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What are Atlanta's heritage stations?

jabba17

jabba17

Some of these other threads have been talking about Atlanta's "heritage stations", past and present.

Of course, we could define these stations as call letters (e.g., WKLS), monikers (96 Rock), or formats (country on 101.5). Here are some to start with:

AM:
WSB
WGST (on 920 and 640)
WDUN
WPLO (on 590, not 610)
WQXI (as Quixie, not Zone)
WRNG (Ring Radio)
WAKE (1340)

FM:
Peach (both Beautiful Music and AC)
96 Rock
99X (there you go, Inside)
V-103
Country on 101.5 (both as Kicks and WBIE)

Others?
 
jabba17 said:
AM:
WSB
WGST (on 920 and 640)
WDUN
WPLO (on 590, not 610)
WQXI (as Quixie, not Zone)
WRNG (Ring Radio)
WAKE (1340)

FM:
Peach (both Beautiful Music and AC)
96 Rock
99X (there you go, Inside)
V-103
Country on 101.5 (both as Kicks and WBIE)

Others?
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Heritage can have any meaning you want it to have. Heritage can mean the first, or a station that has been around for a while.

WSB-FM was the first FM in the market since it signed on in 1948 (104.5 - moved to 98.5 in the 50's). Also, B98.5 itself (1986) and the AC format (1980) are both seperate heritages along with the WSB-FM callsign and signal.

WABE is one of the first (if not the first) FM stations used for education programming in the US, signing on right after WSB-FM in 1948. WABE was WPBA-FM for a month in 1984, but other then that has been piping out some sort of NCE programming at 90.1.

Both WSB-FM and WABE have never changed ownership (WSB-FM with Cox, and WABE with the Atlanta Board of Education).

94.1 (WKXI, WQXI-FM, and WSTR) - Falls into a similar situation with WSB-FM, although it changed owners and callsigns twice. But lumped into one, that would qualify as heritage.

99X was only around 15 years, but the 99.7 signal (WLTA, WRMM, WARM, WAPW, WNNX, WWWQ) also counts as heritage. A lot of callsign changes, but only two ownership changes.

92.9 has had the WZGC callsign since 1970 or so, and was known as Z93 from 1970-2002 (with five or six different formats under the name, from oldies to urban to top 40 to classic rock to mainstream rock).

97.1 as WFOX (1980-2007), first as top 40 just serving Gainesville, then AC, oldies Fox 97 (a heritage itself), urban, then WSRV "The River".

106.7 WYAY since 1984 and country from 1984-2008 (as Y106 and Eagle). You can include the formats and callsigns before that, as well as "True Oldies".
 
AM:
WGKA (1600 > 1190 > 920)
WAOK/1380
WERD/860
WAGA/590
WTAM/WIIN/WKLS/WNIV/andGodknowshowmanyothercalls/970
WGUN/1010
WYZE/1480

FM:
Z93
WPLO/103.3
 
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