WKTA
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| City of license | Evanston, Illinois |
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| Branding | New Life Russian Radio |
| Frequency | 1330 kHz AM |
| Format | World Ethnic, News Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts day 17 watts night |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 52909 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°8′23.00″N 87°53′9.00″W / 42.13972°N 87.88583°W |
| Former callsigns | WEAW (1950s-1979) WPRZ (1979-1981) WEAW (1981-1987) WSSY (1987-1990) |
| Owner | Polnet Communications, Ltd. |
| Sister stations | UkieDrive [1] |
| Webcast | [2] |
| Website | pclradio.com |
WKTA (1330 AM) is a radio station broadcasting World Ethnic and News Talk formats. Licensed to Evanston, Illinois, USA the station serves the Chicago area. The station is currently owned by Polnet Communications, Ltd..[1]
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[edit] History
The station began to operate in the 1950s as WEAW, a daytime-only adjunct to WEAW-FM. WEAW broadcast general popular music, local talk shows and brokered ethnic and religious programs. The call sign was changed to WPRZ around 1979. WPRZ tried to find an audience as an adult contemporary station with some brokered programming on weekends. The attempt was not successful, and the station went silent after about two years. The station returned to the air as WEAW again, then took another try at adult contemporary as WSSY ("Sunny 1330") in the late 1980s.
In 1989, WSSY changed its call letters to WKTA, and began to program a hard rock and heavy metal format as "G-Force 1330." Later, G-Force would emerge into a new format known as "Rebel Radio" under G-Force alumni Scott Davidson. WKTA would became a flagship station for the hard rock network, which was syndicated to other stations in the midwest. Rebel Radio continues to air on WKTA Sundays.
[edit] New Life Russian Radio at WKTA
New Life Russian radio, which debuted in Chicago in 1979, is the largest and longest running Russian language broadcasting company in North America. They broadcast from Northbrook, Illinois on 1330 AM (WKTA) leasing time from Polnet Communications, Ltd.[2]. New Life Russian Radio serves the fastest growing market in the US – Russian speaking.[3] The transmitter's power is 5000 watts, which covers Chicago metro area and the Northern suburbs.
[edit] UkieDrive Ukrainian Radio at WKTA
UkieDrive is the Ukrainian radio at WKTA from Chicago that talks in Ukrainian language about everything, with a twist. Broadcast hours on Sundays: 12 pm - 2 pm (Central Standard Time, CST).
[edit] References
- ^ "WKTA Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WKTA.
- ^ http://www.pclradio.com/
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