FCC filings indicate Salem Media has now moved two AM stations away from a longtime transmission site in the western suburb of St. Louis Park.
“The Patriot” WWTC/1280 (Minneapolis) is now transmitting from its studio site in the southern suburb of Eagan (also the longtime home of Salem’s KKMS/980), while “Wellness Radio” KDIZ/1570 (Golden Valley-Minneapolis) moved its transmitter one suburb north to Salem’s KYCR/1440 site in Golden Valley.
WWTC got an upgrade from its former 5kW day and night to 10kW day and 15kW at night. It is now using different day and night directional antenna patterns (it was previously only directional at night). KDIZ remains nondirectional and is using 4kW day and 220 Watts night, a small change from its previous facility.
1280 had used the St. Louis Park site, along railroad tracks south of Cedar Lake Road, since the 1960’s and was joined by 1570 in 1996. In 2008, residents succcessfully fought plans to increase the height of one of the towers to allow an FM station to join the site.
Hennepin County records indicate the 18-acre property is owned by Christopher Dahl, who headed the company that owned WWTC until the late 1990’s.