WTTX-FM
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WTTX-FM is a Southern Gospel
formatted broadcast
radio station
licensed to Appomattox, Virginia
, serving Appomattox
and Appomattox County, Virginia
. WTTX-FM is owned and operated by Baker Family Stations under the Non-Profit Organization Positive Alternative Radio Inc. based in Blacksburg, VA.
With failing equipment that was primarily from the 1960s and a limited budget, Clearview began looking for buyers for the station. Despite higher offers from commercial broadcasters, the church sold the station to Positive Alternative Radio, Inc in 2005, who offered to retain the Southern Gospel format under their "Joy FM" network.
WTTX began broadcasting as an affiliate of Joy FM on July 18, 2005 and began repeating the signal to translator W280DB 103.9 FM in Lynchburg, VA. In April 2008 the WTTX signal was added to translator W243BT 96.5 FM in Waynesboro, VA. At that time the studios were moved to Lynchburg, VA and fully automated.
Joy FM broadcasts on over 20 stations in 7 states including Virginia, North Carolina, West VA, and parts of South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio.
Southern Gospel
Southern Gospel music—at one time also known as "quartet music"—is music whose lyrics are written to express either personal or a communal faith regarding biblical teachings and Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music...
formatted broadcast
Broadcasting
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Radio station
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licensed to Appomattox, Virginia
Appomattox, Virginia
Appomattox is a town in Appomattox County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,761 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Appomattox County.Appomattox is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
, serving Appomattox
Appomattox, Virginia
Appomattox is a town in Appomattox County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,761 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Appomattox County.Appomattox is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
and Appomattox County, Virginia
Appomattox County, Virginia
Appomattox County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2010, the population was 14,973. Its county seat is Appomattox. For a long time, Appomattox was a prohibition or dry county...
. WTTX-FM is owned and operated by Baker Family Stations under the Non-Profit Organization Positive Alternative Radio Inc. based in Blacksburg, VA.
History
WTTX signed on in 1976 as the FM station of full-service AM WTTX (which later became WOWZ). In the early 1980s, Clearview Baptist Church in Rustburg purchased the station and changed the format to Southern Gospel music and religious sermons. Given the limited resources of the church, the station was never automated, meaning live announcers manned the station from sign-on at 6:00am til sign-off at 12:00am.With failing equipment that was primarily from the 1960s and a limited budget, Clearview began looking for buyers for the station. Despite higher offers from commercial broadcasters, the church sold the station to Positive Alternative Radio, Inc in 2005, who offered to retain the Southern Gospel format under their "Joy FM" network.
WTTX began broadcasting as an affiliate of Joy FM on July 18, 2005 and began repeating the signal to translator W280DB 103.9 FM in Lynchburg, VA. In April 2008 the WTTX signal was added to translator W243BT 96.5 FM in Waynesboro, VA. At that time the studios were moved to Lynchburg, VA and fully automated.
Joy FM broadcasts on over 20 stations in 7 states including Virginia, North Carolina, West VA, and parts of South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio.