WTRB (1570 AM, "Music Country") is an American radio station licensed to serve Ripley, Tennessee in Lauderdale county.
The station is presently owned by WTRB, Inc. (Palmer Johnson, President) It airs a country music format.
[2] The station went on the air December 11, 1954 and was assigned the "WTRB" call sign by the Federal Communications Commission.
[3] In March 1959, WTRB made national headlines when James W. Porter purchased fifteen minutes of air time on the station.
Porter began his broadcast by shattering several records then leaving the station silent for the rest of the fifteen minutes after proposing a "National Can the Racket League" as a protest against rock'n'roll music.