WCAT (Vermont)

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Coordinates: 44°29′47.2″N 73°12′47.5″W / 44.496444°N 73.213194°W / 44.496444; -73.213194
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WCAT
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Technical information
Facility ID73613
ClassB
Power5,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates
44°29′47.2″N 73°12′47.5″W / 44.496444°N 73.213194°W / 44.496444; -73.213194

WCAT (1390

radio station licensed to Burlington, Vermont, United States, and serving the Burlington-Plattsburgh area. The station was last owned by Radio Broadcasting Services, Inc., part of the Champlain Media Group.[1] It aired a mainstream rock radio format, simulcast from co-owned WWMP (103.3 FM) in Waterbury
.

WCAT broadcast at 5,000

AM 1390 at night when AM radio waves travel farther, it used a directional antenna after sunset. WCAT's transmitter was located off Intervale Road in Burlington.[2] Studios and offices were on Water Tower Circle in Colchester, Vermont. According to FCC records, WCAT's 445-foot (136 m) tower #1 is the tallest man-made structure in the State of Vermont.[3]

WCAT also aired on an FM translator, W252CJ, at 98.3 MHz, to give listeners the option to hear the station in FM stereo.[4]

History

The station first

AM 1390, and was allowed to broadcast with 5,000 watts of power both daytime and nighttime. The station used a three-tower directional antenna at night to protect 1390 co-channels in Syracuse, New York (WFBL), Presque Isle, Maine (WEGP), and Plymouth, Massachusetts (WPLM
).

The station changed its

Moncton, New Brunswick
.

The station changed its call letters to WVAA on September 24, 2002, and to WCAT on August 21, 2006.[6]

WCAT, as a sports radio station, switched affiliations from ESPN Radio to Fox Sports Radio on January 1, 2011. The ESPN affiliation moved to WCPV (101.3 FM).[7] Through much of 2011, WCAT broadcast a sports talk format simulcast with sister stations WRSA (1420 AM) and WFAD (1490 AM) as "Fox Sports Vermont". By the end of the year, it had switched to an oldies music format simulcast with co-owned WIFY in Addison as "Cruisin' 93.7".

On September 1, 2014, WCAT (with sister station WRSA) dropped the simulcast with WIFY and switched to a

comedy radio format. The two stations returned to oldies in July 2015.[8] In early January 2017, WCAT and WRSA both went dark. The oldies format relocated to WPLB (1070 AM), which several months earlier had been sold by WCAT owner Northeast Broadcasting.[9]

On January 9, 2017, WCAT returned to the air, launching a business news format, also heard on FM translator 98.3 and co-owned WRSA.

WCAT's license was surrendered on November 1, 2022.[10]

Translator

WCAT programming was broadcast on the following translator:

Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W)
HAAT
 Class Transmitter coordinates FCC info
W252CJ 98.3 FM Burlington, Vermont 155550 220 54.2 m (178 ft) D 44°29′50.2″N 73°12′49.5″W / 44.497278°N 73.213750°W / 44.497278; -73.213750 (W252CJ) LMS

References

  1. ^ "WCAT Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ^ "WCAT-AM 1390 kHz - Burlington, VT". radio-locator.com.
  3. ^ Cavell, Mertz & Associates Inc. "FCCInfo Structure Registration Results". www.fccinfo.com.
  4. ^ "W252CJ-FM 98.3 MHz - Burlington, VT". radio-locator.com.
  5. ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-216
  6. ^ "WCAT Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  7. Burlington Free Press
    . Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  8. ^ "Oldies back on 1390 Burlington & 1420 St. Albans".
  9. ^ Mid Century Moves Across Lake Champlain Radioinsight - January 16, 2017
  10. ^ "Notification of Surrendering of the WCAT Station License". November 1, 2022.

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