FM Technical Profile: WTID
- Station Name:
- Tide 102.9
- Frequency:
- 102.9
- Format:
- Sports Talk
- Transmitter
Location:
- [map]
[street
view] Behind the North Perry Church near the intersection of
County Road 154 and County Road 29 in rural Hale County, northeast
of Greensboro.
- Power (ERP):
- 24 kW
- Antenna:
- Directional
- Antenna HAAT:
- 663 feet
- Other
Information:
- 60 dBu protected
contour
map, from the FCC.
-
:PS-TIDE 102.9… Time-[?]
Text-THIS IS TIDE 102.9 - CATFISH IS ON 100.1FM
& 1230AM IN TTOWN PTY-Sports PI-WNPT-FM
// WTUG-HD2 Tuscaloosa, AL
// W265CG Tuscaloosa
- More
Information:
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[Image]
Picture of the RDS display, showing PI (call sign) and Radio Text
fields, on an Insignia HD portable located in northwest Alabama,
from when the station was Catfish Country prior to July 2016.
[Image]
Picture of the RDS display, showing PI (call sign) and Radio Text
fields, after switching to sports as Tide 102.9. (August 2016)
[Studio]
Street view imagery of the barely-visible studio behind the Olive
Garden on McFarland Boulevard in Tuscaloosa.
- Owner:
- Townsquare
Media
- History:
- This station
came on the air in 1988 as the FM counterpart to the Tuscaloosa AM
station with the same WNPT calls (NorthPorT). The original ownership
was listed as Linden Radio Joint Venture.
- For
reasons unknown, this FM counterpart to WNPT-AM (now WWPG) never
actually served the Tuscaloosa area as far as is known, until about
2005 when a construction permit had the tower site moved from Linden
to Marion. Around the time of this move, the station was playing JRN
Classic Country and Paul Finebaum's show, but afterwards dropped
both for live and local announcers. During this stint it was known
as "Catfish Country". On March 1st 2009 the station
dropped the country music for variety hits, picking up the national
"Jack FM" name. In early October 2009 the station signed on
from their site closer to Tuscaloosa. In late September 2011
the station was reported to have dropped Jack for modern country,
again with the "Catfish Country" nickname. In late August 2013
the format was said to be back to classic country. Various
different groups owned the station between 1997 and 2003, with
ownership at that point going to John Sisty Enterprises. Sisty
also acquired WNPT (AM) at that time. In May 2016 it was
announced that Townsquare Media would be buying the AM and FM
stations for $550,000. As part of the deal, Townsquare was
required to divest WDGM Greensboro. It went to Educational
Media Foundation and the Tide 99.1 sports talk format landed here on
30 June 2016, at 2 pm. The station was later also heard on
translator W265CG on 100.9 MHz, which is being used to fill in gaps
in the station's coverage in town.
In late March 2018, the station changed called to WTID.