WDCG-FM

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WDCG-FM

Broadcast area	Research Triangle Area of North Carolina: * Durham * Raleigh * Cary * Chapel Hill
Branding	G105
Slogan	"The Hit Music Channel
First air date	1948 (as WDNC-FM)
Frequency	105.1 (MHz)
Format	Top 40
Callsign meaning	We're Durham's Country Giant (dates back to mid-1970s)
Owner	Clear Channel Worldwide
Website	www.g105.com

WDCG-FM, or G105 on 105.1 FM is the sole Top 40 radio station in the Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area. Its studios are located on Smoketree Court in Raleigh's Highwoods Office Park and owned by Clear Channel Worldwide, along with Sunny 93.9, 100.7 the River, and 106.1 the Rooster.

Contents 1 Current lineup 2 History 3 Its Top 40 direction and musical leanings 4 Bob and the Showgram 5 Events 6 External links

[edit] Current lineup

• 5:00-6:00 AM — The best of Bob and the Showgram, including past segments from the prior morning
• 6:00-10:00 AM — Bob and the Showgram with Bob Dumas
• 10:00AM-3:00PM — Brody
• 3:00PM-7:00PM — Randi West
• 7:00PM-Midnight — Geller

Friday Nights

• 10:00pm-2:00am - Club 105 live from The Office

Saturdays

• 2:00am-6:00am - Amber
• 6:00am-10:00am - Best of the Showgram
• 10:am-3:00pm - Varies
• 3:00pm-7pm - Varies
• 7:00pm-12:00am - Patrick Priest

Sunday

• 12:00am-7:00am - Amber
• 7:00am-8:00am - PSA Programming
• 8:00am-12:00pm - AT 40 with Ryan Seacrest
• 12:00pm-3:00pm - Varies
• 3:00pm-7:00pm - Varies
• 7:00pm-12:00am - Open House Party with Kane

[edit] History

WDCG first began as a radio station in February of 1948 in Durham, North Carolina as WDNC-FM, as a sister station to WDNC-AM; both were owned by The Durham Morning Herald and Durham Sun. In 1953, the Herald-Sun group joined WTIK owners Floyd Fletcher and Harmon Duncan in securing a license to operation a television station in Durham, which would eventually become WTVD Channel 11 the following year. The sign-on of the 36,000-watt FM station coincided with the AM station's power increase and frequency shift from 1490 to 620 kilohertz. For the next 26 years, WDNC-FM 105.1 simulcast the AM programming from an antenna located atop one of AM 620's three towers on Shocoree Drive in western Durham. (The old 105.1 FM antenna is still visible on the tower nearest downtown.)

In 1974, WDNC-FM became a country station and changed its name to WDCG (Durham's Country Giant). The station switched to rock music in the late 1970s before becoming a Top 40 station in 1982, receiving the "G105" moniker in the process. A year later, the station boosted their power to 100,000 watts and moved to a larger radio tower at the Chatham County Antenna Farm at Terrel's Mountain. WDCG operated from the Herald-Sun building at 138 East Chapel Hill Street in Downtown Durham from its 1948 sign-on until 1992, when the station, along with sister station WDNC, moved to new, more spacious studios at Park Forty Plaza, located off NC 55 and Interstate 40 in southern Durham. In 1993, the Herald-Sun sold WDCG to Prizm Broadcasting, which had also purchased Vilcom's WZZU 93.9 (now WRSN), which moved from its Raleigh studios to Park Forty Plaza as well. After following four different ownership changes, WDCG and its sister stations moved into Raleigh's Smoketree Tower, now called the Highwoods Building, and now owned by Clear Channel Worldwide. In 2005, the station moved their antenna to Apex, North Carolina.

In 2004, the station's FM class was slightly downgraded from a class "C" to a class "C-0", allowing a sister Clear Channel Worldwide station in Roanoke, Virginia, WZBL 104.9 FM, to make an upgrade to its signal. No changes were necessary to WDCG's actual facilities to allow for this change. However, WDCG will be making some changes to its facilities in the near future. In March 2005, the FCC approved the station's moving their antenna from Terrel's Mountain to the WLFL-TV tower in Apex, ostensibly for better, more centralized coverage of the market. The change will involve a drop in power from 100,000 watts to 78,000 watts and another downgrade in class, this time to a class "C-1". The permit for the change expires in March 2008.

[edit] Its Top 40 direction and musical leanings

Interestingly during the 1990s G105 also leaned heavily towards Modern rock, which had many in the music trades questioning whether they were moving towards that direction. But by the end of that decade they scaled back on the Alternative fare and returned to a more mainstream approach.

Like most Top 40s in the Clear Channel roster, G105 will play all of today's hits (a majority of them favoring rhythmic product) and follow the national musical trend that is reflected in Billboard and radio trades Mediabase and R&R, the latter of which has WDCG listed as a Top 40/CHR panel reporter.

[edit] Bob and the Showgram

Bob and the Showgram is a morning show lasting from 6:00AM to 10:00AM. The show is one of the few morning shows that has only talk and no music. The Showgram has had a variety of interns over the years and used to be called the "Bob and Madison Showgram" until co-host Madison Lane left to do her own morning gig at sister station WRSN-FM "Sunny 93.9".

[edit] Events

G105 sponsors and coordinates many events in Raleigh and the surrounding area. Some include:

• Slaw Slam
• Salsa Slam
• Pennies from Heaven
• Oysterfest
• Heterosexual Pride Parade

[edit] External links

• Official website
• G105 at MySpace