WIST (AM)
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| WIST | |
| City of license | New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| Broadcast area | New Orleans metropolitan area |
| Branding | AM 690 WIST |
| Slogan | The Talk Station |
| First air date | 1950s |
| Frequency | 690 kHz |
| Format | All Talk |
| ERP | 10,000 W Daytime 5,000 W Nighttime |
| Former callsigns | WBYU |
| Affiliations | Fox News Radio |
| Owner | WTIX Inc. |
| Website | wistradio.com |
WIST is an all talk station based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The locally owned & operated station (WTIX, Inc, owned by George H. Buck) is an affiliate of Fox News Radio and broadcasts at 690 kHz with an ERP of 10 kW-Daytime/5 kW-Nighttime.
The facilities of the station, previously called WTIX, were severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005. The station had the target date to resume broadcasting on 1 December, and in November requested the new letters. A talk station in Florence, South Carolina has since claimed the WTIX call letters.
[edit] History
WTIX-AM, who was originally at 1450 until 1958, was a very successful Top 40 powerhouse throughout the 1960s and 1970s owned by Todd Storz's Mid-Continent Broadcasting Company. In 1954 WTIX was the first radio station to air a Top 40 radio show. The program director who developed the format was William L. Armstrong who later served as a U. S. Senator from Colorado. Generations of New Orleanians were familiar with their signature call jingle "WTIX, We Love You," and the station was referred to as, "Fun-Lovin' WTIX, The Mighty 690!" In the early 1980s they shifted to a hybrid Talk/Oldies format, which would last until 1989, when they dropped the Oldies format to go All-Talk. The exception to the talk format was 4 hours each Sunday, which owner George Buck reserves for two of his passions, playing 2 hours of dixieland jazz and swing music, followed by two hours rebroadcasting transcriptions of old time radio shows, which Buck himself announced from a studio in his French Quarter home via a line to the station's main studio.
Previous notable WTIX talk radio hosts include Ron Hunter, Robert Namer, and Mike Church.
[edit] External links
| AM Radio Stations in the New Orleans, Louisiana Market (Arbitron #57) |
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