WBIN (640
kHz
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) is a
commercial
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** Radio advertisement
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AM radio station
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licensed
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to
Atlanta, Georgia
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. It is owned by
iHeartMedia
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, through its
subsidiary
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iHM Licenses, LLC. It serves the
Atlanta metropolitan area
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as its affiliate for the
Black Information Network
Black Information Network (BIN) is a radio network and content brand owned by iHeartMedia. Launched on June 30, 2020, it is an all-news radio network of stations targeting the African American community, carrying mostly important national news hea ...
. The station's studios and offices located at the Peachtree Palisades Building in the
Brookwood Hills
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district. The
transmitter
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site is off Joseph E. Boone Boulevard Northwest in the
Center Hill neighborhood of Atlanta.
History
The station signed on April 7, 1988, as WPBD, programming
R&B oldies and
soul
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.
The original owner was the Phoenix City Broadcasting company, headed by Michael Hollins, under a
Federal Communications Commission
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program promoting minority ownership. However, after it
signed on
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, Hollins immediately began making arrangements to sell the station. A proposed purchase by
Jefferson-Pilot Communications
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, owners of
WQXI and
WQXI-FM, fell through. However, in October 1988, it was announced that
Jacor Communications
Jacor Communications was a media corporation, existing between 1987 and 1999, which owned many radio stations in the United States. In 1998, Jacor was purchased by Clear Channel Communications, now iHeartMedia, for $2.8 billion.
Jacor Communicat ...
, Inc. would buy the station.
At this time, Jacor was operating a station on with the call letters WGST (now
WGKA
WGKA (920 AM) – branded AM 920 The Answer – is a commercial conservative talk radio station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, serving primarily the Atlanta metropolitan area. Currently owned by Salem Media Group, WGKA serves as the Atlanta affi ...
). However, WPBD had a better signal than WGST. It operated at 50,000 watts during the daytime and 1,000 watts at night, a substantial increase in daytime power and signal coverage area compared to WGST's facilities. Effective June 30, 1989, WPBD's
call sign
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was changed to WGST. The
talk radio
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programming previously on was transferred to . Among WGST's staff of talk hosts was
Neal Boortz
Neal A Boortz Jr. (born April 6, 1945) is an American author, former attorney, and former conservative radio host. His nationally syndicated talk show, ''The Neal Boortz Show'', which ended in 2013, was carried throughout the United States. The ...
.
In 1992, Boortz asked WGST management for a raise but he was turned down. Talk radio rival
WSB hired Boortz, WGST then hired
Sean Hannity
Sean Patrick Hannity (born December 30, 1961) is an American talk show host, conservative political commentator, and author. He is the host of ''The Sean Hannity Show'', a nationally syndicated talk radio show, and has also hosted a commentar ...
to replace Boortz, after a few other hosts were tried out in his time slot. Hannity was brought in from a
Huntsville, Alabama
Huntsville is a city in Madison County, Limestone County, and Morgan County, Alabama, United States. It is the county seat of Madison County. Located in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama, Huntsville is the most populous city in t ...
, radio station where he previously worked. He stayed at WGST until
Roger Ailes
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offered Hannity a position on the soon-to-debut
Fox News Channel
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in 1996. During his time at WGST, he was given the nickname "Hanni-Pie, The Tin Man" by fellow host
Kim Peterson
Kim Peterson (known to fans as "The Kimmer") is a U.S. television and radio journalist. He recently hosted a news/information talk-show on Atlanta's WYAY NewsRadio 106.7 from 3:00PM to 6:00PM EST. The Show consisted of Peterson as host, Pete Davis ...
.
WGST was also the home for
Atlanta Braves
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baseball
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broadcasts, from 1992-1994. WGST was the station that carried
Sid Bream
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's winning slide in Game Seven of the 1992
NLCS. In May 1994, the station was outbid for Braves broadcast rights by WSB, which previously had carried the games from 1966 until 1991. WGST was also the home of the
Atlanta Hawks
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basketball team until 1995, after which the Hawks followed the Braves to WSB. WGST carried
NASCAR
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races in 1996 and 1997. It was the home of
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The Falcons joined th ...
football
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in 1998 when the team made its first
Super Bowl
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appearance.
