41-399: WSB may refer to: Broadcasting [ edit ] WSB (AM) , a radio station (750 AM) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States WSB-FM , a radio station (98.5 FM) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States WSB-TV , a television station (channel 32, virtual 2) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States WSB-TV tower WSBB-FM ,
82-403: A certain type of programming, which can be thematic or general, more informative or more musical, among other possibilities. Radio formats are often used as a marketing tool and are subject to frequent changes, including temporary changes called " stunting ." Except for talk radio or sports radio formats, most programming formats are based on commercial music. However the term also includes
123-572: A full-time simulcast on co-owned WBTS 95.5 FM, which previously played rhythmic contemporary music under the branding "95.5 The Beat". That October 1, WBTS's call letters were changed to WSBB-FM ; the extra "B" was added to the FM call letters because Cox already owns a station with the WSB-FM call sign on 98.5. On July 31, 2019, WSB and WSBB-FM began calling themselves "95.5 WSB". The AM frequency and FM call sign are only mentioned occasionally, mainly during
164-470: A radio simulcast of WSB (AM) (95.5 FM) licensed to Doraville, Georgia, United States People [ edit ] William Seward Burroughs I , inventor of a calculating machine William S. Burroughs , popular writer from the Beat Generation and son of the above William S. Burroughs Jr. , son of the above Sports and games [ edit ] World Series Baseball (disambiguation) ,
205-407: A station of changing its format, for example arguing in court over whether a particular song or group of songs is "pop" or "rock". Formats constantly evolve and each format can often be sub-divided into many specialty formats. Some of the following formats are available only regionally or through specialized venues such as satellite radio or Internet radio . Seasonal formats typically celebrate
246-567: A video game series published by Sega World Series of Boxing World SuperBike, another name for the Superbike World Championship Other uses [ edit ] r/wallstreetbets , an investing subreddit on Reddit Weak Stability Boundary , a low energy transfer that allows spacecraft to change orbits using very little fuel World Scout Bureau, a division of the World Organization of
287-463: Is a commercial AM radio station in Atlanta, Georgia . It simulcasts a news/talk radio format with 95.5 WSBB-FM , licensed to Doraville . WSB and WSBB-FM are the flagship stations for Cox Media Group which also owns three other Atlanta radio stations and ABC Television Network affiliate WSB-TV . WSB is among the highest billing stations in the U.S. The studios and offices are in
328-574: Is not as large as 50,000-watt AM stations in other parts of the country due to Georgia's poor ground conductivity; as such, a number of outer Atlanta suburbs only receive a grade B signal. At night, when radio waves travel farther, WSB can be heard with a good radio across much of the Southeastern United States, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea . WSB is licensed to make HD Radio digital transmissions but apparently cancelled it due to listener complaints of RF interference . WSB
369-520: The Atlanta Constitution . The Journal established a makeshift studio on the fifth floor of its building at 7 Forsyth Street. A transmitter had been ordered, but facing a delay, the newspaper arranged for the equipment used by Gordon Heidt for his amateur station to be temporarily installed. A broadcasting license was normally needed before a station could go on the air, but it was arranged to have an initial telegraphed authorization, which
410-521: The Motorola C-QUAM system during the 1980s, a period when music could still be heard on the station. The on-air talent in this era included morning hosts Russ Spooner and Dick Hemby, as well as longtime Atlanta Braves baseball announcer Skip Caray presenting morning sportscasts. As WSB's format progressed to a full-time news-talk radio format by 1987, the AM stereo system was turned off, as it
451-543: The middle of the road (MOR) rose as a radio industry term to discern radio stations that played mainstream pop songs from radio stations whose programming was geared towards teenagers and was dominated by rock and roll , the most popular musical genre of the period in the United States and which held the first successful radio format called Top-40 . In reality, the Top-40 format was conscientiously prepared to attract
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#1732771727269492-420: The network —began to emerge in the United States and Canada. They developed a format with programming consisting of music, news, and charismatic disc jockeys to directly attract a certain audience. For example, by the 1960s, easy listening obtained a stable position on FM radio – a spectrum considered ideal for good music and high fidelity listening as it grew in popularity during that period – and
533-426: The 1970s and 1980s, radio programming formats expanded into commercially successful variations, including, for example, adult contemporary (AC), album-oriented rock (AOR) and urban contemporary (UC), among others, which spread to most AM and FM radio stations in the United States. Over time, FM radio came to dominate music programming, while AM radio switched to news and talk formats. In some countries such as
574-428: The AM and FM spectrum to differentiate themselves for both audiences and advertisers. At that time, it caused a proliferation of many radio formats, which included presentation, schedule and target audience, as well as repertoire. Within a few years, FM radio stations were supplying program formats completely analogous to their AM stations counterparts, increased to more than 50% in 1970 and reached 95% in 1980. During
615-513: The Law , The Kim Komando Show , Eye on Travel with Peter Greenberg and Face The Nation . WSB and WSBB-FM are affiliates of CBS News Radio . The stations have a news sharing agreement with WSB-TV . WSB has long served as the flagship radio station for the University of Georgia Bulldogs Radio Network, carrying its football and basketball games. In past years, WSB also served as
