WGFY
| City | Charlotte, North Carolina |
|---|---|
| Branding | Faith 1480 |
| Frequency | 1480 kHz |
| First air date | 1954 |
| Power | 4,400 watts (day) 5,000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 10889 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°17′5.00″N 80°52′34.00″W / 35.2847222°N 80.8761111°W |
| Callsign meaning |
With Grace For You (also stood for GooFY during Radio Disney era) |
| Former callsigns | WWOK (1954-1969) WAME (1969-1990) WCNT (1990-1993) WCNV (1993-1994) WIST (1994-1996) WNMX (1996-1997) WTLT (1997-1998) |
| Affiliations | LifeTalk Radio |
| Owner | Charlotte Advent Media Corporation |
| Webcast | Listen Here |
| Website | http://www.lifetalk.net/ |
WGFY (1480 AM) is a radio station serving the Charlotte, North Carolina, market. The station is owned by the Charlotte Advent Media Corporation. WGFY broadcasts with a power of 4,400 watts daytime (5,000 watts at night). It broadcasts a Christian radio format as an affiliate of LifeTalk Radio.
The 1480 frequency arrived in Charlotte in 1954 with the call letters WWOK. Initially a daytime operation with 1000 watts, the station added a directional antenna system and nighttime operation in the late 1950s. The station was Charlotte's Mutual Broadcasting System affiliate, and played middle of the road music.
By 1961, WWOK played country music. In 1969, the station was purchased by Mission Broadcasting of San Antonio, Texas, an early ancestor of Clear Channel Communications. Around this same time, Mission also purchased Miami R&B station WAME ("The Whammy in Miami"). The company flipped the call letters on its two acquisitions, sending WWOK to Florida and bringing WAME to Charlotte.
As WAME, the station was responsible for one of the first radio controversies in Charlotte, when the station's billboards showed a woman in tight jeans (and little else) having the WAME logo branded on her posterior. Popular DJ's in WAME's Country Music days included Ed Galloway, "Easy Edd" Robinson, "Large" Larry English, Bill Alexander, John Sutton and Bob Brandon. The phrases "Whammy" and "Top Dog in Charlotte Country" were used extensively to promote the station in those days.
Jimmy Swaggart, though his subsidiary Sonlife Radio, bought the station in December 1978, and brought some of the first Contemporary Christian Music to the airwaves of Charlotte Radio. In early 1980, Swaggart denounced Contemporary Christian Music through his publication The Evangelist, and WAME began gradually moving toward a mixture of conservative Christian music and teaching programs. Popular DJ's in WAME's Christian days were Danny Dyer, Teresa Gardner and Bob Harris.
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