WTAM (1100 AM) – branded Newsradio WTAM 1100 – is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio. Owned by Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, the station broadcasts primarily a news/talk format. The WTAM studios are located in the Cleveland suburb of Independence, while the station's transmitter resides in nearby Brecksville. WTAM is a clear-channel station that reaches much of eastern North America at night; as such, WTAM often identifies itself as The Big One, a name borrowed from Cincinnati sister station WLW.
WTAM is the Cleveland affiliate for Fox News Radio; conservative talk shows The Glenn Beck Program and The Rush Limbaugh Show; late night talk show Coast to Coast AM; and Notre Dame football. WTAM also serves as the flagship station for both the Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland Indians; the AM flagship for the Cleveland Browns; and the home of radio personality Mike Trivisonno. Besides a standard analog transmission, WTAM broadcasts over a single HD Radio channel, and is available online via iHeartRadio.
The station first carried the WTAM call letters from 1923 to 1956; assigned sequentially by the FCC, the letters were later treated as a backronym for "Where The Artisans Meet." The station re-adopted the same call letters in 1996 to reinforce the station's position on the AM band; station management considered the historical tie "a nice bonus, but... more incidental than anything else."
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