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Broadcast area | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater and Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida |
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Frequency | |
Branding | Newsradio WFLA |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Format | Conservative talk radio |
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Ownership | |
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WDAE, WFLZ-FM, WFUS, WHNZ, WMTX, WRUB, WXTB | |
History | |
First air date | 1925 |
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Former frequencies |
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Call sign meaning | pre-ZIP code era abbreviation for Florida |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 29729 |
Class | B |
Power | |
Transmitter coordinates | 28°01′14″N 82°36′34″W / 28.02056°N 82.60944°W |
Translator(s) | See § Translators |
Repeater(s) | 97.9 WXTB-HD2 (Clearwater) |
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Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | wflanews |
WFLA (970 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Tampa, Florida, and serving the Tampa Bay media market. The station airs a news/talk format and is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station's studios and offices are located on Gandy Boulevard in South Tampa.[2]
WFLA broadcasts by day at 25,000 watts, reducing power to 11,000 watts at night. (For most of its history, from the 1940s to the early 2000s, it ran at 5,000 watts.) It uses a directional antenna at all times. The main transmitter site is off Montague Street in Town 'n' Country, Florida.[3] Programming is also heard on two FM translators, 94.5 MHz in Gulfport and 99.1 in Bayonet Point.