WTOU

WTOU (1560 AM, "The Touch") is a radio station licensed to Portage, Michigan broadcasting an urban adult contemporary format, provided by ABC Radio Networks (The Touch, or "Today's R&B and Old School"). Owned by Midwest Communications, the station serves the greater Kalamazoo, Michigan area.

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For the Akron, Ohio radio station that held the call sign WTOU at 1350 AM from 1994 to 2005, see WARF. For the Battle Creek, Michigan radio station that held the call sign WTOU at 930 AM from 2014 to 2019, see WFAT (AM).
WTOU
CityPortage, Michigan
Broadcast area (Daytime)
Frequency1560 kHz
BrandingThe Touch
SloganToday's R&B and Old School
Programming
FormatUrban adult contemporary
Ownership
OwnerMidwest Communications
Sister stationsWKZO, WNWN, WQLR, WVFM, WZOX
History
First air dateJuly 25, 1966
Former call signsWTPS (1966-1973)
WBUK (1973-1985)
WHEZ (1985-1995)
WNWN (1995-2019)
Call sign meaningW TOUch
Technical information
Facility ID67767
ClassD
Power4,100 watts day only
Translator(s)95.5 W238AL (Portage)
Links
Websitego955.com

WTOU is also heard in Portage/Kalamazoo on translator 95.5 W238AL. The translator was formerly used to relay country sister station WNWN-FM based in Battle Creek, but when another sister station, 96.5 WFAT, was switched to country music as WYZO, W238AL changed its programming source from WNWN-FM to the then-WNWN. W238AL is now the third FM translator in Michigan to relay an AM station, after stations in Big Rapids and Charlevoix/Petoskey. The translator on 95.5 allows "The Touch" programming to continue after WTOU signs off for the night.

WTOU has previously been a Top 40 station as WTPS in the 1960s, a country station as WBUK in the 1970s and 1980s (except for a brief period as an oldies station in 1981-1982), and a beautiful music station as WHEZ.

On September 12, 2019, sister station WTOU (now WFAT) and W274AQ broke away from the simulcast and flipped to classic hits.[1]

References
  1. "The Fat One Returns To Michigan". RadioInsight. 2019-09-12. Retrieved 2019-09-13.


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