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The station was formerly on 920kHz, now used by WGKA AM. The move allowed it to increase power from 5kW day and 500W night to 50kW day and 1kW night. While this improved daytime reception, it ruined the nighttime reception, which is now highly directional to avoid interference.

WGST's original license for 920 was issued in 1922, with the callsign WGM. The owner was the Atlanta Journal, responding to the rival Atlanta Constitution's new WSBWSB AM ( NewsTalk 750 ) is an AM radio station in the city of Atlanta, Georgia with a frequency of 750 kHz. It is commonly thought of as Atlanta's "news/ talk, weather, traffic, and Dawgs/ Hawks (depending on the time of year) station". It is owned by Cox. (The FCC issued WGM's license the day after WSB's.) WGST got its current callsign after being given to the Georgia School of Technology (now Georgia Tech) in 1923Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 Events January 1 Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larg. The WGM license was allowed to expire that August, and issued to the school in January of 1924Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 See also 1924 in aviation 1924 in film 1924 in literature 1924 in mu as WBBF, later becoming WGST in 1925Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 See also 1925 in aviation 1925 in film 1925 in literature 1925 in mu. It was operated as a commercialHistorically, the term business referred to activities or interests. By extension the word became (as recently as the 18th century) synonymous with an individual commercial enterprise. It has also taken on the more general meaning of a nexus of commercial station under a lease to Southern Broadcasting Company beginning in 1930, but the Georgia Board of Regents got back control of the station in 1946. It was a CBS affiliate in 1947 and later became an ABC affiliate in 1950. In 1973, it was declared surplus property and was sold for five million dollars to Meredith Corporation in 1974, ignoring opposition from alumni, state legislators, and even the governor. However, interest from the trust fund created by the sale was used to upgrade Tech's student-run WREK FM 91.1 in 1978, which was broadcasting from the same studios WGST used in the 1920s.

The station was simulcast on WGST-FM 105.7 around 1999 and 2000.