WDOD-FM
Top 40/CHR | |
Affiliations | Compass Media Networks Premiere Networks Westwood One |
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Ownership | |
Owner |
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WXCT, WUUQ, WDEF-FM | |
History | |
First air date | 1960 |
Call sign meaning | Dynamo of Dixie[1] |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 71351 |
Class | C0 |
ERP | 100,000 watts horizontal 88,000 watts vertical |
HAAT | 336 meters (1,102 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 35°9′41.00″N 85°19′5.00″W / 35.1613889°N 85.3180556°W |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | hits96.com |
WDOD-FM (96.5
History
Early years
The station signed on in the early 1960s as a simulcast of WDOD AM. Both stations played country music. Past personalities included Gene Michaels, Earl Freudenberg, Tommy Jett, Jerry Pond, and "Big" Bill Love. The station also carried NASCAR races, and was primarily a country station for a number of years.
At the end of the 1970s, WDOD-FM was known as "D-96" playing top 40 music. At one point, WDOD-FM would play big band music for a short time. The announcer in the legal ID said, "Big bands you remember on WDOD-FM, Chattanooga." Then by around 1981, WDOD-FM would play country music once again up until 1997 when WDOD-FM switched from country music to Triple-A "The Mountain."
The station was considering a switch to mostly
Regardless of the market, Triple-A had the same songs representing about half the playlist, but the rest were different on each station. On The Mountain, artists included Jewel, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Talking Heads. A sample hour of music included Collective Soul, Third Eye Blind, Chris Isaak, Stone Temple Pilots, EMF, Van Halen, Dave Matthews Band, Joan Osborne, Bruce Springsteen, Vigilantes of Love, Loverboy, No Doubt, Aerosmith, and U2. Many songs were familiar and had been hits (an unusual approach to alternative), but they were not heard in the Chattanooga market.
One characteristic that made The Mountain different was attitude, which other area stations did not have. DJs and liners attacked the competition as well as artists such as
96.5 The Mountain
On March 3, 2008 at Noon, after a brief teasing of a
Hits 96
On January 31, 2011, the station began teasing an "upgrade", and that "Version 2.0" of "The Mountain" would debut on February 3 at Noon; at that time the station relaunched their CHR format as "Hits 96". The last song as "The Mountain" was
Previous logos
References
- ^ "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web.
- ^ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Summer 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-03.
- ^ "WDOD-FM Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- Arbitron.
- ^ Marc Schiffman, "Howard's Triple-A Twist Keeps the Mountain Fresh," Billboard, Vol. 109, August 2, 1997.
- ^ "96-5 The Mountain, WDOD-FM, Introduces New Sound". The Chattanoogan. March 3, 2008.
- ^ "96.5 The Mountain" Chattanooga Flips From AAA to CHR
- ^ a b c "96.5 The Mountain Evolves Into Hits 96". The Chattanoogan. February 3, 2011.
External links
- Official website
- WDOD in the FCC FM station database
- WDOD in Nielsen Audio's FM station database