WKTU (103.5 FM, "KTU") is a radio station based in New York City. The station's broadcast transmitter is located on the top of the Empire State Building and its city of license is Lake Success, New York, with offices formerly in the "Newport" section of Jersey City, New Jersey. As of February 2008, the studios and offices were moved to the AT&T; Building in the TriBeCa section of Manhattan along with sister stations WHTZ, WWPR-FM, WAXQ, and WLTW....
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WKTU (103.5 FM, "KTU") is a radio station based in New York City. The station's broadcast transmitter is located on the top of the Empire State Building and its city of license is Lake Success, New York, with offices formerly in the "Newport" section of Jersey City, New Jersey. As of February 2008, the studios and offices were moved to the AT&T; Building in the TriBeCa section of Manhattan along with sister stations WHTZ, WWPR-FM, WAXQ, and WLTW. The station offers a Rhythmic Hot Adult Contemporary format, emphasizing classic dance music from the 1970s through the 1990s (but plays current product as well).
See WXRK section on WKTU for the original WKTU that existed from 1975-1985 and achieved great fame as a disco station in the late 1970s.
The 103.5 frequency first went on the air in 1948, as WNNJ, which then changed its name to WPAT-FM. FM listenership was very light in those early days of FM broadcasting, and during the 1950s the station would sometimes be off the air for long...
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