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| name = WTKG | image = WTKG-AM.jpg | city = Grand Rapids, Michigan | area = | branding = AM 1230 WTKG | slogan = The Talk of Grand Rapids | airdate = | frequency = 1230 kHz {{HD Radio}} | format = Talk | power = 1,000 watts | class = C | facility_id = 51729 | callsign_meaning = Talk Grand Rapids | former_callsigns = WCUZ (6/18/1973-3/28/97) WJEF (2/8/1945-6/18/1973) | affiliations = ABC News Radio, Premiere Radio Networks, Dial Global, Compass Media Networks Michigan Radio Network | owner = iHeartMedia, Inc. | licensee = CC Licenses, LLC | sister_stations = WBCT, WBFX, WMAX-FM, WOOD, WSNX-FM, WSRW-FM | webcast = Listen Live | website = wtkg.com }} WTKG (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a talk radio format. Licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, and now owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., Previous to adopting the current calls and format in 1997, the station played country under the WJEF (the station on which radio Hall of Famer Wally Phillips started his career) and WCUZ calls. HistoryThe station began as WJEF (1230 AM) on February 8, 1945 with studio's located on the 10th floor of the Pantlind Hotel (Amway Grand Plaza Hotel) in Downtown Grand Rapids, Mi. It's ERP at that time was 250 Watts. It would be Grand Rapids 3rd radio station behind WOOD (AM) and WLAV-AM. It also was a sister station to WKZO (590 AM) in Kalamazoo which was also owned by John E. Fetzer. In 1951, WJEF would gain an FM sister station in WJEF-FM (WBCT)(93.7). The AM station was sold to Pathfinder Communications in 1973 and would take on the WCUZ calls on June 18th of 1973. WCUZ-AM and later WCUZ-AM/FM would be Grand Rapids only country music station until 1992 when in a weird twist of fate, ended WCUZ's hold on the Grand Rapids radio market. During the early 1980s the station would begin broadcasting in AM Stereo with the Magnavox AM/PMsystem. However AM Stereo broadcasting would end when the Motorola C-Quam won out. In 1992 WCUZ-AM's former sister station WBCT (93.7)(WJEF and later WJFM-FM)would also be sold by Fetzer Broadcasting. WBCT flipped to a country format and went head to head with WCUZ. In the end WBCT would win out. Bronco Radio NetworkWTKG was an affiliate of the Western Michigan University "Broncos Radio Network" and carried all of the Broncos football and men's basketball games. WTKG was dropped as an affiliate after WMAX was added for both sports. References
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