WBT (AM)

WBT (1110 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. The station is owned by Urban One, with studios and offices located off West Morehead Street, just west of Uptown Charlotte, co-located with the city's CBS affiliate, WBTV. WBT's broadcast towers are three of only eight operational diamond-shaped Blaw-Knox towers in the United States. The station broadcasts 50,000 watts around the clock as the only Class A clear-channel station in the Carolinas. Its transmitter site is located in south Charlotte, off Nations Ford Road. A single non-directional antenna radiates the transmitter's full power during the day. Its daytime coverage is not nearly as large as those of other 50,000-watt stations, due to the Carolinas' poor ground conductivity; some outer suburbs such as Statesville, Shelby, and Salisbury only get a grade B signal. Despite this, it provides at least secondary coverage as far north as the eastern Piedmont Triad, as far west as the eastern portion of the Upstate, as far east as the Pee Dee and as far south as the Columbia suburbs. Under the right conditions, it can be heard well into the more mountainous areas of the Carolinas, as well as the Sandhills. At night, all three towers are used in a directional pattern that limits its signal toward the west, to avoid interfering with KFAB in Omaha, Nebraska, the other Class A station on the frequency.