WSBB-FM

WSBB-FM 95.5 is a radio station that broadcasts a news/talk format in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The Cox Media Group outlet broadcasts with an effective radiated power of 40 kW from a position between Flowery Branch and Braselton, on the far edge of the northeastern exurbs. The station's city of license is now Doraville, Georgia, an inner suburb. WSBB has studios co-located with its radio partners and WSB-TV in Midtown Atlanta.

It is a full-time simulcast of Cox-owned sister station WSB AM 750, the oldest broadcaster in the South. WSBB has an application from 2006 still on file with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to move to the WSB-FM 98.5 broadcast tower in Edgewood, just east of downtown Atlanta. It is on the same tower with WSRV FM 97.1, and a translator for WSB-TV 2.1, also both owned by Cox.

History

95.5 began in Athens on May 1, 1948 as WGAU-FM on 99.5, broadcasting at 3600 watts, simulcasting sister station WGAU AM 1340 (still owned by Cox). In 1956, the station moved to 102.5, because when channel 11 (now WXIA-TV) came on the air in Atlanta, it created a second harmonic at 199.0, on top of the video carrier at 199.25. During 1962, WGAU-FM broadcast in FM stereo for six hours, the second station in Georgia to do so. Also in 1962, WGAU-FM moved to 95.5, because when channel 8 (now WGTV) came back on, it created a beat frequency with channel 5 (WAGA-TV) in the Athens area. Now a NPR station with talk radio, political talk, and everyday life topics.