WPUP (100.1 FM, "Power 100.1") is a

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broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format. Licensed to the

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suburb of Watkinsville, it serves the Athens metropolitan area. It first began broadcasting in Washington in

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. It is currently owned by

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. Its studios are located in Bogart, and its transmitter is in

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History

Today's WPUP signed on June 1, 1970 as WLOV-FM in

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. The station was co-owned with WLOV (1550 AM) and broadcast as a local station, carrying the WLOV-FM call letters except for a brief two-year period from 1984 to 1986. On August 14, 1998,

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purchased WLOV-AM-FM from P&T Broadcasting for $533,000. In August 2008, WPUP was sold (along with sister stations

WGMG WGMG (102.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Crawford, Georgia, United States, with studios in Athens, Georgia. The station is owned by Cox Media Group. Its studios are located in Bogart, and its ...

WNGC WNGC (106.1 FM) is a Cox Media Group radio station in North Georgia that plays country music; it was at 95.5 from 1968-1999. Its city of license is Arcade with studios in Athens. Its transmitter is in Lula, Georgia. Station history Prior to ...

, WRFC, and

WGAU WGAU (1340 AM, "News-Talk 1340") is a radio station licensed to serve Athens, Georgia, United States, that broadcasts a news/talk format. The transmitter is located at the studios (with WNGC) in Five Points. WGAU began broadcasting on May 1, 19 ...

) to Cox Radio in Atlanta. Cox swapped callsigns, moving WXKT to 103.7 and changing 100.1 FM to the current WPUP. The two stations began simulcasting the "Bulldog" classic-rock format; WXKT 100.1 had previously programmed a "Real

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" format. On September 30, 2009, WPUP dropped the "Bulldog" classic-rock format and began stunting as "Obama Government Controlled Radio at 100.1 FM". Station identifiers claimed (jokingly) that the station has been taken over by the government: it intermittently simulcast the Hawaiian music format of KCCN-FM in Honolulu, played clips from speeches by President Obama, and played other music he might enjoy, such as the theme song to Shaft. The

WXKT WXKT (103.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Variety Hits format as "103.7 Chuck FM". Licensed to Maysville, Georgia, it serves the Gainesville area and can generally be heard as far west as Doraville and as far south as Athens. It first ...

callsign remains on 103.7 FM, which changed its city of license from

to Maysville and now programs variety adult hits for the Gainesville-Athens market.

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* PUP Cox Media Group Radio stations established in 1970 Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States {{GeorgiaUS-radio-station-stub