WTTM (1680 AM) is a

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broadcasting a

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and

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format to the

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. The station has its studios and offices in

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and its transmitter site in

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. The station is owned by Multicultural Radio Broadcasting, Inc and licensed to Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Licensee, LLC.

History

WTTM originated as the expanded band "twin" of an existing station on the standard AM band. On March 17, 1997, the

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(FCC) announced that 88 stations had been given permission to move to newly available " Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with

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, authorized to move from 1350 to 1680 kHz."FCC Public Notice: Mass Media Bureau Announces Revised AM Expanded Band Allotment Plan and Filing Window for Eligible Stations"
(FCC DA 97-537), March 17, 1997. A construction permit for the expanded band station was assigned the call letters WAXK on March 6, 1998, although the call sign was changed to WTTM twenty days later, adopting call letters that had just been removed from its longtime home on

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. The FCC's initial policy was that both the original station and its expanded band counterpart could operate simultaneously for up to five years, after which owners would have to turn in one of the two licenses, depending on whether they preferred the new assignment or elected to remain on the original frequency. As a result WHWH went off the air on Friday, April 7, 2006, at midnight. However, WHWH was allowed to return to the air in May 2007 after the FCC relaxed the rule, and both stations have remained authorized. One restriction is that the FCC has generally required paired original and expanded band stations to remain under common ownership. The new WTTM reached the air in May 1999, with a

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format, mostly broadcasting programming from

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. In 2002, the station was sold from

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to Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Inc. MRBI leased the station to EBC Radio to program the station with a South Asian Indian format. The lease arrangement ended in 2005, and shortly thereafter the station's city of license was relocated from Princeton to Lindenwold, moving it into the Philadelphia radio market. WTTM began carrying

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during the nighttime hours on April 1, 2019, the network's programming was provided to the station by Spanish Sports Productions, who also produces WTTM's Spanish-language

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and

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broadcasts. The launch came two months before

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announced on June 11, 2019, that ESPN Deportes Radio would cease operations on September 8. After ESPN Deportes Radio was discontinued on September 8, 2019, the station became an affiliate of TUDN Radio.TUDN Picks Up Some Former ESPN Deportes Radio Affiliates
, ''Radio & Television Business Report''. September 9, 2019. Retrieved September 9, 2019.

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