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- WTAM est une station de radio américaine diffusant ses programmes en ondes moyennes (1100 kHz) sur Cleveland (Ohio). Son format est axé sur l'information et des débats. C'est la station radio la plus écoutée à Cleveland. [1] Cette station commence ses émissions le 26 septembre 1923. WTAM diffuse également les matches de baseball des Cleveland Indians, de basket-ball des Cleveland Cavaliers et de football américain des Cleveland Browns, en alternance avec WMMS, autre station de Cleveland du groupe Clear Channel Communications. (fr)
- WTAM (1100 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, and carries a news/talk format commonly known as "Newsradio WTAM 1100". Owned by iHeartMedia, WTAM serves Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio, and is a clear-channel station with extended nighttime range. WTAM is also Northeast Ohio's primary entry point station in the Emergency Alert System. The station first carried the WTAM call letters from 1923 to 1956; assigned sequentially by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the letters were later treated as a backronym for "Where The Artisans Meet." Founded by Willard Storage Battery and later owned by Cleveland Electric Illuminating and the Van Sweringen brothers as the 1920s ended, WTAM was purchased by RCA in 1930, becoming a core station in the NBC Radio Network. NBC sold WTAM, FM adjunct WTAM-FM (105.7) and TV adjunct WNBK (channel 3), to Westinghouse Broadcasting in 1956 in exchange for their AM and TV stations in Philadelphia, whereupon the Cleveland properties assumed the KYW calls. That sale was ultimately reversed in 1965, with NBC returning and all three Cleveland stations renamed as WKYC. Sold to Cleveland entrepreneur Nick Mileti in 1972, WKYC became "3WE" WWWE, carrying a mixture of middle of the road and sports play-by-play, in particular the Cleveland Indians and Cleveland Cavaliers and Pete Franklin's Sportsline talk show. The station adopted its current talk radio format in 1985 after being purchased by a syndicate headed by Art Modell and Al Lerner; a subsequent sale took WWWE's talk programming into a controversial direction with Gary Dee and Bruce Drennan, at one point putting the station's license into question. Booth American (later Secret Communications) took over WWWE in 1990, revamping the lineup several times and hiring Mike Trivisonno as Sportsline host in 1994, later moving him to afternoon drive to much success. WWWE re-adopted the WTAM call letters in 1996 to reinforce the station's position on the AM band; station management considered the historical tie "a nice bonus, but... more incidental than anything else." Purchased by Jacor in 1997, WTAM has been owned by Clear Channel since 1999, renamed iHeartMedia in 2014. WTAM is the Cleveland affiliate for both ABC News Radio and Fox News Radio, the AM flagship for the Cavaliers AudioVerse and Cleveland Guardians Radio Network, the market outlet for The Glenn Beck Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show and Coast to Coast AM and the radio home of Jimmy Malone. Studios for WTAM are located in the Cleveland suburb of Independence and the transmitter resides in nearby Brecksville. Besides its main analog transmission, WTAM simulcasts over low-power analog Cleveland translator W295DE (106.9 FM), and streams online via iHeartRadio. (en)
dbp:quote
- I'm amazed at his instinct for entertainment. I don't even know whether he actually knows how he does it, but knowing what's going to make people respond—for better, for worse, or whatever—is totally natural for him. A lot of people say, 'I hate what Gary did yesterday, I hate what he did today, and I'm gonna hate what he does tomorrow, too.' (en)
- Most people didn't think he'd go because there have been stories of Pete leaving before, and he always stayed. Pete has dominated the market for 21 years. He always held the trump card, and he usually played it to get a raise and stay here. But I think he got such a lucrative deal from New York, and the money, combined with the idea of climbing that one last big mountain, was too much for him to resist. (en)
- I think Mike is a very nice man, for a very socially retarded ignoramus. The fact that he has a platform on a 50,000-watt radio station makes me want to vomit. He says what people want to say but can't... The danger is that he doesn't offer any analysis with that; he can't be bothered with the facts. Mike just hasn't grown up. (en)
- All I'll say right now is that we're re-evaluating how we identify ourselves. But let's put it this way - we can't change being on the AM band or our frequency, can we? (en)
- I just didn't follow directions. I'm my own worst enemy. Gary Dee drives Gary Gilbert crazy. (en)
- If there's a Mount Rushmore of Cleveland radio, Mike Trivisonno is right there on the forefront... Mike Trivisonno is on that. (en)
dbp:source
- WTAM program director (en)
- WWWE program director, on Gary Dee (en)
- explaining his August 1989 firing from WWWE (en)
rdfs:comment
- WTAM est une station de radio américaine diffusant ses programmes en ondes moyennes (1100 kHz) sur Cleveland (Ohio). Son format est axé sur l'information et des débats. C'est la station radio la plus écoutée à Cleveland. [1] Cette station commence ses émissions le 26 septembre 1923. WTAM diffuse également les matches de baseball des Cleveland Indians, de basket-ball des Cleveland Cavaliers et de football américain des Cleveland Browns, en alternance avec WMMS, autre station de Cleveland du groupe Clear Channel Communications. (fr)
- WTAM (1100 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, and carries a news/talk format commonly known as "Newsradio WTAM 1100". Owned by iHeartMedia, WTAM serves Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio, and is a clear-channel station with extended nighttime range. WTAM is also Northeast Ohio's primary entry point station in the Emergency Alert System. (en)