FM Technical Profile: WTGZ
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- Station Name:
- Tiger 95.9
- Frequency:
- 95.9
- Format:
- Alternative
Rock
- Transmitter
Location:
- [map]
[street
view] Inside the Talladega National Forest, just north of the
intersection of US-80, US-29 and AL-186, southeast of I-85 exit 42.
- Power (ERP):
- 4.3 kW
- Antenna:
- Omnidirectional
- Antenna HAAT:
- 377 feet
- Other
Information:
- 60 dBu protected
contour
map, from the FCC.
- More
Information:
- [FCC]
- [FCCdata]
- [Radio-Locator]
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[Facebook]
- Owner:
- Tiger
Communications
- History:
- This station was spawned
in the summer of 1975 by New South Broadcasting, owners of Tuskegee's
580 WBIL. The calls
may have originally been WVNS. Early on the format was a mix of
"black progressive" and jazz music. The calls changed to WBIL-FM
(We Believe In Love) in November 1978 and for much of the 80's, the
station simulcast all or in part the AM, which had a full service
black-oriented format and later did urban contemporary in the
mid-90's.
- Tiger Communications
bought the station $450,000 in 1996 and flipped the station to
alternative and modern rock as "Tiger 95.9", accompanied by a change
in the calls to WTGZ. Sometime after the flip to modern rock,
the station took the unusual move (at least in Alabama) of getting a
deal to be heard in nearby Montgomery via a translator, W285AJ on
104.9 MHz.
- The station lost its
translator in Montgomery in November of 2009 to that city's AM 1170
WACV, which debuted an oldies format after its news/talk programming
migrated to a new FM signal. On 12 July 2010, WTGZ's alt-rock
format and calls swapped places with the classic country on 94.9 WQSI,
bringing the classic country to a better signal for Auburn and Opelika
while (sort of) helping out Tiger's rock in the Montgomery area.
- Auburn didn't really take
to the classic country format, and in the summer of 2014 the music
gave way to a conservative news/talk format.
In May 2020 the station swapped formats and calls with 93.9, bringing
the Alternative Rock and WTGZ calls back to this frequency.