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Overview
Licensed to Aurora, Illinois, WTFN is a talk station broadcasting on 1280 AM. Listeners know it as “AM 1280 WBIG.” It began broadcasting in 1938.
License and signal
- Call sign
- WTFN
- Frequency
- 1280 AM
- Format
- Talk/home shopping/sports
- On-air name
- AM 1280 WBIG
- City of license
- Aurora, IL
- Market
- Chicago, IL
- Licensee
- Aurora Naperville Radio LLC
- Power
- 1,000 watts day; 500 watts night
- Station class
- B
- First on air
- 1938
- FCC facility ID
- 5217
- Website
- auroradailynews.com
- FCC public file
- publicfiles.fcc.gov
- Wikipedia
- Read the article
Network programming comes from Fox Sports Radio. The FCC license is held by Aurora Naperville Radio LLC. It has used the WTFN call letters since July 2026.
Its website is auroradailynews.com. Aurora is in the Chicago, IL market. Its sister station is WRMN.
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WTFN at a glance
- Frequency
- 1280 AM
- On air as
- AM 1280 WBIG
- Format
- Talk/home shopping/sports
- Licensed to
- Aurora, IL
- Market
- Chicago, IL
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