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WRAF (FM)

Christian radio station in Toccoa Falls, Georgia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ7954855
Source-derived summary

WRAF (90.9 FM) is a Christian radio station owned and operated by Radio Training Network, Inc. It is licensed to Toccoa Falls, Georgia and serves the Athens metropolitan area along with much of Northeast Georgia. It features a Christian adult contemporary music format. Three family ministries are also included in the weekday schedule: James Dobson, David Jeremiah and Charles Stanley .It features news from Salem Communications.

History

Its sister and companion station was WTXR.

The station, along with WEPC (now WAHP), WPFJ, WTXR, and translators W221AZ and W265AZ, was purchased from Toccoa Falls College effective July 25, 2016 for $2.1 million.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “WRAF (FM)” as christian radio station in Toccoa Falls, Georgia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around WRAF, Christian and radio.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with WRAF, Christian and radio providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “WRAF (FM)”, the useful work is to connect “christian radio station in Toccoa Falls, Georgia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7954855. Authority coordinates are 34.599, -83.365. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from WRAF (FM)” 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.