WBTS (FM)

WBTS FM or 95-5 the Beat is an Atlanta radio station that plays hip hopIt began as a country music station WNGC and then became top 40 in late 1999 when it was moved and purchased from Clarke Broadcasting by Cox Radio. At that time, WNGC merged with and moved to an existing country station at 106.1 (WSTE-FM). Its city of license is still Athens, Georgia in Clarke County, though as a move-in (done in 1999) it now transmits from the western Barrow County and eastern Gwinnett County line, about halfway to Atlanta, in northeast metro Atlanta.