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WITK (1550 AM) is a radio station licensed to Pittston, Pennsylvania, and serving Wilkes-Barre and Scranton in Northeast Pennsylvania. The station airs a Christian talk and teaching radio format and is owned by the Wilkins Communications Network, with the license held by Steel City Radio, Inc.
Key Information
By day, WITK is powered at 10,000 watts. But 1550 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A CBEF in Windsor, Ontario. So at night, WITK must reduce its power to 500 watts to avoid interference. Programming is also heard on FM translator W234CY at 94.7 MHz.
History
[edit]The station signed on the air on June 21, 1953. Its call sign was WPTS, owned by the Midway Broadcasting Company.[2] WPTS was a daytimer, required to leave the air at night. In the 1980s, the station was authorized to move one notch up the dial to 1550 AM. That allowed it to increase its daytime power to 10,000 watts and add nighttime service at 500 watts.[3]
The station was sold in 2007 by Lackawanna County Commissioner Robert C. Cordaro.[4][5] Steel City Radio, Inc. is part of the Wilkins Communications Network, Inc. of Spartanburg, South Carolina, whose owners, Robert and Luann Wilkins, own 15 other stations in cities such as WWNL (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), WYYC (York, Pennsylvania), KCNW (Kansas City, Missouri), WELP (Greenville, South Carolina), WBRI (Indianapolis, Indiana), and WBXR (Huntsville, Alabama).[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WITK". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1956 page 266. Retrieved Aug. 9, 2025.
- ^ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1995 page B-356. Retrieved Aug. 9, 2025.
- ^ Tom Taylor. "Taylor on Radio-Info, July 12, 2007 - Sound Bytes - Wilkes-Barre/Scranton" (PDF). Radio-info.com (Chicago, Illinois). Retrieved July 12, 2007.
- ^ Borys Krawczeniuk. "Cordaro bows out of radio biz". Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania). Retrieved October 1, 2007.
- ^ Scott Fybush. "Northeast Radio Watch - October 15, 2007 - Pennsylvania". Northeast Radio Watch (Rochester, New York). Retrieved October 15, 2007.
External links
[edit]- Facility details for Facility ID 70868 (WITK) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- WITK in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
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