WALG
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| City | Albany, Georgia |
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| Broadcast area | Albany, Georgia and Vicinity |
| Branding | WALG News/Talk 1590 |
| Frequency | 1590 kHz |
| First air date | May 1941 |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (Night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 54703 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 31°37′19″N 84°09′09″W / 31.62194°N 84.15250°W |
| Callsign meaning | ALbany, Georgia |
| Former callsigns | WALB |
| Affiliations | ABC News |
| Owner |
Cumulus Media (Cumulus Licensing LLC) |
| Sister stations | WEGC, WGPC, WJAD, WKAK, WNUQ, WQVE |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 1590walg.com |
WALG (1590 AM, "News/Talk 1590") is a radio station serving Albany, Georgia, and surrounding cities with a News/Talk format. This station is under ownership of Cumulus Media.
As of July 2014[update], weekday syndicated programming includes shows by John Batchelor, Herman Cain, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and Michael Savage plus Red Eye Radio and America's Morning News. Weekend programming includes the syndicated The Kim Komando Show hosted by Kim Komando, Smoke This! hosted by Cigar Dave, and Sporting News Radio, and talk shows hosted by Clark Howard, Larry Kudlow, and Gary Sullivan.
Local programming included news and interview program "Wake Up Albany" hosted by Matt Patrick from June 2007 until February 2009.
On air disc-jockeys included Brother Dave Miller, Bill Young, Steve Preston, Ron Mani, Lil' Country Joe, Ranger Rick Stewart a.k.a. Ricky Horror, Ken Ayers, Tim Rainey, Lisa Lee, and Skip Elliott.
This station was launched as WALB in May 1941 by the Albany Herald. In 1954, the Herald signed on a TV station with the callsign WALB-TV. The AM radio station has been assigned the "WALG" call letters by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since it was sold by the Herald to Allen Woodall, Sr., in 1960.
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