WDMT, also known as 102.3 The Mountain, is an adult album alternative

Adult album alternative

Adult album alternative is a radio format. A spinoff from the album-oriented rock format, its roots trace to the 1960s and 1970s from the earlier freeform and progressive formats....

 radio station in Pittston, Pennsylvania

Pittston, Pennsylvania

Pittston is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. It gained prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as an active anthracite coal mining city, drawing a large portion of its labor force from European immigrants. The population was...

. The station's website states "More music. Less hype." as part of its mission. Station IDs often include the phrase "It's different here." WDMT is owned and operated by Entercom Wilkes-Barre, which also operates sister stations WKRZ

WKRZ

WKRZ, "98.5 KRZ", is a radio station licensed to Freeland, Pennsylvania serving the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton radio market at 98.5 MHz FM. The station radio format is Top 40 which it has broadcast in the market since 1980. The station has always used some branding of "KRZ", a shortened form...

, WGGY

WGGY

WGGY 101.3 FM, also known as Froggy 101, is a country music radio station that broadcasts out of Scranton, Pennsylvania, its city of license...

, WILK-FM

WILK-FM

WILK-FM is a radio station licensed to Avoca, Pennsylvania operating at a frequency of 103.1 MHz serving the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton radio market. The station serves as the premiere station in the regionally simulcast WILK News Radio Network, a network of four radio stations owned by...

, and WILK

WILK (AM)

WILK is also known as Northeast Pennsylvania's Newsradio and owned by Entercom Communications.-History:WILK originally signed on the air in 1947. The station's original broadcast frequency was 1450 kHz during its early years before moving to the present 980 kHz dial position...

.

Format

The station does not run typical on air contests, and plays many B-side tracks as well as music from many local artists. Show hosts are referred to as "Mountain Guides," not DJs. Unlike typical DJs who run many promotions, the guides typically give background on a musician or song. Unlike other radio stations in the area, the Mountain interjects interesting quotes between songs instead of the typical station IDs.

The "Mountain Set", a concept used in many of the station's shows, is a collection of three or more songs with a common thread played back to back. The songs typically share a word or phrase in common, but may be related in other ways.

This formatting style is similar to those of other "Mountain" radio stations owned by Entercom, including KMTT

KMTT

KMTT , marketed as "103-7 The Mountain", is an adult album alternative FM radio station in the Seattle, Washington market.The station broadcasts at 103.7 MHz and is owned and operated by Entercom Communications. The station's transmitting antenna is on Reichert's Hill on Cougar Mountain...

 in Seattle.

Rising at Ten

Each weekday at 10am, Jim Rising hosts a one hour segment which is dedicated to a single theme. About midway through each show, Jim Rising reads a segment called "Rising's Rant" wherein he discusses his opinion on some issue. Each rant is typically concluded with the catch phrase "But then again, I could be wrong." The Weekender prints a selected rant in their publication every Wednesday.

Previous formats

The station previously operated as 102.3 Rebel Radio in the early 1990s, formatted after MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

. Playing the hair metal bands (hip hop

Hip hop music

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 added later) and wild station imaging brought Rebel Radio many critics.

The station died about the same time as hair metal lost popularity. It later reverted to Q-102, a Top 40 format and later Kiss 102.3 through the mid-1990s. Low ratings finally saw the change in ownership and change in formats. Buzz 102 played all '80s music, much of which consisted of shows syndicated from other markets. Ratings began to drop as this format began to wear out after about two years. It was at that point that the station began operating as The Mountain.

Digital radio

WDMT's digital signal is multiplexed.

Channel	Programming
102.3-1	main programming: adult alternative music
102.3-2	modern rock/live rock concerts