GA Radio: Listeners Crash WNEX-FM Server

Days before WNEX The Creek 100.9 FM launched, a consultant told the radio station’s co-owner he would be shocked to see 150 people streaming on the station’s website at once.

Three days into the new venture, the site, thecreekfm.com, crashed.

Two thousand people were streaming on the new radio station’s website.

“We got it fixed, but that was a cool problem,” said co-owner Brad Evans.

Macon’s new Americana radio station launched July 8 and is already receiving positive feedback.

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Evans said listeners have told him they listen to The Creek all day long, whether they are sitting at their computer or hanging out in their truck. Co-owner Wes Griffith, said The Creek received positive feedback from a listener all the way from Alaska.

“Everybody is just kind of coming out of the woodwork to support our station,” Evans said.

The station’s three owners, Evans, Griffith and Rob Evans, never imagined their small downtown Macon radio station would become so popular so quickly.

Brad Evans said Macon has been ready for a local radio station since the end of the golden age when families would gather and listen to the radio as their primary form of entertainment.