WWTN
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| City of license | Hendersonville, Tennessee |
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| Broadcast area | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Branding | SuperTalk 99.7 WTN |
| Slogan | Accurate News and Stimulating Talk |
| Frequency | 99.7 (MHz) |
| First air date | March 29, 1979 |
| Format | News/Talk |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 395 meters |
| Class | C0 |
| Facility ID | 31476 |
| Callsign meaning | W-W-TeNnessee |
| Owner | Cumulus Media |
| Sister stations | WKDF, WGFX, WRQQ, WSM-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 997wtn.com |
WWTN is a 100 kW, Class C0 FM radio station serving the Nashville, Tennessee media market. Its dial position is 99.7 MHz. Home to many local and national talk radio shows, the station is marketed as SuperTalk 99.7 WTN (the first W is eliminated for simplicity). It is owned by Cumulus Media.
WWTN is licensed to the city of Hendersonville, Tennessee, a city approximately 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Nashville. Its antenna (399 meters above ground level, 604 meters above sea level) is located approximately 25 miles (40 km) SSE of Nashville in Rutherford County, Tennessee, between the cities of Murfreesboro and Franklin.
The station first signed on the air as WMSR-FM, licensed to the city of Manchester, Tennessee on March 29, 1979. It began focusing on the Nashville market in the early 1990s. Manchester is nearly halfway between Nashville and Chattanooga, but the Cumberland Plateau prevents a Manchester signal from penetrating Chattanooga, and vice-versa. Currently, its far-reaching signal covers most of Middle Tennessee, even venturing into parts of Northern Alabama and Southern Kentucky. WWTN's studios are currently located in Nashville's Music Row area. The city of licence changed to Hendersonville in 2008, as part of a larger project that saw 4 of Cumulus' 5 Nashville stations change cities of license in the process of allowing sister-station WNFN to move its transmitter and increase power.
The station was mired in bankruptcy in the early 1990s until being purchased by Gaylord Entertainment Company in 1995. Within three years of its purchase, WWTN was Nashville's highest-billing radio station, a position it continues to hold as of 2005. It, along with sister station WSM-FM, was sold to Cumulus Media in 2003 for $65 million [1].
WWTN is also known for being the station that launched the radio career of nationally-syndicated financial advisor Dave Ramsey and health coach Asa Andrew.
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[edit] Market competition
WWTN's primary competition is WLAC, an AM talk radio station owned by Clear Channel Communications.
While formerly known for its sports coverage, WWTN (in reaction to the reformatting of competing station WGFX) spun off all of its sports programming to a new sister FM station, WNFN [2]. However, the sports programming was a ratings failure at the new frequency and WNFN (formerly WNPL) was subsequently reformated again and the remaining staff from the sports format were dismissed.
[edit] Programming
WWTN airs a steady lineup of political and advice-based talk shows with a conservative perspective.
Monday-Friday
- Nashville's Morning News with Ralph Bristol - news
- Michael DelGiorno - politics
- Dave Ramsey - financial advice (national show, originating locally)
- Phil Valentine - politics (national show, originating locally)
- Michael Savage - politics
Saturday-Sunday
- Josh Cary & David Bates - gardening/home improvement advice (local)
- Doug Markham - outdoor life advice (local)
- Paul Winkler - financial advice (local)
- Kim Komando - technology advice
- Bill Handel - legal advice
- Neal Boortz - politics
- Bill Cunningham - politics
- Doug Stephan - politics
- Laura Ingraham - politics
- Josh Axe - local chiropractic and health advice
Steve Gill was a morning talk personality until June 29, 2006 and is now associated with WLAC.
WWTN is also the Nashville market's home for ABC News. WWTN also airs The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas on weekends.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official site (link to streaming audio included within site)
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WWTN
- Radio-Locator information on WWTN
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WWTN
- Phil Valentine, afternoon show host
- Cumulus Media
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