WRGG

We are G-A” is the motto of WRGG and the station has something for everyone because that’s what community radio does.

People tuning in to 93.7 might laugh at the banter of “The Morning Show” with Greg Hoover and Mike Bock, cheer a Greencastle-Antrim High School sports team or tap their toes with Lanny Carbaugh on the “Bluegrass Connection.”

“If you really like local, it’s right here,” said Hoover, the director of operations.

Greencastle’s low-power, nonprofit FM station went on the air on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, but its radio roots go back decades, especially to Greencastle’s WKSL. That station was sold about 20 years ago and bringing radio back to Greencastle came up periodically at reunions.

Wade Burkholder, Hoover and Ben Thomas Jr., whose father owned WKSL, were central to fostering the idea and getting WRGG on the air.

They’ve received a lot of help and support, including starting under the umbrella of the Greencastle-Antrim Education Foundation and a grant from the Shockey Family Foundation.

“A lot of things fell into place and a lot of good people helped us,” Hoover said.

The roster of volunteers behind the microphone and behind the scenes stands at more than three dozen, some of whom have been on board since the beginning. “We fill a niche corporate radio stations don’t fill,” said Burkholder, president of Good Companion Radio and development director for WRGG, whose wife, Linda, is finance manager and handles countless other tasks.

Good Companion was formed when, as planned from the beginning, the station became its own independent nonprofit separate from GAEF in 2018.

“We go back to a time when radio was really local. We’re hyperlocal,” said Hoover, citing high school sports, local news and live remotes for events like Old Home Week and Relay For Life. “We talk about things that are happening in Greencastle.”

That talk helps make the Morning Show popular as people tune in to hear what Hoover, Bock and a regular set of other hosts have to say. Weekdays from 6 to 9 a.m. they chat about anything and everything.

“It morphed into people sitting around taking about what’s happening,” said Hoover, who described the mornings as “entertaining and informative, with serious guests and not-so-serious guests.”

“We’ve just kind of organically grow. Programming is way beyond where we thought it would be. There’s something for everybody,” Hoover said. “That’s what community radio does.”

For more information, call 717-597-5460 or visit: wrgg.org

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