WGKA

WGKA

Infobox Radio Station
name = WGKA


city = Atlanta, Georgia
area = Atlanta metropolitan area
branding = "News Talk 920"
slogan = "Atlanta's New Talk Station"
airdate =
frequency = 920 kHz (analog)
format = Talk radio
power = 14,000 Watts daytime,
490 Watts nighttime
coordinates = coord|33.809863|N|84.356117|W|type:landmark
class = B
callsign_meaning = Glen
Karen
Associates [ [http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~mleach/radio/am.html Atlanta Area AM Radio Stations ] ]
webcast = [http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia-live/swn/5176/20_swn-16_wgka_0903_030926.asx Listen Live]
owner = Salem Communications
licensee = Pennsylvania Media Associates, Inc.
sister_stations = WNIV / WLTA, WAFS
website = [http://www.920wgka.com "NewsTalk 920" Official website] |

WGKA, "News Talk 920", is a radio station based in Atlanta, Georgia which broadcasts a *syndicated talk radio format. It is owned by Salem Communications and has many of the same hosts, such as Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, and Mike Gallagher, heard on other Salem Communications owned radio stations across the U.S.. It was once a station exclusively devoted to classical music.

The 920 kHz frequency in the Atlanta radio market was the original home of WGST (AM), which now broadcasts at 640 kHz. The WGKA call sign was originally assigned to the frequency of 1190 kHz which is now the frequency of radio station WAFS (AM), also owned by Salem Communications. Prior to that time, indeed from the 1950's, it was assigned to 1600 kHz.

Like WGKA (AM), WGKA (FM) was a classical music station in Atlanta from the 1950s to the late 1960s. Although it existed in the days before NPR, it occasionally carried programs which were not locally produced, such as "BBC Music Showcase", hosted by British composer-lecturer Antony Hopkins (not to be confused with film actor Anthony Hopkins). Several of the hosts who once worked at the station, such as Jonathan Phelps and David Jacobs, switched to working at WABE-FM when WGKA (FM) was sold and their program format changed. The station's call letters also changed - to WZGC, which still exists today.

In its earliest days, WGKA was owned by Glenn Karron Associates, hence the acronym. Glenn Karron Associates also owned a hi-fi audio store adjoining the radio station.

References

External links

* [http://www.920wgka.com Official WGKA station website]
*AMQ|WGKA
*AML|WGKA
* [http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~mleach/radio/warp/1968.htmlArticle on Atlanta in 1968]


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