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WTGE
WTGE (100.7 FM, "100.7 The Tiger") is a commercial radio station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The station broadcasts a country music format and is owned by Guaranty Broadcasting Company of Baton Rouge, LLC. Along with four sister stations, its studios and offices are at the Guaranty Group building on Government Street east of downtown Baton Rouge.
WTGE's transmitter is located near the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, south of Louisiana State University. The station broadcasts in the HD radio digital format.
In 2003, WTGE began airing the syndicated Big D and Bubba Show in morning drive time.
On August 10, 1966, the station signed on as WQXY. The station was owned by Sound Dimensions, Inc., with Ken Winstanley serving as the president and general manager. The studios were on Wooddale Boulevard. It aired an easy listening format with some jazz music. The power was 100,000 watts but the tower was only 410 feet tall, a fraction of its current height above average terrain. By the 1970s, WQXY was supplied its easy listening tapes from Schulke Radio, a national syndicator.
During Winstanley's ownership, WQXY broadcast "Moon Glow With Martin," hosted by popular disc jockey Dick Martin. Winstanley also owned WYLA-FM & WYLK-FM New Orleans along with WPCF-FM and WDLP, Panama City, Florida. He also had ownership interest in KJIN in Houma, Louisiana, KCIL-FM in Gray, Louisiana, plus other Southeast radio stations. Winstanley sold WQXY in 1970 to Allison Kolb CEO / Gulf Union Corporation and moved his broadcasting enterprises to Florida.
The station was acquired by Airwaves, Inc. and operated by owners Lamar Simmons and Gene Nelson throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Airwaves owned sister AM station WLCS, AM 910, and was responsible for moving both stations from the AM's original location in downtown Baton Rouge to (then) Suite 2420 of One American Place, the skyscraper completed by American Bank in 1974. The stations shared the top floor of the building with the bank's Board Room, the chambers of Judge Alvin Rubin of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and a federal agency office. Throughout that period until its 1984 sale, WQXY remained Baton Rouge's only beautiful music station and a Schulke affiliate.
In 1984, WQXY and sister station AM 910 WLCS (now silent) were acquired by the Oppenheimer Broadcast Group of Austin, Texas. 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 for the first time in decades, and it angered a large portion of the station's traditional base. The new AC format was duplicated by several other Baton Rouge stations, and the ratings were not good. Management decided a change was needed.
In 1988, WQXY flipped to Active Rock as "100.7 The Tiger." To go along with the format change, it became WTGE-FM. In the early 1990s, WTGE-FM got a boost in antenna height. It began using a tower that was about as tall as the Empire State Building. By 1995, WTGE-FM shifted to Modern Rock. But that would all change a year later.
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WTGE
WTGE (100.7 FM, "100.7 The Tiger") is a commercial radio station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The station broadcasts a country music format and is owned by Guaranty Broadcasting Company of Baton Rouge, LLC. Along with four sister stations, its studios and offices are at the Guaranty Group building on Government Street east of downtown Baton Rouge.
WTGE's transmitter is located near the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, south of Louisiana State University. The station broadcasts in the HD radio digital format.
In 2003, WTGE began airing the syndicated Big D and Bubba Show in morning drive time.
On August 10, 1966, the station signed on as WQXY. The station was owned by Sound Dimensions, Inc., with Ken Winstanley serving as the president and general manager. The studios were on Wooddale Boulevard. It aired an easy listening format with some jazz music. The power was 100,000 watts but the tower was only 410 feet tall, a fraction of its current height above average terrain. By the 1970s, WQXY was supplied its easy listening tapes from Schulke Radio, a national syndicator.
During Winstanley's ownership, WQXY broadcast "Moon Glow With Martin," hosted by popular disc jockey Dick Martin. Winstanley also owned WYLA-FM & WYLK-FM New Orleans along with WPCF-FM and WDLP, Panama City, Florida. He also had ownership interest in KJIN in Houma, Louisiana, KCIL-FM in Gray, Louisiana, plus other Southeast radio stations. Winstanley sold WQXY in 1970 to Allison Kolb CEO / Gulf Union Corporation and moved his broadcasting enterprises to Florida.
The station was acquired by Airwaves, Inc. and operated by owners Lamar Simmons and Gene Nelson throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Airwaves owned sister AM station WLCS, AM 910, and was responsible for moving both stations from the AM's original location in downtown Baton Rouge to (then) Suite 2420 of One American Place, the skyscraper completed by American Bank in 1974. The stations shared the top floor of the building with the bank's Board Room, the chambers of Judge Alvin Rubin of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and a federal agency office. Throughout that period until its 1984 sale, WQXY remained Baton Rouge's only beautiful music station and a Schulke affiliate.
In 1984, WQXY and sister station AM 910 WLCS (now silent) were acquired by the Oppenheimer Broadcast Group of Austin, Texas. 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 for the first time in decades, and it angered a large portion of the station's traditional base. The new AC format was duplicated by several other Baton Rouge stations, and the ratings were not good. Management decided a change was needed.
In 1988, WQXY flipped to Active Rock as "100.7 The Tiger." To go along with the format change, it became WTGE-FM. In the early 1990s, WTGE-FM got a boost in antenna height. It began using a tower that was about as tall as the Empire State Building. By 1995, WTGE-FM shifted to Modern Rock. But that would all change a year later.