WKTA
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WKTA is a radio station
broadcasting a World Ethnic format. Licensed to Evanston, Illinois
, USA the station serves the Chicago area. The station is currently owned by Polnet Communications, Ltd..
. WEAW broadcast general popular music, local talk shows and brokered ethnic and religious programs. The call sign was changed to WPRZ around 1979. WPRZ tried to find an audience as an adult contemporary station with some brokered programming on weekends. The attempt was not successful, and the station went silent after about two years. The station returned to the air as WEAW again, then took another try at adult contemporary as WSSY ("Sunny 1330") in the late 1980s.
In 1989, WSSY changed its call letters to WKTA, and began to program a hard rock and heavy metal format as "G-Force 1330." Later, G-Force would emerge into a new format known as "Rebel Radio" under G-Force alumni Scott Davidson. WKTA would became a flagship station for the hard rock network, which was syndicated to other stations in the midwest. Rebel Radio continues to air on WKTA Sundays.
Radio station
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broadcasting a World Ethnic format. Licensed to Evanston, Illinois
Evanston, Illinois
Evanston is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, bordering Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003. It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan...
, USA the station serves the Chicago area. The station is currently owned by Polnet Communications, Ltd..
History
The station began to operate in the 1950s as WEAW, a daytime-only adjunct to WEAW-FMWOJO
WOJO "La Que Buena 105.1" is a radio station broadcasting a regional Mexican format. Licensed to Evanston, Illinois, USA, the station serves the Chicago area. The station is currently owned by Tichenor License Corporation. The station is also broadcast on HD radio...
. WEAW broadcast general popular music, local talk shows and brokered ethnic and religious programs. The call sign was changed to WPRZ around 1979. WPRZ tried to find an audience as an adult contemporary station with some brokered programming on weekends. The attempt was not successful, and the station went silent after about two years. The station returned to the air as WEAW again, then took another try at adult contemporary as WSSY ("Sunny 1330") in the late 1980s.
In 1989, WSSY changed its call letters to WKTA, and began to program a hard rock and heavy metal format as "G-Force 1330." Later, G-Force would emerge into a new format known as "Rebel Radio" under G-Force alumni Scott Davidson. WKTA would became a flagship station for the hard rock network, which was syndicated to other stations in the midwest. Rebel Radio continues to air on WKTA Sundays.