City | Bloomington, Indiana |
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Broadcast area | Indianapolis/Bloomington |
Branding | WTTS |
Slogan | World Class Rock |
Frequency | 92.3 MHz |
First air date | 1960 |
Format | Adult Album Alternative |
ERP | 37,000 watts |
HAAT | 332 meters |
Class | Grandfathered Class B |
Facility ID | 59141 |
Owner | Sarkes Tarzian, Inc. |
Sister stations | WGCL 1370 |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | wttsfm.com |
WTTS is an FM radio station serving Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana, in the United States, broadcasting at 92.3 FM. The station's format is classified as Adult Album Alternative or "Triple A." WTTS uses the slogan "World Class Rock" to describe its music mix. The station plays a variety of rock-based music from the mid-1960s to the present, including acoustic, reggae, classic rock, blues and alternative rock. In 2001, WTTS was amongst the first American radio stations to play music by the artists John Mayer and Norah Jones, both of whom went on to become Grammy Award winners. The station maintains studios in downtown Indianapolis and Bloomington, its city of license. WTTS' main transmitter is located in Trafalgar.
WTTS remains locally and independently owned by Sarkes Tarzian, Inc. The company is named for its founder, an Armenian immigrant who came from an engineering background. Tarzian put his first station, WTTS-AM, on the air in 1949. WTTV-FM (now WTTS) began broadcasting a Big Band format in 1960. In the mid-70s, the call letters were changed to WGTC-FM, which stood for Good Time Country to reflect its new country music format. In 1986, WGTC-FM became WTTS-FM, and in 1988, it changed to an AOR/CHR hybrid format under their new moniker "The New Power 92". Four years later, in 1992, WTTS adopted its present format.