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Overview
WTAX is a news/talk radio station on 1240 AM, licensed to Springfield, Illinois. Listeners know it as “NewsRadio WTAX.” It first signed on in 1923.
License and signal
- Call sign
- WTAX
- Frequency
- 1240 AM
- Format
- News/talk
- On-air name
- NewsRadio WTAX
- City of license
- Springfield, IL
- Market
- Champaign-Springfield-Decatur, IL
- Licensee
- Saga Communications of Illinois, LLC
- Power
- 1,000 watts unlimited
- Station class
- C
- First on air
- 1923
- FCC facility ID
- 9961
- Website
- capitolcitynow.com
- FCC public file
- publicfiles.fcc.gov
- Wikipedia
- Read the article
Network programming comes from ABC News Radio, Compass Media Networks, Premiere Networks and Westwood One. Saga Communications of Illinois, LLC holds the station’s FCC license. It has used the WTAX call letters since August 1989.
Online, it is at capitolcitynow.com. Springfield is in the Champaign-Springfield-Decatur, IL market, where local newspapers include Illinois Times. Its sister stations are WDBR, WLFZ, WTAX-FM and WYMG.
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WTAX at a glance
- Frequency
- 1240 AM
- On air as
- NewsRadio WTAX
- Format
- News/talk
- Licensed to
- Springfield, IL
- Market
- Champaign-Springfield-Decatur, IL
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