WTGM


WTGM is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Salisbury, Maryland, United States, the station is currently owned by iHeartMedia. WTGM is located on the Delmarva Peninsula, and that is shown on the Fox Sports station logo.

History

WBOC on 1500 kHz began broadcasting in 1940, relocating to 1230 a year later and sliding down to 960 in 1948. It was initially owned by the Peninsula Broadcasting Company and broadcast from Radio Park on north US Route 13. In the mid 1950s WBOC increased its daytime power to 5,000 watts.
WBOC radio-TV was acquired by the A.S. Abell Company in 1961, and the licensee changed to WBOC, Inc. In 1980, the WBOC cluster was split up, and MarDel Communications bought the station, which changed its callsign to WSBY. MarDel moved the transmitter again to its current location and increased nighttime power to 5,000 watts. The station received new calls, WLVW, in 1989.
By 1993, WLVW had come under common ownership with WTEM in Washington, DC, and on August 30, 1993, it became WTGM with a sports talk format known as The Game. Eventually, WTGM picked up a Fox Sports Radio affiliation and changed its name to Sports Talk 960. During this time, it carried the games of the minor league Delmarva Shorebirds.
WTGM was acquired by Cumulus Media in 1997 and swapped to Clear Channel Communications in 2000 as part of a station exchange related to the latter's merger with AMFM.
On February 22, 2011, WTGM rebranded as "The Sports Animal".
On October 29, 2012, WTGM changed formats to comedy, branded as "Comedy 960".
On August 4, 2014, following the end of the 24/7 Comedy network, Fox Sports Radio moved back to WTGM, as "Fox Sports Radio 960".