WTSB
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| City | Selma, NC |
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| Broadcast area | Raleigh |
| Slogan | Where the Stories Break |
| Frequency | 1090 kHz |
| Format | Full Service |
| Power | 9,000 watts day 1,700 watts critical hours |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 71088 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°36′57.00″N 78°24′33.00″W / 35.6158333°N 78.4091667°W |
| Callsign meaning | Where Tobacco Sells Best |
| Affiliations | CBS Radio |
| Owner | Lamm Media Group |
| Website | wtsbradio.com |
WTSB (1090 AM) is a radio station licensed by the FCC to serve the community of Selma, North Carolina. The station is owned by Lamm Media Group. The station is daytime only, and is a "full service" AM station, providing local news, obituaries and typical small town full service programming along with country, bluegrass and gospel music. www.wtsbradio.com Facebook WTSB Radio 1090AM
WTSB was located at 580 AM, and broadcast at 500 watts during the day and 50 watts at night in 2000. The station signed on in 1947, owned by Robeson Broadcasting Corp. Jack Pait, who had a furniture business in Lumberton, was majority stockholder. Levi E. Willis Sr., president and owner of Willis Broadcasting of Norfolk, Virginia, bought WTSB in 1997 from Beasley Broadcast Group which had bought WTSB and WKML. Both stations aired country music for a year when they were co-owned, but WTSB ended up going off the air for a while. Willis played traditional black gospel until WTSB went off the air in 2000. Though Willis believed the station could return it did not.
Prior to 1999, WBZB aired country music along with conservative talk. The former owner walked into Bass Music Enterprises, owned by Steve Bass, and asked, "Wanna buy a radio station?"
In 2002, about two years after Bass became the primary owner of WBZB, the station was located in Garner and playing anything and everything by North Carolina musicians, or musicians from nearby states who were well known in the state. The playlist included about 1700 songs. Artists included Arrogance, Nancy Middleton, Blue Dust Box, Jam Pain Society, John Saylor, and Tift Merritt In 2003, Shane Gentry, a nudist and member of Nekkid Monday (a band similar to ZZ Top) began hosting the "Naked Monday Show" celebrating the nudist lifestyle.
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