WQTM

WQTM
City of license Fair Bluff, North Carolina
Branding Sportstalk 1480
Frequency 1480 kHz
First air date October 21, 1967[1]
Format Sports Talk
Power 10,000 watts day
48 watts night
Class D
Facility ID 2860
Transmitter coordinates 34°19′23.00″N 79°0′7.00″W / 34.3230556°N 79.0019444°W
Callsign meaning WQTeaM
Former callsigns WWKO (1967-1984)[1]
WNFO (1984-1988)
WJHB (1988-1996)
WNCR (1996-2002)
WVXY (6/02-10/02)
WZFB (2002-2006)
WSRC (2006-2009)
WWKO (2009-2011)[2]
Owner Rama Radio of North Carolina, Inc.

WQTM (1480 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Fair Bluff, in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The station, founded in 1967 as WWKO, is currently owned by Rama Radio of North Carolina, Inc.[1]

WQTM broadcasts a Sports talk format.[3]

The station was re-assigned its legacy WWKO call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on January 29, 2009.[2] The station changed call sign to WQTM and returned to the air as a simulcast of WEVG in Evergreen, Alabama effective July 12, 2011. The simulcast with WEVG ended due to the owners not paying for services rendered by WEVG.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "The Facilities of Radio". Broadcasting Yearbook 1969. Washington, D.C.: Broadcasting Publications, Inc. 1969. p. B-121.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  3. "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.

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