?” radio station in Atlanta “WGST” has WMAZ on it’s history card Nov 1927@ 1110 or 890 October 1929:

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/p...etimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=59394

I thought WMAZ was a Macon heritage station. The history cards on the FCC site have 1110 deferred, maybe David E. can decipher. The Wikipedia 920 WGKA (which I question) has the WBBF call letters which I don’t see in the FCC cards at all. But I guess everybody can accept after the “AM reshuffle” WGST was on 920
 
secondchoice said:
IMHO: The WGST call letters are just call letters. Call letters mean very little to most of the folks that don't visit this site.
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iHeart hasn't done a lot of call letter parking lately. CBS did it a lot. Disney is the only company that has found a way to make money with it. They license all the former ABC radio call letters to Cumulus (or their successors), especially the ones that have co-owned TV stations. CBS has done similar thing with Entercom. But unless there's a willing buyer for call letters, there's really no point in parking them anywhere. WGST perhaps might have value for the folks at Georgia State. We'll see if they pick them up.
 
TheBigA said:
iHeart hasn't done a lot of call letter parking lately. CBS did it a lot. Disney is the only company that has found a way to make money with it. They license all the former ABC radio call letters to Cumulus (or their successors), especially the ones that have co-owned TV stations. CBS has done similar thing with Entercom. But unless there's a willing buyer for call letters, there's really no point in parking them anywhere. WGST perhaps might have value for the folks at Georgia State. We'll see if they pick them up.
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Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology, formerly Georgia School of Technology, which is where GST came from), not Georgia State University.

But Georgia Tech now has WREK, which is more meaningful.
 
can we name a few call sings

All of you know meanings behind a few stations call signs? The oldest is Welcome south brothers guess.And WFDR Manchester Ga after the wheel chair bond president.And tv WAGA Atlanta Georgia,there more coming.
 
The two big Nashville AM's were owned by Insurance Companies. National Life and Accident owned 650 WSM: We Serve Millions. Life and Causality Of Tennessee had 1510 WLAC: Life And Causality. Tennessee's first station was WNOX Knoxville shame they could not get a "K". WHUB Cookeville TN was named for "the Hub City of the Cumberland Plateau. A couple of stations I worked at were the old WPTN Cookeville which is in Putnam county, WDBL Springfield TN the one time owners were Bell, Daniels and Locke. The manager at that time was Billy Gray. A former employee of the station named it Why Don't Billy Leave. Tennessee Tech University has WTTU. But my favorite station "name" and call letters that I worked at was KUIL Garden City Ks. Kansas Is Usually Listening.
 
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thread from WGST cond.

I have one WMTM from Moultrie Ga is Make-in the money
 
more can you think of

I thought another all the Alabama education station end in IQ WDIQ ect.
 
secondchoice said:
IMHO: The WGST call letters are just call letters. Call letters mean very little to most of the folks that don't visit this site. The Atlanta Constitution has WGM The “second?” radio station in Atlanta “WGST” has WMAZ on it’s history card Nov 1927@ 1110 or 890 October 1929:

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/p...etimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=59394

I thought WMAZ was a Macon heritage station. The history cards on the FCC site have 1110 deferred, maybe David E. can decipher. The Wikipedia 920 WGKA (which I question) has the WBBF call letters which I don’t see in the FCC cards at all. But I guess everybody can accept after the “AM reshuffle” WGST was on 920
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Looks like WGST and WMAZ shared frequencies in the 20’s and 30’s. I don’t think they shared time, but one was probably “deferred” to the other – thereby showing up on the others’ history card.
According to Radio Service Bulletins and other ancient publications thankfully provided online by David, the history goes something like this:
3/15/22 – Atlanta Journal starts WSB on 619 and 833kc in Atlanta.
3/17/22 – (2 days later) Atlanta Constitution starts WGM on 619 and 833kc in Atlanta.
Later that year, both stations combine 619 & 833 and move to 750kc.
10/30/22 – WMAZ starts on 833kc in Macon. Later that year, it moves to 1120kc.
1923 – both WSB and WGM move to 700, then to 710kc.
1924 – WSB moves back to 700. WGM moves to 1200. Ga. Tech starts WBBF in Atlanta on 1110kc. WMAZ moves to 1250.
1925 – WGM ends and donates its equipment to Ga. Tech and WBBF, which becomes WGST at 1110.
1927 – WSB moves to 630. WMAZ moves to 1110, sharing with WGST, but staying in Macon.
1928 – WSB moves to 740 where it stays until 1941. WGST and WMAZ move to 890.
1931 – WMAZ moves to 1180.
1941 – “The Big Switch” moves WSB to 750, WGST to 920, and WMAZ to 940.

