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What Georgia stations went wall-to-wall news on Sunday after the Orlando attack?

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Just curious --- What Georgia stations went wall-to-wall news on Sunday after the Orlando attack? In Atlanta, WSB did for a few hours that I know of.
 
I've lived in St. Louis and Atlanta. I use to live in Vidalia and listened to the Savannah radio stations (Macon stations don't reach Vidalia). I can honestly say WSB in Atlanta is very aggressive with local and international coverage. In St. Louis, KMOX was the number one radio station and top news/talk station and they never went wall to wall on anything (except for Ferguson and even that was poor and limited).

I don't remember either of the news talk stations in Savannah doing much live stuff except for morning news. Most of it's syndicated. Always thought WMAC in Macon was more local and aggressive.
 
I'm unaware of any Savannah area stations which offered more than top-hour network coverage. The two news-talk stations merrily continued with usual weekend programming: "best of" their weekday offerings and recordings of other programs. I do believe that WTKS airs bottom-hour network news as well on weekends, but I heard no live updates of the situation in Orlando there, nor on WBMQ. If anyone knows differently, I will will gladly stand corrected. I wish Savannah had a local news presence on radio, but there isn't really one to speak about.
 
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