WRZX (1400
AM) is a
radio station
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broadcasting as an affiliate of
Fox Sports Radio. Until January 2009, then-WCOH played a
classic country
Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades.
Repertoire
The radio format specializes in hits from the 1950s through the early 1980s, and focus primarily on innov ...
format. Licensed to
Newnan, Georgia, United States, it serves the
Atlanta
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area. The station is currently owned by
iHeartMedia, Inc.
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as part of the Newnan cluster with
WMGP
WMGP (98.1 FM, "Magic 98.1") is a US rock-leaning classic hits music-formatted radio station that plays hit music from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The station is licensed to Hogansville, Georgia, and serves the southwest tip of Atlanta and Mid ...
98.1 and
WGST 720, but operated separately from the Atlanta cluster.
Prior to 2009, WRZX (then WCOH) aired a
classic country
Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades.
Repertoire
The radio format specializes in hits from the 1950s through the early 1980s, and focus primarily on innov ...
format branded simply as "1400 WCOH." The WCOH callsign stood for City Of Homes, which is Newnan's slogan for being home to many old homes from the Civil War era.
On March 26, 2021, the station's tower collapsed in an EF4 tornado that had gone through Newnan early that morning. Because the station had no backup site, the station stayed off-air for a few weeks before placing a crank-up tower in the front of the iHeartMedia Newnan/WCOH transmitter site to temporarily transmit from. As of October, the station was still using the crank-up tower, and had not yet rebuilt the tower.
In July 2021, the station changed its callsign to WRZX, leaving behind the 74 year old heritage WCOH callsign.
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RZX (AM)
Radio stations established in 1948
IHeartMedia radio stations
1948 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
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