WTGE

WTGE
City	Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Broadcast area	Lafayette-Baton Rouge
Slogan	New Country 100.7 The Tiger
Frequency	100.7 MHz (also on HD Radio)
Format	Country
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	457 meters
Class	C
Facility ID	70022
Transmitter coordinates	30°19′35.00″N 91°16′36.00″W / 30.3263889°N 91.2766667°W / 30.3263889; -91.2766667
Callsign meaning	The TiGEr
Former callsigns	WQXY-FM (1965-1988) WTGE-FM (1988-1997) WXCT (1997-2001) WTGE (2001-2003) WYPY (2003-2010)
Affiliations	LSU Sports, Saints Radio Network
Owner	Guaranty Broadcasting Company of Baton Rouge, LLC
Sister stations	WBRP, KNXX, WNXX, WDGL
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	1007thetiger.com

WTGE (100.7 FM, "New Country 100.7 The Tiger") is an American radio station licensed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, the station serves the Lafayette, Baton Rouge area. The station is currently owned by Guaranty Broadcasting Company of Baton Rouge, LLC.^[1]^[2] The station is also broadcast on HD radio.^[3] Along with four other sister stations, its studios are housed at the Guaranty Group building on Government Street east of downtown, and its transmitter is located in Plaquemine, Louisiana.

WTGE became the Baton Rouge affiliate of the New Orleans Saints Radio Network in 2009.^[4]

History

The 100.7 frequency was home to 100,000 watt WQXY with an Easy listening-Jazz format. WQXY-FM was founded in 1965 by Charles Winstanley CEO. Charles Winstanley sold the station in 1970 to Allison Kolb CEO / Gulf Union Corporation and moved his broadcasting enterprises to Florida. During Winstanley's ownership the station broadcast "Moon Glow With Martin" hosted "live" in the WQXY-FM studio by Dick Martin voted number 1 D.J.in the country. Charles Winstanley also owned WYLA-FM & WYLK-FM New Orleans/New Orleans North Shore, WPCF-FM / WDLP-AM, Panama City Beach,Florida. He also had ownership interest in KCIL-FM / KJIN-AM, (Houma, LA) plus other Southeast radio stations. In 1984, under the ownership of Oppenheimer Broadcast Group (Austin, TX) which had bought the station (and its sister stations, WLCS-AM 910 of Baton Rouge and KQXY-FM of Beaumont, TX) from Airwaves, Inc. (managed by Gene Nelson and Lamar Simmons, two veteran broadcasters and Baton Rouge radio pioneers of the 1940s through 1980s), the format was switched to Adult Contemporary and the familiar black-and-red easy listening "rose logo" was replaced by a bloc sans-serif blue logo. The move left Baton Rouge without a beautiful music station (WQXY was a Schulke Radio affiliate, using SRN tapes for its easy listening programming) for the first time in decades, and it bitterly angered a large portion of the station's traditional base while failing, in successive years, to attract a considerable share of what was already a heavily saturated Adult Contemporary radio market in Baton Rouge at the time. In 1988 it flipped to Active Rock as "100.7 The Tiger" and by 1995 shifted to Modern Rock. But that would all change by 1996 when it flipped to Country as WXCT, "Cat Country 100.7". They later reimaged themselves as "Tiger Country 100.7" as WTGE and in February 2002 they tweaked their playlist and became "Y-100" using call letters WYPY. In 2005 they dropped the "Y" and became "New Country". In Late 2008, the Station became "New Country 100.7 the Tiger", to show the station's dedication and affiliation with LSU sports.

On September 22, 2010, WYPY changed their call letters to WTGE, to go with "The Tiger" branding.

