WGKA

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WGKA
City of license	Atlanta, Georgia
Broadcast area	Atlanta metropolitan area
Branding	News Talk 920
Slogan	Atlanta's New Talk Station
Frequency	920 kHz (analog)
Format	Talk radio
Power	14,000 Watts daytime, 490 Watts nighttime
Class	B
Transmitter Coordinates	33.809863° N 84.356117° W
Callsign meaning	Glen Karen Associates[1]
Owner	Salem Communications (Pennsylvania Media Associates, Inc.)
Sister stations	WNIV / WLTA, WAFS
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	"NewsTalk 920" Official website

WGKA, "News Talk 920", is a radio station based in Atlanta, Georgia which broadcasts a *syndicated talk radio format. It is owned by Salem Communications and has many of the same hosts, such as Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, and Mike Gallagher, heard on other Salem Communications owned radio stations across the U.S.. It was once a station exclusively devoted to classical music.

The 920 kHz frequency in the Atlanta radio market was the original home of WGST (AM), which now broadcasts at 640 kHz. The WGKA call sign was originally assigned to the frequency of 1190 kHz which is now the frequency of radio station WAFS (AM), also owned by Salem Communications.

Like WGKA (AM), WGKA (FM) was a classical music station in Atlanta from the 1950s to the late 1960s. Although it existed in the days before NPR, it occasionally carried programs which were not locally produced, such as BBC Music Showcase, hosted by British composer-lecturer Antony Hopkins (not to be confused with film actor Anthony Hopkins). Several of the hosts who once worked at the station, such as Jonathan Phelps and David Jacobs, switched to working at WABE-FM when WGKA (FM) was sold and their program format changed. The station's call letters also changed - to WZGC, which still exists today.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official WGKA station website
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WGKA
• Radio Locator Information on WGKA
• WGKA broadcast tower on Wikimapia (Satellite View)
• on Atlanta in 1968

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