WJTW
radio station in Bridgeport, Alabama, United States
WJTW (1480 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Bridgeport, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Marshall M. Bandy, through licensee Bridgeport, Inc.
History
On April 15, 1998, longtime owner of Bridgeport Broadcasting Company, the licensee for this station, then known as WBTS, Roy C. McCloud died. In June 1998, control of the company passed involuntarily to Remal J. McCloud and Darren W. McCloud, the joint executors of his estate. The Federal Communications Commission approved the transfer on July 9, 1998, and the transaction was formally consummated on August 10, 1998. Later that year in Atlanta, Georgia, they used the WBTS callsign until August 2010.
In July 1998, KEA Radio Inc. (Ronald H. Livengood, president) reached an agreement to acquire WBTS from Remal J. McCloud and Darren W. McCloud. The station sold for a reported $5,000. The deal was approved by the FCC on October 20, 1998, and the transaction was consummated on November 2, 1998.
“WJTW” enters the record as radio station in Bridgeport, Alabama, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what WJTW, radio and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7949856. Authority coordinates are 34.943, -85.707. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1480, 1998 and 2010.
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This entry incorporates text from “WJTW” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.