WIFN (1340

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"ESPN Atlanta 103.7 FM"), is an

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. The station is currently broadcasting a

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format, and is a

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WCNN WCNN (680 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to North Atlanta and serving the Atlanta-area radio market. It is owned by Dickey Broadcasting and airs a sports radio format. The station is commonly known by the on-air branding as "The Fan". ...

"680 The Fan", running programming from

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History and ownership

The station is co-owned with AM radio stations

AM 680 and

WFOM WFOM (1230 AM, "Xtra 106.3") is an Atlanta-area radio station broadcasting on a frequency of 1230 kHz. The radio station is licensed to the city of Marietta, Georgia. WFOM, along with WCNN and WIFN, are owned by Dickey Broadcasting. The broadc ...

AM 1230. All three stations are owned by Dickey Broadcasting, with studios adjacent to Truist Park in

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. The station previously aired a

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sports/talk format and a gospel music format. As WALR this station

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their former sister station WALR-FM (then known as "Kiss 104.7"). This station was a simulcast of WFOM on two occasions. In earlier years (as WIGO), the station was a black talk-formatted station with studios located on the west side of the city, and well before that (as WAKE), a well-known rock station, with studios at the Georgian Terrace Hotel on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, and previously, initially was WBGE.

Facilities and callsign

WIFN's transmitting facility and tower is located in southwest

near the

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campus. Originally as WBGE then as WAKE (now assigned to a station in

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), it broadcast from the

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. It was later WIGO (calls now on WIGO AM 1570 locally). "WIFN" was previously on a station in nearby Macon, Georgia, which is now

WLXF WLXF (105.5 FM) is a Christian radio station licensed to serve Macon, Georgia. It broadcasts a Contemporary Christian music format. History WDEN-FM The current 105.5 license began broadcasting at 105.3 MHz as WDEN-FM, Macon's second FM ra ...

105.5 there.

References

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