WHTY
| City of license | Riviera Beach, Florida |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | West Palm Beach, Florida |
| Frequency | 1600 kHz |
| First air date | August 17, 1959 |
| Format | Ethnic |
| Power | 5,000 watts day 4,700 watts night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 73892 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 26°44′55″N 80°07′58″W / 26.74861°N 80.13278°W |
| Former callsigns | WHEW (1959-c. 1971) WXVI (c. 1971-1972) WPOM (c. 1972-1999) WMNE (1999-2010) |
| Owner | Travis Media, LLC (Travis License Partners, LLC) |
| Website | 1600whty.com |
WHTY (1600 AM) is a radio station broadcasting ethnic programming. Licensed to Riviera Beach, Florida, USA, the station serves the West Palm Beach area. The station is currently owned by Travis Media.[1]
[edit] History
The station went on the air as WHEW on August 17, 1959.[2] By 1971, the station was known as WXVI, with a middle-of-the-road format[3]; a year later, it had become WPOM, and had a contemporary format.[4] In the intervening years, WPOM would adopt several other formats, including all-news in the late 1970s[5], disco in the early 1980s[6], and a split format of gospel and blues by 1999.[7]
Hibernia Broadcasting, whose stations were all affiliated with Radio Disney, acquired WPOM in 1999[7], and switched the station to Radio Disney on June 16, 1999; to better reflect the format, the station adopted the WMNE callsign, referring to Minnie Mouse, on July 9.[8] Hibernia was acquired by Disney, through ABC, in 2000.[9]
Disney sold WMNE to Travis Media, LLC in January 2010.[10] In the interim, Disney took the station, and five other stations slated to be sold, off the air on January 22.[11][12] The station resumed broadcasting on May 6[13]; on June 2, the call letters were changed to WHTY.
[edit] References
- ^ "WHTY Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?call=WHTY.
- ^ (PDF) Broadcasting Yearbook 1960. 1960. p. A-133. http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1960/B%201%20Radio%20Yearbook%201960.pdf. Retrieved January 25, 2010.
- ^ (PDF) Broadcasting Yearbook 1971. 1971. p. B-46. http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1971/B%201%20Radio%20YB%201971.pdf. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
- ^ (PDF) Broadcasting Yearbook 1972. 1972. p. B-46. http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1972/B-1%20YB%201972%20All-11.pdf. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
- ^ (PDF) Broadcasting Yearbook 1976. 1976. p. C-43. http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1976/C-1%20%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201976.pdf. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
- ^ (PDF) Broadcasting Yearbook 1980. 1980. p. C-49. http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1981/Ca%20Facilities%20of%20Radio%201981%20A-M.pdf. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
- ^ a b Lundy, Sarah (June 18, 1999). "Mickey Mouse Takes Over WPOM". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1999-06-18/news/9906180200_1_radio-disney-hibernia-communications-radio-station. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
- ^ "WMNE Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=73892&Callsign=WMNE.
- ^ "Palladium Equity Partners to Sell Hibernia Communications' Radio Stations To ABC, Inc." (Press release). Palladium Equity Partners. June 29, 2000. http://www.allbusiness.com/banking-finance/financial-markets-investing-investment/6542097-1.html. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
- ^ "Disney sells West Palm Beach radio station". Radio Business Report. January 25, 2010. http://www.rbr.com/radio/radio_deals/20424.html. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
- ^ "Radio Disney Takes Six Stations Silent". All Access. January 28, 2010. http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/69932/radio-disney-takes-six-stations-silent. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
- ^ Zucker, John W (January 26, 2010). "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1354755&Service=AM&Form_id=910&Facility_id=73892. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
- ^ Tillotson, David (June 21, 2010). "Resumption of Operations". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1378248&Form_id=910&Facility_id=73892. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Former station website
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WHTY
- Radio-Locator Information on WHTY
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for WHTY
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