WTIV

WTIV
City	Titusville, Pennsylvania
Branding	The Allegheny News-Talk Sports Network
Frequency	1230 kHz (AM)
Repeater(s)	WFRA 1450 Franklin WMGW 1490 Meadville
First air date	1955
Format	News, talk, sports
Power	1000 Watts (unlimited)
Class	C
Callsign meaning	TItusVille
Owner	Forever Broadcasting, LLC
Website	http://myantsnetwork.com/

WTIV is an American radio station, licensed to the community of Titusville, Pennsylvania. WTIV operates at the federally assigned frequency of 1230 (kHz) at a full-time power of 1,000 Watts. Though licensed to Titusville, programming, sales and administrative functions originate out of Meadville, Pennsylvania.

History

WTIV was the first of three radio stations originally put on the air by Robert H. Sauber. Making its debut on November 27, 1955, WTIV offered a full-service format composed mainly of news, adult contemporary music and national and world news from the Mutual Broadcasting System, with little changes in program offerings over the years under his ownership.

Though Sauber would later put two other stations in Franklin on the air, he continued to manage WTIV as an entirely separate entity, serving as the station's general manager and sales manager. WTIV operated under the corporate name WTIV, Inc. (though Sauber himself was listed as licensee) while the Franklin stations did business as Northwestern Pennsylvania Broadcasting Company, Inc. Sauber also performed engineering duties for WTIV and the two Franklin stations.

In July 2000, Sauber wanted to retire and put his stations up for sale. All three were purchased by Altoona-based Forever Broadcasting, LLC for an undisclosed sum. Sauber died in October 2004 at the age of 76.

WTIV Today

Following the sale of WTIV to Forever Broadcasting, operations were moved from the station's historic WTIV Building at 150 West Central Avenue in downtown Titusville, to the Downtown Mall in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Unused satellite dishes remain at the former WTIV Building at 150 West Central Avenue in Titusville, Pennsylvania, now occupied by professional offices.

WTIV is today one of three radio stations operating as The Allegheny News Talk Sports Network, also owned by Forever Broadcasting.

WTIV and the three other stations operate most of the time as a "trimulcast", or programming simultaneously rebroadcast over three radio stations (until December 2009, WOYL in Oil City had also been a part of this network, in effect making it a quadcast; WOYL permanently ceased operations in July 2010). However, WTIV and its Meadville AM affiliate, WMGW, break away from WFRA for a live local morning show containing program matter exclusive to Crawford County. After the morning show ends, the trimulcast resumes.

The morning show, along with all programming, administration, and sales functions, originate out of the Meadville office. The morning show is hosted by Keith Allen Austin, program director for the network.

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Radio stations in the Meadville-Franklin, Pennsylvania market

By AM frequency	790 940 970 1120 1450 1490

By FM frequency	89.5 90.3 90.3 91.1 91.9 91.9 94.3 95.1 96.3 98.5 99.3 100.3 101.7 104.5 107.7

By callsign	W212BK W220BA WARC WAWN WFRA WFUN WGYI WGYY WHMJ WKQW WKQW-FM WGRP WGYY WMGW WMVL WOXX WPIC WSAJ-FM WUZZ WUUZ WVME WWGY WXXO

Defunct stations	WOYL/1340 WSAJ/1340

Pennsylvania radio markets Allentown–Bethlehem Altoona Bradford–Coudersport Chambersburg–Waynesboro Erie Harrisburg–Lebanon–Carlisle Lancaster Montrose New Castle Philadelphia Pittsburgh Reading Sayre–Towanda–Mansfield–Wellsboro Wilkes-Barre–Scranton Williamsport York Other Pennsylvania radio regions Bedford Indiana Johnstown Lewistown–Mifflintown Meadville–Franklin Punxsutawney–DuBois St. Marys–Emporium–Kane State College Stroudsburg Sunbury–Selinsgrove–Lewisburg Warren See also List of radio stations in Pennsylvania

ESPN Radio stations in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Full-time affiliates	Allentown WTKZ Altoona WVAM Chambersburg WCBG Easton WEEX Erie WRIE Gettysburg WGET Huntingdon WHUN Jersey Shore WEJS Lancaster WLPA Lehighton WBYN Mexico WJUN Philadelphia WPEN Pittsburgh WBGG Scranton WBAX Scranton WEJL Starview WONN-FM State College WQWK Williamsport WLYC

Part-time affiliates	Meadville WMGW Titusville WTIV Dubois WCED Milton WMLP Lansdale WNPV Franklin WFRA Greencastle WCBG Sunbury WKOK Pottsville WPPA

Defunct	Somerset WBHV

See also List of ESPN Radio affiliates See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Pennsylvania See also ESPN Radio ESPN Deportes Radio Fox Sports Radio CBS Sports Radio NBC Sports Radio Yahoo! Sports Radio Sports Byline USA

Coordinates: 41°37′00″N 79°41′32″W / 41.61667°N 79.69222°W / 41.61667; -79.69222

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