WCTK
WCTK (98.1 FM, "Cat Country 98.1") is a country-formatted radio station in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The station covers much of southeastern New England, with studios in Providence, Rhode Island, and transmitter located south of New Bedford's downtown. The station is owned by Hall Communications.
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| 98.1 MHz (HD Radio) |
| Cat Country 98.1 |
| Country |
| HD2: Classic hits (simulcast of WNBH) |
| Hall Communications (sale pending to Red Wolf Broadcasting) |
| WNBH |
| December 9, 1946 (1946-12-09) (as WFMR) |
| WFMR (1946–1954)WNBH-FM (1954–1973)WMYS (1973–1989) |
| FCC |
| 25869 |
| B |
| 44,000 watts |
| 159 meters (522 ft) |
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| Public fileLMS |
| Listen live |
| www.catcountry.com |
WCTK (98.1 FM, "Cat Country 98.1") is a country-formatted radio station in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The station covers much of southeastern New England, with studios in Providence, Rhode Island, and transmitter located south of New Bedford's downtown. The station is owned by Hall Communications.
WCTK was originally WFMR, and had an authorized power of 20 kilowatts. It went on the air December 9, 1946; during the inaugural program, Massachusetts governor Maurice J. Tobin said that WFMR was the first new FM station to sign on in New England after World War II. It became WNBH-FM on November 10, 1954, matching sister station WNBH (1340 AM). On September 17, 1973, WNBH-FM changed its callsign to WMYS, with an oldies and classic hits format. On July 28, 1989, the station switched formats to country followed by a call sign change to WCTK on August 24, 1989. First known as "Country 98.1 WCTK", the branding was changed to the current "Cat Country 98.1" in 1994. In 1997, the station moved its studios from New Bedford to the Roland Building in Providence to concentrate on fully serving the Providence Arbitron metro.
On February 1, 2019, WCTK began being simulcast on sister station WPVD (1450 AM) in West Warwick, Rhode Island, after that station dropped its ESPN Radio affiliation. The station also began broadcasting in HD, with a simulcast of sister station WNBH's newly-launched classic hits format (Big 101.3) on its HD2 sub-channel.
In March 2026, Hall sold WCTK and sister station WNBH to Red Wolf Broadcasting, pending Federal Communications Commission approval.
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- Official website
- Facility details for Facility ID 25869 (WCTK) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- WCTK in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
- 1948 list of FM radio stations, including WFMR
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