WAKG

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WAKG
City of license	Danville, Virginia
Broadcast area	Southside Virginia
Slogan	"Hot Country, Cool Classics"
Frequency	103.3 MHz
First air date	June 4, 1968
Format	country music
ERP	100,000 Watts
HAAT	199 meters (653 feet)
Class	C1
Facility ID	52545
Transmitter Coordinates	36°44′28″N, 79°23′05″W
Former callsigns	WBTM-FM
Owner	Piedmont Broadcasting Corporation
Sister stations	WBTM
Website	http://www.wakg.com/

WAKG is a country music-formatted radio station broadcasting at 100,000 Watts at 103.3 Mhz. The studios are located on Grove St. in Danville, Virginia, along with sister station WBTM, with a transmitter, which is visible 20 miles away, located on White Oak Mountain 10 miles north of Danville off US highway 29.

WAKG was originally WBTM-FM, which signed on in 1968 with an easy listening music format and continued with this format after taking the calls WAKG in 1972. Since changing the format to country in the late 1970s, WAKG has been nominated several times by the CMA and ACM as "Country Radio Station of the Year."

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WAKG
• Radio Locator information on WAKG

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