WWMG
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WWMG is an urban adult contemporary
Urban Adult Contemporary
Urban adult contemporary is the name for a format of radio music, similar to an urban contemporary format. Radio stations using this format usually would not have rap music on their playlists. The format was designed by Barry Mayo when he, Lee S. Simonson and Bill Pearson organized Broadcast...

 music formatted radio station
Radio station
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 licensed to Millbrook, Alabama
Millbrook, Alabama
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, USA. The station is known as "Magic 97" and serves the Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery is the capital of the U.S. state of Alabama, and is the county seat of Montgomery County. It is located on the Alabama River southeast of the center of the state, in the Gulf Coastal Plain. As of the 2010 census, Montgomery had a population of 205,764 making it the second-largest city...

, area.

The station has been issued a construction permit by the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
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 to increase its effective radiated power
Effective radiated power
In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains...

 from 1300 Watt
Watt
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s to 5400 Watts.

Programming

Notable programming and on-air personalities include "The Tom Joyner Morning Show", Darryl E, Private Dancer, Keith Sweat and Cynthia Bettis.

History

This station used the call sign WXEF from February 2 to October 16, 1992, when it was assigned WMCZ which it held until September 16, 2004. The station then switched to WWMG, the current assigned call letters.

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