WPNG (101.9
FM) is a
radio station
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...
broadcasting a
rock format.
Licensed to
Pearson, Georgia, United States, it serves the
Douglas, Georgia and
Waycross, Georgia
Waycross is the county seat of and only incorporated city in Ware County in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 13,942 in the 2020 census.
Waycross gets its name from the city's location at key railroad junctions; lines from six di ...
areas. The station changed ownership when Broadcast South, LLC bought the station in 2009.
It was previously owned by KM Radio of Pearson, LLC (a subsidiary of KM Communications Inc. based in Skokie, IL), the original licensee. From November 2001 through March 6, 2009, they were known as "Freedom 101.9" and carried an
Adult Contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...
format provided via satellite from
ABC Radio The station was known as Classic Rock 101.9 from the date it first went on the air in 1999 until November 2001.
WPNG is under exclusive contract with the
Coffee County, Georgia school system to broadcast the Coffee Trojan Football games with "Voice of the Trojans" Gene Wade and Leslie Byron Smith.
The station changed its format to Rock on January 5, 2018.
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PNG (FM)
Rock radio stations in the United States
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