WTRB

For the Ashland, Alabama, radio station formerly licensed as WTRB-FM, see WSGN (FM).

WTRB (1570 AM, "Music Country") is an American radio station licensed to serve Ripley, Tennessee in Lauderdale county. The station is presently owned by WTRB, Inc. (Palmer Johnson, President) It airs a country music format.^[2]

WTRB

Ripley, Tennessee
Frequency	1570 kHz
Branding	Music Country
Programming
Format	Country
Ownership
Owner	WTRB, Inc. (Palmer Johnson)
Sister stations	WJPJ
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	36689
Class	D
Power	1,000 watts (day) 53 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates	35°43′46″N 89°32′33″W
Translator(s)	104.9 MHz (W285FL)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	1570wtrb.com

The station went on the air December 11, 1954 and was assigned the "WTRB" call sign by the Federal Communications Commission.^[3]

History

In March 1959, WTRB made national headlines when James W. Porter purchased fifteen minutes of air time on the station. Porter began his broadcast by shattering several records then leaving the station silent for the rest of the fifteen minutes after proposing a "National Can the Racket League" as a protest against rock'n'roll music.^[4]

Don Paris:

The late Don Paris started with WTRB when the station began broadcasting in 1954. Mr Paris had been the station manager until retiring in 2007 for health reasons.

Ownership

In September 2004, West Tennessee Regional Broadcasting Inc. (Phillip Ennis, president) announced that they had reached an agreement to acquire WTRB from Williams Communications Inc. (Walton E. Williams Jr., president/director) for a reported sale price of $265,000.^[5] In August 2009 West Tennessee Regional Broadcasting reached an agreement to sell WTRB to Palmer Johnson, a Contract Broadcast Engineer from Kennett, MO.