WTBC (1230
AM) is a
radio station
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broadcasting a
classic country
Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades.
Repertoire
The radio format specializes in hits from the 1950s through the early 1980s, and focus primarily on innov ...
format. Licensed to
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tuscaloosa ( ) is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama, United States, on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal and Piedmont plains meet. Alabama's fifth-largest city, it had an estimated population of 1 ...
, United States, the station serves the greater Tuscaloosa area.
The station is owned by Townsquare Media and features programming from Local Radio Networks. It was also the first media position that James Spann ever had in the media.
In May 2016, it was announced that Townsquare Media would be buying the WTBC and sister station WNPT-FM (now WTID) for $550,000. (Alabama Broadcast Media Page) According to published reports, WNPT-FM will go sports and WTBC will retain the Catfish Country format, once the new owners take over. Townsquare Media's purchase of the stations was consummated on July 15, 2016.
As of this update, Catfish Country is now being heard exclusively on WTBC and translator W261BT, branded as Catfish 100.1.
Under the ownership of Townsquare Media, WTBC provides regular weather coverage from
WVUA (TV) WVUA may refer to:
* WVUA (TV), a television station (channel 6, virtual channel 23) licensed to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, serving the Birmingham–Tuscaloosa–Anniston market
* WVUA-CD, a television station (channel 23, virtual channel 7) licensed t ...
in Tuscaloosa, under the direction of their Chief Meteorologist Richard Scott.
During times of active severe, tropical, and Winter weather events, WTBC provides West Alabama's only live and local weather coverage on the radio, with local, in house, Staff Meteorologist Bobby Best.
Additionally, under the ownership of Townsquare Media and the direction of Market President/Chief Revenue Officer David R. Dubose, WTBC also provides West Alabama radio's only live and local news coverage with News Director Don Hartley and West, Alabama's only live and local traffic coverage with Traffic Reporter Capt'n Ray.
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Townsquare Media radio stations
Radio stations established in 1946
1946 establishments in Alabama
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