WGUN
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| City of license | Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Broadcast area | Atlanta metropolitan area |
| Slogan | Power and Praise |
| Frequency | 1010 kHz (analog) |
| First air date | 1947 |
| Format | Christian / brokered time |
| Power | 50,000 Watts daytime, 78 Watts nightime |
| Class | D |
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| Former callsigns | WEAS |
| Owner | WGUN, Inc. |
| Webcast | WGUN Live Stream |
| Website | WGUN Website |
WGUN is an Atlanta area AM broadcasting station (licensed to Atlanta, Georgia) that broadcasts Christian and brokered time programming. It broadcasts at a frequency of 1010 kHz with 50,000 Watts of power during the daytime and 78 Watts during nighttime hours using a non-directional antenna. WGUN is classified as a Class-D AM broadcast station according to the Federal Communications Commission.
[edit] History
The station originally signed on with the call sign WEAS in 1947 when the station was originally licensed to Decatur, Georgia[1]. The station's original founder and owner was Eurith Dickenson ("Dee") Rivers, Jr., the son of former Georgia governor E.D. "Ed" Rivers, Sr.[2] The WAES call-sign stood from (E)mory University & (A)gnes (S)cott College, both located in Decatur, Georgia.[3] The program format found on WEAS grew into a combination hillbilly (country/western) and white gospel/preaching format[4]. In 1963, the station changed to its current call sign of WGUN[5] and a country music format with the station adopting "the big GUN" slogan[6]. The WEAS call signs were eventually moved to an AM station in Savannah, Georgia at 900 kHz. WGUN had a News/Talk radio format in the early 1990s[7] before going to the current Christian/brokered time radio format.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WGUN
- Radio Locator Information on WGUN
- WGUN Daytime Signal Coverage Map according to Radio-Locator.com
- WGUN Nighttime Signal Coverage Map according to Radio-Locator.com
- Satellite view of WGUN broadcast tower on Wikimapia
