WTIS
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Broadcast area | Tampa Bay |
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| [[Frequency|FrequencTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | 1110 kHz |
| Branding | La Mega Tampa Bay |
| Programming | |
| Format | Spanish Contemporary hits |
| Ownership | |
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| WAMA, WLBE | |
| History | |
First air date | December 11, 1946 |
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Call sign meaning | "Tampa Inspirational" (based on previous format) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| 74088 | |
| Class | D |
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| [[Broadcast relay station|TranslatorTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | Template:Radio Relay Template:Radio Relay |
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| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www |
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WTIS (1110 AM) is a radio station icensed to Tampa, Florida, it serves the Tampa Bay area. The station is currently owned by Esperanza Arroyo, through licensee Q-Broadcasting Corporation, Inc. WTIS also broadcasts on FM translators, W266CW 101.1 FM in Tampa, and W241DH 96.1 FM in Riverview. Its transmitter and tower are co-located with its sister station, WAMA.
WTIS is a daytimer station, to protect clear-channel stations WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina, and KFAB in Omaha, Nebraska, it must sign off the air at sundown.
History
W. Walter Tison applied on January 31, 1946, to build a new radio station in Tampa. The application was amended in April to specify the daytime-only frequency of 1110 kHz, and the Federal Communications Commission approved on July 18, provided Tison divested his interest in Tampa station WFLA.[2] WALT went on the air on December 11, 1946.[3] Tison would go on to found television station WTVT.
WALT was a pioneer Top 40 station in the Tampa area. In the 1960s, a weekly Sunday afternoon broadcast from Tampa Municipal Beach entitled Beach Party featured The Littlest DJ, Ricky Barone, later known as Richard Barone of The Bongos.
In 1970, Suncoast Radio, the owners of future WQYK-FM 99.5, bought WALT and relaunched it as a country music station, WQYK. The signal was simulcast with WQYK-FM until 1976, when the AM station was sold to a religious broadcaster and its call letters changed to WTIS. (The WALT callsign would later be reassigned to AM and FM stations in Meridian, Mississippi.)
In addition to its regular religious programming, WTIS aired The Debra Evans in the Morning Show, The Herman Cain Show, The Pete O'Shea Show and The Adam Smith Show.
On January 1, 2017, WTIS notified the Federal Communications Commission that it had suspended operations on December 31, 2016, because it had lost its lease to the transmitter site, located near the intersection of 50th Street and Causeway Boulevard in the Palm River-Clair Mel area of Hillsborough County. It requested authorization to remain off the air for six months while it searched for a new site. The authorization was granted on January 18, 2017.[4] The station has since been sold to Q Broadcasting Corporation, the owners of WAMA 1550 kHz. The station would return to the air with an oldies pop music format as "Timeless 1110 and 101.1", but would very soon flip to a Spanish-language Salsa and Merengue format, with an announcement that they would change to a more general Spanish-language format on April 30, 2018.
On April 30, 2018, WTIS flipped to Spanish Variety (Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Spanish Pop and Rock).
George Arroyo died on October 25, 2022, leaving ownership of WTIS/W266CW to Ezperanza Arroyo.[5]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Facility Technical Data for WTIS". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."History Cards for WTIS". Federal Communications Commission. (Guide to reading History Cards)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."New Radio Station". The Tampa Times. Tampa, Florida. December 11, 1946. p. 2. Retrieved April 19, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."FCC Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."George Arroyo: fallece un pionero de la radio hispana en Florida Central". Orlando Sentinel. October 27, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2024.
External links
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- WTIS in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."History Cards for WTIS". Federal Communications Commission.
- FM translator
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- W266CW at FCCdata.org
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