WGHC (1400 AM, Rabun County Radio 1400) was a radio station

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to serve

Clayton, Georgia Clayton is a city in Rabun County, Georgia, United States. Its population was 2,003 at the 2020 census. The county seat of Rabun County, it is in the Blue Ridge Mountains. History The area that eventually became Clayton was called the Dividi ...

, United States. The station was owned by Georgia-Carolina Radiocasting and the

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was held by Tugart Properties, LLC. WGHC broadcast a full-service

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format on weekday mornings and afternoons. Weekday evenings and on weekends, WGHC broadcasts an

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music format.

History

This station received its original

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for a new station broadcasting at 1400

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from the

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on June 18,

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. The new station was assigned the

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WNGA by the FCC on July 22, 2008. After the former WGHC at 1370 kHz moved to North Carolina and became WTCG, this station's call sign was changed to WGHC on May 26, 2009. WGHC received its license to cover from the FCC on June 9, 2009. Tugart Properties surrendered the station's license to the FCC on April 17, 2014, as the station had been silent for more than a year due to the loss of its transmitter. The license was cancelled and the WGHC call sign deleted from the FCC database on May 1, 2014.

References

External links

Facility details for Facility ID 160276 (WGHC)
in the FCC Licensing and Management System GHC Rabun County, Georgia Radio stations established in 2009 2009 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Defunct radio stations in the United States Radio stations disestablished in 2014 2014 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state) GHC {{GeorgiaUS-radio-station-stub