WTOH (Alabama)

WTOH was a student-run radio station at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. The station broadcast from September 1974 to the early 1990s.

WTOH
CityMobile, Alabama
Frequency105.9 MHz
Ownership
OwnerSpring Hill College
History
First air date1979
Last air date1997 (license canceled)
Call sign meaningTop Of the Hill
Technical information
Facility ID62000
ERP10 watts
Transmitter coordinates30°41′48″N 88°8′15″W

History

In March 1977, Spring Hill, which already owned radio station WHIL-FM 91.3, filed to build a second station in Mobile. The new 10-watt station, to be operated by Spring Hill's students, went on air as WTOH in early 1979 and was conceived as a substitute for WHIL-FM,[1][2] which had upgraded its power to 100,000 watts and became a public radio station coinciding with the power increase but was student-operated from signing on in 1974 to 1979. The station was licensed in March 1979 on 90.5 and approved to move to 105.9 MHz at the same power level in 1981.[3]

WTOH had a rock format for much of its history, though in the early 1990s it had begun airing jazz programs.[4] A local punk rock band, the Vomit Spots, was created in 1985 by members of the radio station's staff.[5] The station only operated when students were on site; in the 1991–92 school year, it broadcast 84 hours a week.[4] The station went off the air in the early 1990s—though the license remained active into 1997.[3]

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References
  1. "Spring Hill College To Sell WHIL To University of Alabama". RadioSurvivor. March 24, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
  2. "The Torch". 1979. p. 68. Retrieved September 5, 2019. WTOH was previously known to all students as WHIL.
  3. "History Profile: WTOH". www.almediapage.info. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  4. American Universities and Colleges (14 ed.). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. 1992. p. 132. ISBN 9783110850482.
  5. Centanni, Stephen (July 13, 2017). "Heave ho". Lagniappe. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
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