WLTH

WLTH
City Gary, Indiana
Branding W-ea-LTH Radio
Slogan The Voice of the Region
Frequency 1370 kHz
Translator(s) W224EA (92.7 MHz, Gary)
First air date November 5, 1950
Format Community radio
Power 1,000 watts (day)
500 watts (night)
Class B
Facility ID 38402
Transmitter coordinates 41°34′17″N 87°19′2″W / 41.57139°N 87.31722°W / 41.57139; -87.31722 (day)
41°32′22″N 87°18′0″W / 41.53944°N 87.30000°W / 41.53944; -87.30000 (night)
Callsign meaning WeaLTH
Former callsigns WGRY
Owner WLTH Radio

WLTH is an AM radio station broadcasting on 1370 kHz in Gary, Indiana east of the Chicago metropolitan area. It is owned by Michilliana Broadcasting, LLC.[1][2] The station's current format is African-American Talk Radio.

Notable radio alumni of WLTH include Steve King (later of WLS, and now with WGN); Felicia Middlebrooks (now with WBBM); Michael King (now with WXIA-TV); Tommy Williams (later of WSCR); Dinahlynn Biggs over 38 years on air with over 500, 000 listeners of the popular show:The Dinahlynn Biggs Show until June 2017 now on Chicago Radio, R.Veronica Williams (later with Chicago Public Radio WBEZ 91.5 FM later of Radio-One Indianapolis WLTC AM 1310 "The Light"/106.7 WTLC-FM

Current hosts include: Verle Harris, Guy "Live" Spencer, Kenneth White "Dollar Trends", Theodore "The Thinker" McClendon, Eddie Tarver "Human Development", Ron Muhammad, Lloyd Fisher/Ray Fisher/Dr. Joe L. White "Information Resource", Phillip Cody-Tolliver "The Peoples' Point of View", Val Taniff "The Real Deal", John Key "Church Without walls", Pastor Tyrone Brown "The Hope Show", Anthony "The Hurricane" Bryant "The Raw Show", and "Sound Off With E.V.E", hosted by Eve Gomez. Currently on Saturday nights the "Brothers of the Blues" blues radio program is on from 8pm until Midnight.

In September 2013, the station changed its location from Merrillville, Indiana, to its original city of Gary- specifically, 478 Broadway.

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