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| Broadcast area | Northwest Georgia |
| Frequency | 91.7MHz |
| Branding | The Message |
| Programming | |
| Format | Contemporary Christian music |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Immanuel Broadcasting Network, Inc. |
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| History | |
First air date | January 23,1983 |
Call sign meaning | Christian Cartersville |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 28333 |
| Class | C2 |
| ERP | 7,300 watts |
| HAAT | 285 meters (935 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 34°9′34.3″N85°2′12.8″W / 34.159528°N 85.036889°W /34.159528; -85.036889 |
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Public license information | |
| Website | http://www.themessage.fm |
WCCV (91.7FM; "The Message") is aChristian radio stationlicensed to serve the city ofCartersville, Georgia. The station playsContemporary Christian music.
The station transmits fromMullinax Mountain, betweenEuharlee andWax, Georgia, due west of Cartersville and southeast ofRome (which is slightly closer), the same location for whichWTSH-FM applied to move to in early May 2012. Although very close toWCLK (91.9 FM) inAtlanta, it can still be heard in parts of northwest and southmetro Atlanta viabroadcast translators.
WCCV is alsosimulcast onWJCK (88.3 FM), asister station licensed toPiedmont, Alabama. That station had no translators assigned to it until 2010, when W257CM (99.3 FM) was licensed to the northeast ofTalladega, Alabama. That translator is now assigned toWRYD in theBirmingham, Alabama, area.
In March 2019, the station and network re-launched asThe Message For You, www.themessage.fm with a larger focus onContemporary Christian music programming.[2][3]
| Call sign | Frequency | City of license | FID | ERP (W) | HAAT | Class | FCC info | Notes |
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| W215AY | 90.9 FM | Ellijay, Georgia | 28336 | 10 | 188.6 m (619 ft) | D | LMS | |
| W216BP | 91.1 FM | Fort Payne, Alabama | 92631 | 10 | 204 m (669 ft) | D | LMS | Out of itsbroadcast range |
| W221AW | 92.1 FM | North Canton, Georgia | 28335 | 10 | 272.2 m (893 ft) | D | LMS | |
| W260AJ | 99.9 FM | Ringgold, Georgia | 77856 | 100 | 148.4 m (487 ft) | D | LMS | |
| W290CE | 105.9 FM | Dalton, Georgia | 84026 | 10 | 299.6 m (983 ft) | D | LMS | Formerly W236AJ |
In addition to the suburban stations in Woodstock and Morrow, Canton is also considered part ofexurban metro Atlanta, though "North Canton" is not an official placename. The others are innorthwest Georgia, or just beyond. Rossville is a suburb of Chattanooga, theircity limits touching at the state line.
In September 2011, the FCC changed the callsign of W265BD back to its original callsign of W265AV, which it had before a change to 100.3 in 1997. In 2002, it was forced to change back to 100.9 when full-power100.5 was moved in from Alabama. This change apparently occurred when the station received itsbroadcast license to cover a power increase to 250 watts, which now sends the station as far as Canton,Acworth,Vinings,Alpharetta, andDunwoody according to official FCC data plotted onGoogle Maps.
W265AV in Woodstock is still onSweat Mountain, but had been assigned to retransmitWSB-FM, and in November 2010 was granted aconstruction permit to go from 7 to 250 watts at the same location and slightly lower height. This indicated it might be used to circumvent FCC caps on excessiveconcentration of media ownership byCox Radio in the Atlantamedia market, ostensibly rebroadcasting adigital-onlychannel from B98.5 FM. (The same occurred with unrelatedW229AG 93.7, alsonon-commercial and on Sweat Mountain, and sold to acommercial radio company; other local "translators" have done the same.) As of December 2011[update] however, it is still broadcasting WCCV, and is now officially assigned to retransmitWUBL.
WUBL is also listed as the primary station forW221CG (92.1) in "Kennesaw" (actually nearHiram/Dallas), which is also owned by Immanuel, and had a permit to move to north ofLithia Springs (its new city of license) at a power of 120 watts on 92.5, which caused its callsign to change to W223BP once licensed in March 2012.
Also recently,[when?] Immanuel's W222AF (92.3) inMarietta was assigned toWGST, with a permit granted in April 2011 to go from 10 to 15 watts, and move from theCobb EMCradio tower inElizabeth southeastward to between Marietta andSmyrna, in the Laurel Valley apartments alongInterstate 75 south ofDelk Road. On the weekend of June 19, the station actually made theprogramming change from WCCV to WGST. Prior to this, an hourly on-air announcement stated that the station would be taken off-air permanently, and that the Woodstock station's power would be raised as a replacement. W222AF was then off the air, and it had a permit to move to theNorth Druid Hills tower site. It began rebroadcasting WGST via WUBL's HD-R channel 3 (now24/7 Comedy), but is still owned by IBN. It received alicense to cover in early December 2011 after going on at reduced power the previous month, but often still gets heavyRF interference (or is even completely overtaken at night) to the north and west of the city fromWDEF-FM in Chattanooga. This includes Marietta, which remains its city of license.