Remembering WDOD Radio As It Turns 96 Tuesday, April 13, 2021 - by Earl Freudenberg Chuck Simpson, Chattanooga’s first talk show host Hamilton National Bank, 7th and Market Street, WDOD studio on mezzanine WDOD main control room, Hamilton National Bank Building WDOD radio studio next to Baylor School WDOD AM control room after station changes to country music WDOD AM longtime manager Bill Nash (right) and announcer Earl Freudenberg (left) At one time WDOD AM was known as Chattanooga’s Pioneer Station going on the air on April 13, 1925. If the station was still on the air it would have turned 96 this week.