WNTD
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| WNTD | |
| City of license | Chicago, Illinois |
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| Broadcast area | Chicagoland |
| Frequency | 950 kHz |
| Format | Brokered Time |
| Power | 1,000 watts (day) 5,000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Owner | Multicultural Broadcasting (Sovereign City Radio Services LLC) |
WNTD is an AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois. It is owned by Multicultural Broadcasting and has a time brokerage format. It is currently one of three stations in the Chicago market that airs Relevant Radio, a Catholic talk format. Its frequency is 950 AM.
WNTD was the original affiliate of Air America Radio in Chicago. Program hosts included Al Franken, Randi Rhodes, and Janeane Garofalo. The new network launched on March 31, 2004. However, these programs ended after two weeks, on April 14, due to a payment dispute between Multicultural and Air America Radio. The network is now heard on WCPT AM 820, but only during daylight hours.
Before its brief run as a progressive talk radio station, WNTD was a One-on-One Sports (now Sporting News Radio) affiliate, at first as WZDB but soon changed to WIDB. One-On-One was headquartered in suburban Northbrook. The Sporting News affiliation has now passed to WSCR.
Earlier incarnations of this station include WGRT ("W-GREAT"), owned by Ralph Atlass, founder of WBBM, and one-time owner of WIND; WJPC, owned by Johnson Publishing Company; and WEJM ("Jammin'").
Prior to WGRT, for 20 years the call letters were WAAF, a daytime only station with an all jazz format. It featured Marty Faye in the early morning, Daddio Daylie in the late morning, Olympic great Jesse Owens playing jazz from noon-3, and Dick Buckley and Jerry Leighton from 3 til sunset.
[edit] External Links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WNTD
- Radio Locator Information on WNTD
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for WNTD
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