WPAX

WPAX (1240 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult standards format. Licensed to Thomasville, Georgia, United States, the station serves the Tallahassee, Florida area. The station is currently owned by Flint Media, who purchased the station from Lenrob Enterprises in 2023. It features programming from CBS News Radio, Westwood One and Atlanta Braves baseball. WPAX broadcasts full-time with 1,000 watts, and also transmits in C-QUAM AM stereo.

WPAX (1240 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult standards format. Licensed to Thomasville, Georgia, United States, the station serves the Tallahassee, Florida area. The station is currently owned by Flint Media, who purchased the station from Lenrob Enterprises in 2023. It features programming from CBS News Radio, Westwood One and Atlanta Braves baseball. WPAX broadcasts full-time with 1,000 watts, and also transmits in C-QUAM AM stereo. ==History== According to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) records, WPAX was first licensed, as WQDX, in June 1930. However, station histories commonly trace its origin to an earlier short-lived Thomasville radio station, licensed from late 1922 to early 1923, which also held the callsign WPAX. This first WPAX was initially licensed on December 27, 1922 to the S-W Radio Company, a small local concern run by Robert Shumate and Hoyt Wimpy, which had previously established a "radio school". (Although "pax" is the Latin word for "peace", its inclusion in the station's call letters was just a coincidence, as this call sign was randomly assigned from an alphabetic block of available callsigns.) WPAX began regular service in late January 1923 as the first broadcasting station located "south of Macon, in Georgia and North Florida", from a studio located in the Wimpy Garage at the corner of Stevens and Jefferson Streets. The broadcast hours were advertised as daily from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., Saturday from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., and Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. As was common during this era, this first WPAX lasted for only a few months, and was deleted in April 1923. ==References== ==External links== FCC History Cards for WPAX (covering WQDX / WPAX from 1930-1979) Thomasville Collection (Georgia Radio Museum and Hall of Fame)

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