656-764: The Scout Movement World Security Bureau, a fictional intelligence agency on the long-running soap opera General Hospital WSB Merito Universities , group of private universities in Poland WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza in Poland Wynental- und Suhrentalbahn , a former narrow gauge railway company in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
697-586: The UK, licences to broadcast on radio frequencies are regulated by the government, and may take account of social and cultural factors including format type, local content, and language, as well as the price available to pay for the spectrum use. This may be done to ensure a balance of available public content in each area, and in particular to enable non-profit local community radio to exist alongside larger and richer national companies. On occasions format regulation may lead to difficult legal challenges when government accuses
738-734: The WSB Television and Radio Group Building on West Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta . WSB is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for commercial AM stations. WSB is a clear-channel Class A station and uses a non-directional antenna . The transmitter and radiating tower are seven miles (11 kilometers) northeast of Atlanta at the Northlake Tower Festival Shopping Center, off Lavista Road in Tucker, Georgia . Its daytime coverage area
779-740: The WSB studios. In the summer of 1927, WSB began transmitting on 630 kHz. On November 11, 1928, under the provisions of the Federal Radio Commission 's General Order 40 , WSB was reassigned to a "clear channel" frequency of 740 kHz. WSB was the dominant station nationally on this frequency. In March 1941, as part of the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA), WSB moved to 750 kHz, where it has been heard ever since. Part of WSB's programming
820-468: The call letters of WSB-FM, the station traces its founding to when WCON-FM first signed on . During its early years, when few people had FM radio receivers, WSB-FM mostly simulcast the programming on WSB. That included programs from the NBC Red Network, as well as local shows. As network programming moved from radio to television in the 1950s, WSB-AM-FM began airing a full service , middle of
861-475: The early hours of June 6, 1944. Elmo Ellis, who programmed WSB in the 1950s and 1960s, is remembered as an innovator among Southern broadcasters. He provided the on-air editorials for the station, and in the 1960s, consistently supported civil rights . WSB won a 1946 Special Citation of Honor Peabody Award . It was awarded for its program "The Harbor We Seek". From 1925 to 1956, WSB radio, along with later co-owned stations WSB-FM and WSB-TV , operated out of
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#1732771727269902-598: The flagship station for Atlanta Braves baseball , Atlanta Falcons football and Atlanta Hawks basketball . WSB carried Braves baseball coverage from 1966, the year the Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta, until 1991. Braves games moved to 640 WGST from 1992 until 1994. In 1995, the team returned to WSB, the season in which the Braves won the World Series . That same year, Atlanta Hawks game coverage
943-568: The hourly FCC -mandated station identification . Cox Enterprises sold majority control of Cox Media Group to Apollo Global Management on December 17, 2019. While Cox Enterprises retains a minority stake in the company, the sale effectively separated the WSB stations from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , which remains wholly owned by Cox Enterprises. WSB's Scott Slade hosted Atlanta's Morning News until February 2023, when he stepped back from full-time hosting. He
984-412: The late 1940s . American television had more financial resources to produce generalist programs that provoked the migration of countless talents from radio networks to the new medium. Under this context, the radio was pressured to seek alternatives to maintain its audience and cultural relevance. As a consequence, AM radios stations—many of which were "independent", that is not affiliated with
1025-605: The local talent on WSB". In 1939, the Journal newspaper and WSB radio station were sold to James Middleton Cox , the founder of what would become Cox Enterprises . Wright Bryan, a WSB news reporter as well as managing editor of the Atlanta Journal , was also a stringer for NBC during World War II . He was the first war correspondent to broadcast an eyewitness account of the D-Day invasion. Bryan reported from London in
1066-474: The news, bulletins, DJ talk, jingles, commercials, competitions, traffic news, sports, weather and community announcements between the tracks. Even before World War II , radio stations in North America and Europe almost always adopted a generalist radio format. However, the United States witnessed the growing strengthening of television over the radio as the major mass media in the country by
1107-406: The overall content broadcast on a radio station . The radio format emerged mainly in the United States in the 1950s, at a time when radio was compelled to develop new and exclusive ways to programming by competition with television . The formula has since spread as a reference for commercial radio programming worldwide. A radio format aims to reach a more or less specific audience according to
1148-470: The road format of popular music, news, sports and information. By the late 1960s, WSB-FM was separately programmed with a beautiful music format. Also in 1948, WSB-TV first signed on the air on September 29. It originally broadcast on Channel 8. It is the second-oldest TV station south of Washington, D.C., after WTVR-TV in Richmond, Virginia . Just as WSB aired NBC Red Network radio programming, WSB-TV
