WFFG (AM)

WFFG
City	Marathon, FL^[1]
Slogan	One Station for all the Keys
Frequency	1300 kHz
Format	News/Talk
Power	2,500 watts
Class	A
Owner	Jonathan L. Smith and Karen Moses-Bowling (Choice Radio Keys Corporation)

WFFG (1300 AM) is an American radio station licensed to operate in Marathon, Florida, USA in the Florida Keys.

History

First licensed in 1960, the station was a 500 watt, four-tower directional station built on an inhabited island. Telephone and electrical services were run to the island, exclusively for the station. A drawbridge was built for convenient transportation.

The original owners were Kentucky broadcasters, Bill Betts and Gilmore Nunn, who vacationed in Marathon. In the early 1960s they sold the station to Kentucky financier Garvis Kincaid where it became part of the Bluegrass Broadcasting chain, headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky.

Bluegrass sold the station to a former Michigan legislator and local resident, Emil Lockwood. Lockwood retained the station for less than three years before selling to competitors, the Thacker family, who then owned WMUM-FM, a music station in Marathon.

The Thackers upgraded the station to 2,500 watts with a two tower directional signal. They sold both the AM and FM stations to Joe Nascone, a local resident formerly from Pennsylvania.

While the FCC database states that the station's transmitter tower is located on Boot Key, as well as the transmitter for Radio Marti. Radio Marti is actually on Sister's Creek Island, adjacent to Boot Key and inside the Marathon City limits.

As of July 2007, the station's programming consists of news/talk, including syndicated programming of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Bill O'Reilly.

References

↑ Physical Location

External links

Radio stations in the Florida Keys

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By FM frequency	88.3 88.5 90.1 90.9 90.9 91.5 91.9 92.7 93.1 93.7 93.9 94.9 95.7 96.9 97.7 98.3 98.7 99.5 100.3 101.7 102.1 102.5 102.7 103.1 104.1 104.9 105.5 105.9 106.7 106.9 107.5 107.9

By callsign	Radio Martí WAIL WAMR-FM WAVK WBGG-FM WCNK WCTH WEOW WFEZ WFFG WFKZ WHNJ WIIS WINZ WIOD WKEY-FM WKEZ-FM WKIZ WKLG WKWF WKWM WKYZ WLFE WMIA-FM WMXJ WPIK WQAM WRTO-FM WWUS WWWK WXDJ WXKW WYBX WZTU

Former transmitters	1630/1680 KONK (now on 1500 WKIZ)

Florida radio markets Daytona Beach Fort Myers–Naples–Marco Island Ft. Pierce–Stuart–Vero Beach Ft. Walton Beach Gainesville–Ocala Jacksonville Lakeland-Winter Haven Melbourne–Titusville–Cocoa Miami–Ft. Lauderdale Orlando Panama City Pensacola Sarasota–Bradenton Tallahassee Tampa–St.Petersburg–Clearwater West Palm Beach–Boca Raton Other Florida radio regions Florida Keys Lake City Sebring See also List of radio stations in Florida

News/Talk radio stations in the state of Florida

By callsign	WAJD WBHQ-HD2 WBOB WBZT WCCF WCOA WDBO-FM WDDV WDVH WELE WENG WFFG WFHT WFLA WFLA-FM WFLF WFLF-FM WFLN WFOY WFSX-FM WFTL WFTW WGUF WHNZ WIOD WIXC WJHC WJNO WJTK WKQK WLKF WLSS WLTG WMMB WMMV WNDB WNRP WNZF WOCA WOKV WOKV-FM WORL WPNN WPSL WRZN WSKY-FM WSRQ WTKS-FM HD2 WWBA WWJB WWPR WWTK WXJB WXTB-HD2 WYGC WZAB WZTA W262AG W272CT W283AN W292DE W295BH W298AV W299BL

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By community of license	Altamonte Springs Altamonte Springs Arcadia Atlantic Beach Avon Park Beverly Beach Bradenton Brooksville Bunnell Cocoa Cocoa Beach Cocoa Beach Columbia City Daytona Beach Englewood Estero Fort Walton Beach Gainesville Gainesville Gulf Breeze Hernando Homosassa Jacksonville Jacksonville Jasper Lakeland Lake Placid Largo Marathon Marco Melbourne Miami Micanopy Midway Ocala Orange Park Orlando Ormond Beach Palm Coast Panama City Parker Pensacola Pensacola Pine Hills Port Saint Lucie Punta Gorda Saint Augustine Sarasota (WLSS) Sarasota (WSDV) Sarasota (WSRQ) Sweetwater Tampa Tampa Titusville Venice Vero Beach West Palm Beach West Palm Beach West Palm Beach

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Florida

Miami Marlins Radio Network

Flagships	WINZ/940 (English) WAQI/710 (Spanish)

Affiliates	WBZT/1230 WFFG/1300 WFLN/1480 WHOO/1080 WIXC/1060 WJBX/770 WKWF/1600 WMMB/1240 WSTU/1450

Coordinates: 24°41′28″N 81°06′30″W / 24.69111°N 81.10833°W / 24.69111; -81.10833

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