WROM (AM)

Coordinates: 34°15′11″N 85°09′19″W / 34.25306°N 85.15528°W / 34.25306; -85.15528
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WROM
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Translator(s)103.1 W276CL (Atlanta Junction)
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WROM (710

variety hits radio format blending Top 40, Dance, Alternative and Rock music. The station is owned by Howard Toole, with Rome Radio Partners, LLC, holding the broadcast license
.

By day, WROM is powered at 1,000

FM translator W276CL, 103.1 MHz, from Atlanta Junction, a section of Rome.[1]

History

AM 710

On December 26, 1946, the station first

signed on the air.[2]
It was owned by the Coosa Broadcasting Company, with H. Dean Covington serving as president and general manager. The studios were at 121 Broad Street.

In 1999, the LGV Corporarion acquired the station for $150,000.

Southern Gospel music
format.

WROM-TV

In 1953, immediately after a freeze on new television stations was lifted, H. Dean Covington and associates, the owners of WROM Radio, applied for and received a

construction permit was issued for WROM-TV, and the new TV station began broadcasting from the WROM studios at 121 Broad Street in downtown Rome. The station's transmitter was located on Mt. Alto Road, on the highest peak of Horseleg Mountain, west of Rome. WROM-TV Channel 9 was mainly affiliated with ABC, and secured secondary affiliations with NBC, CBS and the DuMont Television Network
.

In late 1957, the TV station was sold to Martin Theaters of Georgia, Inc., which had received permission from the FCC to switch its WDAK-TV, Channel 28 in Columbus, Georgia, to Channel 9, necessitating the move of the Channel 9 frequency in Rome farther away to alleviate co-channel interference. Covington and associates owners also agreed to sell their station to Martin Theaters, which then moved Channel 9 from Rome 70 miles north to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and re-license it as WTVC. The station remains affiliated with ABC, now serving the Chattanooga television market.

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34°15′11″N 85°09′19″W / 34.25306°N 85.15528°W / 34.25306; -85.15528