First air date 1979 HAAT 298.8 meters (980 ft) Facility ID 54796 City of license Northport Owner Townsquare Media Branding WTUG 92.9 FM | ERP 100,000 watts Class C1 Frequency 92.9 MHz Format Urban adult contemporary Area Tuscaloosa Slogan Today's R&B & Old School | |
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Broadcast area Tuscaloosa and Vicinity | ||
WTUG-FM (92.9 FM) is a radio station serving the Tuscaloosa, Alabama, vicinity with an Urban Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Northport, Alabama, USA. The station is currently owned by Townsquare Media.
In February 2005, Apex Broadcasting Inc. (Houston L. Pearce, chairman) reached an agreement to sell WTUG-FM and six other radio stations in Alabama to Citadel Broadcasting (Farid Suleman, chairman/CEO) for a reported sale price of $29 million. Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.
Cumulus sold WTUG-FM and its sister stations to Townsquare Media effective July 31, 2012.
WTUG supplies daily weather from Meteorologist James Spann ABC 33/40... However when there is any severe weather, including Severe Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Winter Weather, and Tropical Weather from The Gulf that moves inland to effect West, Alabama; Local Townsquare Media Severe & Winter Weather Meteorologist; Bobby Best covers all of these events live from The TownSquare Media-Tuscaloosa studios, including not only WTUG-FM, but all sister stations in the Tuscaloosa and West, Alabama radio market. The primary severe weather coverage area for Townsquare Media-Tuscaloosa includes; Tuscaloosa, Pickens, Fayette, Lamar, Green, Hale, and Bibb Counties, along with portions of Northern Sumter, Southern Walker, Southern Marion, and Western Jefferson counties in Alabama!