WCTS
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| Broadcast area | Twin Cities |
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| Branding | "Your Christian Companion" |
| Frequency | 1030 kHz |
| First air date | November 30, 1963 or May 18, 1964 |
| Format | Christian |
| Power | 50,000 watts day 1,000 watts night |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | Central Theological Seminary |
| Former callsigns | WGHB, WRCR, WJSW, WMIN |
| Owner | Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis |
| Website | WCTSradio.com |
WCTS is a radio station licensed to Maplewood, Minnesota, and serving the Twin Cities metropolitan area with a non-commercial fundamentalist Christian format. WCTS is owned by the Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis, hence the call letters. Studios are located in Plymouth, while its transmitter is located in Cottage Grove.
The history of WCTS (1030 AM) comprises two stations: One at 100.3FM and the other at the current 1030 AM.
The station that is now WCTS started with a 250 watt daytime-only signal at 1010 AM. The station's sign-on date as WGHB is unclear; the Broadcasting Yearbook of 1964 lists the date as November 30, 1963, while the publication's 1965 edition lists the date as May 18, 1964; "WRCR" is shown as the call sign by 1965. By 1968, the station carried the call letters WJSW, broadcasting polka music and other formats. When WMIN dropped its longtime call letters in 1972, WJSW grabbed them and became the new WMIN. By this time, it was airing a full service middle of the road format. The station's transmitter site was located for many years in Maplewood, the city of license, on South Century Avenue where the studios were co-located.
In the mid 1980s, the station moved to 1030 AM, along with a significant boost in daytime power. It continued its MOR format and briefly simulcast KARE-TV's evening news. WMIN played country music from 1986 to 1988 and then flipped to an oldies format, which evolved into adult standards a year later.
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