WMFG (AM)

WMFG is an AM radio station broadcasting an adult standards format. Licensed to Hibbing, Minnesota, United States, the station serves the Iron Range area. The station is owned by Midwest Communications and features programming from Westwood One.
Midwest owns five radio stations on the Iron Range; KDAH, KQDX, WMFG, WTBX, and WUSZ. All five stations share the same studio location on W. 37th Street in Hibbing.

History

WMFG signed on the air on October 12, 1935, with studios in the Androy Hotel in downtown Hibbing, Minnesota. The station became affiliated with the CBS Radio Network in September 1937. As a CBS affiliate it carried the famous October 30, 1938, War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)|War of the Worlds] broadcast. In June 1942, WMFG dropped CBS and joined the NBC Radio Network. It remained with NBC until the early 1960s. By 1962, it was an independent station. WMFG was one of the original affiliates of the Minnesota Twins radio network in 1961. The station joined ABC in 1968 and remained with ABC until the mid-1980s.
Station management decided to pick up the call sign of Duluth beautiful music station WGGR in 1983. Those call signs were dropped when the format changed at the Duluth outlet. The station applied for and was granted the call sign WGGR on November 1, 1983. On August 5, 1987, the station changed its call sign back to the original WMFG.