WTMP

WTMP is a radio station serving the Tampa Bay, Florida, broadcasting on 1150 AM and 96.1 FM. The station plays urban adult contemporary R&B and classic soul music that aims towards the African American community, though its main urban competitors are WBTP and WRXB. Its target audience is African Americans between the ages of 25-54. It is the current home of the Tom Joyner Morning Show and The Wendy Williams Experience. Michael Baisden's syndicated show Love, Lust and Lies is also carried by the station. The station's current slogan is "Today's Best In R&B and Classic Soul". It is owned by Tama Broadcasting Inc.

WTMP, on 1150 AM originally, has been a longtime heritage Urban Contemporary station in the market. Noted R&B vocalist and Tampa native King Coleman got his start as a DJ on WTMP in the 1950s. In the late 1990s, the station, then-owned by Broadcast Capital, was bought by its current owner, Tama Broadcasting, which has headquarters in Tampa, thus making WTMP the flagship. Long controlled by the Cherry family, Tama also owns stations in Daytona Beach, Jacksonville, Savannah, Georgia and Greenville, South Carolina; it owns newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Pierce. The owner went on to buy the then-WGUL-FM in 2002 and made it a Hip Hop/Urban station (and home to Russ Parr in the Morning) as WTMP-FM. Even after a format change to Jammin Oldies, that station did not do well do to its rimshot signal, so it ended up a simulcast of WTMP-AM a...
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