WGCD

WGCD
Chester, South Carolina;
Frequency	1490 kHz
Programming
Format	Gospel
Ownership
Owner	Wisdom, LLC
Technical information
Facility ID	10761
Class	C
Power	1,000 watts unlimited
Transmitter coordinates	34°41′54″N 81°12′6″W / 34.69833°N 81.20167°W

WGCD (1490 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel format. The station is licensed for Chester, South Carolina, United States.^[1] The station is owened by Wisdom, LLC.^[2]

WGCD-AM was the first radio station licensed to broadcast in Chester County, SC. The station was established in the 1940s by Morgan Jones Craig (1920-1964), a Chester native with a degree in engineering. Through his work as an aide-de-camp to a general in the Pacific theatre in World War II, he had developed an interest in radio. Morgan Craig designed and built the building where WGCD was housed for many years.^{[citation needed]}

The callsign stands for "Wonderful Guernsey Center of Dixie."^[3] Chester was well supplied with this variety of dairy cow and Morgan Craig's father, Alec Bell Craig, had guernseys on their family farm (called "Craigbow") outside of Chester.^{[citation needed]}

WGCD was a family business and included locally generated programming. Shortly after World War II, Morgan's sister, Mary Craig, wrote a cooking/homemaking show called "Miss B".^{[citation needed]}

Because the Craigs were staunch Presbyterians, the 11:15 am Sunday morning worship was broadcast free of charge directly over the radio from Purity Presbyterian Church every week for 40 years, until the 1980s.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "WGCD Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
^ "WGCD". FCCInfo. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
^ Zelezny, John D. (2010). Communications Law (6 ed.). Cengage Learning. p. 393. ISBN 9781111786380.

External links

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WGCD in Nielsen Audio's AM station database

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[1] "WGCD Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved January 13, 2020.

[2] "WGCD". FCCInfo. Retrieved January 13, 2020.

[3] Zelezny, John D. (2010). Communications Law (6 ed.). Cengage Learning. p. 393. ISBN 9781111786380.

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