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WTRB
WTRB (1570 AM, "Music Country") is an American radio station licensed to serve Ripley, Tennessee in Lauderdale county. The station is presently owned by WTRB, Inc. (Palmer Johnson, President) It airs a Country music format.
The station went on the air December 11, 1954 and was assigned the "WTRB" call sign by the Federal Communications Commission.
History.
In March 1959, WTRB made national headlines when James W. Porter purchased fifteen minutes of air time on the station
president) announced that they had reached an agreement to acquire WTRB from Williams Communications Inc. (Walton E. Williams Jr., president/director) for a reported sale price of $265,000. In August 2009 West Tennessee Regional Broadcasting reached an agreement to sell WTRB to Palmer Johnson, a Contract Broadcast Engineer from Kennett, MO. 
External links.
- WTRB official website