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WGTS 91.9 FM is a Christian radio station broadcasting from Takoma Park, Maryland, USA, and serving the Washington DC Baltimore area in a contemporary Christian music format. The station is owned by Washington Adventist University, which is itself owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. ==History== In 1946 Columbia Union College (now Washington Adventist University) started the station as an AM carrier broadcasting to the dormitories. In 1957 CUC received an FM broadcasting licence from the FCC, enabling a larger population to receive its signal. In 1997 the station dropped its classical music programming after approximately 20 years, in favor of contemporary Christian music (CCM), a format not offered in the Washington DC area. Since then, the station's listenership increased, and it became the second most-listened to non-commercial religious station in the country. In 2004 WGTS expanded its coverage of the DC area when its application for a new tower located in Arlington, Virginia, was approved by the FCC. It almost doubled its previous coverage, reaching more of northern Virginia and northern and western Maryland. When the FCC decided to set aside all F.M. band frequencies below 92.1 MHz to be used as public (i.e. listener-supported) educational stations that did not sell advertising, WGTS was the first in the DC area to be recognized. It was the first station in Washington to go stereo. Gerry Fuller was the host of its long-running Saturday morning broadcast ''Breakaway'' (formerly ''Saturday Seminar''). Fuller was a licensed DDS in the Washington area and hosted ''Breakaway'' for over 39 years, interviewing authors, speakers and musicians who talk about Christianity. Guests have included James Dobson and his wife Shirley, CeCe Winans, Ben Carson, Barry Black, Philip Yancey and Charles Stanley. Fuller also served as president of the board at the station. He died on July 1, 2012 at the age of 83. In 1996 John Konrad became its general manager, who was instrumental in changing the format to Contemporary Christian Music. He passed away from complications of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma on January 2, 2013 at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Later that year, Kevin Krueger, originally from the (Positive Life Radio ) network in the Pacific Northewest, became general manager. 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「WGTS」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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