WGOK

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WGOK

Mobile, Alabama
Broadcast area	Mobile metropolitan area
Frequency	900kHz
Branding	WGOK Gospel 900
Programming
Format	Gospel music
Ownership
Owner	Cumulus Media (Cumulus Licensing LLC)
Sister stations	WABD,WBLX-FM,WDLT-FM,WXQW
History
First air date	1959(1959)
Call signmeaning	OK Group (original owners)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	56716
Class	B
Power	1,000wattsday 380 watts night
Transmitter coordinates	30°42′31″N88°03′53″W
Repeater(s)	104.1WDLT-FM HD2(Saraland)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	gospel900.com

WGOK(900AM,"Gospel 900" ) is aradio stationserving theMobile, Alabama,area with agospel musicformat. The station is under ownership ofCumulus Media.Its studios are on Dauphin Avenue in Midtown Mobile, and its transmitter is northwest of downtown.

History

The radio station in the early 1960s was located at 900 Gum Street right in the middle of a swamp. The station was part of the largest chain ofblackradio stations in the country called The OK Group. All of the stations in the OK Group had an OK at the end of their call letters, including WGOK in Mobile, KYOK in Houston, and WBOK in New Orleans. There were other OK stations in the cities ofMemphis, Tennessee,andBaton Rouge, Louisiana,among others. There was one White station inAlice, Texas,with the OK reversed, KOPY.

Starting around 1959, WGOK was managed by Robert Irwin Grimes, Jr. He had been a radioman in the Navy, had served at Pearl Harbor on theUSSEnterpriseand was there in Hawaii on the dayPearl Harbor was attacked.

In the early 1960s disc jockeys had names like Topsy Turvey, Miss Mandy, and the Reverend A. J. Crawford. The station was very popular and playedrhythm and bluesrecords as well as gospel records.

Currently, it plays gospel music.

Ownership

In 1999, the station was acquired byCitadel Communications Corp.(Lawrence R. Wilson, chairman) fromFuller-Jeffrey Broadcasting Co. Inc.(Robert Fuller, president) along with sister stationWYOKfor a reported sale price of $6 million.

External links

• Gospel 900 official website
• Facility details for Facility ID 56716 (WGOK)in theFCCLicensing and Management System
• WGOKinNielsen Audio's AM station database
• FCC History Cards for WGOK