WPTF

WPTF is a news and talk radio station serving the Triangle area of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The station call letters date back to the former longtime owner of the station, Durham Life Insurance Company, whose motto was "We Protect The Family." Durham Life owned the station from 1927-1992. Its studios are located on Highwoods Boulevard in Raleigh, and the transmitter tower is in Cary, North Carolina. The station is currently owned by Curtis Media Group.Programs on WPTF include local news blocks in morning drive, noon and afternoons, national talk shows like consumer and family finances expert Clark Howard, and the overnight political show Red Eye Radio. In addition, the station also hosts local talk shows including Tom Kearney.When owned by Durham Life Broadcasting, the station was associated with and operated alongside other DLB properties; WQDR-FM from 1949-1992 and WPTF-TV, the longtime NBC affiliate in the Triangle, from 1977-1992. The TV station is now known as WRDC, "MyRDC," an affiliate of MyNetworkTV, and owned by Sinclair Broadcasting.