WCFO

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WCFO
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City of license East Point, Georgia
Broadcast area Atlanta, Georgia
Branding News/Talk 1160
Slogan The Talk of the Town!
Frequency 1160 kHz
First air date 1987 as WMLD
Format News/Talk
Power 50,000 Watts daytime,
160 Watts nighttime
Class D
Transmitter Coordinates 33.826111° N 84.605556° W
Callsign meaning W
Chief
Financial
Officer (the person who most likely listened to their previous business talk format)
Affiliations CBS Radio Network
Business Talk Radio Network
Owner JW Broadcasting
Sister stations WMLB
Website newstalk1160.com

WCFO, known on air as "News/Talk 1160", is a news and talk radio station, licensed to East Point, Georgia, serving the Atlanta, Georgia radio market. Programming on the station includes both nationally syndicated and locally produced news, information, and talk programs. CBS Radio News carried at the top of most hours and radio personality Matthew Erich Muller, known on-air as "Mancow", weekday mornings[1]. WCFO broadcasts with a power of 50,000 Watts during the day with a directional antenna pattern using a four tower antenna array, and 160 Watts of power at night using one antenna tower in an omni directional antenna pattern.

The sister station to WCFO is WMLB, owned by JW Broadcasting. Prior to becoming WCFO in June 2006, the 1160 kHz facility was the home of WMLB. WWAA, was sold to the owner of WMLB, JW Broadcasting, in 2006. The owner, JW Broadcasting, decided to move the WMLB call signs and format from 1160 kHz to the 1690 kHz frequency in order to increase WMLB's coverage area. The facility at 1160 kHz frequency was assigned the WCFO call sign and adopted the business talk radio format in June 2006[2]. On April 1, 2008, WCFO switched to a news/talk format[1].

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Ho, Rodney. "3/20: 1160/WCFO-AM drops business talk for Mancow, Dr. Laura, Phil Hendrie, Lou Dobbs", Atlanta Journal Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia), 2008-03-20. Retrieved on 2008-04-10. 
  2. ^ Abkowitz, Alyssa. "Future uncertain for Air America's Atlanta affiliate", Creative Loafing (Atlanta, Georgia), 2006-05-10. Retrieved on 2007-12-11. 

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