WCTA

WCTA (810 AM) is an American radio station licensed to serve Alamo, the county seat of Crockett County, Tennessee. WCTA is a class D facility licensed to broadcast with 250 watts of power on a frequency of 810 kHz, operating only during daylight hours to protect both KGO in San Francisco, California, and WGY in Schenectady, New York, from skywave interference. The WCTA broadcast license is held by Robert Davis, through licensee Alamo Media LLC. The station, established in 1983, fell silent on and off from 2008 through June 2012 before resuming normal operation.

Programming

The station was launched in 1983 airing a full service format mixing country & western and middle of the road music with news and farm programming. By the late 1980s the station has shifted to a pure country & western music format with limited news programming. This lasted through the mid-1990s when the station shifted to a mix of Top 40 and adult contemporary music.

As the 2000s began, the station was back to country music with some Christian music block programming. In its last few years before falling silent in 2008 due to the declining health of the station's owner, WCTA broadcast a news/talk/sports radio format, including select programming from USA Radio Network.