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| Broadcast area | Tuscaloosa metropolitan area |
| Frequency | 105.9MHz |
| Branding | Talk Radio 105.9 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Conservative talk |
| Affiliations | Fox News Radio |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| WACT,WTXT,WZBQ | |
| History | |
First air date | June 1, 1966 (1966-06-01) |
Former call signs | WACT-FM (1966–1997) |
Former frequencies | 105.5 MHz (1966–2005) |
Call sign meaning | "Roll Tide Roll" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 48645 |
| Class | C3 |
| ERP | 25,000 watts |
| HAAT | 82 meters (269 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 33°14′17″N87°29′06″W / 33.23806°N 87.48500°W /33.23806; -87.48500 |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live (viaiHeartRadio) |
| Website | talkradio1059 |
WRTR (105.9FM, "Talk Radio 105.9") is a commercialradio station licensed toBrookwood, Alabama, United States, and serving theTuscaloosa metropolitan area. Owned byiHeartMedia, Inc. via iHM Licenses, LLC., it features aconservative talk format.[2][3] Studios are located on 11th Street in Downtown Tuscaloosa.
WRTR's transmitter is located on Hammer Avenue inHolt, Alabama.
The station signed on the air on June 1, 1966,[4] as WACT-FM, the sister station toWACT 1420 AM. Its city of license was Tuscaloosa and it broadcast at 105.5MHz. It was only powered at 1,500 watts, a fraction of its current output.
At first, WACT-FM mostly simulcast the AM station'scountry music format. It later started airing its own automated country sound. While WACT 1420 AM was afull-service country station, with news, sports andDJs, WACT-FM concentrated on more music and less chatter.
The station changed to the current WRTR on March 31, 1997. The call letters stand for "RollTideRoll", which refers to theCrimson Tide, the nickname forUniversity of Alabama sports teams. WRTR playedalbum rock and was known as "Tuscaloosa's Rock Station." In mornings, it carriedThe Bob and Tom Show, based inIndianapolis. Popular DJ Joe Elvis hosted afternoon drive time beginning in 2002.The Wild Bill Show was heard every weeknight.
In 2000, WRTR and WACT were acquired bySan Antonio-basedClear Channel Communications, a forerunner to current owner iHeartMedia.[5] On May 4, 2009, WRTR changed its format to all-talk,simulcasting WACT 1420. The two stations were branded as "Talk Radio 105.9". Then in October 2012, WACT 1420 flipped tocomedy radio. That left WRTR 105.9 as an FM talk station, no longer simulcast with 1420 AM.
WRTR's schedule consists of nationally syndicated conservative talk shows, with a simulcast of Jeff Tyson's morning show fromWERC-FM inBirmingham.[6][7]