WUOG

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WUOG (90.5 FM) is a student-run college radio station in Athens, Georgia, owned by the University of Georgia. The call letters stand for the University of Georgia.

The station first broadcast on October 16, 1972. It operates at 90.5 MHz with about 26,000 watts of power, broadcasting from a transmitter on the UGA campus. This gives WUOG a coverage area of roughly 60 miles (about 100 kilometers) around Athens.

Wuog is run entirely by about 200 student volunteers, overseen by 18 executive members. It features regular music rotation and a variety of specialty shows, with a philosophy of playing artists that aren’t heard often on other stations. In addition to music, WUOG airs news, talk, and sports programs.

One popular program is Live in the Lobby, which presents live in-studio performances from local Georgia artists on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.

WUOG has a notable history in the music world. It was the station where R.E.M. was first broadcast, including a live recording of “Hippy, Hippy Shake” in the summer of 1980. In 2006, the station briefly went off the air to fix interference with a nearby nuclear chemistry laboratory on campus, but engineers resolved the issue with filters and WUOG returned to normal operation.

On February 21, 2009, the lobby of the station’s new home in Tate was named the Wilbur Herrington Lobby to honor longtime station engineer Wilbur Herrington.