| Broadcast area | Augusta metropolitan area |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 1050 kHz |
| Programming | |
| Format | Christian talk and teaching |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| History | |
First air date | March 10, 1952 |
Former call signs | WAUG (1952–1978) WHGI (1978–1985) WIGL (1985–1986) |
Call sign meaning | Family |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 20595 |
| Class | D |
| Power | 5,000 watts day 82 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 33°27′21″N 81°56′20″W / 33.45583°N 81.93889°W |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | WFAM Online |
WFAM (1050 AM) is a commercial radio station in Augusta, Georgia. It has a Christian talk and teaching radio format and is owned by Wilkins Communications Network, based in Spartanburg, South Carolina. WFAM carries shows by national Christian leaders as well as local preachers. Hosts include Charles Stanley, David Jeremiah, June Hunt and John MacArthur. It is a brokered programming station, in which hosts buy time on the station and may use their shows to ask for donations to their ministries.
By day, WFAM is powered at 5,000 watts using a non-directional antenna. But because AM 1050 is Mexican clear channel frequency, WFAM must greatly reduce power at night to 82 watts to avoid interference. The transmitter is on Laney Walker Boulevard at Hayes Drive.[1]
The station signed on the air on March 10, 1952. Its original call sign was WAUG.[2] It was a daytimer station, required to go off the air at night. The following year, it was joined by a sister station, WAUG-FM at 105.7 MHz, now WLUB. The two stations were owned by the Garden City Broadcasting Company, with studios in the Bon Air Hotel.
It has been a Christian radio station since the early 1970s. The station also became an affiliate of the ABC Information Network in the 1970s.[3]
In 1978, the station's call letters became WHGI, in 1985 the call sign switched to WIGL and in 1986, to the current WFAM.
