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WCOG (1320 AM; "Triad Sports Network") is a radio station broadcasting a sports radio format. Licensed to Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, the station serves the Piedmont Triad area. The station is currently owned by Curtis Media Group and features programming from ESPN Radio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WCOG Facility Record )〕 It is part of the "Triad Sports Network" along with WSML in Graham and WMFR in High Point, and operates out of studios in Winston-Salem. ==History== WCOG went on the air in 1947. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the station had a top 40 format. Dusty Dunn, Bob Dayton, Scott Derringer and other DJs played a mix of music that might have included Led Zeppelin, Otis Redding, The Drifters and Janis Joplin.〔"Triad Radio Is No Fan of Limp Bizkit," ''Greensboro News & Record'', December 7, 2000.〕 While attending UNC-Chapel Hill Rick Dees worked for WCOG in 1969 and 1970 when the station was owned by Thoms Broadcasting based in Asheville, NC. Dees left WCOG and worked at WTOB Winston-Salem, NC and WKIX Raleigh, NC when those stations were owned by Southern Broadcasting. By 1981, WCOG was a country music station.〔 In 1985, the station changed its call sign to WGLD,〔 and its format to beautiful music. A few years later, WGLD changed to satellite-delivered oldies;〔Bradley Johnson, "Aiming for an Audience," ''Greensboro News & Record'', July 20, 1987.〕 in 1989, this gave way to an adult standards format provided by the AM Only service. In 1994, the call letters changed to WWWB,〔 and the format to talk radio; WWWB later simulcast WMFR. In 1996 the station changed again to WTCK,〔 "The Ticket", and a sports talk format. The WMFR simulcast returned two years later, after WKEW dropped its talk format for Radio Disney.〔Jeri Rowe, "WTCK to Drop Sports-Talk Format," ''Greensboro News & Record'', July 30, 1998.〕 In 1999, Truth Broadcasting changed the station to Christian talk and returned the WCOG letters.〔 The new format included Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Charles Stanley and James Dobson.〔 WTOB aired the same programming.〔"'Missionary' Finds His Field on Triad AM Radio," ''Greensboro News & Record'', July 8, 1999.〕 On October 2, 2000, WCOG began telling listeners to switch to WTRU.〔"Station Owners Ponder Format Options," ''Greensboro News & Record'', October 5, 2000.〕 Late in 2000, the announcement came that Truth Broadcasting would move the Radio Disney affiliation from WKEW to WCOG.〔"Dillon Fence Reunites for N.C. Performances," ''Greensboro News & Record'', December 21, 2000.〕 The Walt Disney Company bought WCOG in 2005, which meant more community involvement and visibility for the station. Disney subsequently decided to sell its smaller-market Radio Disney stations, and took WCOG and five other stations off the air on January 22, 2010. A sale to Curtis Media Group was announced on March 9; upon taking over, Curtis relaunched the station July 15 with a return to sports talk. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WCOG (AM)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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