Georgia Radio Station Map

Hartwell

Image 1: DJ Bob Mowbray in a publicity photo in the studios at WKLY. WKLY was founded in 1947, and regularly hosted live music programs in the studio. Today, it programs country music on its original AM frequency of 980 and on an FM translator at 104.1.

Image 2: A group of studio musicians in the WKLY studio. Other station regulars were the Silver Dew Boys and the Bolman String Band. One of the best known station personalities was a character known as "Uncle Fud Dud."

Cedartown

Future owner of Rounsaville Radio, and owner a chain of stations across the country, Robert Rounsaville is pictured with Bob Corley at WGAA microphone. WGAA was Rounsaville's first broadcast station when he and his business partner put it on the air in 1941. Later, he hired Corley as Program Director in1948 when Rounsaville received the license to build WQXI-AM in Atlanta.

Dallas

WKRP was indeed a real radio station, licensed to Dallas, Georgia. When the station came on the air in 1979, MTM Productions, which produced TV's "WKRP in Cincinnati" protested to the FCC and in civil court to protect their intellectual property, but lost. In 1989, the station switched its call letters to WDPC and today carries religious programming sunrise to sunset.

Marietta

The old WFOM studios on South Cobb Drive in Marietta.

Lawrenceville

Image 1: A 1976 souvenir ad on WLAW's 17th anniversary, By 1991, the station had switched to a new frequency (610 AM) as WPLO.

Image 2: The WLAW studios on Georgia Highway 29.

Athens

General text from top: WRFC was founded in 1948 by L.H. Christian. The call letters were derived from his father's initials: Robert Franklin Christian.

Image 1: Steve Davis in the WRFC studio, circa 1970s.

Image 2: Randolf Holder at WRFC microphone.

Image 3: 1972 WRFC Survey with photos of air staff.

Bremen

WWCC came on the air in 1957. Today, it is WGMI, "1440 The Train" and is a Christian Music station.

Image 1: Building of WWCC radio station.

Image 2: Control room at WWCC.

Atlanta - WAOK

Long time WAOK personality Burke Johnson receiving an award from Julian Bond.

Atlanta - WAGA

The old transmitter building and tower site for WAGA (Later WPLO AM at 590AM) on North Druid Hills Road, now demolished.

Atlanta - WQXI

Image 1: WQXI "Tiger Top 20" music sheet with DJ photos from 1966.

Image 2: Early 790 AM-WQXI studios and offices on Mathieson Drive in Buckhead. When the office was built, it included an apartment upstairs for owner Robert Rounsaville and his family. Later, the building also housed WQXI-TV, the first Channel 36.

Atlanta - WSB

Image 1: WCON news cruiser for AM 550 station, owned by the Atlanta Constitution. When the papers combined and acquired WSB in the early 1950s, the station was shut down and later moved to Gainesville as WDUN.

Image 2: Early WSB AM rate card from 1931.

Atlanta - WKLS

96 Rock, WKLS, "Home Cookin' Vol. 1" album cover from 1980.

Decatur

One of Atlanta's best known Top 40 station in the 60's, WAKE's airstaff included legendary radio personalities like Bill Drake, Paul Drew, Bob McKee, and others, before the station lost the Top 40 ratings wars to newcomers like WQXI.

Atlanta-Southwest

Famed guitarist Chet Atkins performs on the "Georgia Jubilee" on WTJH, East Point.

Augusta - WBBQ Old Studios on 15th Street

WBBQ has been one of Augusta's top rated pop stations for years, signing on in 1947 on the AM dial. WBBQ-FM at 104.3 was licensed in 1955.

North Augusta

Later, WBBQ moved to new studios on Georgia Avenue in North Augusta.

Augusta - WRDW

WRDW remote broadcast "Star Castle" studio at The Number 1 Drive-In. (Year unknown) WRDW was licensed in 1930 on 1500AM, but eventually moved to 1480 and competed for audience in Augusta with those call letters until 2003. In 1969, the station was sold to J.B. Broadcasting, owned by entertainer James Brown. After Brown sold it, it became WGUS, WTEL, and finally WCHZ. The station went silent in 2015.

LaGrange

WLAG signed on the air on AM 1240 as LaGrange's first radio station in May of 1941, and acquired an FM license at 104.1 in 1948. WLAG-FM later became WYAI, then WJZF, and is now Kiss 104.1, WALR. WTRP went on the air in 1953 at 620 AM.

Image 1: WLAG studios.

Image 2: WLAG's Jim Wilder in an early photo in the studios.

Image 3: WLAG's Ed Mullinax with the Police Chief of LaGrange.

Image 4: John Kennedy speaks at a WTRP microphone.

Macon

WBML came on the air as the Macon area's second station in 1940, on 1240 AM. Today, the call letters remain in the city on another frequency, but there is no longer a station on the air on 1240 in middle Georgia.

Image 1: WBML's remote studios -- The Music Palace -- at the Number 1 Drive In.

Image 2: WBML announcer Don King with the Everly Brothers in the studio.

Image 3: WBML's Peek-A-Blue studio.

Columbus

Image 1: WDAK's studios -- "The Elms"-- on Buena Vista Road in Columbus. While the station is no longer located there, the building is now designated a historic site

Image 2: WRBL signed on in 1928 and was the first radio station in Columbus. In the 1950's, anticipating the need for more studio space for the AM-FM operation and the future TV studio for Channel 3, the station moved to these new facilities at 1350 13th Avenue.

Image 3: Georgia Radio Hall of Fame broadcaster Bill Bowick on the air at 1270 AM, then WGBA.

Savannah

Savannah's WTOC was licensed on 1290 AM in 1939, and had rooftop studios at the Hotel DeSoto.

Albany

Licensed on June 25, 1940 as WALB 1590. In 1960 the call letters were changed to WALG.

Image 1: Paul Harvey with WALG Staff

Image 2: Steve Preston in WALG Control Room, 1979

Image 3: WALG Music Survey, 1975

Waycross

WACL's Johnny Bee (L) and Sam Walace (R) with recording artist Pernell Roberts at WACL.

Brunswick

In 1960, Brunswick and Saint Simon's Island only had 2 radio stations on the air: WMOG and WGIG, both licensed in the 1940's. WYNR did not come on the air until 1966.

Thomasville

WPAX in Thomasville was Georgia's 3rd licensed radio station, and only the 20th station licensed in the United States when it came on the air in 1922. This photo shows the original WPAX transmission equipment, which according to the station's web site, included "Red Seal" batteries for power, a horn-shaped monitor, and a record player on the far right to provide music. Today, the station still broadcasts from the original Remington Avenue studios.