A sign of radio times!

 The familiar flashing red light atop the tower behind WGOG studios is no more. In fact, the tower is no more. The 250-foot tower, which ceased transmitting an AM signal in 2008, was dismantled yesterday. WGOG AM left the airwaves six years ago. The station owners sold the AM to a Puerto Rican businessman whose format was Latino religious with a call sign of W-J-T-P. Last year the station was sold again. The former WGOG AM station is now owned by an investment company associated with the Chinese government. Today’s WGOG broadcasts as an FM station, since the year 1991. Many of our listeners have likely assumed that WGOG FM used the AM tower because of its location at the station’s studios/office on the Westminster Highway. But WGOG transmits its FM signal through a tower miles away, in Oconee County’s Tamassee community. Later today, on our website, we’ll display a picture of the dismantled AM tower.