| City of license | Portage, Michigan |
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| Broadcast area | [1] (Daytime) |
| Branding | AM 1560 The Touch |
| Frequency | 1560 kHz |
| Format | Urban AC |
| Power | 4,100 watts |
| Class | D |
| Former callsigns | WHEZ (8/30/85-10/1/95) WBUK (?-8/30/85) WTPS (?-?) |
| Owner | Midwest Communications |
| Sister stations | WKZO, WNWN-FM, WQLR, WVFM, WKZO-FM |
| Website | http://www.1560radio.com/ http://www.go955.com |
WNWN (1560 AM) is a radio station licensed to Portage, Michigan broadcasting an urban adult contemporary format, provided by ABC Radio Networks (The Touch, or "Today's R&B and Old School"). The station serves the greater Kalamazoo, Michigan area.
WNWN is also heard in Portage/Kalamazoo on translator 95.5 W238AL. The translator was formerly used to relay country sister station WNWN-FM based in Battle Creek, but when another sister station, 96.5 WFAT, was switched to country music as WYZO, W238AL changed its programming source from WNWN-FM to WNWN-AM. W238AL is now the third FM translator in Michigan to relay an AM station, after stations in Big Rapids and Charlevoix/Petoskey. The translator on 95.5 allows "The Touch" programming to continue after WNWN-AM signs off for the night.
WNWN-AM has previously been a Top 40 station as WTPS in the 1960s, a country station as WBUK in the 1970s and 1980s (except for a brief period as an oldies station in 1981-1982), and a beautiful music station as WHEZ.
Note: WBUK-AM 1560 was shut down in 1984 after the station owner disappeared and the I.R.S. shut down the radio station. I worked at the station for about 6 months when it was in limbo after the owner disappeared and before it was shut down.
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