WLCL (FM)

WLCL FM ("Cool 105.7") is an Atlanta radio station, that plays music primarily from the 1960s and 1970s, including The Beatles.

History

Until 1993, the station was country station WCHK-FM on 105.5MHz in Canton, Georgia, sister station to WCHK AM. The station then received FCC approval to upgrade to class C1 (a much stronger signal than previously), and moved to a new transmitter location to the south, nearer to Atlanta, and next to Interstate 575. At this time, it also changed frequency by one channel to 105.7, to allow WMAX-FM (now WWVA-FM) on 105.3 from south of Atlanta. The station remained under local management for about a year afterward, first as "North Metro's K-105" then as "Atlanta's Classic Country 105.7", before owner Chuck McClure leased the station to Clear Channel Communications and the station became WGST-FM, a simulcast of news-talk WGST AM 640.

In the fall of 2000, the station became rock "Mix 105.7" (WMXV), but didn't stay that way for long due to lagging Arbitron ratings. It finally became "Cool 105.7" in the spring of 2003, playing '60s/'70s oldies music after Cox Radio dropped its '50s/'60s "Fox 97" format from WFOX FM.

While the station was WGST-FM, it moved transmitter site again southward, to Sweat Mountain in northeastern Cobb County. WLCL is now owned outright by Clear Channel, and still holds Canton as its city of license. A new WCHK-FM on 100.1 was changed to WNSY FM in 1999.

External links

• Cool 105.7 homepage