WPTW (1570 AM "The Voice of the Upper Miami Valley, Ohio" (for Piqua, Troy and West Milton)) is a commercial AM radio station in Piqua, Ohio, United States, with a power output of 250 watts. It is owned by Muzzy Broadcasting Group. ABC News Radio and local news from hall of famer Terry Lafferty. Its music format is a mix of 1970s', 1980s' plus some 60s and 90s for flavor ' classic hits. Local high school sports coverage remains a tradition at the station in addition to Ohio State Buckeyes football. History Sign-on and early years WPTW began operation as a daytime-only AM station with a middle of the road format on December 7, 1947 and was founded by the Miami Valley Broadcasting Company. It operated with extended hours during the November 1950 blizzard. For much of its early years, WPTW held the distinction as the only commercial radio station in the Upper Miami Valley between Dayton and Lima; as such, the station opened up several locally originating studios in its service area including the Hotel Lollis in Troy, the Ohio Building in Sidney, and a studio on South Broadway in Greenville. That distinction was held until the late 1950s and early 1960s with the founding of stations in Bellefontaine, Sidney, Greenville, Urbana and Wapakoneta; the auxiliary studios were closed by the mid-1960s. In 1960, WPTW gained an FM sister station, WPTW-FM 95.7. The two stations initially simulcast a traditional middle of the road format, played out from a sophisticated reel-to-reel automation system, with a few minor exceptions for separate programming on WPTW; WPTW-FM became a beautiful music station later in the 1960s and is today's WHIO-FM. The syndicated "Dell-O Morning Show" hosted by Dell Olney was pre-recorded onto automation tapes. (By the mid-1960s, WPTW-FM In the mid-1970s, there was also a live weekday afternoon show on 1570 AM hosted by Dave Brennan (later of Dayton's WING). The vintage on-air studio gear (a Collins tube-type audio console with original transmitter and Gates transcription turntables almost dating back to the station's beginnings) were properly maintained in mint condition thanks to longtime chief engineer Don Kuether and remained in use until upgrades were made in the late 1970s and 80s. Separate business ventures WPTW also founded and grandfathered WCSM and WCSM-FM in Celina in 1964 (currently owned by Hayco Broadcasting, Inc.). By this time WPTW was locally owned and operated by Richard