WTTT

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WTTT is an AM radio station in Boston, Massachusetts on 1150 kHz. The station is owned by Salem Communications, and airs a conservative talk format.

History

WTTT first signed on in 1934 under the WCOP call letters (for the studio location, the COPley Plaza Hotel). Originally a daytime station, WCOP got the go-ahead to expand to 24-hour-a-day broadcasting in 1941. A few years later, it became Boston's home of the ABC Radio Network, an affiliation it would keep until the early 1950's. The station adopted a music format in 1956, and became one of the first stations in New England to utilize disk jockeys.

During the late 1960's and most of the 1970's, WCOP was broadcasting a Country music format, and was an affiliate of NBC Radio. In 1977, WCOP dropped NBC Radio, and flipped from country to top-40 under the call letters WACQ. The new format lasted only until the station was sold and new owners came in on January 1st, 1979. At that time, WACQ and them-sister station WTTK-FM flipped to a partially-simulcast beautiful music station as WHUE-AM-FM. Stints as an all news station and a soft adult contemporary format under the call letters of WSNY followed. In 1985, the station became an oldies station under the well-known WMEX callsign, after a sale to Greater Media. Although enjoying some moderate success at first, WODS-FM flipped to an oldies format in late 1987, and WMEX never recovered. By 1990, the oldies format was replaced by business talk and later by leased programming in the 1990s.

After a brief stint with the WROR callsign (to hold it until it could be placed on 105.7 FM), the station became WNFT with KidStar. Some time after the network ceased operations, the station was sold to American Radio Systems, who spun it to Mega Communications (after a 1998 merger with CBS/Westinghouse) to comply with FCC and Department of Justice regulations.

After Mega took over, the station became WAMG, with a tropical music format, and within one year added a simulcast with WLLH in Lowell. In 2003, the station was sold to Salem Communications, and temporarily adopted the leased format and call letters of WBPS on 890 (which inherited the WAMG intellectual property) until the sale went through. Later in the year, the station adopted its current talk format and WTTT call sign. Originally this consisted of conservative talk hosts from the Salem Radio Network, but due to signal problems and the political landscape of the area it did not do well in the ratings. Therefore, it was relaunched in 2006 with the addition of Paul Harvey's popular news and commentary segments (which were dropped from WBZ at the conclusion of 2005) and Sean Hannity (whom was previously airing overnights on WTKK), and changing its logo and slogan to be similar to its sister stations.

Reference

External links

• [Official website]
• [Query the FCC's AM station database for WTTT]

 

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