WHTX

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WHTX (AM)

WHTX (1570 AM) — branded Warren's WHTX 1570 — is an urban AC/Rhythmic Oldies radio station licensed to Warren, Ohio and serving the Youngstown-Warren area from sister station WYCL's studio/transmitter facility in Mineral Ridge. Owned by Sagittarius Communications, LLC, the station operates with unlimited hours, with 500 watts during the daytime, and 116 watts in the evening hours.

History

Early years

The 1570 frequency was the original home of WHOT, then a daytime-only station in the 1950s. One of the first Top 40 stations in the United States, WHOT was founded by Myron Jones and Bill Fleckinstein, who first signed on WJET in Erie, Pennsylvania on the 1570 frequency as a daytimer. After upgrading WJET to a full-time signal on the 1400 kHz frequency in 1955, Jones and Fleckinstein used the now-opened 1570 frequency to establish WHOT in the Youngstown suburb of Campbell, Ohio as a 250 watt non-directional daytime-only station. At the time, the station had to sign off at nighttime in order to protect clear channel XERF in Ciudad Acuña, and for a period WHOT was the only daytimer in the Youngstown market.