WTNT (AM)

WTNT is a radio station broadcasting on 570 kHz in the mediumwave AM band from Rockville, Maryland, serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It has a daytime power of 5,000 Watts. Its current programming is conservative talk radio, and its ownership is Clear Channel Communications.

In the 1960s through the early 1980s, WTNT was WGMS, broadcasting classical music. A proposal in the 1970s to convert WGMS to a Top-40 station upset many of its influential listeners; WGMS received an exception from the then-existing rule to simulcast its programming with its sister station, WGMS-FM.

WGMS was sold to Clear Channel Communications, which converted the music station into WTEM, a sports-talk station, in the late 1980s. As Clear Channel gained ownership of more stations in the area, the callsign was reassigned to the former WRC and WWRC on 980 kHz, and the WTNT callsign assigned.

Current programming on WTNT includes Michael Savage and Laura Ingraham. In the morning, WTNT carries Imus in the Morning along with Clear Channel-owned WWRC.