WTSH-FM

WTSH-FM
City	Aragon, Georgia
Broadcast area	NW Georgia (Rome / metro Atlanta
Branding	106.1/107.1 Your Georgia Country
Slogan	North Georgia's Country
Frequency	107.1 MHz
Translator(s)	107.1 W296BB (Jonesboro)
Repeaters	98.5-3 WSB-FM HD3 (Atlanta)
First air date	1972 (as WZOT)
Format	Country
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	158 m (518 ft)
Class	C1
Facility ID	7043
Callsign meaning	Transfiguration of SouTH 107, which it was known as until June 2014
Former callsigns	WZOT (1972–1989)
Owner	Cox Media Group (via LMA) (Woman's World Broadcasting)
Sister stations	WALR-FM, WSB, WSB-FM, WSRV, WSBB-FM, WSB-TV
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	1061wngc.com

WTSH-FM 107.1, branded as Your Georgia Country, 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 east of Rockmart. The broadcast licensee is Woman's World Broadcasting and operated by Rome Radio Partners, LLC. As of June 23, 2014, it is operated by Cox Media Group via a local marketing agreement (LMA). The station's supposed main studio is located on John Davenport Drive in Rome, Georgia.

On June 9, 2014, Women's World Broadcasting announced it would turn over operation of country music "South 107" to Cox Media Group via an LMA. On June 22 of that year, WTSH ended its country format after over 25 years and began stunting with a liner redirecting listeners to WSRM FM as "South 93.5". On June 23, Cox Media Group started to assume control of 107.1 via its LMA. Upon Cox taking over at midnight, 107.1 then flipped to alternative rock as X107.1, similar to the then-recently launched "X107.3" in Orlando, Florida. The first song on X107.1 was Fever by The Black Keys. Despite mostly covering outside of the Atlanta metro area (even with the "translator" station's coverage included), it identifies itself entirely as an Atlanta station during on-air promos. The station ID includes all three stations at the top of each hour: "WTSH-FM Aragon, W296BB Jonesboro, WSB-FM HD3 Atlanta".

Just over a year later, on June 29, 2015, WTSH went back to their heritage country format, simulcasting WNGC as 106.1/107.1 Your Georgia Country. The change comes as X107.1 failed to gain any traction up against WRDA/WRDG generating only a 0.5 share in the May 2015 Nielsen Audio ratings.^[1]

The LMA and the "translator" station allow Cox to circumvent restrictions on the excessive concentration of media ownership in the Atlanta media market. Since the "translator" station is not attributable under the FCC rules, and the main station's official service contour does not overlap Cox's WSRV FM 97.1 to the northeast or that of Cox's WALR-FM 104.1 to the southwest, it allows Cox to exceed the cap through technicalities and loopholes. Locally, Cox also owns WSB AM 750 and its simulcast on WSBB-FM 95.5, as well as WSB-FM 98.5, WSB-TV 39 (2.1 and 2.2), and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Broadcast translators and station move

WTSH-FM currently broadcasts with 100,000 watts from west-central Bartow County near Kingston, Georgia. In early May 2012, it applied to move to the WCCV FM 91.7 tower on Mullinax Mountain between Euharlee and Wax, Georgia, due west of Cartersville and southeast of Rome. This application was later dropped, and another filed in later July 2013 was for another location further southwest near Taylorsville, north-northwest of Rockmart. (Relative to metro Atlanta, this is two counties due west of Acworth.) As of February 2014, this application was still pending.

WTSH's owner also purchased broadcast translator W296BB, also on 107.1, but licensed to serve Jonesboro, and previously rebroadcasting WMVV FM 90.7 within its own coverage area (with no terrain obstructions that would make such a translator necessary). It is now assigned to retransmit WSB-FM 98.5, indicating that HD3 digital subchannel now simulcasts WTSH, providing a legal fiction for circumventing the FCC rules which prohibit a translator or booster of a commercial radio station from reaching outside the main station's legal broadcast range. A construction permit issued for W296BB allowed it to move to the WSB-TV 39 (DTV 2.1 & 2.2) TV tower over Freedom Parkway just east of downtown Atlanta, increasing it from 13 to the maximum 250 watts, and using a directional antenna with a major null toward the northwest so as to reduce RF interference to WTSH. It went on-air in February 2014, making it at least the second station to be taken from Clayton county to retransmit another commercial station with an already-good signal in the area (the other being W275BK FM 102.9 from Riverdale).

The two stations are synchronized as a single-frequency network, the same way a booster station would be. This means that the stations transmit the same audio at exactly the same time, intended to make for a nearly seamless transition for listeners. The main indication is static, most often occurring around southeastern Cobb county, near the Chattahoochee River and the northwestern part of the Perimeter (I-285 around Atlanta). This is due to the two stations being around the same signal strength in this area, and the numerous hills, which causes the relative levels of the two to rapidly oscillate back and forth (picket-fencing) when travelling at freeway speeds. Slower speeds or stationary listening may actually be more difficult, as the listener is stuck in small pockets of poor reception for longer periods. The zone of RF interference moves hourly and daily based on weather and overnight temperature inversions, which affect radio propagation, especially over the longer distance from the main station. The two stations may also have their actual carrier waves synchronized via GPS for further stability, and to avoid phase cancellation, but as a matter of physics it is impossible to avoid the switching caused by FM's capture effect.

