Advanced Media Partners shifted AAA 99.9 WWCT Bartonville/Peoria IL to Alternative “CT 99.9” this morning.
Now positioning as “Peoria’s Alternative”, the flip marks the third time an Alternative Rock format was featured on the frequency. Cumulus Media Rock “105.7 The X” WIXO originally launched on 99.9 as an Alternative station before moving to 105.7 and gradually moving to Rock in the 2000s. The 99.9 frequency would briefly return to Alternative as “The Buzz” from 2008-10 between stints as AAA.
WWCT had a 2.0 share in the Fall 2023 Nielsen Audio ratings.
The 11am hour of “CT 99.9” featured:
- Kings of Leon – Sex On Fire
- Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
- Green Day – Dilemma
- Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man
- Everclear – I Will Buy You A New Life
- Blink 182 – One More Time
- MGMT – Time To Pretend
- Cannons – Bad Dream
- Stone Temple Pilots – Interstate Love Song
- Michael Marcagi – Scared To Start
- Butthole Surfers – Pepper
- Muse – Uprising
- Offspring – Come Out and Play
- David Kushner – Daylight
- Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life
- Cake – Short Skirt/Long Jacket
- Soul Asylum – Runaway Train