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WTAM (AM)

WTAM
WTAM logo.png
City Cleveland, Ohio
Broadcast area Greater Cleveland
Northeast Ohio
Branding Newsradio WTAM 1100
Slogan Cleveland's Newsradio
Frequency 1100 kHz
First air date September 26, 1923
Format News/talk
Power 50,000 watts (unlimited)
Class A
Facility ID 59595
Transmitter coordinates 41°16′50.00″N 81°37′22.00″W / 41.2805556°N 81.6227778°W / 41.2805556; -81.6227778
Callsign meaning AM band
Former callsigns WTAM (1923–56)
KYW (1956–65)
WKYC (1965–72)
WWWE (1972–96)
Former frequencies 750 kHz (1923–26)
770 kHz (1926–27)
1070 kHz (1927–41)
Affiliations ABC News Radio
City Club of Cleveland
Cleveland Cavaliers Radio Network
Cleveland Indians Radio Network
Fox Sports Radio
iHeartRadio
Premiere Networks
Total Traffic and Weather Network
WKYC/Cleveland
Owner iHeartMedia
(Citicasters Licenses, Inc.)
Sister stations WAKS, WGAR-FM, WHLK, WMJI, WMMS
Webcast Listen Live
Website wtam.com

WTAM (1100 AM) – branded Newsradio WTAM 1100 – is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio. Owned by iHeartMedia, WTAM is a clear-channel station with an extended nighttime range, often identifying itself as The Big One. WTAM serves as the Cleveland affiliate for ABC News Radio, The Glenn Beck Program, The Rush Limbaugh Show, and Coast to Coast AM; the AM flagship station for the Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland Indians radio networks; and the home of radio personality Mike Trivisonno. The WTAM studios are located in the Cleveland suburb of Independence, while the station's transmitter resides in nearby Brecksville. Besides a standard analog transmission, WTAM had also broadcast over a single HD Radio channel (HD Radio transmission off air since 2013) and is available online via iHeartRadio.

The station first carried the WTAM call letters from 1923 to 1956; assigned sequentially by the FCC, the letters were later treated as a backronym for "Where The Artisans Meet." The station re-adopted the same call letters in 1996 to reinforce the station's position on the AM band; station management considered the historical tie "a nice bonus, but... more incidental than anything else."


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