WMT (AM)
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| City | Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
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| Branding | 600 WMT |
| Frequency | 600 kHz |
| First air date | July 30, 1922 |
| Format | News/talk/sports |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B (regional) |
| Facility ID | 73593 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°3′40.00″N 91°32′42.00″W / 42.0611111°N 91.5450000°W |
| Callsign meaning | Waterloo Morning Tribune (now-defunct newspaper that once owned the station) |
| Former callsigns | WJAM (1922–1928) |
| Affiliations |
Fox News Radio Westwood One Premiere Networks Iowa Hawkeyes Radio Network |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | KKRQ, KKSY-FM, KMJM, KOSY-FM, KXIC |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 600 |
WMT (600 AM) is a news/talk radio station broadcasting in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the United States. It is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.. The station's signal reaches most of Iowa and portions of neighboring states during daylight hours. [1] WMT broadcasts on a Regional AM broadcast frequency, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
Beginning January 2, 2012, WMT began simulcasting on KWMG (95.7 FM) in Anamosa, Iowa; this simulcast ended on August 18, 2014.
WMT was founded by Douglas "Tex" Perham as WJAM on July 30, 1922. In 1928, Harry Shaw purchased WJAM and moved the station from Cedar Rapids to Waterloo, renaming it WMT (for the now-defunct Waterloo Morning Tribune newspaper that he owned). Shaw sold the station to the Cowles family, owners of the Des Moines Register, in October 1934. WMT moved back to Cedar Rapids the next year, occupying the studios of the defunct KWCR radio after KWCR's frequency was taken over by KSO in Des Moines, another Cowles station. (WMT continued to operate a secondary studio in Waterloo until 1947.) The Cowleses sold WMT to Delaware-based American Broadcasting Stations in 1944.
WMT-TV, the first television station in Cedar Rapids, signed on at channel 2 on September 30, 1953. On February 27, 1963, WMT-FM (now KKSY-FM) debuted at 96.5 MHz with the same song, "Don't Send Me Posies When It's Shoesies That I Need," that was played on the AM station's inaugural broadcast 41 years earlier.
Ownership of the WMT stations was passed on to Orion Broadcasting of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1968. In 1981, Cosmos Broadcasting of Greenville, South Carolina, purchased WMT-AM and FM; they had also planned to purchase WMT-TV, but the television station was sold to Guy Gannett Communications (who renamed it KGAN) because of ownership restrictions at the time. (WMT and KGAN continue to broadcast from the same building on Collins Road, known as "Broadcast Park"; however, WMT now gets its weather reports from KCRG-TV.)
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