WGOP (540 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Pocomoke City, Maryland, United States, airing a classic hits format.
On January 19, 1955, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved an application for a new 500-watt, daytime-only radio station on 540 kHz in Pocomoke City by G. Russell Chambers, trading as Eastern Shore Broadcasting Company.
[4] Tannen sold his radio holdings, which included WDMV and stations in Annapolis and Chester, Pennsylvania, in the 1970s to devote himself to other ventures.
On August 18, 2022, WGOP was destroyed by a fire caused by a faulty electrical wire in the attic of the studio building.
It once programmed an urban gospel format, as well as oldies, and country music and even simulcast LMA partner WBEY-FM (97.9 FM).
Its low frequency and abundance of water in the Eastern Shore area still allow the signal to blanket up to DC's southern suburbs, down to all of the Tidewater/Virginia Beach metro and into North Carolina.