WHGT
radio station in Maugansville, Maryland
WHGT (1590 kHz) is a non-commercial Christian radio formatted broadcast AM radio station licensed to Maugansville, Maryland, serving the Hagerstown metropolitan area. WHGT is owned and operated by Emmanuel Baptist Temple in Hagerstown, Maryland.
History
VerStandig Broadcasting, former owner of AM 1590, "donated" the station to Emmanuel Baptist Temple after a very public battle of the station's tower, which was in Chambersburg city limits. On January 1, WCBG switched calls with then sister WHGT and moved all programming to AM 1380 and AM 1590 fell silent. AM 1590 would remain silent until December 4, 2005, with FBN religious programming and operated by Emmanuel Baptist Temple. Upon acquiring land, WHGT moved its city of license to Maugansville, MD, several miles south of Chambersburg. As of August 2010, the two radio towers broadcast with a directional signal at 15,000 watts of power during the day, covering others cities such as Hagerstown, MD and Martinsburg, WV. Under ideal conditions, the signal goes as far north as northern Pennsylvania; faint remnants of the signal could be heard there when WGGO was silent, and the station's signal still occasionally overwhelms WGGO's during critical hours.
“WHGT” enters the record as radio station in Maugansville, Maryland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what WHGT, radio and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7950176. Authority coordinates are 39.904, -77.662. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1590, 1380, 2005 and 2010.
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This entry incorporates text from “WHGT” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.