This Kernersville-licensed station started out with Southern gospel music as WWMO. In the early 1990s, WWMO became WETR "Entertainment Radio" with talk and beach music. In the mid-1990s, as many TV stations were teaming up with AM outlets to cross-brand them as all-news radio stations, the parent company of Winston-Salem-based NBC affiliate WXII-TV 12, Hearst-Argyle, bought WETR and redubbed it WXII-AM "NewsRadio 830". In recent years, Stuart Epperson, a part-owner of national religious broadcaster Salem Broadcasting, bought WXII-AM and dropped its all-news format for Christian talk as the current AM 830 "The Truth". The station's powerful 50,000-watt daytime signal is heard clearly over a significant portion of the state, including the Research Triangle area. The station's 10,000-watt nighttime signal is aimed eastward. On May 2nd, 2005, WTRU began simulcasting its programming on 50,000-watt daytimer WDRU(formerly WFTK), 1030 AM, licensed to Wake Forest.