- WGOK
Infobox Radio station
name = WGOK
city = Mobile,Alabama
area =Mobile metropolitan area
branding = "WGOK Gospel 900"
slogan =
airdate =
frequency = 900 kHz
format = Gospel
power = 1,000watt s
class = B
facility_id =
coordinates =
callsign_meaning = GOspel
former_callsigns =
owner =Cumulus Media
licensee = Cumulus Licensing, LLC
sister_stations =WBLX-FM ,WDLT-FM ,WYOK ,WWFF ,WXQW
webcast =
website = http://www.gospel900.com
affiliations =WGOK (900 AM), "Gospel 900") is a
radio station serving theMobile, Alabama , area with aGospel music format. The station is under ownership ofCumulus Media .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. There was WGOK in Mobile, KYOK in Houston, and WBOK in New Orleans for example. There were other OK stations in the cities of
Memphis, Tennessee andBaton Rouge, Louisiana among others. There was one White station inAlice, Texas with the OK reversed. It was called KOPY.Starting around 1959 the station WGOK was managed by Robert Irwin Grimes, Jr. He had been a radioman in the Navy and 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.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. [cite news |work=Broadcasting & Cable |title=Big Deals of 1999 |date=2000-02-14]References
External links
* [http://www.gospel900.com Gospel 900 official website]
*AMQ|WGOK
*AML|WGOK
*AMARB|WGOK
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