On Air Personalities

Weekday Mornings: Chris Powers, Alabama Anna, Matt Ockmond
Weekday Afternoons: Devan Adams
Nights: Cafe Nashville Cafe Nashville

References

↑ "WYPY Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "WYPY Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
↑ "HD Radio Station Guide". HD Radio. iBiquity.
↑ "Saints change Baton Rouge radio spot". The Advocate. Retrieved April 21, 2009.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WTGE

Radio-Locator information on WTGE

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WTGE

Radio stations in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana market

By AM frequency	870 910 1150 1210 1260 1300 1380 1460 1550 1590

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 89.3 89.7 90.3 91.1 91.5 91.9 92.3 92.7 93.1 93.7 94.1 95.1 95.3 96.1 96.5 96.9 97.3 97.7 98.1 99.1 99.9 100.7 101.5 102.5 102.9 103.3 103.7 104.1 104.5 104.9 105.5 106.1 106.5 107.3 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400

By callsign	K237EW K249DV K275AL K279AL KAJD-LP KBRH KDDK KHB46 KHXT KKAY KLSU KNXX KPAE KQXL-FM KRVE KSMB KTDY KVDU KXKC KYFJ WBKL WBRH WBRJ-LP WBRP WDGL WEMX WFMF WHYR-LP WIBR WJBO WJFM WLRO WMIY-LP WNXX WPFC WPYR WRKF WRKN WRQQ WSGX-LP WTGE WTQT-LP WUBR WWL WWRA WXOK WYNK-FM

Nearby radio markets Alexandria Houma Lafayette Lake Ponchartrain New Orleans McComb-Brookhaven Natchez See also List of radio stations in Louisiana

Radio stations in the Lafayette, Louisiana market

By AM frequency	870 960 1150 1190 1230 1240 1330 1360 1420 1450 1520

By FM frequency	87.7¹ 88.7 89.5 89.9 90.9 91.3 91.9 92.7 93.1 93.7 94.5 95.5 96.5 97.3 97.7 98.1 99.1 99.9 100.7 101.1 101.5 102.1 102.5 102.9 103.7 104.7 105.1 105.9 106.3 106.7 107.1 107.9 ¹ Audio for TV channel 6 (KXKW-LP/Ind)

Digital radio	88.7-1 97.3-1 99.9-1

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

By callsign	K249EY KAJN-FM KANE KBON KCKR KFTE KFXZ KFXZ-FM KHXT KIKL KITA KLWB-FM KMDL KNEK KNEK-FM KNHS-LP KNIR KOGM KPEL KPEL-FM KROF KRRQ KRVS KSIG KSIG-FM KSJY KSLO KSMB KTDY KVOL KXKC KYBG KYFJ KYMK-FM KZJM-LP WDGL WFMF WHFG WJBO WTGE WWL WXK80 WYNK-FM

Defunct	KJCB

Nearby radio markets Alexandria Baton Rouge Beaumont–Port Arthur Fort Polk South Houma Lake Charles New Orleans See also List of radio stations in Louisiana

Country radio stations in the state of Louisiana

Stations	KAPB – Marksville KBKK – Ball KCIL – Morgan City KDBH-FM – Natchitoches KEUN – Eunice KJAE – Leesville KJLO-FM – Monroe KJNA – Jena KJVC – Mansfield KLAA – Tioga KMAR-FM – Winnsboro KMDL – Kaplan KMYY – Rayville KNCB-FM – Vivian KNGT – Lake Charles KOGM – Opelousas KQKI-FM – Bayou Vista KQLK – De Ridder/Lake Charles KRJO – Monroe KRMD-FM – Oil City/Shreveport KRRV – Alexandria KSBH – Coushatta KVCL-FM – Winnfield KVPI – Ville Platte KVVP-LeesVille KWLV – Many KXKC – New Iberia KXKS-FM – Shreveport KXKZ – Ruston KYKZ – Lake Charles KWTG-Vidalia WABL – Amite WBOX – Bogalusa WBOX-FM – Varnado WGUO – Reserve WHMD – Hammond WJSH – Folsom WNOE – New Orleans WOMN – Franklinton WRKN – LaPlace/New Orleans WTGE – Baton Rouge WYNK – Baton Rouge

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Louisiana

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