WTBN

WTBN (570 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Pinellas Park, Florida and serving the Tampa Bay area.

Hosts include Dr. Charles Stanley, Jim Daly, David Jeremiah, Joni Eareckson Tada and John MacArthur.

[9] The station affiliated with CBS Radio News and the Mutual Broadcasting System, carrying the syndicated Larry King Show overnight.

The owners of the new talk station was a conglomerate of three investors, including Paul Bilzerian, who would later go on to become a corporate raider,[10] and Michael Spears,[11] a Dallas radio personality.

Popular local personalities over its ten-year history included John Eastman, David Gold, Dave Scott, Richard Shanks, Tim Coles, Tedd Webb, Ken Charles, Don Richards (a newscaster who was also the station's program director) Nanci Donnellan, Valerie Geller, Gordon Byrd, Chuck Harder, David Fowler, Sam Cardinale, who later became an award-winning reporter at WFLA (and later a reporter at WTVT), Rick Samples, and Bob Lassiter.

Among the news people who cut their teeth at WPLP in the early days are John McConnell, Terry McElhatton, Dave Hayes and Steve Triggs.

In 1986 Gannett applied for a power increase which, at the time, was limited to 5,000 watts day and night for this frequency by developing a new 6-tower array north of Tampa.

However, the station quickly lost its until-then-competitive ratings; in its first full Arbitron period, Summer 1988, WTKN achieved a 0.2 overall market share.

In 1998, Clear Channel Communications bought WHNZ in anticipation of a three-way frequency swap, also involving WSAA (620 AM) and WDAE (1250 AM).

By the following year, Salem Communications had bought the station, keeping the WTBN call letters but switching the format to Christian radio.

[17][18] Salem agreed to sell WTWD to Solmart Media, owner of WTMY in Sarasota and WZSP in Nocatee, for $700,000 in September 2023.

[19] Following the sale's completion, on December 14, WTWD broke from the simulcast with WTBN and launched a regional Mexican format as "La Numero Uno", a branding shared with WTMY and an HD Radio subchannel of WZSP.