WDYT
| City | Kings Mountain, North Carolina |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Charlotte, NC area |
| Frequency | 1220 kHz |
| Format | silent |
| ERP | 25,000 watts day 106 watts night |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 6817 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°17′12.00″N 81°10′28.00″W / 35.2866667°N 81.1744444°W |
| Callsign meaning | What Do You Think |
| Former callsigns | WKMT |
| Owner | CRN Communications |
WDYT (1220 AM) is a silent radio station licensed to Kings Mountain, North Carolina, serving the Charlotte, NC area. The station is currently owned by CRN Communications, LLC. According to an FCC filing, Iglesia Nueva Vida is buying the station. The format is expected to change to Spanish.
Jonas Bridges joined WKMT in Kings Mountain when it signed on in 1953, eventually becoming the owner. He never attempted to compete with large FM stations, focusing instead on making WKMT a good local station. The white concrete building built in the 1920s once was home to a "beer joint" which someone actually was looking for after the station had been there 15 years.
Bridges, who once worked at WOHS in Shelby, played "Oh Lonesome Me" by Don Gibson in 1957 on WKMT.
The format of country, bluegrass and gospel music stayed the same for many years.
Veteran announcer Hugh Dover of Shelby joined WKMT in 1984. Dover had spent the previous 38 years as the morning man on WOHS in Shelby, signing the station on the air in 1946. The popularity of Dover's "Carolina in the Morning Show" on WOHS carried over to his "Hugh Dover Get Together" on WKMT. Dover would describe his 1-3pm show as an "informal get together with the radio audience in which we play southern gospel music, put on information about school, civic, and church activities, as well as entertaining our sick and shut in friends." Dover continued with WKMT until his death in 1998. Ending 52 years on the airwaves of Cleveland County.
During the 1990s, Tommy Faile of Arthur Smith and the Crackerjacks was a DJ on WKMT. His sidekick was Curly Howard, who also did the morning show. Howard spent 18 years at WKBX in Winston-Salem and later worked at WCGC and WSVM. He was known for being just like his listeners, even hanging out at the store with them.
...
Wikipedia