WTRC (1340 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Elkhart, Indiana, and serving the South Bend metropolitan area. It is owned by Federated Media. The station airs a soft oldies and adult standards radio format provided by Westwood One's "America's Best Music" syndicated service, and is a Fox News Radio affiliate. On the air since 1922, WTRC is one of Indiana's oldest radio stations. It has a power of 1,000 watts, and uses a non-directional antenna. The transmitter site is on Indiana Road near the Elkhart River in Elkhart. WTRC is also heard on a 250 watt FM translator, W270DK on 101.9 MHz. History WJAK WTRC's self-reported histories commonly list its start date as November 18, 1931, when the station made its first broadcast in Elkhart. However, government records report that station actually began broadcasting nine years earlier. On December 1, 1921 the U.S. Department of Commerce, which regulated radio at this time, adopted a regulation formally establishing a broadcasting station category, which set aside the wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz) for entertainment broadcasts, and 485 meters (619 kHz) for market and weather reports. On July 28, 1922, a broadcasting station license, with the call letters WJAK, was issued to the White Radio Laboratory (C. L. White) in Stockdale, Ohio, for operation on the 360 meter "entertainment" wavelength. The station's call letters were randomly assigned from a sequential roster of available call signs. In 1923 the station was briefly deleted, then relicensed to Reverend Clifford L. White of the Church of Christ in Greentown, Indiana, now on 1180 kHz. In early 1926 the station moved to 1531 Washington Street in Kokomo, Indiana, and was owned by J. A. Keutz, who was also the owner and publisher of the Kokomo Tribune. The debut Kokomo broadcast, of a local basketball game, was made on February 5, 1926. On November 11, 1928, with the implementation of the recently formed Federal Radio Commission's General Order 40, WJAK was assigned to 1310 kHz with 50 watts, on a timesharing basis with WLBC in Muncie, Indiana. WJAK moved to Marion, Indiana in February 1929, after being sold to the Marion Broadcasting Company. In 1931 the station's license was assigned to The Truth Publishing Company, Inc., co-owned with The Elkhart Truth newspaper, and the station moved to Elkhart, Indiana, where it has remained to this day. The debut broadcast at the new location, still as