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broadcasting a Southern Gospel

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Rockmart, Georgia Rockmart is a town in Polk County, Georgia, United States. Its population was 4,732 at the 2020 census. It developed as a railroad depot town when the Southern Railway built a station in the area. The community was incorporated in 1872, and ...

, United States, the station is owned by Mark Lumpkin and Mark Garrett, through licensee Heirborn Broadcasting, LLC. It uses the slogan “Hometown radio”. Singing News Radio is broadcast during the overnight hours. The station is located at 602 West Elm Street in Historic Downtown Rockmart. WZOT is also heard on 240 watt

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W270CE at 101.9

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. WZOT is one of two radio stations in Polk County and one of the very few solely Southern Gospel formatted radio stations in the United States. WPLK/WZOT was home to the legendary broadcaster Ned Ingle.

History

On August 28, 1959, the station first

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as WPLK.Broadcasting Yearbook 1974 page B-55
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, required to go off the air at night. In 1972, it added an FM station, 107.1 WZOT. In the 1980s, when the FM station was sold and switched its

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WTSH-FM WTSH-FM 107.1, branded as La Raza 102.3/107.1, is an FM radio station in northwest Georgia, and reaching into northwest metro Atlanta, Georgia. Originally assigned to Rockmart, its city of license is now Aragon, west-northwest of Atlanta, and ...

, the AM station switched its call letters to WZOT. WZOT briefly transferred to a solid country format before closing in 2014. It was used as a satellite station broadcasting country programming from Rome’s 93.5. Before this, it had also broadcast Hispanic programming. In 2016, Heirborn Ministries leased the building, returning it to a solely Southern Gospel format. The station added another FM transmitter, 101.9 FM. The station can also be heard virtually on the TuneIn App, with listeners as far away as Sweden. The station is currently operated by broadcaster Brian McDowell.

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