Can't guarantee this is perfect, but it's as close as I could get. I didn't live in '24 or '25 (but sometimes I feel like it.:)
 
Looking for ones not on David's list of note...

WPLO 590 was named after the owner, Plough, Inc., the drug company that made Solarcaine, Coppertone, and St. Joseph's Baby Aspirin, among other things. It later became part of Schering-Plough. By then, Plough had gotten out of the radio business.

WPLO 610 was named after WPLO 590.

"Welcome South, Brother" for WSB was back-formed when WSB had a contest to come up with the meaning for the callsign. Mike Kavanagh (RIP) explains this in his great WSB History feature. http://www.wsbhistory.com/

WKLS stood for the station's three founding investors: Don Kennedy, Lathom, and Swan. A running joke in the early, unprofitable days of FM (WKLS was founded in 1960) was that "WKLS" really stood for "Watch Kennedy Lose Shirt"
 
Jabba WKLS cont.

They did have a income from an SCA back ground music they had only Muzak to compete with, and one of the first customer was Mathis dairy for soothing the cows for milking.They only paid $25,000. for it and sold it in 1970 for $740,000.One show was big money maker for them was Information In the Morning ,I think it was 6:am till 10:am .One thing they had first was the automated time and temp the mechanic, the works was a long big drum of recording tape with time driven tape head moved from one end to the other, each pass of tape was a min so it would drop one head down to play 8 then the second one would play 15 and then the temp was 78 deg or so on .This time temp mech was made by H and L electronic company in Chamble Ga ED Lewis one the owners and I were friends.
 
alleo said:
They did have a income from an SCA back ground music they had only Muzak to compete with, and one of the first customer was Mathis dairy for soothing the cows for milking.They only paid $25,000. for it and sold it in 1970 for $740,000.One show was big money maker for them was Information In the Morning ,I think it was 6:am till 10:am .One thing they had first was the automated time and temp the mechanic, the works was a long big drum of recording tape with time driven tape head moved from one end to the other, each pass of tape was a min so it would drop one head down to play 8 then the second one would play 15 and then the temp was 78 deg or so on .This time temp mech was made by H and L electronic company in Chamble Ga ED Lewis one the owners and I were friends.
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Couple questions:

1) Who is using the old WKLS facility today? The pic looks newish.
2) H&L Electronics--any relation to Weatherchron and the time/temp number at 770-455-7141 (a Chamblee phone number)? There's still a time/temp service at that number today; it's been around since at least the 1970s.
 
Jabba WKLS cond

The building you see is for communications two way radio on Black Jack Mt. WKLS left it when they moved to Shepherd la .Yep your right it was Weathercron in the A suite in the H and L building.At the time it was cutting edge equipment for radio station use.As I said I was on site when some of the 1010, foot tower number one went up,first to have three tv transmitter pillion antenna on top so massive between the pillion and center of the tower you can park a school buss The first fm there was WPCH fm 94.9 mhz followed by WKLS and then WBIE now WKHX all had there own antenna till The Alen Dick multi station was put up its still laced 1000,feet so a new tower was built to give all the C stations full over 1000, foot height
 
WGST cont

Black Jack is were Marietta communications has always had towers. They I be-leave took over the left off WKLS building.Black Jack is only 200 feet less high of Kenasaw mt there is no radio on it.
 
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