WHOG (1120 AM) is a

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to serve

Hobson City, Alabama Hobson City is a town in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 759. It is included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. Hobson City became Alabama's first self-governed all-black munici ...

, United States. The station is owned by Hobson City Broadcasting Company.

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is United States

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frequency. WHOG airs a "Smooth Soul and R&B" format to the

Anniston, Alabama Anniston is a city and the county seat of Calhoun County, Alabama, Calhoun County in Alabama, United States, and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston–Oxford metropolitan area, Anniston–Oxford Metropo ...

, area.

History

This station received its original

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from the

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on May 1,

1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

. The new station was assigned the call letters WHOX by the FCC on June 9, 1987. The station, while under construction, changed its call letters to WJOK on November 1,

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, and again to the current WHOG call letters on December 28,

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

. After several extensions to its construction permit, WHOG received its license to cover from the FCC on April 29, 1991.

References

External links

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