WNGC

WNGC
City of license	Arcade, Georgia
Broadcast area	North Georgia and the Atlanta metropolitan area
Branding	106.1/107.1 Your Georgia Country
Slogan	North Georgia's Country
Frequency	106.1 MHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	May 1, 1948 (as WGAU-FM)
Format	Country
ERP	50,000 watts
HAAT	299 meters
Class	C1
Facility ID	60810
Callsign meaning	Your Georgia Country
Former callsigns	WGAU-FM (1948-1968)
Owner	Cox Radio; (Cox Radio, Inc.)
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	yourgeorgiacountry.com

WNGC (106.1 FM) is a radio station in North Georgia that plays country music. Its city of license is Arcade, Georgia with studios in Athens.

Station history

Prior to December 1996, 106.1 was a light rock station before switching to country and calling itself "South 106." The studios had moved from Toccoa to Gainesville and finally to Athens. Its signal was hard to pick up in the Atlanta area outside of Gwinnett. In the spring of 1999, WSTE built a new tower because at the time they were still in competition with WNGC, before the two stations merged. The purpose of the deal was to try to reach a larger audience and give the two Atlanta country stations WKHX "Kicks" 101.5, and WYAY (at the time Y106) some competition.^{[citation needed]}

While WNGC's City of License is in Arcade, the transmitter is located in Lula, Georgia (in northern Hall County). WNGC's signal can be heard in Downtown Atlanta, Greenville, South Carolina and in parts of Asheville, North Carolina, but the main coverage area is northeast Georgia and the Athens metro area (where the studios are located). Attempts were made in 2001 to move the transmitter to Sugar Hill in Gwinnett County, but those plans were scrapped.^{[citation needed]}In July 2005 WNGC added former Kicks 101.5 morning and Moby and his syndicated morning show.^{[citation needed]}

In January 2008, it was announced that WNGC was sold (along with sister stations WGMG, WPUP, WRFC and WGAU) to Cox Radio in Atlanta.^[1] On March 7, 2008, WNGC started running ads inviting former Eagle 106.7 listeners to switch to 106.1 WNGC, as WYAY had become an oldies station. In February 2009, WNGC became an affiliate of the Motor Racing Network (MRN) and the Performance Racing Network (PRN), and began carrying coverage of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing on weekends.

On June 29, 2015, WNGC began simulcasting on WTSH-FM, rebranding as "106.1/107.1 Your Georgia Country".

Previous callsigns for 106.1

WLET-FM 1978-1985^{[citation needed]}
WZLI 1985-1992
WLET-FM 1992-1997
WSTE-FM 1997-1999
WNGC 1999-Now

Previous frequencies for WNGC

95.5 (as WGAU-FM 1962-1968, WNGC-FM 1968-1999)^{[citation needed]}
102.5 (as WGAU-FM/1957-1962)
99.5 (as WGAU-FM/1948-1957)

Former Air Staff:

Sabrina Gibbons, former Program Director and On Air Personality, is currently Midday News Anchor on WSB 95.5FM/AM750 in Atlanta^{[citation needed]}
Tim Cicciarelli, former Morning Show Host, now runs a video production company in Athens^{[citation needed]}
Scott Howard, former Sports Director and Morning Show Sidekick, became The Voice of the Georgia Bulldogs after Larry Munson retired^{[citation needed]}
George Mason Dixon, former Afternoon Show Host, retired from WDUN in 2011^{[citation needed]}
Mike Wooten, former News Director, left to become spokesman for the Clarke County School District and is now Operations Manager at WRGC Radio at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia.^{[citation needed]}
Paul Rea, former host of The Paul Rea Midday is News Director for multiple stations in the Oconee River Broadcasting Group.^{[citation needed]}
Deborah Reece, former On Air Announcer, is now the Afternoon Show Host on Kiss 104.1 FM Atlanta.^{[citation needed]}

The Georgia Bulldogs

WNGC-FM is one of the many stations that carry The University of Georgia Football Games (along with sister WRFC-AM), something it has done since January 30, 1991. WNGC was also the home of UGA men's basketball until 2005. It can now be heard on sister station WRFC-AM and on FM 103.7 WXKT. [WXKT-FM].

References

↑ "Deals," Broadcasting & Cable, January 28, 2008.

External links

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[1] "Deals," Broadcasting & Cable, January 28, 2008.

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WNGC

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Previous callsigns for 106.1

Previous frequencies for WNGC

The Georgia Bulldogs

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