WTTF
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| City | Tiffin, Ohio |
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| Branding | Oldies WTTF |
| Slogan | News, Sports, Oldies |
| Frequency | 1600 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 93.3 W227BJ (Tiffin) |
| First air date | 1959 |
| Format | Oldies/Talk/Sports |
| Power | 500 watts (daytime) 19 watts (night) |
| ERP | W227BJ: 55 watts |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 70527 |
| Callsign meaning | "We're Talking TiFfin" (former slogan) |
| Operator | BAS Broadcasting |
| Owner | Anthony Paradiso (Tiffin Broadcasting II, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WLEC, WCPZ, WOHF, WMJK, WFRO-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wttf.com |
WTTF (1600 AM) — branded Oldies WTTF — is a commercial radio station licensed to Tiffin, Ohio broadcasting a full service oldies format, along with an emphasis on local news, talk and high school sports. The station serves Tiffin and much of surrounding Seneca County. WTTF is owned by Anthony Paradiso's Tiffin Broadcasting II, LLC and is managed by preceding owner BAS Broadcasting under a reverse LMA.
WTTF is simulcast full-time on FM translator W227BJ (93.3 FM), also licensed to Tiffin.
WTTF was founded by Robert G. Wright and Milton Maltz, who joined forces to form Malrite Communications (the name "Malrite" being a combination of the two surnames), ultimately owning a chain of radio station in the Great Lakes area, including WTTF-AM-FM. By the 1970s, WTTF and its FM sister station, WTTF-FM (known today as WCKY-FM), had split from Malrite into its own entity, completely independent of Malrite, and taking the corporate name WTTF, Inc.
For much of its existence, WTTF-AM-FM was a 100 percent simulcast operation under the ownership of WTTF, Inc. This was highly unusual for a 50,000 watt FM station, with a signal that reached two other states (Michigan and Indiana), and a full-service news and talk-intensive format, even after WTTF had received nighttime power in the late 1980s. It became a family-owned business in every sense of the word. Robert G. Wright served as the station's general manager until the mid-1970s, when he retired and his younger son Richard J. "Dick" Wright, who also served as the station's chief engineer, assumed those duties. Wright's elder son, Robert E. "Bob" (but answered to his middle name Ed in order to avoid confusion with his father) Wright, served as station program director and promotions manager.
Not much of the WTTF operation had changed over the course of Wright ownership. For years, even after the advent of magnetic tape and then compact disc, WTTF didn't fully make the conversion for its music. However, Dick Wright built a live-assist automation system in the mid-1980s consisting of four reel-to-reel tape players controlled by the operator in the studio. This would supply the regular weekday music programming up until the station's sale in 1997. Records were still played from the longtime turntables in the studio for its Saturday music programming called Saturday at the Oldies. Another program, Sunday Gold featured music from a different reel-to-reel tape library.
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