WALG

WALG (1590 AM, "News/Talk 1590") is a radio station serving Albany, Georgia, and surrounding cities with a News/Talk format. This station is under ownership of Cumulus Media.

Programming

As of July 2014, notable weekday syndicated programming includes shows by John Batchelor, Herman Cain, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and Michael Savage plus Red Eye Radio and America's Morning News. Notable weekend programming includes the syndicated The Kim Komando Show hosted by Kim Komando, Smoke This! hosted by Cigar Dave, and Sporting News Radio, and talk shows hosted by Clark Howard, Larry Kudlow, and Gary Sullivan.

Former notable local programming included news and interview program "Wake Up Albany" hosted by Matt Patrick from June 2007 until February 2009.

History

This station was launched as WALB in May 1941 by the Albany Herald. In 1954, the Herald signed on a TV station with the callsign WALB-TV. The AM radio station has been assigned the "WALG" call letters by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since it was sold by the Herald to Allen Woodall, Sr., in 1960.