WGET

WGET

City	Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area	Gettysburg - York, Pennsylvania
Branding	ESPN Radio 1320
Frequency	1320 kHz
First air date	August 27, 1950
Format	Sports
Power	1,000 watts (day) 500 watts (night)
Class	B
Facility ID	67132
Callsign meaning	W GETtysburg
Affiliations	ESPN Radio
Owner	Times and News Publishing Company
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	espnradio1320.com

WGET (1320 AM) is a sports talk radio station. Owned by the Times and News Publishing Company along with WGTY, it is licensed to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. The station carries ESPN Radio, having switched affiliations from Fox Sports Radio in June 2013; they dropped adult contemporary music in January 2011.

History

WGET first aired on August 27, 1950. Robert Smith of New Oxford, PA was the announcer who put WGET on-the-air. Twenty years later he and Lester M. Blair of Gettysburg, PA an engineer/announcer were the only two people still working for WGET on August 27, 1970. The station signed-on with power of 250 watts. As an aside, Walter Lane, photographer and Ham Radio Operator W3KGN in town had a transmitter that produced 275 watts. In March 1961 Judge W.C. Sheeley who had made the principal address at the opening ceremony pressed a button in the press room of the Hotel Gettysburg which converted WGET from a 250 watt to 1,000 watts AM station and a 10,000 watt FM station. At one time using a single tower, there are now has three AM towers and a 500-foot FM tower.^[1]

In January 1951, WGET affiliated with the short-lived Progressive Broadcasting System radio network.^[2]

References

1. Twenty Year tribute to WGET
2. "WGET to Progressive" (PDF). Broadcasting. January 1, 1951. p. 28. Retrieved 7 September 2015.

External links

• WGET website
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WGET
• Radio-Locator Information on WGET
• Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WGET

Coordinates: 39°50′30″N 77°13′25″W / 39.84167°N 77.22361°W