City | Mobile, Alabama |
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Broadcast area | Mobile metropolitan area |
Branding | NewsRadio710 WNTM |
Slogan | "Mobile's Official Home for Talk Radio" |
Frequency | 710 kHz |
Repeater(s) | 96.1-2 WRKH-HD2 |
First air date | September 26, 1946 (as WKRG) |
Format | Talk |
Power | 1,000 watts (unlimited) |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 8695 |
Transmitter coordinates | 30°43′13″N 88°03′34″W / 30.72028°N 88.05944°W |
Callsign meaning | News Talk of Mobile |
Former callsigns | WKRG (1946-1994) WNTM (1994–2004) WPMI (2004-2007) |
Affiliations | Premiere Networks, Fox News Radio, TheBlaze Network |
Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (CC Licenses, LLC) |
Sister stations | WKSJ-FM, WMXC, WRKH, WTKX-FM, WRGV |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | newsradio710.com |
WNTM (710 kHz) is an AM talk radio station based in Mobile, Alabama. The station calls itself "News Radio 710." WNTM is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and the broadcast license is held by CC Licenses, LLC. Its studios are located in the same building as Channel 5 WKRG-TV on Broadcast Drive in Mobile, and the transmitter is just north of downtown. (Both stations had been co-owned at one time.) WKRG-TV supplies local news and weather, while Fox News Radio supplies national newscasts.
WNTM has a local wake-up show followed by nationally syndicated shows from Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia. Weekday mornings begin at 5 a.m. with Tongue-in-cheek commentator "Uncle Henry," formerly of WABB. Glenn Beck is heard at 10 a.m. and at 5 p.m. At 11 a.m., it's Rush Limbaugh, followed by Sean Hannity at 2 p.m., America Now with Meghan McCain at 7 p.m., Clyde Lewis at 10 p.m. and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory at midnight. Weekends feature paid Brokered programming in the morning and repeats of weekday shows. Sunday nights include syndicated shows from Bill Handel and Bill Cunningham.