WUWG

WUWG
Broadcast areaCarroll County, Georgia
Frequency90.7 MHz
BrandingWUWG FM 90.7
Programming
FormatPublic radio
AffiliationsGPB
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
1973
Former call signs
WWGC (1973–2001)
Call sign meaning
University of West Georgia, founder and former owner of the station
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID71602
ClassA
ERP430 watts
HAAT151 meters (495 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
33°33′50.4″N 85°1′3.8″W / 33.564000°N 85.017722°W / 33.564000; -85.017722
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Public license information

WUWG, FM 90.7, is the radio station that formerly broadcast at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia, and is now a part of the Georgia Public Broadcasting radio state network. This station is one of several in the GPB system that also produces its own programming; however, the vast majority of the broadcast day is a simulcast of the statewide feed. That feed is also duplicated locally both by GPB's WJSP-FM in Warm Springs and WGPB-FM in Rome, with most NPR programming also carried by non-GPB station WABE from nearby Atlanta. Several programs are also duplicated on Atlanta's WRAS, most of whose broadcast day was involuntarily taken from Georgia State University students in June 2014, resulting in programs like Morning Edition and All Things Considered being aired in the Carrollton area on no fewer than five different frequencies at once for seven total hours every weekday. Originally licensed to the university and operated entirely by students, WUWG was transferred outright to GPB in 2004, though it is unclear under what circumstances. When GPB consolidated broadcasting operations in its Atlanta offices in 2008, Dr. Brad Yates, chair of the UWG Mass Communications department, made advances to start a new student-run radio station.