WTRG

For the Wake Forest, North Carolina, radio station that held the call sign WRDU at 100.7 FM from 1986 to 2004, see WRDU.

WTRG (97.9 FM) is a classic hits formatted radio station licensed to Gaston, North Carolina, in the Roanoke Rapids market. WTRG is owned by John Byrne, through licensee Byrne Acquisition Group, LLC in Roanoke Rapids.

WTRG

Gaston, North Carolina
Broadcast area	Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
Frequency	97.9 MHz
Branding	Magic 97.9
Programming
Format	Classic hits
Affiliations	Compass Media Networks
Ownership
Owner	John Byrne (Byrne Acquisition Group, LLC)
History
First air date	1988 (1988) (as WLGQ)
Former call signs	WLGQ (1988–2003) WYTT (2003–2005)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	17568
Class	A
ERP	1,350 watts
HAAT	149 meters (489 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	36°27′38″N 77°33′52″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	www.magic979wtrg.com

History

This station was assigned call letters as WLGQ on August 5, 1988, which it held until switching to WYTT on January 17, 2003. It switched again, this time to current call sign WTRG, on January 10, 2005.^[2]

The WTRG call letters once belonged to 100.7 FM in the Raleigh–Durham area, whose city of license at the time was Rocky Mount, North Carolina. It first took the calls as an adult contemporary station, and kept them when it flipped to oldies as "Oldies 100.7" in 1989, finally giving them up in 2004 (the station is now known as WRDU).^[3]

On July 29, 2017, the station began "stunting" with continuous Christmas music. On August 2, 2017, WTRG relaunched as "Magic 97.9".^[4]

Ownership

In July 2019, Byrne Acquisition Group purchased WTRG, along with 6 other stations and kept the "Magic 97.9" brand. The purchase was consummated on December 20, 2019. Barry Brown is the general manager and Allen Garrett became the operations manager of the station as of January 2020 and also took over the afternoon show.