From 1993 until 2000, WGST programming was
simulcast
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on WGST-FM (now
WBZY
WBZY (105.7 FM broadcasting, FM) – branded Z105.7 – is a commercial Radio broadcasting, radio station licensed to Canton, Georgia, Canton, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, broadcasting a Spanish Spanish language, CHR format. Owned by i ...
). In 1999,
Clear Channel Communications
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bought out Jacor, including WGST. Clear Channel was the forerunner to iHeartMedia, the present-day owner of the station.
2005 marked a year of change for WGST. The station won the rights to once again carry Atlanta Braves baseball.
The station changed its moniker to "Braves Radio 640 GST." Many Braves fans who lived outside Atlanta and its close-in suburbs complained about the change from WSB, noting WGST's signal was much weaker at night than that of WSB's 50,000 watt
clear channel broadcasts. To remedy the situation, WGST’s
sister station
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Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
WKLS (96.1 FM, now
WWPW
WWPW (96.1 FM) – branded as Power 96-1 – is a commercial contemporary hit radio station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station serves the Atlanta metropolitan area and is the Atlanta affiliate for ''American Top 40 ...
) began
simulcast
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ing Braves games. WKLS was powered at 100,000 watts, covering Atlanta and its growing suburbs.
Since the 1950s, WGST had been an
ABC Radio Network affiliate
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. In 2005, as part of a Clear Channel corporate change, WGST switched to
Fox News Radio
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History
In 2003, ...
as its national news provider. No longer affiliated with ABC, in March 2005, WGST dropped
Paul Harvey
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's syndicated ABC news commentaries from its line-up.
On March 20, 2006, WGST's moniker became "Atlanta. Talk. Radio." On November 21, 2006, WGST announced that morning
drive time
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host
Tom Hughes had resigned, and that midday host
Denny Schaffer
Denny Schaffer is a radio talk show host based in Toledo, Ohio. He left WQQO to host ''The 5:30 Club'' on 93.5 WRQN. He previously hosted a morning show on WWWM-FM, WRNO-FM and an evening show on WGKA 920 in Atlanta from 9 - 11 pm which WGKA move ...
, and afternoon drive talk host Kim Peterson (''
The Kimmer'') and their staffs had been fired. On February 5, 2007, WGST announced that veteran Atlanta morning show hosts Randy Cook and Spiff Carner would be joining the station for a new live and local morning show.
On September 27, 2007, the syndicated
Glenn Beck Program
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returned to WGST in the 9 a.m. to noon slot. Beck was previously heard on WGST from 2001 to 2005. Beck took over
Mike McConnell's weekday spot, though McConnell was still heard on weekends.
On October 9, 2007, morning co-host Spiff Carner was fired by WGST, after 8 months on the air. Randy Cook remained on the newly named "The Morning Drive with Randy Cook." Spiff was later hired to co-host the "Spiff and Fred" show on
WYAY. Clear Channel management did not renew Randy Cook's contract in July 2009. "The Morning Drive" was briefly hosted by comedian Mike Stiles from July 13 to July 24, 2009, before being replaced by syndicated shows.
From July 27, 2009 to November 12, 2010, the weekday lineup consisted of all syndicated programming: ''
The Wall Street Journal This Morning
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'' and
Michael Smerconish
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in mornings;
Glenn Beck
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in late mornings;
The Rush Limbaugh Show
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in middays;
Dave Ramsey
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in afternoons;
Mark Levin
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in evenings and ''
Coast to Coast AM
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'' with
George Noory
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overnights. Atlanta Braves broadcasts would be dropped by WGST at the end of the 2009 baseball season.
On November 15, 2010, Atlanta radio personality Rob Johnson became the new morning host. On January 11, 2011, WGST said it would pick up ''The
Savage Nation
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'', a syndicated show from
San Francisco
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hosted by
Michael Savage
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. That was one day after it was cut by WSB in a schedule change. Beginning in early 2012, Atlanta local Dave Merlino joined Rob Johnson's morning show, re-billed as ''The Rob and Dave Show''. The weekday lineup was ''The Rob & Dave Show'' at 6 a.m., Glenn Beck at 9 a.m., Rush Limbaugh at noon, a local version of ''The
Rusty Humphries
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Show'' at 3 p.m., Mark Levin at 6 p.m., Michael Savage at 9 p.m., George Noory at midnight and ''The Wall Street Journal'' report at 5 a.m.
