WUOG

90.5 FM WUOG has been the student-run station at the University of Georgia in Athens since 1972.  Their 26,000-watt signal makes them one of the more powerful college radio stations in the country.  A DJ at WUOG introduced four University of Georgia students to each other and soon after they formed the band R.E.M.  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees got their first radio airplay on WUOG in the summer of 1980.  The station's philosophy states that no artists who had a song chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the past 20 years or has had an album chart in Top 20 of the Billboard 200 will get airplay on WUOG.  This rule has been broken for R.E.M. at least once.