WTDY-FM (106.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Mount Horeb, Wisconsin and serving the Madison market. The station is owned by Mid-West Family Broadcasting and simulcasts the talk format of sister station WTDY (1670 AM). WTDY-FM broadcasts from a tower near Barneveld, Wisconsin, about 25 miles west of Madison.

History [link]

WTDY-FM's history dates back to October 2005, when Mid-West Family Broadcasting began testing the 106.7 FM signal under the call sign WYZM, airing smooth jazz music normally heard on sister station WMGN during its "Magic Sunday Morning" program. The smooth jazz was there only temporarily, for on December 1, 2005, WYZM changed to WSLK and began simulcasting the classic hits format of sister station WHLK ("The Lake at 93-1 and 106-7").

At 4PM on January 26, 2007, WSLK broke away from the "Lake" simulcast and began a rhythmic contemporary format, identifying themselves as WJQM, or "106.7 Jamz." This move was in direct response to WKPO dropping the Rhythmic format two weeks earlier. "Jamz" remained on 106.7 until October 28, 2008, when they would move to 93.1 FM, displacing "The Lake" and moving "Jamz" to a signal that better serves the urban areas of Madison (whereas the 106.7 signal covers the more rural area of Iowa County and western Dane County).^[1] After one more week of simulcasting "93-1 Jamz," 106.7 would adopt the WWQN call sign and become a simulcast of country sister station WWQM-FM, allowing "Q106" to cover the aforementioned rural Western areas that WWQM's Class A signal on 106.3 could not quite cover entirely.

WWQN would retain the "Q106" simulcast until December 13, 2011, when, 12 days after adopting the WTDY-FM call sign, it began simulcast of its talk radio sister station WTDY. The move would give the low-rated WTDY a presence on the clearer FM radio band and continue a trend in recent years of news/talk stations moving to or simulcasting on FM signals. (WTDY-FM is Madison's second commercial FM station with a talk format, the other being competitor WXXM.) The full WTDY schedule is simulcast on WTDY-FM, including local shows with "Sly in the Morning" and Kurt Baron; full-hour local newscasts at 12PM and 5PM; national shows including Michael Smerconish and America's Radio News; and weekend broadcasts of NFL and college sports from Compass Media Networks and Sports USA.

See also [link]

• WTDY
• Mid-West Family Broadcasting

References [link]

External links [link]

• WTDY Website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WTDY
• Radio-Locator information on WTDY
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WTDY