WXKG

WXKG
Simulcasts PSRA) 24–26 watts (PSSA);
Transmitter coordinates	33°41′55″N 84°17′22″W / 33.698605°N 84.289421°W
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Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	105theking.com

WXKG (1010

Atlanta, Georgia, known as "105.5 The King". It is owned by Danny Wilson, through licensee Light Media Holdings, Inc., and airs an urban and inspirational format

.

In the daytime, WXKG has the maximum power for AM stations in the U.S., 50,000

AM broadcast station according to the Federal Communications Commission

.

History

WEAS

The station originally

country and western music, southern gospel music and preaching.^[3]

In 1959, the station changed its call sign to WGUN [4] It had a country music format with the station adopting "the big GUN" slogan.^[3] The WEAS call sign went to the Dee Rivers station at 900 MHz in Savannah, Georgia.

WTZA

On January 25, 2013, the station changed its call sign to WTZA. On January 31, 2013, after a brief

urban oldies, branded as "Old School 1010".^[5]

Again after a simulcast of 94.5 (

broadcast translator station W257DF on 99.3 switched to simulcasting WTZA at the end of summer 2014, upon making its most recent move toward metro Atlanta. However, since W257DF was only recently authorized by the FCC, it is illegal for it to rebroadcast anything other than another FM station's analog signal. The city of license for this station is Dallas, Georgia, although it has never actually had that city within its broadcast range. It transmits at 99 watts instead of 250, to protect WRAS FM 88.5, which overlaps its 10.7 MHz intermediate frequency

centered on 88.6.

Originally applied-for during the

W255CJ

on 98.9 was also required to allow for this.

In 2014, WTZA split from the simulcast with W257DF and flipped to Spanish

Christian Contemporary music

as "Vida 1010."

In late 2015, W257DF was forced

co-channel WCON-FM 99.3 northeast of Atlanta. WTZA began simulcasting

on translator W227DN on 93.3 MHz.

On February 3, 2020, R.C. Media Partners assumed management of WTZA, with a talk format consisting of Kim "The Kimmer" Peterson, Kara Stockton, Pete Davis, Mike Brooks, Jim Gossett, Will Regan and "Flat Earth" Jamie Chapman. The station went silent on March 27, 2020.

Effective October 14, 2020, station owners K & Z Broadcasting, LLC sold the station to Radio Spice, LLC for $300,000. It returned to the air in the fall of 2020, airing a South Asian format of music and talk. Effective May 4, 2023, Radio Spice sold WTZA to Danny Wilson's Light Media Holdings, Inc. for $75,000. The station filed an application to change its call sign to WXKG, which took effect May 23, 2023.