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WCGC
WCGC (1270 AM) is a noncommercial radio station licensed to Belmont, North Carolina, United States, and serving the Charlotte and Gastonia areas. The station is owned by Carolina Catholic Radio Network and broadcasts a Catholic radio format, using programming from the EWTN Radio Network.
WCGC's transmitter is located on the western end of Belmont.
WCGC was started by Robert Richard Hilker, signing on the air on December 11, 1954. The 5,000-watt radio station was put on the air with a transmitter Hilker built from a Heathkit model. He applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a radio station construction permit. Hilker also built the Suburban Radio Group which owned and operated 11 AM and FM radio stations and also put on two television stations, WJZY-TV in Charlotte and another in Morehead City.
At the time of Hilker's death, the radio station was still using the transmitter he built as a backup for the now computerized WCGC main system. Born in Winston-Salem, he served in the U.S. Navy and established Cablevision Companies in Gaston County and the Lake Norman area as well at Charlotte television station WJZY-TV. He was past Chairman of the National Association of Broadcasters Radio Board, served on the boards of numerous national broadcasting associations and civic organizations and was inducted into the N.C. Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
Ebb Gantt had played football for Belmont High School and Belmont Abbey College. He later became the radio voice for both teams as well as Davidson College. (The high school later consolidated with Cramerton High to form South Point High School.) Gantt served as a WCGC sportscaster, beginning in the late 1950s. Gantt later became the station's general manager and retired in 1980.
Screenwriter and filmmaker Richard O'Sullivan worked as an on-air personality at WCGC in the late eighties.
Jack LaFaivre, who went on to jobs at WXII and WSJS in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, worked at WCGC after graduating from Belmont Abbey.
Other local broadcasters spent time at WCGC including Joe McLaney, who went on to WBT 1110 as Production Director, and Bob Brandon, formerly of WSOC-FM and Clear Channel Charlotte.
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WCGC
WCGC (1270 AM) is a noncommercial radio station licensed to Belmont, North Carolina, United States, and serving the Charlotte and Gastonia areas. The station is owned by Carolina Catholic Radio Network and broadcasts a Catholic radio format, using programming from the EWTN Radio Network.
WCGC's transmitter is located on the western end of Belmont.
WCGC was started by Robert Richard Hilker, signing on the air on December 11, 1954. The 5,000-watt radio station was put on the air with a transmitter Hilker built from a Heathkit model. He applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a radio station construction permit. Hilker also built the Suburban Radio Group which owned and operated 11 AM and FM radio stations and also put on two television stations, WJZY-TV in Charlotte and another in Morehead City.
At the time of Hilker's death, the radio station was still using the transmitter he built as a backup for the now computerized WCGC main system. Born in Winston-Salem, he served in the U.S. Navy and established Cablevision Companies in Gaston County and the Lake Norman area as well at Charlotte television station WJZY-TV. He was past Chairman of the National Association of Broadcasters Radio Board, served on the boards of numerous national broadcasting associations and civic organizations and was inducted into the N.C. Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
Ebb Gantt had played football for Belmont High School and Belmont Abbey College. He later became the radio voice for both teams as well as Davidson College. (The high school later consolidated with Cramerton High to form South Point High School.) Gantt served as a WCGC sportscaster, beginning in the late 1950s. Gantt later became the station's general manager and retired in 1980.
Screenwriter and filmmaker Richard O'Sullivan worked as an on-air personality at WCGC in the late eighties.
Jack LaFaivre, who went on to jobs at WXII and WSJS in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, worked at WCGC after graduating from Belmont Abbey.
Other local broadcasters spent time at WCGC including Joe McLaney, who went on to WBT 1110 as Production Director, and Bob Brandon, formerly of WSOC-FM and Clear Channel Charlotte.