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WDWD (590 AM) is a Christian talk station serving the metro Atlanta market. Its radio transmitter site, originally along North Druid Hills Road, is now located just north of Austell, Georgia, in west-northwest metro Atlanta. The station's signal is aimed by a four-tower directional antenna array from the Austell transmitter location towards Atlanta (and avoiding interference with WWLX). In 2009, the station upgraded daytime transmitter power from 5,000 to 12,000 watts, while the nighttime power remains at 4,500 watts. Also in 2009, the station started broadcasting in the AM HD Radio (hybrid digital) mode (which has been unavailable since 2013). ==History== The station signed-on with original broadcast callsign WAGA〔(Jeffrey Leachman - Atlanta, Georgia AM Radio Directory )〕 (once the sister station of the current television station by that name) in 1937.〔(A selection from a decade of visits to tower and studio sites in the Northeast and beyond )〕 By 1946, WAGA had moved from 1480 to 590 kHz. In 1959, the station changed to a top 40 music format and changed its call sign to WPLO〔 which was in reference to the new ownership, Plough Broadcasting Company. Another format changed happened in 1966 when WPLO switched to a country music format.〔 In 1987, the station changed callsigns to WKHX and adopted the "Kicks 590" slogan still used on WKHX-FM 101.5. WKHX used to broadcast in Kahn/Hazeltine AM stereo with a "real country" format. Then in 1997, the station adopted the Radio Disney format and the callsign WDWD. In September 2009, the station was forced off-air for a week when it was submerged by nearby Noses Creek, which reached double its flood stage during the historic and record-breaking 2009 Atlanta floods. The station had been shut down prior to the flood, so that once the equipment was completely disassembled and thoroughly cleaned and dried, nearly all of it was salvaged since there had been no short circuiting from the water. On August 13, 2014, Disney put WDWD and 22 other Radio Disney stations up for sale, in order to focus more on digital distribution of the Radio Disney network. Disney originally planned to temporarily shut down the station on September 26, 2014. However, it will remain on the air and continue carrying Radio Disney programming until it is sold.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fybush.com/nerw-20140926/ ) 〕 On February 25, 2015, Radio Disney Atlanta filed to sell WDWD to South Texas Broadcasting, Inc., a subsidiary of the Salem Media Group.〔(Parties to the Application - FCC )〕 Salem bought the station for $2.75 million. The application to assign the station license was granted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on April 13, 2015, and the purchase was consummated on May 7, 2015. 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「WDWD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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