WGTR (107.9 FM) is a country music radio station owned by iHeartMedia. Licensed to Bucksport, South Carolina, it serves the Myrtle Beach area. The station is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to broadcast with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 20,000 watts. WGTR goes by the name The Gator and its current slogan is "#1 For New Country, Gator 107.9". Its studios are located on the U.S. 17 Bypass in Myrtle Beach, and its transmitter is in Murrells Inlet.
^"FCC Query Results: WGTR". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
^"Facility Technical Data for WGTR". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
WGTR (107.9 FM) is a country music radio station owned by iHeartMedia. Licensed to Bucksport, South Carolina, it serves the Myrtle Beach area. The station...
contemporary format as "97 A1A." In 1986, the station switched to album rock as WGTR. The previous year, WINZ-FM (now WZTU) had changed from a rock format to...
12, 1972, as WGTR, owned by John Garabedian. It was a full service daytime station for Natick and MetroWest, programming top-40 music. WGTR originally from...
by a handful of early pioneer experimental stations, including W1XOJ/W43B/WGTR (shut down in 1953) and W1XTG/WSRS, both transmitting from Paxton, Massachusetts...
June 1997 and moved it from Waccamaw Pottery to studios shared by WWSK and WGTR near the back gate of the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. As of 2000...
2000". Several years later, WDZD began airing the country music heard on WGTR, but the stations went their separate ways in 2005. WDZD became "La Que Buena...
radio ratings," The Sun News, Aug. 22, 1999. Toby Eddings, "Survey says WGTR tops in mornings," The Sun News, Oct. 10, 1999. Toby Eddings, "Catching Up...
Group Worcester, MA WAAB 1440 1943–1950 WVEI, owned by Audacy, Inc. W43B/WGTR 99.1 1943–1953 Defunct, went silent in 1953 New York, NY WOR 710 1952–1989...
air date 1971 (1971) Former call signs WLEH (1967–1969) WAYK (1969–1984) WGTR (1984–1986) WOOJ (1986–1989) Technical information Licensing authority FCC...
and Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsburg. Garabedian also owned WGTR (1060 AM, now WQOM); both WVJV and WGTR operated from studios in Natick. The music format combined...
Who Kill" or "Mauled to Death". Scott Chapin, a rock radio disc jockey for WGTR-FM and WIOD's program director, became WSVN's announcer, chosen as his voice...
tropical WGTN 1400 AM Georgetown Waccamaw Broadcasting, LLC Classic country WGTR 107.9 FM Buckport iHM Licenses, LLC Country WGUS-FM 102.7 FM New Ellenton...
jockey Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsburg. In 1969, Garabedian and partners founded WGTR (now WQOM) as a top-40 station serving Boston’s western suburbs from Natick...
they moved to Myrtle Beach, SC in 2010 to host mornings on country station WGTR. The show was briefly syndicated in 2012 before the duo left to accept the...
hits Ownership Owner iHeartMedia, Inc. (iHM Licenses, LLC) Sister stations WGTR, WLQB, WRXZ, WWXM History First air date September 1, 1965 (as WTAB-FM) Former...
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