WTMC

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WTMC
City of license	Wilmington, Delaware
Frequency	1380 AM (kHz)
First air date	1964
Format	Traffic
Power	520 watts (day) 14 watts (night)
Owner	Delaware Department of Transportation
Website	WTMC website

WTMC (1380 AM) is a traffic advisory radio station, a service of the Delaware Department of Transportation broadcasting in Wilmington, Delaware. There are signs posted around the Wilmington area advising motorists to tune to this station for any traffic advisories. One such sign exists on U.S. Route 202 upon entry into Delaware from Pennsylvania. The service was started in 2000, when Delware DOT purchased the license.

WTMC is licensed as a conventional broadcasting station, not a travelers' information station, although the state has added synchronized repeater stations downstate on 1380 which are HAR/TIS stations, in an effort to extend the station's coverage. The HAR/TIS stations were provided by Information Station Specialists and comprise the largest network of HAR/TIS stations in the country - and the only one whose cardinal location is a former broadcast station (WAMS - 1380). As of 2013, additional synchronized TIS/HAR repeaters are being added to the network.

The 1380 frequency had been used in Wilmington by WAMS, which was founded in 1947 and operated until 1986, much of the time with a Top 40 format.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WTMC

Radio-Locator Information on WTMC

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WTMC

v t e Radio stations in the Wilmington, Delaware market

By FM frequency	89.1 91.3 91.7 93.7 99.5 101.7 103.7 107.7

By AM frequency	1150 1290 1380 1450 1510

By callsign	WDEL WFAI WILM WJBR-FM WJKS WMPH WRTI WSTW WTMC WVUD WWTX WXCY WXHL-FM

Defunct	WNWK (1260 AM)

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Coordinates: 39°48′12″N 75°37′42″W / 39.80333°N 75.62833°W / 39.80333; -75.62833

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