WWNT
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| City | Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| Broadcast area |
Winston-Salem, North Carolina Forsyth County, North Carolina |
| Branding | Activa Network |
| Frequency | 1380 kHz |
| First air date | 1947 (as WTOB at 710) |
| Format | Spanish language |
| Power | 5,000 watts daytime 2,500 watts nighttime |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 59270 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°08′53″N 80°19′11″W / 36.14806°N 80.31972°W |
| Former callsigns | WTOB (1947-2015) |
| Former frequencies | 710 kHz (1947-1955) |
| Owner | TBLC Holdings, LLC (TBLC Greensboro Stations, LLC) |
| Sister stations |
WSGH WWBG |
| Webcast | WWNT Webstream |
| Website | activanetwork.com Online |
WWNT is a Spanish language formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, serving Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, North Carolina. WWNT is owned by Mahan Janbakhsh's TBLC Holdings, LLC, through licensee TBLC Greensboro Stations, LLC.
The station began as WTOB, a 1,000-watt daytimer in 1947 on 710 kHz & licensed to Winston-Salem.
By 1955, WTOB had moved to 1380 kHz, and upgraded from a daytime to a full-time station with 5,000 watts days and 1,000 watts night. It also had a sister television station: WTOB-TV.
WTOB was a Top 40 station during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. George Lee was one of "The Good Guys", and his trademark sign-off was "Drive safely. The life you save may be your own. Myself, I'd rather be late than be the late George Lee." Other popular DJs were Dick Bennick, The Flying Dutchman, and Rick Dees, who worked at WTOB, WCOG and WKIX when the stations were owned by Southern Broadcasting.
Shortly after his retirement in 2015 from WEGO, a Winston-Salem Journal story said that when Smith Patterson went to work at WTOB, his name was the same as John Johnson and he was told not to use that name. Several days later, he got behind a Patterson Smith oil truck and decided on the name he would use through his 45-year career.
In the 1980s, the station played adult standards in addition to airing local and regional sports events, talk programs such as Marge at Large, and other local content such as a barbershop music program. At the end of the 1980s, most of the station's music came from Satellite Radio Networks. The station later switched to CNN radio news. Truth Broadcasting eventually purchased the station and switched it to Christian talk, later airing the same programming as WCOG.
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