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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City | Portage, Michigan |
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Broadcast area | (Daytime) |
Frequency | 1560 kHz |
Branding | The Touch |
Slogan | Today's R&B and Old School |
Programming | |
Format | Urban adult contemporary |
Ownership | |
Owner | Midwest Communications |
Sister stations | WKZO, WNWN, WQLR, WVFM, WZOX |
History | |
First air date | July 25, 1966 |
Former call signs | WTPS (1966-1973) WBUK (1973-1985) WHEZ (1985-1995) WNWN (1995-2019) |
Call sign meaning | W TOUch |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 67767 |
Class | D |
Power | 4,100 watts day only |
Translator(s) | 95.5 W238AL (Portage) |
Links | |
Website | go955.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
- "The Fat One Returns To Michigan". RadioInsight. 2019-09-12. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
External links
- WTOU in the FCC's AM station database
- WTOU on Radio-Locator
- WTOU in Nielsen Audio's AM station database