WPTT
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| WPTT-AM | |
| City of license | McKeesport, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | Pittsburgh metropolitan area |
| Branding | AM Newstalk 1360 |
| Frequency | 1360 kHz Proposed: 910 kHz |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts daytime 1,000 watts nighttime Proposed: 7 kW daytime only |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 59695 |
| Callsign meaning | PiTTsburgh |
| Former callsigns | WMCK, WIXZ |
| Owner | Renda Broadcasting |
| Website | www.1360wptt.com |
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WPTT (1360) is a talk radio station that serves the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania market. Owned by Renda Broadcasting, the station operates at 1360 kHz with a power of 5,000 watts daytime, 1,000 watts nighttime, and is licensed to McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
The station has applied to switch frequencies with WAVL-AM in Apollo, Pennsylvania, moving from AM 1360 to the stronger AM 910 and increasing power on the new frequency (although currently the frequency is daytime only). The move was approved April 2008.
[edit] History
The station began with the call letters WMCK, and was a Top 40 station with the call letters WIXZ ("Wick-zee 1360") beginning in 1969. Among its disc jockeys during the Top 40 era was Jeff Christie, better known today by his real name, Rush Limbaugh. Hampered as a suburban station with a limited nighttime signal, it would later go through different formats and owners before switching to its current format in 1999, at which time the WPTT call letters (formerly on channel 22 in Pittsburgh) were adopted. In all of its incarnations since WMCK, the radio station has positioned itself as a Pittsburgh outlet, rather than directly addressing the suburb of McKeesport.
[edit] Program content
WPTT carries a simulcast of WTAE-TV's local morning news, and broadcasts Lynn Cullen, a popular local liberal talk radio host. WPTT also carries a diverse lineup of liberal and conservative syndicated programming including Laura Ingraham, Thom Hartmann, Clark Howard, Alan Colmes, Mike Gallagher, Monica Crowley, and Coast to Coast AM.
Doug Hoerth was a host on the station for many years until WPTT decided not to renew his contract in December 2007, as was Jerry Bowyer, who hosted a show on the station from 1999 to 2005.
[edit] External links
- WPTT official website
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WPTT
- Radio Locator Information on WPTT
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for WPTT
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