FM Technical Profile: WORM

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Station Name:

101 The Worm

Frequency:

101.7

Format:

Country

Transmitter Location:

[map] [street view] [bird's eye] Along Bowen Drive near Morningside Circle in the north part of Savannah.  Co-located with WORM-AM.

Power (ERP):

3 kW H only

Antenna:

Omnidirectional

Antenna HAAT:

174 feet

Other Information:

60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.

More Information:

[FCC]

[FCCdata]

[Radio-Locator]

[Wikipedia]

Owner:

Gerald W. Hunt

History:

Savannah Broadcasting Service put this station on back in 1966 as the FM companion to WORM (AM), with the same Class A 3 kW setup it has today, and transmitting from the same place it transmits from today.  Through the early days up into the early 70's it mostly simulcast the AM, which had a country music format. 

Gerald W. Hunt bought this station and its AM sister in 1984.  By the early 90's, the station split from the AM and took the country into a more mainstream direction while the AM flipped to gold-based oldies.  It's been country ever since.