WTNT

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WTNT is also a Country station in Tallahassee, Florida. See WTNT-FM.

WTNT
City of license	Rockville, Maryland
Broadcast area	Metropolitan Washington, D.C. area
Branding	AM 570 WTNT
First air date	April 9, 2001
Frequency	570 kHz
Format	News/Talk
ERP	5,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night)
Callsign meaning	TNT, as in dynamite. Original slogan was "Dynamite Talk"
Owner	Clear Channel
Website	www.wtntam570.com

WTNT is a radio station broadcasting on 570 kHz in the mediumwave AM band from Rockville, Maryland, serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It has a daytime power of 5,000 watts. Its current programming is conservative talk radio, and its ownership is Clear Channel Communications.

In the 1960s through the early 1990s, WTNT was WGMS, broadcasting classical music. A proposal in the 1970s to convert WGMS to a Top-40 station upset many of its influential listeners; WGMS received an exception from the then-existing rule to simulcast its programming with its sister station, WGMS-FM.

WGMS was sold to Washington, D.C. venture capitalists Steven and Mitchell Rales, which converted the music station into WTEM, a sports-talk station, in 1992. Chancellor Broadcasting purchased the station in August 1996. Chancellor Broadcasting restructured and became known as AMFM Inc. in 1999. In 2000, AMFM Inc. merged with Clear Channel Communications.

As Chancellor gained ownership of more stations in the area, WTEM moved to 980 kHz and WWRC was reassigned to 570 kHz on March 9, 1998. On April 9, 2001, WWRC moved to 1260 kHz and the callsign of 570 kHz was replaced by WTNT.

Current programming on WTNT includes Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and is the flagship for Laura Ingraham. In the morning, WTNT carries Imus in the Morning. WTNT also airs Virginia Cavaliers football & men's basketball, Baltimore Ravens football plus any Washington Capitals hockey games not aired on WTEM.