WTKT
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| City | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
| Branding | 1460 The Ticket Sports Radio |
| Slogan | All Sports All the Time |
| Frequency | 1460 (kHz) |
| First air date | March 16, 1929 |
| Format | Sports Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts day 4,200 watts Night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 23463 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°18′32.57″N 76°56′11.4174″W / 40.3090472°N 76.936504833°W |
| Callsign meaning | W TicKeT |
| Former callsigns | WCMB (1948-1991) WIMX(1991-1993) WCMB(1993-1998) WWKL (1998-2001) |
| Affiliations | Fox Sports Radio |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WHP, WRVV, WRBT, WHKF |
| Website | 1460theticket.com |
WTKT (1460 kHz, 1460 The Ticket) is an AM radio station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The station broadcasts at 1460 kHz with 5,000 watts power daytime non-directional and 4,200 watts night time power from a three tower antenna array in Summerdale, Pennsylvania. WTKT is the flagship station for Harrisburg Senators minor league baseball.
WTKT first signed on the air on February 19, 1948 as WCMB on 960 kHz with the city of license listed as Lemoyne, Pennsylvania. (Harrisburg Evening News, February 19, 1948, page 21) The transmitter and antenna were located on Poplar Church Road(40°15′45.10″N 76°54′37.155″W / 40.2625278°N 76.91032083°W), just across the river from Harrisburg, in Wormleysburg, Pennsylvania. The studios were in Lemoyne on the second floor of the Lemoyne Theatre building in the 300 block of Market Street. (Harrisburg Evening News, February 19, 1948, page 21)
WCMB was founded by Edgar T. Shepard and Edgar K. "Ed" Smith under the Rossmoyne Corporation name. Smith served as the station manager for several decades. He was a lifelong resident of Harrisburg, beginning his career at WHP-AM in the early 1930s. (Harrisburg Evening News, September 8, 1954)
Rossmoyne added a television station, WCMB-TV, in 1954. It was the original channel 27 in Harrisburg. (WTPA was on channel 71 at the time, starting in July 1953.) WCMB-TV was an affiliate of the DuMont network. (Harrisburg Evening News, September 8, 1954) The station failed in April 1957 (per station records) after DuMont "went dark", leaving channel 27 open for WTPA to take over on June 1, 1957 (Harrisburg Patriot News, May 31, 1957).
WCMB-FM (on 99.3 MHz) launched in 1965 (per station records). It is presently WHKF.
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