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Interesting. They mention on their website http://www.wagqradio.com/about/ that WAGQ is a heritage callsign that once belonged to 104.7 before they moved in. WAGQ carried AT40 back in the day.
It's apparently a "virtual station", though. No record of a current WAGQ on Radio-Locator.
"Q104", I remember it well, back in 1986/1987, it was "local" tropo in the summer/fall and was a great local sounding Top 40 station before Cox moved it in and Cox-ized it.
Right up there with "Majic 96.7" out of Newnan, which is now a Clear Channel simulcast of Radio 105.7.
Back in those days before every FM channel was sucked up by the corporate casters, FM "local DXing" used to be fun. With a decent antenna, I used to be able to pull in stations from Macon, Athens, and Chattanooga from south Cobb county. Stations like Lake 102 from Buford were a great alternative to the "Atlanta" sound.
Oh well, back to the Internet streams and SirusXM. Nothing to listen to in this market but the same old, same old. Next thread about "the ATL radio of yesteryear"....
Right up there with "Majic 96.7" out of Newnan, which is now a Clear Channel simulcast of Radio 105.7.
Back in those days before every FM channel was sucked up by the corporate casters, FM "local DXing" used to be fun. With a decent antenna, I used to be able to pull in stations from Macon, Athens, and Chattanooga from south Cobb county. Stations like Lake 102 from Buford were a great alternative to the "Atlanta" sound.
Oh well, back to the Internet streams and SirusXM. Nothing to listen to in this market but the same old, same old. Next thread about "the ATL radio of yesteryear"....
I always liked Lake 102 (and Sunny 100). Somebody on this board, though, hated Lake 102's music mix and was very vocal about it. I always liked it because you would hear stuff that you wouldn't hear on "good times and eight oldies" Fox 97, plus they played a lot of 70s AM gold when Fox was stuck in the 60s.
When the FM "local DXing" was good, I could pick up WUSSY 101 (100.7) out of Chattanooga, 95.9 out of Dublin (when 96 Rock wasn't bleeding all over it), and WBBQ out of Augusta. Sometimes I'd get that classic rocker out of Columbus, too. I think all those stations are owned by either Clear Channel or Cumulus now (I know CC owns US 101, and I think they own WBBQ).
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WFSH-FM is an FM radio station in Atlanta, Georgia broadcasting at 104.7 MHz. The station format is called "Safe For The Whole Family", a hybrid of Christian pop and clean secular music with a mainstream feel, branded as "The Fish 104.7". Between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, the station plays all Christmas music, both religious and secular.
WFSH-FM has studios in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, and transmits from the tallest radio masts and towers in Georgia (2000 feet or 600 meters) in Loganville, 30 miles (48 km) east of Atlanta. This new tower allows the station to better penetrate office buildings in Atlanta.
The station once served Atlanta with a signal of 50,000 watts at 104.7, which had been Top 40 pop WJSR/WAGQ since the 1970s. But it was upgraded to class C1 to serve Atlanta in the late 1980s. They debuted in the Atlanta metro as "Music Radio 104.7" with a hot AC format with the new callsign, WALR. On October 8, 1990, WALR-FM was relaunched with the R&B format as "Kiss 104.7." This was the second incarnation of the "Kiss" branding as it was previously utilized for a short time in the mid-1980s on WEKS (the former callsign on 104.1). Under this format, it was the first permanent competitor to attempt to chip away at the urban contemporary audience listenership of heritage station WVEE.
In late 2000, WALR moved the R&B format to 104.1, now as "Kiss 104.1", to make room for Christian AC "104.7 the Fish". This was an asset exchange between Cox Houston and Salem Communications, which now owns and operates WFSH-FM.
Salem also operates AM stations WNIV, WGKA, WLTA, and WAFS in Atlanta. Its sister station is KFSH-FM in Los Angeles, California.
The station presents "Celebrate Freedom Atlanta" each year on Labor Day Weekend. The free outdoor concert features 15 - 20 artists and takes place at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers. The concert had an attendance of 42,000 in the first ever event in 2007.
WFSH-FM is an FM radio station in Atlanta, Georgia broadcasting at 104.7 MHz. The station format is called "Safe For The Whole Family", a hybrid of Christian pop and clean secular music with a mainstream feel, branded as "The Fish 104.7". Between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, the station plays all Christmas music, both religious and secular.
WFSH-FM has studios in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, and transmits from the tallest radio masts and towers in Georgia (2000 feet or 600 meters) in Loganville, 30 miles (48 km) east of Atlanta. This new tower allows the station to better penetrate office buildings in Atlanta.
The station once served Atlanta with a signal of 50,000 watts at 104.7, which had been Top 40 pop WJSR/WAGQ since the 1970s. But it was upgraded to class C1 to serve Atlanta in the late 1980s. They debuted in the Atlanta metro as "Music Radio 104.7" with a hot AC format with the new callsign, WALR. On October 8, 1990, WALR-FM was relaunched with the R&B format as "Kiss 104.7." This was the second incarnation of the "Kiss" branding as it was previously utilized for a short time in the mid-1980s on WEKS (the former callsign on 104.1). Under this format, it was the first permanent competitor to attempt to chip away at the urban contemporary audience listenership of heritage station WVEE.
In late 2000, WALR moved the R&B format to 104.1, now as "Kiss 104.1", to make room for Christian AC "104.7 the Fish". This was an asset exchange between Cox Houston and Salem Communications, which now owns and operates WFSH-FM.
Salem also operates AM stations WNIV, WGKA, WLTA, and WAFS in Atlanta. Its sister station is KFSH-FM in Los Angeles, California.
The station presents "Celebrate Freedom Atlanta" each year on Labor Day Weekend. The free outdoor concert features 15 - 20 artists and takes place at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers. The concert had an attendance of 42,000 in the first ever event in 2007.
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