Frequency | 1380 kHz |
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Programming | |
Format | Traffic |
Ownership | |
Owner | Delaware Department of Transportation |
History | |
First air date | 1948 |
Former call signs | WAMS (1948–2000) |
Call sign meaning | Transportation Management Center |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 48381 |
Class | D |
Power | 250 watts day 10 watts night |
Translator(s) | 98.5 W253CQ (Wilmington) |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | WTMC website |
WTMC (1380 AM) is a non-commercial radio station. It also broadcasts on FM translator station W253CQ at 98.5 MHz. WTMC serves as a traffic advisory station, a service of the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) broadcasting in Wilmington, Delaware. There are signs posted around the Wilmington area advising motorists to tune to this station for traffic advisories. One such sign exists on U.S. Route 202 upon entry into Delaware from Pennsylvania. The service was started in 2000, when DelDOT purchased the license.
WTMC is licensed as a conventional broadcasting station, not a travelers' information station, although the state has added synchronized repeater stations downstate on AM 1380 which are HAR/TIS stations, to extend the station's coverage. The HAR/TIS stations were provided by Information Station Specialists and comprise the largest network of HAR/TIS stations in the country - and the only one whose cardinal location is a former broadcast station, the former WAMS. Additional synchronized TIS/HAR repeaters are being added to the network.