In 2003, an application was made for another translator station in Rome on 98.7 by Broadcast Investment Associates. This station, which took the FCC a decade to approve, received a construction permit in December 2013, after a reapplication four months prior. Given broadcast callsign W254CF, it also listed WTSH-FM as its primary station, and still shows a location with the city limits just northwest of downtown Rome along Martha Berry Highway (U.S. 27 and Georgia 1). Previously illegal to retransmit a non-FM station, W254CF is now directly assigned to simulcast WRGA AM 1470, another Rome Radio Partners property.

WTSH previously had translator W269CC FM 101.7 in Adairsville, which now rebroadcasts WJTH AM 900 in Calhoun, both in upper northwest Georgia.

Former disc jockeys

Mornings: Moby in the Morning
Middays: Monica
Afternoons: Kevin Daniels
Evenings: Rick Bradley

References

↑ X107.1 Atlanta Gives Way To Country

External links

WTSH website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WTSH

Radio-Locator information on WTSH

Radio stations in the Atlanta, Georgia market

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By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 89.1 89.3 90.1 90.7 90.7 91.1 91.5 91.7 91.9 92.1 92.9 93.3 94.1 94.5 94.9 95.5♦ 96.1 96.5 96.7♠ 97.1 97.5♣ 97.9 98.1 98.5 98.9 99.7 100.5 101.5 101.9² 102.3² 102.5 102.9 102.9♣ 103.3 103.7 104.1 104.7 105.3² 105.7♠ 106.7 107.1 107.5♣ 107.9 ♠WRDG simulcasts WRDA ♣WUMJ simulcasts W275BK ♦WSBB-FM simulcasts WSB AM

NOAA Weather Radio	162.550

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Country radio stations in the state of Georgia

Stations	WAAC – Valdosta WAJQ-FM – Alma WBAF – Barnesville WBTR-FM – Carrollton WBYZ – Baxley WCEH – Hawkinsville WCJM-FM – West Point WCOH – Newnan WCON – Cornelia WCON-FM – Cornelia WDEN – Macon WEKS – Zebulon WFDR - Manchester WFFM – Ashburn WGCO – Midway/Savannah WHIE – Griffin WHKN – Millen WIFO – Jesup WIHB – Macon WIHB-FM – Gray WISK-FM – Americus WJCL-FM – Savannah WJTH – Calhoun WKAA – Willacoochee WKAK – Albany WKBX – Kingsland WKCN – Lumpkin WKHX – Marietta WKKP – McDonough WKLY – Hartwell WKNG – Tallapoosa WKUB – Blackshear WKZR – Milledgeville WKZZ – Tifton WLHR – Lavonia WLJA – Ellijay WLYU – Lyons WMCG – Milan WMNZ – Montezuma WMOQ – Bostwick WNGC – Toccoa WOBB – Tifton WOKA-FM – Douglas WPEH – Louisville WPPL – Blue Ridge WQCH – Lafayette WQZY – Dublin WRJY – Brunswick WSCG – Augusta WSGA – Hinesville WSGC – Elberton WSNT – Sandersville WSNT-FM – Sandersville WSRM – Coosa WTHO – Thomson WTIF-FM – Omega WTSH – Aragon WTUF – Boston WUBL – Atlanta WUCG-LP – Blairsville WUFF – Eastman WUFF-FM – Eastman WULK – Crawfordville WXKO – Fort Valley WXLI – Dublin WXRS-FM – Swainsboro WYNR – Waycross WYUM – Mount Vernon WYYZ – Jasper WZAT – Tybee Island/Savannah WZCH – Warner Robins WZQZ – Trion

Defunct	WBBK – Blakely WCUG – Cuthbert

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Georgia

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ABC affiliates	WFTV WSB-TV WSOC-TV

CBS affiliates	KIRO-TV WHIO-TV WJAX-TV ¹

Fox affiliates	KOKI-TV WFOX-TV WFXT WHBQ-TV

Independent stations	WAXN-TV WRDQ

MyNetworkTV affiliates	KMYT-TV WFOX-DT2 ²

NBC affiliate	WPXI

Cable channels	4SD Cox Sports Television The Cox Channel

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Automotive

AutoTrader.com (98%) (Kelley Blue Book)
Manheim Auctions

Other assets

¹ Cox Media Group operates this station under an LMA with Bayshore Television, LLC.
² This subchannel holds a secondary affiliation with Me-TV.

Coordinates: 34°15′04″N 84°59′06″W / 34.251°N 84.985°W / 34.251; -84.985

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