WPAY (AM)

WPAY
City	Rossford, Ohio
Broadcast area	Toledo metropolitan area
Branding	Urban Family Talk
Slogan	Truth Wisdom Empowerment
Frequency	1520 kHz
Translator(s)	92.1 W221BG (Toledo)
First air date	November 28, 1966 (as WTTO)
Format	Christian Talk
Power	500 watts day 400 watts night
Class	B
Facility ID	40858
Transmitter coordinates	41°30′32.00″N 83°33′7.00″W / 41.5088889°N 83.5519444°W / 41.5088889; -83.5519444
Former callsigns	WTTO WTUU WGOR WVOI (1981-1998) WDMN (1998-2008) WNWT (2008-2017)
Affiliations	Urban Family Talk
Owner	Educational Media Foundation
Sister stations	WNKL
Website	urbanfamilytalk.com

WPAY (1520 AM) is a Christian Talk formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Rossford, Ohio, serving the Toledo metropolitan area. The station is owned and operated by the Educational Media Foundation.^[1]

History

1520 kHz in Toledo, Ohio has a long and storied past. In the late 1960s, 1520 was known as WTTO (Weetow 15 copying WKNR Detroit's Keener 13 logo)- a Top 40 station to compete with WOHO, and WTOD Toledo and CKLW, Windsor, Ontario. It featured D.J.s such as Rick Randall, James K. Davis aka Big Jim Edwards of CKLW fame, Peter Tripp, Bill Webb, Lee Fowler, Gary Calvert. The station had its studios on the top floor of the Commodore Perry building in Downtown Toledo. In the 1970s, the station adopted the call sign WTUU and featured modern country music as "Fun Country W15-2", headed as program director by longtime Toledo air personality, London Mitchell. Later incarnations included an all news radio format with the call letters WANR (often simulcast with WJR in Detroit), an urban music format with the call letters WVOI, and a religious format that featured a daily "Radio Rosary" with the calls WGOR. Another call sign change came along, then later the calls were changed to WDMN with the Cornerstone Church (Toledo) ownership. WDMN's calls led some in the area to joke that the calls stood for "Demon", but they actually stood for "Dominion." WDMN was chiefly an Urban Gospel station until April 2008 but had a brief stint with a mainstream contemporary Christian format until sister station 96.9 WNKL launched with K-LOVE.

The station was unusual in that it had two different transmitter and tower sites for many years, located in two different states. Daytime broadcasts were from the transmitter and towers located at 6695 Jackman Road in Bedford Township, Michigan, and nighttime broadcasts were from a straight row of 6 towers (parallel to I-75 near the Ohio Turnpike) in Perrysburg Township, Ohio. The daytime site also served as the main studio and office building for many years. The current site is also in Perrysburg Township, but Southeast of the original decaying tower array.^[2]

In April 2008, Toledo-area listeners reported that WDMN had ended its "Dominion 1520" format and replaced it with a combination of progressive and conservative talk radio programming, traditional and smooth jazz, and some sports programming. This station was also an affiliate of CNN. Whether this is a stunt or indicative of a permanent programming direction for the station had been unclear;^[3] however, on July 1, 2008, the station changed its call letters to WNWT.

On January 22, 2009, it was announced that Educational Media Foundation had purchased WNWT. On April 23, 2009, WNWT dropped its talk format for a full-time simulcast of K-LOVE.

On April 26, 2014, WNWT became an affiliate of Urban Family Talk.^[4]

The station changed its call sign to WPAY on March 15, 2017.

Translators

Call sign	Frequency (MHz)	City of license	ERP W	Class	FCC info
W221BG	92.1 FM	Toledo	250	D	FCC

References

External links

Urban Family Talk website

Query the FCC's AM station database for WPAY

Radio-Locator Information on WPAY

Radio stations in the Toledo, Ohio market
By AM frequency	730 1230 1370 1520 1560
By FM frequency	88.1 88.3 88.3 88.9 89.3 89.7 90.3 91.3 92.1 92.5 92.9 93.5 94.1 94.5 94.9 95.7 96.1 96.5 96.9 97.3 97.7 98.3 99.1 99.5 99.9 100.7 101.5 102.3 103.3 103.7 104.1 104.7 105.5 105.9 106.1 106.5 107.3 107.7 107.9
Digital radio	1230 1370 92.5-1 92.5-2 93.5-1 99.9-1 101.5-1 101.5-2 104.7-1 104.7-2 105.5-1 105.5-2 106.5-1
Internet radio	WFAL Falcon Radio
Defunct	WLQR 1470
By callsign	W221BG W225AM W231AJ W235BH W258BT W264AK W277BI W281AL W290BA WAKT-LP WBGU-FM WCKY-FM WCWA WGTE-FM WIMX WIOT WJUC WJYM WJZE WKKO WKXA-FM WMIM WMLZ-LP WMTR-FM WNLB-LP WNKL WNOC WOTL WPAY WPFX-FM WPOS-FM WQQO WRQN WRVF WSPD WTOD WTPG WVKS WWYC WXKR WXTS-FM WXUT WYSZ WVZC-LP
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Religious radio stations in the state of Ohio
Stations	WAKW – Cincinnati WAOM – Mowrystown WAUI – Shelby WBCJ – Spencerville WBCY – Archbold WBIE – Delphos WBJV – Steubenville WCBV-LP – Lima WCCD – Parma/Cleveland WCCR – Cleveland WCNW – Fairfield WCRF-FM – Cleveland WCUE – Cuyahoga Falls/Akron WCVJ – Jefferson WCVV – Belpre WEEC – Springfield WFCJ – Miamisburg WFCO – Lancaster WFOT – Lexington WGOJ – Conneaut WGRI – Cincinnati WHSS -Hamilton WHJM – Anna WHKW – Cleveland WHKZ – Warren/Youngstown WHRQ – Sandusky WHVT – Clyde WHVY – Coshocton WILB – Canton WJDD – Carrollton WJEE – Bolivar WJFY-LP – Newark WJHE – Heath WJIC – Zanesville WJJE – Delaware WJTA – Glandorf/Leipsic WJYM – Bowling Green/Toledo WKCD – Cedarville WKJA – Brunswick WLRU-LP – Hillsboro WNHC-LP – Lima WNKL – Wauseon/Toledo WNOC – Bowling Green/Toledo WNOP – Newport/Cincinnati WOFN – Beach City WOHC – Chillicothe WOTL – Toledo WQRP – Dayton WRFD – Columbus-Worthington WRRO – Edon/Bryan WSHB – Willard WSJG -Tiffin WTGN – Lima WTLL-LP – Zanesville WTPG – Whitehouse WTTP-LP – Lima WUKV – Portsmouth WULM – Springfield/Dayton WVML – Millersburg WVMS – Sandusky WVSG -Columbus WWOW – Conneaut WWTL-LP – Logan WWYC – Toledo WXMF – Marion WXML – Upper Sandusky WXMW – Sycamore WYFY – Cambridge WYTN – Youngstown WYWH-LP – Athens WZCP – Chillicothe WZLP – Loudonville WZWP – West Union WYLR – Hubbard/Youngstown
Defunct	WCER – Canton
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