WPTF is a commercial radio station broadcasting a news/talk radio format. Licensed to Raleigh, the station serves the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. It is owned by the Curtis Media Group, with studios located on Highwoods Boulevard in Raleigh. WPTF's transmitter site is a three-tower facility off East Chatham Street, near Maynard Road NE, in Cary, North Carolina.
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WPTF 's transmitter remained atop the Sir Walter Hotel until 1934.
WPTF Control Room for the recently installed 50,000-watt transmitter (1941)
WPTF transmitter building (2022). Originally built in 1940, the Town of Cary has characterized it as "architecturally and culturally significant".
WBT is a commercial AM radio station serving the Charlotte metropolitan area, including parts of North Carolina and South Carolina. The station airs a talk radio format simulcast on Chester, South Carolina-licensed WBT-FM (99.3) and the HD2 digital subchannel of co-owned WLNK. First licensed on March 18, 1922, it is one of America's first radio stations.
Little-Long Company advertisement for a crystal radio receiver capable of picking up WBT's programs (October 1922)
1989: WBT's transmitter towers just after Hurricane Hugo
2007: WBT's transmitter site just south of Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina
