WTSJ

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WTSJ
City of license	Randolph, Vermont
Frequency	1320 kHz
Format	News Talk Information
Power	1,000 watts day, 66 watts night
Class	D
Facility ID	63472
Transmitter Coordinates	176°56′21″N 176°38′13″W / 176.93917, -176.63694
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Website	thezonefm.com

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WTSJ (1320 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format to Randolph, Vermont, United States. WTSJ is the third station of a 'trimultcast' with WXZO FM 96.7 in Willsboro NY (Burlington VT) and WEAV AM 960 in Plattsburgh NY. The stations are collectively known as "96.7 FM / 960 AM The Zone". AM 1320 gets very little mention on-air except for the legally required top hour identification/ While the FM 96.7 and the AM 960 signals overlap somewhat, and provide great coverage for the Burlington / Plattsburgh market, the WTSJ signal serves the local Randolph / Bethel VT area, which is roughly in between White River Junction VT and Barre VT with 1000 watts of daytime power. At 66 watts at night, the signal barely covers Randolph. The station is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications. The callsign WTSJ formerly belonged to 1050 AM in Cincinnati, Ohio, now known as WCVX.

The 1320 signal signed on as the original WCVR and had some form of a country format for a long time. In 1987, The WCVR call was left on its' co-owned FM where it remains today, and the new AM sign was WWWT or 3WT. 3WT in between simultcasts of it's FM featured formats such a satellite adult contemporary, satellite oldies, and finally broken away for good with simultcasts of it's former co-owned Clear Channel sister stations, first with WSYB in Rutland and in the fall of 2006 with WTSL in Lebanon. The WTSJ call sign matched up well with WTSL in Lebanon NH and the former WTSM (FM) in Springfield Vermont. WSYB was sold to Pamal Broadcasting of Albany NY, and WTSL was sold to Great Eastern Radio. The WWWT call sign now resides on the station known for many years as WTOP (1500 AM) in Washington DC, and uses the handle of "3WT" on the air.