WFAM

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WFAM
Broadcast area Augusta metropolitan area
Frequency 1050 kHz
Programming
Format Christian talk and teaching
Ownership
Owner
  • Wilkins Communications Network
  • (J.J. & B. Broadcasting, Inc.)
History
First air date
March 10, 1952;72 years ago (1952-03-10)
Former call signs
WAUG (1952–1978)
WHGI (1978–1985)
WIGL (1985–1986)
Call sign meaning
Family
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 20595
Class D
Power 5,000 watts day
82 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 33°27′21″N81°56′20″W / 33.45583°N 81.93889°W / 33.45583; -81.93889
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website WFAM Online

WFAM (1050 AM) is a commercial radio station in Augusta, Georgia. It has a Christian talk and teaching radio format and is owned by Wilkins Communications Network, based in Spartanburg, South Carolina. WFAM carries shows by national Christian leaders as well as local preachers. Hosts include Charles Stanley, David Jeremiah, June Hunt and John MacArthur. It is a brokered programming station, in which hosts buy time on the station and may use their shows to ask for donations to their ministries.

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By day, WFAM is powered at 5,000 watts using a non-directional antenna. But because AM 1050 is Mexican clear channel frequency, WFAM must greatly reduce power at night to 82 watts to avoid interference. The transmitter is on Laney Walker Boulevard at Hayes Drive. [2]

History

The station signed on the air on March 10, 1952;72 years ago. Its original call sign was WAUG. [3] It was a daytimer station, required to go off the air at night. The following year, it was joined by a sister station, WAUG-FM at 105.7 MHz, now WLUB. The two stations were owned by the Garden City Broadcasting Company, with studios in the Bon Air Hotel.

It has been a Christian radio station since the early 1970s. The station also became an affiliate of the ABC Information Network in the 1970s. [4]

In 1978, the station's call letters became WHGI, in 1985 the call sign switched to WIGL and in 1986, to the current WFAM.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WFAM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "WFAM-AM 1050 kHz - Augusta, GA". radio-locator.com.
  3. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1954 page 116. Retrieved Oct. 23, 2023.
  4. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-60. Retrieved Oct. 23, 2023.


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