The station later switched to CNN radio news. At the end of the 1980s, most of the station's music came from Satellite Radio Networks. In the 1980s, the station played adult standards in addition to airing local and regional sports events, talk programs such as Marge at Large, and other local content such as a barbershop music program. Several days later, he got behind a Patterson Smith oil truck and decided on the name he would use through his 45-year career. Shortly after his retirement in 2015 from WEGO, a Winston-Salem Journal story said that when Smith Patterson went to work at WTOB, his name was the same as John Johnson and he was told not to use that name. Other popular DJs were Dick Bennick, The Flying Dutchman, and Rick Dees, who worked at WTOB, WCOG and WKIX when the stations were owned by Southern Broadcasting. WTOB was a Top 40 station during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. It also had a sister television station: WTOB-TV, which operated from 1953 to 1957. The station began as WTOB, a 1,000-watt daytimer in 1947 on 710 kHz and licensed to Winston-Salem.īy 1955, WTOB had moved to 1380 kHz and upgraded from a daytime to a full-time station with 5,000 watts days and 1,000 watts night. WWNT is owned by Mahan Janbakhsh's TBLC Holdings, LLC, through licensee TBLC Greensboro Stations, LLC. WWNT is a Spanish language formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, serving Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, North Carolina.
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