WTIB (103.7

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) is a

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broadcasting a

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. It is

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, and it serves the Greenville area of

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. It is owned by Inner Banks Media, with

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s and offices on West Arlington Boulevard in Greenville. Most WTIB programming is

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with

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(96.3 FM) in

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. WTIB has an

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(ERP) of 100,000

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s, the maximum for most FM stations in the U.S. The

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is on Davenport Road in Williamston.

Programming

Weekday mornings on WTIB and WRHT begin with a local wake-up show, ''Talk of the Town'' with Henry Hinton and Patrick Johnson. (Hinton owns the stations.) In afternoon

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, a local hour of talk airs at 5 p.m. with Tom & Bernie. The rest of the weekday schedule is

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talk shows, including ''

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, The Dana Loesch Show'' and ''

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with

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''. Weekends feature programs on health, money, guns, farming and religion. Weekend syndicated shows include '' The Chris Plante Show, The Weekend with Michael Brown, The Ben Ferguson Show'' and '' Gun Talk with Tom Gresham'' as well as repeats of weekday shows. Most hours begin with an update from NCN News, with reports from

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History

WIAM-FM, WSEC, WKKE

The station

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the air on August 1, 1962. The original

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was WIAM-FM. At first, it was powered at 3,000 watts, a fraction of its current output. It was the sister station of WIAM (900 AM). They were owned by the East Carolina Broadcasting Company and during WIAM-FM's early years, the two stations simulcast. By the early 1970s, WIAM-FM began running its own

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format. The call letters switched to WSEC in 1975. It later became WKKE "Key 103.7", owned by Mega Media.

Top 40 and country

Seacomm bought the station and changed it to WHTE "Hot 104", moving the station's studios to Greenville. Gray Communications bought WHTE and changed it to

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using the CBN Network format. In July 1991, WHTE began simulcasting with 95.9

, returning to Top 40 (CHR) as "The Hot FM". The stations separated in 1993 with WHTE playing

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music, until 1994 when it switched again to "Z 103.7" FM. On April 24, 1995, 96.3 and 103.7 returned to a simulcast operation. Together they were once again playing Top 40 music. On April 25, 2007, the stations switched to

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as "Thunder Country".

Talk radio

On March 15, 2010, 103.7 FM became the new home of WTIB. It began simulcasting a

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format with 94.3

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. WRHD later switched to

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. In 2018, WTIB rejoined its simulcast with 96.3 WRHT, airing a talk radio format. The stations carried ''

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'' for several years, up to his death in 2021. Limbaugh's show was replaced by ''

'', which WTIB and WRHT continue to air. The two stations mostly carry the

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line up of

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hosts.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wtib TIB Talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1962 1962 establishments in North Carolina Martin County, North Carolina