[1] The station was supported by students and its listeners to provide diverse programming and represent its community with a wide variety of musical genres.
Since there was already a WSTB FM station in Streetsboro, Ohio, the students selected WGHR to mean "Green Hornet Radio", after the school's mascot.
The new facility did, however, include a restroom and a large window into the atrium at the main entrance, which allowed students and visitors to see into the broadcast studio.
WGHR's 17-watt ERP class D (low-power) FM signal was later forced from the air by a sequence of events related to FCC rulings, and the evolution of the commercial band in metro Atlanta.
FCC docket 80-90, introduced in 1980, allowed full-power stations to move in or fill in closer together, forcing many class Ds off the air with no other place to go.
Five proposals were submitted to the FCC for the latter: one for Forest Park, one for Douglasville, one for Lithia Springs, one for Mableton, and finally WGHR's for Marietta, reserved as non-commercial educational (NCE).
The owners of 100.5 (Susquehanna Radio Corporation) strongly objected to this, and consequently, WGHR ceased over-the-air broadcasts in order to avoid trouble with the FCC.
In January 2004, after being unable to broadcast for 12 consecutive months, the FM license for WGHR was automatically canceled by the FCC as required by Congress, and the application to move to 101.1 was dismissed as moot.