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WCTC (1450 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, the station serves the Middlesex area. The station is currently owned by The Sentinel Publishing Co. and features programing from ABC Radio and Premiere Radio Networks.[3] The station broadcasts in C-QUAM AM stereo offering a news and talk format focusing on Central New Jersey news, politics, culture, traffic, weather, sports, it is the chief radio broadcaster for Rutgers University athletic events and Somerset Patriots minor league baseball games. WCTC is also the primary source for winter school closing announcements. During the daytime, WCTC broadcasts several Paul Harvey news segments. In the evenings, WCTC broadcasts the nationally syndicated Bruce Williams and Jim Bohannon shows.
WCTC derives its callsign from the Chanticleer, a flamboyant fighting rooster from the medieval fable Reynard the Fox (Le Roman de Renart) also used by Geoffrey Chaucer's in the Canterbury Tales which was the Rutgers mascot from 1925 to 1955. The station is currently owned by Greater Media, Inc. Its sister station is WMGQ-FM, another Greater Media property.
[edit] Past personalities
- Bob Aaronson
- Jack Ellery
- Jim Florio
- Gary R'Nel
- Joe Spicuzzo
- Ted Efaw
- Dick Farrel
- Ralph Saviano
- Liz Maita
- Bruce Williams, a well-known syndicated radio personality, began his broadcast career at WCTC.
- Noted newsmen Herb Kaplow, Dave Marash and Harvey Hauptman began their careers at the station.
- Joseph Dembo, eventual GM at WCBS in New York began his management rise at WCTC.
- Gordon Deal host of Wall Street Journal This Morning once served as a News Anchor at the station.
- Jennifer Kushinka a news anchor for the Dow Jones Money Report was once a News Anchor at WCTC.
- Brian Rickman a former board operator and producer at WCTC is now the head of Programming for URBan Radio Broadcasting.
- Dean Hunter, formerly of WMGM (FM), was the PD for WCTC during the late 1970s.
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