WNEX
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WNEX-AM is a radio station in Macon, Ga. owned by Register Communications. WNEX operates on an assigned frequency of 1400 kc. It is the area's local affiliate for Radio Disney.
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[edit] History
The station signed on the air April 20, 1945, as an affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System. In addition to Mutual programming, the station's format included country music, local personalities and newscasts. Charles "Peanut" Faircloth and Marion Bragg were among the first announcers. In the 1960s, when WNEX became affilated with ABC, it began airing Don McNeill's popular "Breakfast Club," "Paul Harvey News," and "Howard Cosell's "Speaking of Sports." The station switched to Top 40 music and like many stations in small and medium markets, almost immediately became a favorite with area teen agers. Disc jockeys such as Tom Healy, Tommy Goodwin, Larry O'Neal, Ted Clark and Johnny Hayes were well known personalities. In the 70s, Terry Taylor, Aubrey Hammock, Lamar Studstill, Meridith Buddy Wheeler, Dennis Hayes, Sid Ingram, Jim Pryor,Bill Elder, Ben Sandifer, Dave "King Kong" Kelly and others kept a successful format going. Aubrey Hammock and Lamar Studstill(Jerry Walker) did the play by play football games for WNEX, as well as basketball games for Macon area high schools in the 70s. Later, Dennis Hayes would do play by play. Hayes was on the air when Macon's Southwest High School won a national championship in boy's basketball. Pryor, Sandifer and Elder went on to work for another local radion station, WMAZ-AM/FM. In the early 80's, hampered by FM competition, a weak 1000 watt daytime signal and an even weaker 250 watts at night, WNEX gave up on music, began broadcasting sports round the clock. That format lasted but a short time before the station changed hands and aired a "travellers' radio," format. For a time, WNEX went dark. The studio, off Rogers Place in Macon burned to the ground but the transmitter survived the fire. Purchased by Register Communications, the station went back on the air, first with all sports programming and later "Radio Disney."
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