WXYT (1270 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Detroit, Michigan, featuring a betting-oriented sports format known as "The Bet Detroit". Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station serves Metro Detroit and much of Southeast Michigan. Studios for WXYT are located in Southfield, while the station transmitter resides in Ash Township. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WXYT is licensed for HD Radio broadcasting, is relayed over the third digital subchannel of WXYT-FM and is available online via Audacy. History WGHP The station signed on the air in . The original call sign was WGHP, named after its owner, George Harrison Phelps, an adverting agency owner. The radio station first city of license was Detroit, then it moved to Mt. Clemens in 1927, and moved again to Fraser in 1928. The station was powered at 500 watts. WGHP was a charter member of the CBS Radio Network, as one of the 16 stations that aired the first CBS network program on September 18, 1927. According to FCC records, a predecessor company to Storer Broadcasting, also named the "American Broadcasting Company" actually owned WXYZ from 1929 until it was sold it to the Kunsky-Trendle Broadcasting Company in 1930. Storer would then go on to purchase WJBK in the late 1930s. WXYZ In 1930, the station was purchased by George W. Trendle. He was one of the partners in the Kunsky-Trendle Broadcasting Company. The call letters were switched to WXYZ, acquired from a U.S. Army station. WXYZ was powered at 1,000 watts when it moved back to Detroit in 1930. Trendle relocated the station to the Maccabees Building on Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit, where it maintained facilities until 1959. Antennas and transmitter were located at the northwest corner of Joy and Greenfield Roads in western Detroit. The site was re-developed to a shopping center when the Broadcast House move occurred in 1959. However, most programming in the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s originated from the former Mendelson Mansion on East Jefferson Avenue. In addition to local programs, WXYZ produced The Lone Ranger, Challenge of the Yukon and The Green Hornet for broadcast throughout the U.S. and Canada. The station's slogan "The Last Word in Radio" would tie-in with its call letters. Another former slogan was "WXYZ, Where the Best Comes Last." On June 1, 1932, WXYZ's affiliation with CBS ended. The trade magazine Broadcasting reported that the reason was "to