WDOD (AM)

WDOD (1310 AM; "Fox Sports Radio 1310") was a radio station serving the Chattanooga area. The station was owned by Bahakel Communications out of Charlotte, North Carolina, and last offered a sports talk format. WDOD was the oldest radio station in Chattanooga, having gone on the air on April 13, 1925 at 1280 on the AM dial. The frequency was changed to 1310 in the early 1940s. Bahakel acquired the station in 1963; previous owners of the station include Norman Thomas and Earl Winger (who owned a crystal radio company, and started WDOD to give people who bought their radios a station to listen to), as well as H. Clay Evans and Interstate Insurance. From 1948 to 1997 it was Chattanooga's original country radio station, and added a FM simulcast on WDOD-FM in 1960. The simulcast continued until WDOD-FM changed its format to AAA. WDOD was briefly an affiliate of Air America Radio in 2005-2006. Prior to that the station had an adult standards format. Until 2009, the station derived a portion of its programming from Scott Shannon's The True Oldies Channel from Citadel Media.