WGAA

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WGAA
WGAA FM Logo 1000x376.png
Broadcast area Polk County, Georgia
Frequency 1340 kHz
BrandingThe Big Double A
Programming
Format Classic hits
AffiliationsGeorgia News Network,
Fox News Radio
Ownership
Owner
  • Frank Burgess, Jr.
  • (Burgess Broadcasting Company, Inc.)
History
First air date
August 15, 1941
Technical information
Facility ID 7829
Class C
Power 1,000 watts, day/night
Transmitter coordinates
34°2′6.00″N85°15′4.00″W / 34.0350000°N 85.2511111°W / 34.0350000; -85.2511111
Translator(s) 106.1 W291DN (Cedartown)
Links
Webcast Listen Live
Website wgaaradio.com

WGAA AM 1340 is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format, and has Cedartown, Georgia, United States, as its city of license. The station is currently owned by Burgess Broadcasting Corporation. [1] The station broadcasts a variety of classic hits from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, plus WGAA is the home for Cedartown High School football, basketball, softball, and baseball, the Grapevine, the world- famous Trading Post, and The Big Double A Book Club Radio Show and Podcast.

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History

The Lam Entertainment Company, which owned and operated numerous movie theaters throughout the south in the early 20th century, launched WGAA 1340 AM and the West Cinema Theater on the same day in 1941, just months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The studios were located on West Avenue, in a second story next door to the West Theater. In the early 1950s, the station made the move to its current location on Lakeview Drive, north of Cedartown.

By the 1960s, the station had a simulcast on WGAA-FM, which is now WWPW FM 96.1 in nearby metro Atlanta.

As of August 2018, the station now simulcasts programming on its FM translator on 106.1 MHz (W291DN).

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References

  1. "WGAA Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.