WWCT

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WWCT
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Studio in Peoria
Broadcast area Peoria, Illinois
Frequency 99.9 MHz
BrandingCT 99.9
Programming
Format Alternative rock
Ownership
Owner
  • Mike Rea
  • (Advanced Media Partners, LLC)
WHPI, WPIA, WZPN
History
First air date
1970s (original WWTO on 105.7)
1996 (original 99.9 as WIXO)
Former call signs
 WIXO (1996–September 18, 2006) [1]
WRXP (September 19–28, 2006)
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 27727
Class A
ERP 1,500 watts
HAAT 178 meters (584 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 40°36′23.1″N89°32′20.4″W / 40.606417°N 89.539000°W / 40.606417; -89.539000 (WWCT tower) (NAD83)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website www.wwctfm.com

WWCT (99.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Bartonville, Illinois. Through most of its history, the WWCT callsign was associated with Peoria's 105.7 frequency allocation; the call sign and related format was moved to 96.5 (Farmington) in 2003, then 99.9 (Bartonville) in 2006. The original 99.9 callsign, WIXO, and its music format, had moved to 105.7 in 2006.

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History

105.7

The original 105.7 was operating as WWTO in the early 1970s. [3] In 1976, the station changed its callsign to WWCT and made its debut as an album rock station. Calling itself simply "106" or "WWCT" early on, by the 1990s, it was using the nickname "Rock 106". Locally owned until the 1990s, the station was then sold to AAA Entertainment. AAA gave the station the new nickname "Rock 105.7", then "Rock 96.5" when it moved the format to the Farmington-licensed frequency.

96.5

WWCT was moved to 96.5 in 2003 by AAA to make room for its new WXMP "Mix 105.7" on the more powerful signal. In January 2006, WWCT switched to an all-request Rock format, which it maintained until it was shut down on September 20, 2006 after being sold to Independence Media. Independence Media flipped the format to Top 40/CHR, named "98.5 Kiss FM", and launched a simulcast on 96.5 (changed to WRIA) and also on 98.5 (WPIA), which had been Christian music station "Hope 98.5". 96.5 is now WHPI, a simulcast of sister station WPIA.

99.9

What is now WWCT signed on August 2, 1996 as WIXO, originally stunting with loops of "Macarena" by Los Del Rio. On February 21, 1997 at 6 p.m., the station flipped to an alternative rock format as "99X". [4] [5] The WIXO call letters would move to 105.7 FM in September 2006. [6] [7]

Independence Media, who had also bought the license for 99.9, replaced its 10-day-old callsign WRXP with the current callsign WWCT on September 29, 2006, but kept the nickname 99.9 Pirate Radio. [8] [9]

On or around Sunday, April 8, 2007, the Pirate Radio moniker was dropped in favor of CT 99-dot-9. The slogan was changed to "World Class Rock" and the size of the playlist increased greatly, cutting a wide swath across many different genres and eras of music. [10] On April 11, 2008, the station temporarily dropped the adult album alternative format it had been running with the slogan "World Class Rock" and began stunting; it then returned on April 15 with the new name 99.9 The Stage. [11]

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2008–2010 logo

On September 15, 2008, after three days of stunting, the station became alternative rock station 99.9 The Buzz, and began carrying the Lex and Terry morning show from KEGL in Dallas. The station was commercial-free from 10 a.m. to Noon. [12]

The station was turned over to Michael S. Rea through Advanced Media Partners on August 1, 2010, in anticipation of the station being purchased; [13] since then, the station has run a format of mixed popular music. [14] On September 26, the station flipped back to adult album alternative after many weeks of stunting. The sale of WWCT, along with its other three Peoria-area stations (WZPN, WPIA, and WHPI), was completed on November 15. [15] [16]

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2020–2024 logo

On or around November 1, 2020, WWCT rebranded as CT 99.9, and adopted the slogan "Listen Different".

On May 24, 2024, WWCT changed their format from adult album alternative to alternative rock, still under the "CT 99.9" branding. [17] With the new branding came a new logo. [18]

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References

  1. ↑ "WWCT(FM)". FCCInfo.com. Cavell Mertz & Associates, Inc. 2007-09-04. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  2. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WWCT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ↑ "WWTO(FM) 105.7 Peoria, Illinois" by Doug Quick. Retrieved 2006-11-19.
  4. ↑ "New FM Station Adds Alternative Sound to Area Rock Mix," The Peoria Journal-Star, February 22, 1997.
  5. ↑ "99X Giving its Listeners an Alternative," The Peoria Journal-Star, March 2, 1997.
  6. ↑ "New & Notable," The Peoria Journal-Star, September 21, 2006.
  7. ↑ "On the Air -- Radio dial has heads spinning," The Peoria Journal-Star, October 1, 20006.
  8. ↑ "Peoria tunes in," The Peoria Journal-Star, October 8, 2006.
  9. ↑ "On the Air -- WWCT-FM undergoing a station reformation," The Peoria Journal-Star, December 31, 2006.
  10. ↑ "On the Air -- People like to hear voices," The Peoria Journal-Star, May 6, 2007.
  11. ↑ "On the Air -- Public chimes in on radio stations," The Peoria Journal-Star, April 20, 2008.
  12. ↑ "On the Air - Radio launching digital channels," The Peoria Journal-Star, September 21, 2008.
  13. ↑ Rea, Michael S. (2010-08-09). "FCC 314: Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License (BALH-20100723AEO)". Federal Communications Commission . Retrieved 2010-09-21.
  14. ↑ Tarter, Steve (2010-09-19). "On the Air: Wondering what happened to the Classic Arts Showcase?". Peoria Journal Star . Peoria, Illinois. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
  15. ↑ "Music lover loving 99.9," The Peoria Journal-Star, October 17, 2010.
  16. ↑ "Application Search Details (BALH-20100723AEO)". Federal Communications Commission . Retrieved 2010-11-27.
  17. ↑ WWCT Movewto Alternative Radioinsight - May 24, 2024
  18. ↑ "Home". 99.9 WWCT.
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