WGOK

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WGOK
WGOK Gospel900 logo.png
Broadcast area Mobile metropolitan area
Frequency 900 kHz
BrandingWGOK Gospel 900
Programming
Format Gospel music
Ownership
Owner
WABD, WBLX-FM, WDLT-FM, WXQW
History
First air date
1959 (1959)
Call sign meaning
OK Group (original owners)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 56716
Class B
Power
  • 1,000 watts day
  • 380 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
30°42′31″N88°03′53″W / 30.70861°N 88.06472°W / 30.70861; -88.06472
Repeater(s) 104.1  WDLT-FM HD2 (Saraland)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website gospel900.com

WGOK (900 AM, "Gospel 900") is a radio station serving the Mobile, Alabama, area with a gospel music format. The station is under ownership of Cumulus Media. Its studios are on Dauphin Avenue in Midtown Mobile, and its transmitter is northwest of downtown.

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History

The radio station in the early 1960s was located at 900 Gum Street right in the middle of a swamp. The station was part of the largest chain of black radio stations in the country called The OK Group. All of the stations in the OK Group had an OK at the end of their call letters, including WGOK in Mobile, KYOK in Houston, and WBOK in New Orleans. There were other OK stations in the cities of Memphis, Tennessee, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among others. There was one White station in Alice, Texas, with the OK reversed, KOPY.

Starting around 1959, WGOK was managed by Robert Irwin Grimes, Jr. He had been a radioman in the Navy, had served at Pearl Harbor on the USS Enterprise and was there in Hawaii on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked.

In the early 1960s disc jockeys had names like Topsy Turvey, Miss Mandy, and the Reverend A. J. Crawford. The station was very popular and played rhythm and blues records as well as gospel records.

Currently, it plays gospel music.

Ownership

In 1999, the station was acquired by Citadel Communications Corp. (Lawrence R. Wilson, chairman) from Fuller-Jeffrey Broadcasting Co. Inc. (Robert Fuller, president) along with sister station WYOK for a reported sale price of $6 million. [2]

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References

  1. "Facility Technical Data for WGOK". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. "Big Deals of 1999". Broadcasting & Cable. 2000-02-14.