1189-463: The same property. The original White Columns was demolished afterward. In 1948, WSB added an FM sister station , WSB-FM, originally broadcasting on 104.5 MHz. The Atlanta Constitution had also been experimenting with FM radio, putting WCON-FM on the air the year before. When the two newspapers merged under Cox ownership in 1952, WCON-FM and WSB-FM went silent . WSB-FM returned to the air in 1955 on WCON-FM's dial position, 98.5 FM. While it has
1230-502: The title WSB . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WSB&oldid=1192795664 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WSB (AM) WSB (750 kHz )
1271-554: The top floor of the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel in Midtown Atlanta . Afterward, the WSB stations were housed in a Colonial-style mansion with its interior specially built for broadcasting, informally known as "White Columns". That location was where Peachtree Street crosses West Peachtree Street near Ansley Park . In 1998, all of the Cox's Atlanta radio stations, as well as WSB-TV, moved into a new "Digital White Columns" on
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1312-682: The young audience, who was the main consumer of the records sold by the American record industry at that time. Soon, playlists became central to programming and radio formats, although the number of records in a playlist really depends on the format. By the mid-1960s, American FM radio's penetration began achieving balance with AM radio since the Federal Communications Commission required that co-owned AM and FM stations be programmed independently from each other. This resulted in huge competition between radio stations in
1353-461: Was Southern Gospel music, gaining popularity throughout the region, with shows hosted by Charles Davis Tillman . The Shelby Star newspaper, in an issue dated November 1985, wrote that the talented Dan Hornsby , after the 1929 crash of the stock market , found himself working no longer for Columbia Records . He got work as the first morning show announcer for WSB. Lambdin Kay called Hornsby "90% of
1394-498: Was also picked up by the station. From 1995 until 2004, WSB branded itself as the "Sports Voice of the South", carrying play-by-play game coverage of Braves baseball, Hawks basketball and Bulldogs football and basketball. In 2019, Braves baseball moved to 680 WCNN . The Falcons and Hawks are now heard on 92.9 WZGC . Radio format A radio format or programming format (not to be confused with broadcast programming ) describes
1435-502: Was assigned the use of 700 kHz. Once again, both WSB and WGM were assigned to this new frequency. However, at the end of July, WGM permanently ceased operations, which gave WSB exclusive use of the assignment. In 1927, WSB became an affiliate of the NBC Red Network . The station carried NBC's dramas, comedies, news and sports during the " Golden Age of Radio ". The trademark three-tone NBC chimes were first played in
1476-418: Was one of the first radio stations in the South. In early 1922, there was a tremendous public interest in the then-new technology of radio broadcasting. By the end of the year, the number of authorized stations exceeded 500. In many communities, a race broke out to see who would be the first to get a station on the air. In Atlanta, the primary contenders were the two major newspapers, the Atlanta Journal and
1517-570: Was originally a primary NBC -TV affiliate. WSB-TV also carried some ABC shows. While Channel 8 was assigned to The Atlanta Journal , Channel 2 was assigned to The Atlanta Constitution , although the Constitution never got its TV station on the air. After the two newspapers came under Cox ownership, WSB-TV moved to Channel 2. The station switched networks with WXIA -TV in 1980 to become an ABC affiliate. WSB formerly broadcast in AM stereo using
1558-521: Was sent by the Department of Commerce on the evening of March 15, 1922. The station's debut broadcast took place that evening. The Journal's new station was issued the randomly assigned call letters WSB. Station management would claim the call letters stood for "Welcome South, Brother", even though the Journal did not specifically request those call letters. The Constitution's station, WGM , debuted two days later on March 17. Because it also
1599-982: Was succeeded by evening news anchor Chris Chandler, and remains semi-retired as a fill-in host. In April 2023, 31-year morning news host Marcy Williams retired from WSB. She calculated she wrote more than 300,000 radio news stories. WSB and WSBB-FM mostly air local news and talk shows. Weekdays begin with Atlanta's Morning News , anchored by Chris Chandler, Judd Hickinbotham and Cheryl Castro. Airborne traffic reports and weather forecasts are featured every six minutes. Clark Howard provides consumer reports. In middays, afternoons and early evenings, local talk hosts include Erick Erickson , Mark Arum, Eric Von Haessler and Shelley Wynter. At 9 p.m., WSB carries The Sean Hannity Show recorded that afternoon. Overnight, repeats of local weekday shows are heard. Weekends feature shows on gardening, home repair, cars, real estate, health and money, some of which are paid brokered programming . Syndicated weekend shows include Bill Handel on
1640-447: Was superfluous since music had been discontinued. Also in the 1980s, WSB discontinued its NBC affiliation. Its own news staff delivered all the newscasts, with sound and actualities supplied by AP Radio . In 2018, WSB affiliated with ABC News Radio for its world and national news coverage. Co-owned WSB-TV has been an ABC television affiliate since 1980. In 2020, the station switched to CBS News Radio . On August 16, 2010, WSB began
1681-616: Was transmitting on 360 meters, the two newspapers had to set up a time-sharing agreement allocating broadcast hours. Competition was so fierce between the two that WSB's manager, Lambdin "The Little Colonel" Kay, banned any person who had previously appeared on WGM from broadcasting over WSB. In September 1922, the Department of Commerce set aside a second entertainment wavelength, 400 meters (750 kHz) for "Class B" stations that had quality equipment and programming. Both WSB and WGM were assigned to this new wavelength. In May 1923, additional "Class B" frequencies were made available, and Atlanta