At WDNG Media, News Talk 95.1 FM our continued vision is to be THE VOICE for news, information, community events, and conversation.  We work as a team to bring you the very best in news and programming in a timely manner always striving to be the first with breaking local, state, and national news, weather, and travel updates to assist our valued listeners in being prepared for the day ahead. We also work very close with our businesses/advertisers/sponsors through WDNG Media Marketing to assist them in continuing to succeed and prosper in all areas.  We are also pleased to offer PSA'S [Public Service Announcements] to all non profit organizations, charity events and fundraisers.

 

We strive to inform, stimulate and please our listening audience with a diverse selection in programming with something to appeal to each member of our community as well as to our statewide and national listeners via live web streaming.

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WDNG Media News Talk 95.1 is proud to offer a team of highly qualified personel to bring programming that informs, educates and entertains. A team that loves and values  our community, reaching out to be a part, to help for the success of everyone involved. You know them as WDNG owner and show host Charlene Fuller Gossett, Director of Operations/Marketing and Dave Mack, Host, Executive Assistant, and marketing Rep.

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We feature local programming (The Mark and Mack Show and The Dave Mack Show) as well as programming from Fox News Radio including nationally syndicated talk shows including Sean Hannity, Rusty Humpries, Larry Elders and Coast To Coast.

 

WDNG News Talk 95.1 FM is located  at 1115 Leighton Ave. in Beautiful Broadcasting Central and continues to be an icon in our Community.

 

WDNG News was in operation as far back as 1959 under former station owner the late Tom Potts.Sr. It was the only Anniston radio station to offer same day coverage of the May 14th, 1961 Freedom Riders bus burning which is considered one of the landmark events of the Civil Rights era. Two station employees were at the scene of the bus burning taking notes, etc. They were called in as witnesses by the U.S. District Attorney.

 

On March 22, 2009, FBI files were released under a Freedom of Information Act request made by The Anniston Star that included several references to WDNG's coverage of the civil rights movement. In one telegram from the Anniston FBI field office, station assistant general manager Bobby Price is referred to by name as having reported in a newscast facts surrounding the Willie Brewster murder case. The telegram was sent to the Washington office and was directed to J. Edgar Hoover FBI chief at the time. WDNG was at the forefront of coverage of the Brewster slaying. The black man was shot down in July 1965 while driving home from work at an Anniston pipe shop. A white man was convicted in the murder in December 1965 by an all white all male jury. WDNG news provided national radio coverage of the trial for several news organizations (UPI and Mutal Radio News) under the leadership of then station News Director the late Dave Fitz. So strong was WDNG's coverage of the civil rights movement that the station's transmitter building was bombed in the early 1960s. The case was never solved, but it was thought to be an act of violence aimed at it for its news coverage of various stories dealing with the civil rights movement in Anniston.

 

Throughout the history of WDNG Radio's news department it won numerous state and regional awards for coverage of many local news events. In addition, the station's coverage of the Audrey Marie Hilley murder case in the 1980s brought it attention. Mrs. Hilley was an Anniston secretary who was convicted of the use of poison to kill her husband and attempt to do to the same to her daughter. Her flight from justice spawned two true crime novels and a made for a network television movie. WDNG broke the news of many of the Hilley case elements and provided award winning coverage of a case that played out over close to a decade. Two different WDNG News Directors, Mike Stedham and later Chris Pope, gave the region countless up to the minutes details as thousands stayed in touch with anything about the case. Stedham is mentioned in one of the novels about the case as breaking the news on WDNG about Mrs. Hilley's recapture in a small Vermont city.

 

During winter storms in February 2014, WDNG was the only radio station in Calhoun County, Alabama that interrupted regular programming and provided updated weather and road information every hour.

 

Everyone at WDNG is proud to daily walk past a wall that is home to numerous awards received for  Community involvement and efforts as well as pictures of so many guests that we hold close to our heart.

 

We will continue to honor the legacy and follow in the footsteps of our previous WDNG owners, Mr. Tom Potts Sr. and Mr. Charlie Fuller and many others that have been a valuable part of WDNG and our Community, and pray that we too leave this kind of Legacy for those who follow us.