Branding "WRGG 93.7 FM" Frequency 93.7 FM MHz | Slogan "We are G-A" First air date June 14, 2016 | |
City Greencastle, Pennsylvania Broadcast area Greencastle, Pennsylvania
Antrim Township, Pennsylvania
Waynecastle, Pennsylvania | ||
WRGG-LP is a full-service and Oldies broadcast radio station licensed to Greencastle, Pennsylvania, serving Greencastle, Antrim Township, and Waynecastle in Pennsylvania. WRGG-LP is owned and operated by the Greencastle-Antrim Education Foundation.
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History
The Greencastle-Antrim Education Foundation filed the original construction permit with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to begin the process of building WRGG-LP, on February 19, 2014. A "license to cover" was granted by the FCC on June 7, 2016, allowing WRGG-LP to begin broadcasting. The station broadcast for the first time on June 14, 2016. Greencastle Mayor Robert E. Eberly was featured on the station's first day of programming, "congratulat[ing] the radio committee and others involved in the station's startup".
Many aspects of WRGG-LP come from former Greencastle station WKSL, now WQCM. The original idea for the programming of the station came from the former format of WKSL. WKSL carried a "good companion" format, which featured Country Music and Christian radio shows. The transmitting antenna for WRGG-LP was placed on the former broadcast tower of WKSL. Ben Thomas, Sr., the father of WRGG-LP committee member and co-founder Ben Thomas, Jr., founded WKSL in 1969. Fellow committee member and co-founder Wade Burkholder was one of the original staff of WKSL.
Programming
The station will feature "hyperlocal" news, sports, community events and information from a team of volunteers. Greencastle-Antrim School District high school students will also host various programs and work behind the scenes. Music from the 1950s and 60s will play outside of the station's normal broadcast schedule.
Location
The studios of WRGG-LP, located at 113 South Carlisle Street in Greencastle, were donated to the Greencastle-Antrim Education Foundation by committee member and co-founder Wade Burkholder and his wife Linda.