On September 26, 2012, several Atlanta news outlets reported that WGST would be changing formats. Johnson, Merlino, and Humphries were terminated, Limbaugh's show switched to WSB and Glenn Beck's show was picked up by
WCFO
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. Coincidentally, Michael Savage suspended the broadcast of his show around the same time due to a contract dispute with his syndicator. On September 28, 2012, at 3 p.m., following Rush Limbaugh's program, WGST switched to a
Spanish-language
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sports radio
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format, carrying the syndicated
ESPN Deportes Radio
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Network.
On April 23, 2013, less than eight months after switching to Spanish-language sports, WGST announced it would return to an English-language talk format beginning June 3, 2013, featuring a lineup consisting entirely of syndicated programs, including ''Bloomberg's First Word with
Ken Prewitt
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'',
''America's First News with Gordon Deal'', Glenn Beck,
Michael Berry, and ''
Coast to Coast AM
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among others.'' ESPN Deportes Radio moved to the FM translator 92.3
W222AF
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, replacing an all-comedy format.
In the early 2010s, WGST was simulcast on an
HD Radio
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digital subchannel
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of
sister station
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Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
WUBL FM 94.9, along with
FM translator
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station W222AF. WGST was also carried on the
audio-only digital subchannel
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32.21 of
low-powered digital television
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station
WANN-CD
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, as Clear Channel's other Atlanta holdings were. When WGST switched to Spanish-language sports, these three stations aired "
Comedy 92-3." WUBL HD-3 and WANN-CA returned to running WGST after ESPN Deportes was dropped.
On August 30, 2019, WGST flipped to
conservative talk
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as ''640
Fox News Radio
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History
In 2003, ...
'' with a revised lineup. On June 29, 2020, the station began
stunting with speeches by prominent African Americans. The next day, WGST flipped to
all-news radio
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All-news radio is available in both local and syndicated forms, and is carried on both major US satellite radio networks. All-news stations can run the ...
as ''Atlanta's BIN 640''; it is one of the charter stations of iHeartMedia's
Black Information Network
Black Information Network (BIN) is a radio network and content brand owned by iHeartMedia. Launched on June 30, 2020, it is an all-news radio network of stations targeting the African American community, carrying mostly important national news hea ...
— a multi-platform radio network serving the African-American community.
On July 6, the station changed its calls to WBIN to match the new branding.
Former staff
*
Sean Hannity
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, who hosted a local midday show in the early 1990s before joining
Fox News Channel
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and having his
WABC show picked up for syndication.
*
Tom "The King" Hughes, former morning show host.
*
Kim Peterson
Kim Peterson (known to fans as "The Kimmer") is a U.S. television and radio journalist. He recently hosted a news/information talk-show on Atlanta's WYAY NewsRadio 106.7 from 3:00PM to 6:00PM EST. The Show consisted of Peterson as host, Pete Davis ...
, former afternoon show host.
*
Denny Schaffer
Denny Schaffer is a radio talk show host based in Toledo, Ohio. He left WQQO to host ''The 5:30 Club'' on 93.5 WRQN. He previously hosted a morning show on WWWM-FM, WRNO-FM and an evening show on WGKA 920 in Atlanta from 9 - 11 pm which WGKA move ...
, former midday host. Moved to
WRNO-FM
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in
.
*
Neal Boortz
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, talk host on WGST. Later syndicated nationally by
Cox Radio and the
Jones Radio Networks
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, while heard late mornings on
WSB
*
Michael King, weekend morning anchor 1997-1999. Later a producer and reporter at
WXIA-TV
WXIA-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate WATL (channel 36). Both stations share studios at One Monroe Place on the north en ...
11 Atlanta.
*
Brad Nessler
Bradley Ray Nessler (born June 3, 1956) is an American sportscaster, who currently calls college football and college basketball games for CBS Sports.
Career
Early assignments
Nessler began his professional broadcasting career sharing play ...
, former sports reporter, later the play-by-announcer for
CBS
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's SEC coverage.
*
Clark Howard
Clark Brian Howard (born June 20, 1955) is a popular consumer expert and podcast host of ''The Clark Howard Show''.
Life and career
Howard grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents, Bernard and Joy Garson Howard, were prominent members of Atl ...
, consumer adviser, is now syndicated nationally and on
WSB.
*
Matt McClure, former morning show producer, now with
NY1
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in
New York City
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and
CBS Radio
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traffic.
References
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