WIFN (AM)

WIFN

Atlanta, Georgia
Broadcast area	Atlanta metropolitan area
Frequency	1340 kHz
Branding	1340 The Fan 3
Programming
Format	Sports
Affiliations	Fox Sports Radio
Ownership
Owner	Dickey Broadcasting
Sister stations	WFOM, WCNN
History
First air date	1955
Former call signs	WAKE, WIGO, WALR
Call sign meaning	W I FaN
Technical information
Facility ID	1098
Class	C
Power	1,000 watts day/night
Transmitter coordinates	33.748958°N 84.407423°W / 33.748958; -84.407423
Links
Website	(Sister Station) 1230 The Fan 2

WIFN ("1340 The Fan 3"), is an Atlanta AM radio station transmitting on a frequency of 1340 kHz. The station is currently broadcasting a sports radio format, and is a sister station to WCNN "680 The Fan", running programming from Fox Sports Radio.

History and ownership

The station is co-owned with AM radio stations WCNN AM 680 and WFOM AM 1230. All three stations are owned by Dickey Broadcasting, with studios in Buckhead. The station previously aired a Spanish language sports/talk format, a gospel music format, and prior to that as WALR simulcast their former sister station WALR-FM (then known as "Kiss 104.7"), and a simulcast of WFOM on two occasions. In earlier years (as WIGO), the station was a black talk-formatted station with studios located on the west side of the city, and well before that (as WAKE), a well-known rock station, with studios at the Georgian Terrace Hotel on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta.

Facilities and callsign

WIFN's transmitting facility and tower is located in southwest Atlanta near the Atlanta University Center campus. Originally as WAKE (now assigned to a station in Valparaiso, IN), it broadcast from the Georgian Terrace Hotel. It was later WIGO (calls now on WIGO AM 1570 locally). "WIFN" was previously on a station in nearby Macon, Georgia, which is now WROK-FM 105.5 there.

External links

• Facility details for Facility ID WIFN ({{{2}}}) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• {{{2}}} in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
• RecNet query for WIFN (AM)