WGST (720 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Hogansville, Georgia, and serving West Central Georgia, including LaGrange and Newnan. It airs a talk radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. Most programming on WGST is syndicated. It carries Premiere Networks shows from Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and "Clay Travis & Buck Sexton." On weekends, sports programming from the Fox Sports Radio Network is heard. On weekdays, most hours begin with 24/7 News.

WGST transmits with power of 7,970 watts, using a non-directional antenna, but because it shares AM 720, the same frequency as Class A clear-channel station WGN in Chicago, WGST is a daytimer, required to be off the air at night when AM radio waves travel farther.

History The station was assigned the WMXY call sign on September 18, 1984; it signed on August 12, 1985,Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2010 page D-164 owned by Tharpe Communications and programming an urban contemporary format. Tharpe sold the station to T. Wood and Associates for $5,000 in 1991; L.A. Wood was a principal of both companies. Two years later, WMXY and its FM sister station, WEIZ, were sold to Magnolia Broadcasting for $200,000. Magnolia sold the stations to First Georgia Broadcasting, owner of WKZJ in Greenville, for $145,000 in 1995; the following year, First Georgia sold WVCC and what had become WZLG to Janz Broadcasting for $510,000.

Janz Broadcasting sold WMXY and WZLG to Radio LaGrange for $975,000 in 1997, with a local marketing agreement commencing on December 1; Radio LaGrange's principals owned WCOH in Newnan and WMKJ in Peachtree City. Jacor Communications announced a $4.4 million purchase of all four stations in January 1999; Jacor was itself acquired by Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) a few months later. WMXY changed its call sign to WGSE on July 12, 1999, accompanied by a switch to a news/talk format; the previous call sign was moved to WKBN-FM in Youngstown, Ohio. The call sign was changed to WVCC on December 22, 2003, and to WGST on July 13, 2020.

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