WDTK
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| City | Detroit, Michigan |
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| Broadcast area | [1] |
| Branding | News-Talk 1400 The Patriot |
| Frequency | 1400 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 101.5 W268CN (Detroit) |
| First air date | November 1925 (as WMBC) |
| Format | Talk |
| Power | 1,000 watts 99 watts (translator) |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 68641 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°24′22″N 83°06′44″W / 42.40611°N 83.11222°W |
| Callsign meaning | Detroit TalK |
| Former callsigns | WQBH (6/30/82-9/30/04) WMZK (12/3/80-6/30/82) WJLB (1939-12/3/80) WMBC (1925-1939) |
| Affiliations | Fox News Radio |
| Owner |
Salem Media Group (Pennsylvania Media Associates, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WLQV |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | newstalk1400.us |
WDTK, known on the air as The Patriot, is a conservative-oriented news/talk radio station broadcasting at 1400 kHz on the AM dial and broadcasts on a translator at 92.7 MHz on the FM dial in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The station is owned by Salem Communications, one of the nation's largest owners of Christian-oriented radio stations.
WDTK is the Detroit outlet for such syndicated conservative talkers as Sean Hannity, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, Lars Larson and Michael Medved as well as local talkers such as John McCulloch and Thaddeus McCotter.
The station began in November 1925 at 1170 kHz as WMBC. The calls stood for the station's original owners, the Michigan Broadcast Company. WMBC's frequency changed to 1230 in 1927 and to 1420 in 1930. WMBC was an early outlet for religious programming and gospel music in Detroit, but was probably most famous as the home of conservative radio commentator Jerry Buckley, who was shot dead in the lobby of the LaSalle Hotel in 1930 after successfully campaigning for a mayoral recall election in which then-mayor Charles Bowles lost.
WMBC's call letters were changed to WJLB in 1939 after the station was acquired by John Lord Booth (who renamed the station for himself), and in 1941 the station settled on its current home of 1400 kHz. Being a small independent station, WJLB relied on brokered programming to pay the bills, much of which was ethnic in nature, including many programs targeted toward Detroit's African-American community. One of WJLB's most popular programs during its early years was the Interracial Goodwill Hour, a jazz and R&B show hosted by later Cleveland radio legend Bill Randle.
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