WTGG (96.5
FM is a radio station airing an
Oldies
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as we ...
format, licensed to
Amite, Louisiana. The station serves the
Hammond, Louisiana
Hammond is the largest city in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States, located east of Baton Rouge and northwest of New Orleans. Its population was 20,019 in the 2010 U.S. census, and 21,359 at the 2020 population estimates program. Ham ...
, area.
On September 21, 2011, Charles W. Dowdy, acting as the sole owner of license holder Southwest Broadcasting, Inc., dissolved the corporation and assigned the broadcast licenses it held (WTGG plus
sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio or television stations operated by the same company, either by direct ownership or through a management agreement.
Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
s
WAKH
WAKH (105.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format, licensed to McComb, Mississippi, United States. The station is owned by North Shore Broadcasting Co., Inc. and features programming from Citadel Media. The transmitter is lo ...
,
WAKK,
WAPF
WAPF (1140 AM) is a sports formatted broadcast radio station licensed to McComb, Mississippi, serving McComb and Pike County, Mississippi.
On September 21, 2011, Charles W. Dowdy, acting as the sole owner of license holder Southwest Broadcast ...
,
WAZA,
WFCG,
WJSH
WJSH (104.7 FM) is 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 ...
, and
WKJN
WKJN is a classic country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Centreville, Mississippi, serving Wilkinson and Amite counties in Mississippi and East Feliciana Parish in Louisiana. The station is owned by North Shore Broadcasting Co., ...
) to himself acting as
debtor in possession
A debtor in possession or DIP in United States bankruptcy law is a person or corporation who has filed a bankruptcy petition, but remains in possession of property upon which a creditor has a lien or similar security interest. A debtor becomes the ...
before initiating a
Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The FCC approved the license transfer on December 19, 2011.
On October 25, 2019, the stations emerged and this signal was transferred to North Shore Broadcasting.
References
External links
WTGG's official website*
Hammond, Louisiana
Oldies radio stations in the United States
Radio stations in Louisiana
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