WFTD (AM)

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WFTD AM is a local Atlanta area AM broadcasting station (licensed to Marietta, Georgia) that broadcasts Korean language music and talk programming. It broadcasts at a frequency of 1080 kHz with 50,000 watts of power during the daytime and 30,000 watts during critical hours using a directional antenna system. WFTD is classified as a class D AM broadcast station according to the Federal Communications Commission.

The station was originally country music WBIE, owned by James M. Wilder, who later started a simulcast on WBIE-FM 101.5 (now WKHX-FM, and still a country music station). The station has had the call signs WECA in 1987, and WEKS in 1985. WFTD's current callsign has remained with the station since 1987.

WFTD in July 2007 dropped the regional Mexican type radio format and now broadcasts in a Korean language radio format on a leased-time basis, branded as Atlanta Radio Korea.

At 3:30 p.m. on June 9, 2008, WFTD was a victim of a molotov cocktail bomb when a former employee who had been fired two months earlier walked into the station's studios and left a bomb there. As a result of the bomb, a small fire was sparked, but was quickly extinguished and the man who threw the cocktail suffered severe burns. [1]

[edit] External links

• Atlanta Radio Korea official website
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WFTD
• Radio Locator Information on WFTD
• WFTD (AM) is at coordinates 34°01′24″N 84°40′03″W / 34.023303, -84.667372 (WFTD (AM))Coordinates: 34°01′24″N 84°40′03″W / 34.023303, -84.667372 (WFTD (AM))

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