WTNT (AM)
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| WTNT | |
| City of license | Bethesda, Maryland |
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| Broadcast area | Metropolitan Washington, D.C. area |
| Branding | AM 570 WTNT |
| Frequency | 570 kHz (Also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | April 9, 2001 |
| Format | Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 11846 |
| Callsign meaning | TriNitroToluene, as in the explosive. Original slogan was "Dynamite Talk" |
| Owner | Clear Channel Communications (Takeover by Red Zebra Broadcasting to occur on July 1) |
| Sister stations | WASH, WBIG, WIHT, WMZQ, WTEM, WWDC, WWRC |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.wtntam570.com |
WTNT is a radio station broadcasting on 570 kHz in the mediumwave AM band from Bethesda, Maryland, serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It has a daytime power of 5,000 watts. Its current programming is conservative talk radio, and its ownership is Clear Channel Communications, which has announced that it would sell 3 of its Washington D.C.-area radio stations including TNT to Red Zebra Broadcasting. After the purchase is approved, Clear Channel is expected to relinquish the 3 stations by July 1, 2008.
In the 1960s through the early 1990s, WTNT was WGMS, broadcasting classical music. A proposal in the 1970s to convert WGMS to a Top-40 station upset many of its influential listeners; WGMS received an exception from the then-existing rule to simulcast its programming with its sister station, WGMS-FM.
WGMS was sold to Washington, D.C. venture capitalists Steven and Mitchell Rales, which converted the music station into WTEM, a sports-talk station, in 1992. Chancellor Broadcasting purchased the station in August 1996. Chancellor Broadcasting restructured and became known as AMFM Inc. in 1999. In 2000, AMFM Inc. merged with Clear Channel Communications.
As Chancellor gained ownership of more stations in the area, WTEM moved to 980 kHz and WWRC was reassigned to 570 kHz on March 9, 1998. On April 9, 2001, WWRC moved to 1260 kHz and the callsign of 570 kHz was replaced by WTNT.
Current programming on WTNT includes Mike Gallagher, Dennis Miller and Michael Savage. The station serves as the flagship for Laura Ingraham and for George Mason Patriots men's basketball. WTNT also airs Virginia Cavaliers football & men's basketball, Baltimore Ravens football plus any Baltimore Orioles games not aired on WTEM.
[edit] External links
- WTNT Website
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WTNT
- Radio Locator Information on WTNT
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for WTNT
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