WITA

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WITA
City	Knoxville, Tennessee
Branding	Inspiration 1490
First air date	1961
Format	Christian/News/Talk
Power	1,000 watts
Owner	F.W. Robbert Broadcasting
Sister stations	WLRM, WMQM, WNQM, WVOG, WWCR
Website	http://wita1490.com/

WITA (1490 AM, "Inspiration 1490") is a Christian radio station located in Knoxville, Tennessee. It broadcasts a Christian format with some conservative talk shows and news from the USA Radio Network. The call letters stand for "Witnessing In Tennessee Airwaves".

In the late 1960s into the mid-1970s WITA was known as WROL, "Real Rock And Roll Radio." It was the only station in Knoxville playing album cuts from artists such as the Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead.

The station boasted Knoxville's first female DJ to gain popularity with the University Of Tennessee student population, Leslie Shelor (Leslie Shelor Swann after marriage; also known as "Peggy Swann" to good friends). During this period it was known as "W-149" as a play on its dial position of 1490 kHz. The daytime 1-kW signal originated in Fountain City in north Knoxville, but the nighttime 250-W signal originated at a separate transmitter site which was much closer to campus.

In the mid-1970s the station switched format to top 40 as WKVQ (15Q), but found it difficult to compete with more powerful signals like WNOX-AM and WOKI-FM. By the late 1970s the religious format had begun. Vinnie Vineyard hosted an hour long rock/ comedy program entitled "Cousin Vinnie's Rock N Roll Show" on the station during 1995-1996.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WITA

Radio-Locator Information on WITA

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WITA

Knoxville, Tennessee radio stations

By AM frequency	620 730 760 850 900 990 1040 1120 1180 1240 1340 1380 1400 1490 1580

By FM frequency	88.3 88.7 89.1 89.9 90.3 91.1 91.9 92.7 93.1 93.5 94.3 95.3 95.7 96.3 96.7 97.5 98.7 99.1 99.3 99.7 100.3 101.1 102.1 103.5 104.5 105.3 106.1 106.7 107.3 107.7

By callsign	WCYQ WDKW WDVX WETR WFGW WFIV-FM WGAP WIAM-LP WIFA WIJV WIMZ-FM WITA WIVK-FM WJBE WJBZ-FM WJRV WJXB-FM WKCE WKCS WKGN WKHT WKVL WKXV WKZX-FM WLIL WMYL WNFZ WNML WNML-FM WNOX WNPZ WNRX WOFM WOKI WRJZ WUOT WUTK-FM WVLZ WWQK WWST WYFC WYLV WYSH

Defunct	WATO 1290 AM WMTY 670 AM

Tennessee radio markets Chattanooga Jackson Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol Knoxville Memphis Nashville Other Tennessee radio regions Clarksville Cookeville See also List of radio stations in Tennessee

Coordinates: 35°58′11″N 83°57′56″W / 35.96972°N 83.96556°W / 35.96972; -83.96556

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