WTLC (1310 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is owned by Urban One and broadcasts an urban gospel radio format, with some Christian talk and teaching shows heard middays and afternoons. The studios and offices are downtown at the corner of Meridian and St. Joseph Streets. By day, WTLC transmits 5,000 watts, non-directional. To avoid interference to other stations on 1310 AM frequency, it reduces power at night to 1,000 watts and switches to a directional antenna with a three-tower array that focuses the broadcast signal more to the north-northeast, west-northwest, and east-southeast. The transmitter is on the south side of Indianapolis between Troy and Sumner Avenues near the same block as television station WTTV's former studios. Programming is also heard on a pair of 250-watt FM translators: 92.7 W224DI and 95.1 W236CR, both in Indianapolis. History WISH On July 27, 1941, the station first signed on the air as WISH. It was put on the air by engineer and pioneer radio broadcaster Russ Salter. The studios were in the Board of Trade Building. WISH was an NBC Blue Network affiliate, airing its dramas, comedies, news, and sports during the "Golden Age of Radio". The Blue Network later became ABC Radio. In 1947, principal owner C. Bruce McConnell sold WISH to Frank H. McKinney and associates for a "price of approximately $500,000". In 1954, the owners of WISH radio also started WISH-TV on channel 8 in Indianapolis. WISH added an FM station in 1961, 105.7 WAIV (now WYXB). In the 1950s and 1960s, WISH aired a full service, middle of the road (MOR) format of popular adult music, news, and sports, while WAIV played classical music. WIFE In late 1965, WISH 1310 and WAIV 105.7 were sold to STAR Broadcasting, owned by Don W. Burden. STAR changed the call letters to WIFE and WIFE-FM, airing a Top 40 format of contemporary hits, aimed at young adults and teenagers. WIFE-AM-FM was the ratings leader during the mid- and late-sixties, sometime garnering as much of a forty share of the Indianapolis radio audience. The station built this audience for "Lucky 13" by playing the top hits along with heavy and frequent contesting such as, "The 100 Thousand Dollar Dream Home" and "The 100 Thousand Dollar Cash and Car Give-A-Way". Burden, who was a hands-on owner, hired some major on-air personalities and developed others, dubbed the "WIFE Good