WTLM

WTLM (1520 AM, "Classic Kicker Country 1520") is a radio station licensed in Opelika, Alabama, USA. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., through licensee AMFM Radio Licenses, L.L.C.

Programming

WTLM broadcasts a classic country music format to the Auburn Metropolitan Area which once featured programming from Citadel Media. WTLM broadcasts Auburn Tigers football games.

History

Licensed to Faulkner Radio, Inc., WAOA signed on the air August 12, 1968, as a daytime-only station with 5,000 watts of power at 1520 kHz. Owner James H. Faulkner, Sr., also owned several other Alabama radio stations as well as the newspapers Baldwin Times and Foley Onlooker in Baldwin County, Alabama. WAOA signed on with a country & western music format which it maintained until the completion of the 1985 sale to Faulkner Radio.

In November 1984, Fuller Broadcasting Company, Inc., made a deal to purchase WAOA and FM sister station WFRI (now WKKR) from Faulkner Radio, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on January 7, 1985, and the transaction was consummated on March 17, 1985. In February 1985, the AM station's format was flipped from country music to "solid gold" oldies. To match the new direction for the station, the callsign was changed to WZMG on March 1, 1985. On March 21, 1997, the station swapped callsigns with 910 kHz sister station WTLM (now WZMG) and was assigned the current WTLM call letters by the FCC.