Variety hits radio station in Maysville, Georgia, United States
WXKT
(103.7
FM
) is a
radio station
broadcasting a
Variety Hits
format as "103.7 Chuck FM". Licensed to
Maysville, Georgia
, it serves the
Gainesville
area and can generally be heard as far west as Doraville and as far south as Athens. It first began broadcasting in
1989
under the
call sign
WBIC
. It is currently owned by
Cox Radio
.
[1]
Its studios are located in
Bogart
, and its transmitter is in
Lula, Georgia
.
History
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103.7 FM was first assigned the call sign
WBIC
on January 4, 1989. On March 2, 1990, the call sign was then changed to
WPUP
. The station was known as "Rock 103.7" for many years, before returning to the "Bulldog" name it had in the mid to late 1990s. Since the transmitter is located in Royston, it made the station's
signal
south of Athens marginal.
The station was sold to
Cox Radio
in August 2008, which moved WPUP to 100.1 and changed 103.7 to the current callsign
WXKT
.
[2]
The stations
simulcast
the "Bulldog" format for a little over a year; WPUP remains on 100.1 FM licensed to
Watkinsville
as
top-40
station "Power 100.1".
On August 1, 2009 at 8 AM, WXKT flipped to
news/talk
.
Atlanta
-based
news/talk
station
WSB
AM 750 upgraded to FM simulcast (
WSBB-FM
95.5) in August 2010, which resulted in improved coverage in the Gainesville area; Cox deemed the news/talk format on 103.7 as redundant and on December 5, 2011, WXKT began
stunting
with a loop of
Tone-Loc
's "
Wild Thing
" and clips of
University of Georgia
football games, as well as redirecting listeners to WSB/WSBB.
[3]
It was expected that the station would flip to
sports talk
.
On December 6, 2011 at 6 AM, "Wild Thing" ended and Tim Bryant announced a new format for 103.7: the mornings consisted of North Georgia's Morning News hosted by Tim Bryant and Martha Zoller's talk show; at noon,
Jim Rome
's sports radio show aired; 3-6 PM, America's Radio News handled programming; and
Yahoo! Sports Radio
did overnights.
On May 25, 2012 WXKT flipped from news/talk/sports to
adult hits
, branded as "103.7 Chuck FM".
[4]
Previous logos
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References
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External links
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Owned by Hoffmann Communications, Inc., Cox Media Group operates WJAX under a SSA.
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These stations broadcast these networks on their digital subchannels.
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