WSBB (AM)
WSBB (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult standards format. Licensed to New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA, the station also serves the Daytona Beach area. The station was previously owned by Gore-Overgaard Broadcasting, Inc. In the spring of 2008 it was sold to Skip Diegel, President of Diegel Communications, LLC. On the afternoon that the sale was finalized, the studios were moved from Daytona Beach back to WSBB's original home of New Smyrna Beach. The new studios are located at 229 Canal Street, just a few blocks away from WSBB's historic studios on the west end of the causeway. The causeway studios continue to serve as the main transmission site for WSBB.
Various broadcast, freelance, and contractual engineers and firms have had a hand in the recent rebirth of "The Voice of New Smyrna Beach". The station recently invested in a new transmitter that has helped the station to reach its listeners more clearly than ever. The station plays music from over five decades of hits, and the playlist is locally programmed at the station. Most songs are hand picked by Mr. Diegel. The station also features news updates at the top of every hour from CNN News Radio, and broadcasts University of Florida Gator football games.
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.
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