WTMJ (AM)
(See also WTMJ Television) WTMJ is an AM radio station that reaches much of Wisconsin as well as some of nothern Illinois. WTMJ broadcasts on 620 AM. Today, it is a 50,000-watt news/talk/sports station and one of America’s largest and most successful radio stations. It is owned by Journal Broadcast Group, the parent company of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
History
In May 1922, The Milwaukee Journal sponsored its first radio program on Milwaukee's first radio station, WAAK, which was owned by the Gimbel Bros. Department Store. In April 1927, The Milwaukee Journal bought the radio station WKAF and built a new transmitter tower in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Then in June 1927, The FCC assigned the call letters WTMJ, to stand for The Milwaukee Journal. On July 25 1927, WTMJ Radio went on the air at 1020 AM as a way to sell newspapers. WTMJ's first broadcast featured music by the WTMJ Orchestra and included a remote broadcast featuring Bill Carlsen's orchestra. Carlsen was later hired by WTMJ and went on to become Wisconsin's most widely known radio and television weather forecaster. In 1928, The FCC reassigned WTMJ to 620 AM. Some customers began encountering interference from other radio stations that shared close frequencies in other parts of the country. Engineers solved the problem by developing directional radio signals, a system that's still being used throughout the nation.
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