WCRT is a Class B AM

Amplitude modulation

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 radio station

Radio station

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 licensed to the community of Donelson, Tennessee

Donelson, Tennessee

Donelson is a neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee located east of downtown Nashville along U.S. Highway 70. It is named in honor of John Donelson, co-founder of Nashville and father-in-law of Andrew Jackson, Nashvillian and seventh President of the United States...

, near Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

. Broadcasting a format of evangelical

Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:...

 preaching and talk show

Talk show

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s, WCRT is owned by Bott Communications, a Christian broadcaster, which bought the station, formerly WAMB, from longtime Nashville broadcaster Bill Barry (who now operates a new, lower-powered WAMB

WAMB

WAMB is a radio station broadcasting a Adult Standards format to the Nashville, Tennessee, USA area. The station is currently owned by Great Southern Broadcasting Company and features programing from CNN Radio...

 on the frequency of 1200 kHz).

The WCRT callsign is derived from Christian Radio Tennessee. WCRT broadcasts at 50,000 watt

Watt

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s during the day and 1,000 watts at night. Because the 1160 kHz frequency receives interference from a Cuban radio station operating in excess of the officially notified power under international treaties, WCRT has maintained a special temporary authority

Special temporary authority

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 since 1990 from the Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission

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 to operate an FM

FM broadcasting

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station at night as well. This station has the callsign WCRT-FM1 and, from 1998 on, has operated on 98.7 MHz from one of the WCRT (AM) towers.

External links

• Bott Radio Network Station Info — official information page