WLMG
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WLMG is an Adult Contemporary music formatted radio station
based in New Orleans, Louisiana
. The Entercom station broadcasts at 101.9 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW. Its current slogan is "Continuous Soft Rock."
Blues
music can be heard on 101.9 HD-2 (HD Radio
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until the 1970s, when its switched to Top 40. But by May 1976 it would switch back to Beautiful music. It would begin its current AC history as WAJY ("Joy 102") on December 26, 1980, which would later become "Magic 102" in 1987(and its moniker modified to "Magic 101.9" in 1995).During the holiday season, the station plays 24 hours of holiday music(the only station that does in the New Orleans area), from the day after Thanksgiving to Christmas day, calling it the "Magic of Christmas."
Radio station
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based in New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...
. The Entercom station broadcasts at 101.9 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW. Its current slogan is "Continuous Soft Rock."
Blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
music can be heard on 101.9 HD-2 (HD Radio
HD Radio
HD Radio, which originally stood for "Hybrid Digital", is the trademark for iBiquity's in-band on-channel digital radio technology used by AM and FM radio stations to transmit audio and data via a digital signal in conjunction with their analog signals...
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History
WLMG was originally Beautiful music WWL-FM (now being used at its sister station at 105.3)WWL-FM
WWL-FM is a simulcast of news/talk WWL in the New Orleans, Louisiana radio market, licensed to the New Orleans suburb of Kenner. The Entercom station broadcasts at 105.3 MHz with an ERP of 96 kW.-History:...
until the 1970s, when its switched to Top 40. But by May 1976 it would switch back to Beautiful music. It would begin its current AC history as WAJY ("Joy 102") on December 26, 1980, which would later become "Magic 102" in 1987(and its moniker modified to "Magic 101.9" in 1995).During the holiday season, the station plays 24 hours of holiday music(the only station that does in the New Orleans area), from the day after Thanksgiving to Christmas day, calling it the "Magic of Christmas."