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| name = WMAC | image = File:WMAC Newstalk940 logo.png | city = Macon, Georgia | area = Middle Georgia | branding = News Talk 940 WMAC | slogan = | frequency = 940 kHz | airdate = 1922 (experimental 1910–1922) | format = News/Talk | power = 50,000 watts (day) 10,000 watts (night) | class = B (clear channel frequency) | facility_id = 46998 | coordinates = | callsign_meaning =W MACon (also sounds like original calls) | former_callsigns = WMAZ (1922–1996) | affiliations = Westwood One News WMAZ-TV (Weather Updates) | owner = Cumulus Media | licensee = Cumulus Licensing LLC | sister_stations = WDEN, WIFN, WLZN, WMGB, WPEZ | webcast = Listen Live | website = wmac-am.com }} WMAC (940 AM, "News Talk 940") is a Class B radio station serving the Macon, Georgia area with a News/Talk format. This station broadcasts on a clear channel AM frequency 940 kHz and is under ownership of Cumulus Media. The station operates from a five-tower facility in western Macon. A single tower is used during the day, operating at 50,000 watts and providing at least secondary coverage from the outer southern suburbs of Atlanta to the suburbs of Albany. At night, the signal is cut back to 10,000 watts, and power is fed to all five towers in a directional pattern to protect clear-channel XEW in Mexico City, concentrating the signal in central Georgia. HistoryThis station started out as part of a radio experiment by Mercer University professor C.R. Fountain's physics class in 1910. In 1922, Mercer obtained a commercial license under the calls WMAZ. Mercer soon found itself in over its head operating a radio station, and sold it to the Macon Junior Chamber of Commerce, forerunner of the Macon Jaycees, in 1927. A group of Macon businessmen formed Southeastern Broadcasting Company and leased the station in 1929 before buying it outright in 1935.[1] In 1937, it became a CBS Radio affiliate and broadcast its first live Soap Box Derby. In 1941, it was granted authorization to broadcast after sundown as well. It eventually spawned Macon's first FM station and first television station. The FM frequency is now occupied by WDEN, while the television station still bears the WMAZ-TV calls. In the late 1950s, WMAZ-AM-FM-TV produced middle Georgia's first radio-television simulcast (during the 24th Annual Bibb County Spelling Bee). In 1958, its power was boosted to 50,000 watts, making it the second-most powerful station in Georgia. Southeastern sold WMAZ-AM-FM-TV to Southern Broadcasting Corporation in 1963, which merged with the News-Piedmont Company to form Multimedia, Inc. in 1967. Multimedia merged with Gannett in 1995. Gannett had by this time decided to pull out of radio, so it sold off the radio stations in 1996. The new owners changed AM 940's call letters to WMWR (callsign to have stood for Macon-Warner Robins), but a year later, the station was sold as part of a group purchase by U.S. Broadcasting. In 1998, the station changed to its current callsign, WMAC. The calls not only stand for MACon, but are a nod to the heritage calls the station used for three-quarters of a century. In 2002, U.S. Broadcasting sold this station as part of a group purchase by Cumulus Media, and to this day maintains its News/Talk format. WMAC is a primary entry point for the EAS In 2015, WMAC switched To Westwood One News from ABC News Radio due to a corporate change by Cumulus Media. Weather Updates are provided by WMAZ-TV References1. ^{{cite news|title=Cargill Group in Control|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1935/1935-04-15-BC.pdf|accessdate=24 October 2014|agency=Broadcasting|date=April 15, 1935}} External links
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