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WGL AM/FM Flip to Oldies

Pat White, huh? I'm sure his show is still talk, but imagine the possibilities..."Up after the break, the Beach Boys, Sam Cooke, the Four Seasons...And if you live in the East Allen County School district...You will not believe...What they are putting...In your kids' ketchup. 414thisiswglandimpatwhite."
 
Sorry for my lack of knowledge about the Fort Wayne radio history, but how did a "three call letter" station (which has to be older than most of the folks alive today) end up with less than 5 KW?
 
secondchoice said:
Sorry for my lack of knowledge about the Fort Wayne radio history, but how did a "three call letter" station (which has to be older than most of the folks alive today) end up with less than 5 KW?
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There are other three-letter calls that never made it to 5kw. How about KXO in El Centro, CA with LESS than a KW daytime and WEW in St. Louis...a DAYTIMER with 1kw....etc.
 
WGL-AM went on the air in 1921 as WCWK. It was sold to the then-owner of WOWO, Fred Zieg, and that's when the calls were changed to WGL. It's only licensed for 2,300 watts daytime, 1,000 watts night.

So ORIGINALLY it wasn't a 3 letter call sign station.
 
I understand the call letters orignally stood for, "With God's Love." Don't know if it's true or not. WKJG stood for the initials of the original owner.
 
Juan Bodley said:
WGL-AM went on the air in 1921 as WCWK. It was sold to the then-owner of WOWO, Fred Zieg, and that's when the calls were changed to WGL. It's only licensed for 2,300 watts daytime, 1,000 watts night.

So ORIGINALLY it wasn't a 3 letter call sign station.
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The WGL callsign was first assigned to a station in Philly on 2/8/1922 and deleted on 12/31/24. It was then assigned to the New York station that later became WOV & WADO, on 1/3/27. It became WOV on 11/11/28 and WADO on 11/1/59.

WGL Fort Wayne's original call letters were WHBJ, beginning on 1/3/25. Given the assignment policies of that time, this would be correct since other WHBx callsigns were assigned in late 1924 and early '25. WHBJ became WCWK sometime in 1927, and finally WGL on 11/11/28, the day that WGL New York became WOV. I can't find any listings for Ft. Wayne stations prior to January 1925.

Link: United States Early Radio History - 3-Letter Callsign Roster
 
I didn't know about the WHBJ...I think I looked at Wikipedia and thought it was right.
I HAVE heard that WGL stood for "With God's Love." Fort Wayne IS after all the City of Churches...makes sense.
 
Have also heard WGL stands for "World's Greatest Loudspeaker"...a reference to Magnavox, which was located in the Fort for a good many years
 
adam95 said:
Have also heard WGL stands for "World's Greatest Loudspeaker"...a reference to Magnavox, which was located in the Fort for a good many years
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Magnavox was INDEED in Fort Wayne for a long time...they were in a few buildings around town, off Lima Road (now Raytheon) and off S.R. 14 at I-69, now General Dynamics, or something like that.
Magnavox, from what I have read, came to Fort Wayne to build speakers because of the magnet wire companies that were here at that time. They had their first facility by the old International Harvester complex near New Haven. And they bought the rights to produce the Odyssey video game and built them in Fort Wayne. So there's more than anybody ever cared to know about the Vox that Rocks. NOT.
 
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