WTKA
Westwood One Sports | |
| Ownership | |
|---|---|
| Owner |
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| WLBY, WQKL, WWWW-FM | |
| History | |
First air date | April 26, 1945 (as WPAG) |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | "TalK" (previous format) or "Ticket", Ann Arbor |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 47116 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 10,000 watts day 500 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 42°8′46″N 83°39′36″W / 42.14611°N 83.66000°W |
| Repeater(s) | 102.9 WWWW-HD2 (Ann Arbor) |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | wtka.com |
WTKA (1050
By day, WTKA is powered at 10,000
Programming
TheMichiganInsider.com's Sam Webb and WTKA Program Director Ira Weintraub host "The Michigan Insider" weekday mornings. The show features prominent sports guests, including sports writer John Bacon, Yahoo Sports contributor Eric Adelson, and frequent interviews with University of Michigan coaches John Beilein, Carol Hutchins, Erik Bakich and more. One of the most popular features on "The Michigan Insider" is "Recruiting Roundup" at 7:45am with the latest information on Michigan football and basketball recruiting. The segment is recorded and is available on the station's website.
In afternoon
.History
WPAG
In the 1920s, there were three short-lived radio stations licensed to Ann Arbor: WMAX (1922), WQAJ (1923; owned by the
WPAG's studios were located on the third floor of the Hutzel Building, at the corner of Main at Liberty Streets in Ann Arbor. (Currently, a digital service called A3 Radio netcasts from the old WPAG studios.) Owned by brothers Paul and Art Greene, the call letters WPAG were selected to reflect their names. (For many years there was a ladies lingerie and apparel store down on the Hutzel Building's first floor, which caused long-time University of Michigan football broadcaster Bob Ufer to joke that WPAG really stood for "Women's Panties And Girdles".) WPAG also briefly operated a television outlet, WPAG-TV on channel 20 in the 1950s.
Top 40 Hits
In the 1960s, WPAG was one of several stations in the Ann Arbor market featuring
By 1970, WPAG had transitioned to a
WPZA and WTKA
In December 1987, the station was purchased by
Clear Channel flipped the station to WTKA. In 1997, WTKA's daytime schedule featuring a variety of programming, ranging from local sports and financial talk shows, a farm report, the
Sports Radio
In 1999, WTKA began using the brand name "The Ticket" and revamped its program lineup to be primarily sports programming, with ESPN Radio outside of local shows and the farm report.[3][4] WTKA is once again owned by Cumulus Broadcasting due in part to a multi-station swap between Cumulus and Clear Channel that involved stations in Michigan And Ohio.
Today, WTKA bills itself as "Sports Talk 1050 AM", the official voice of the University of Michigan sports in Ann Arbor. It is not, however, the flagship station. That status belongs to WWJ 950 in Detroit. Sports Talk 1050 AM carries U-M college football, basketball, and hockey as well as Detroit Red Wings hockey and Detroit Tigers baseball. The Tigers are a holdover from the WPZA era, as Monaghan also owned the Tigers at that time.
On April 23, 2007 WTKA fired former
See also
References
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/WTKA
- ^ "Line Up". WTKA. Archived from the original on July 13, 1997. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
- ^ "Ann Arbor's WTKA AM 1050". wtka.com. Archived from the original on 25 January 1999. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ "Wtka 1050 Am". wtka.com. Archived from the original on 1 October 1999. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ "Shand v. Martin Case Tossed Out". 9 November 2009.
External links
- WTKA in the FCC AM station database
- WTKA in Nielsen Audio's AM station database