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The Essentials
Call Letters: WIOU
Frequency: Formerly 1350am
City of License: Kokomo
Metro(s): Kokomo
Power: 5000 watts - Day, 1000 watts - Night (DA-2) (Class B)
Format: Sports
Address: P.O. Box 2208, Kokomo, IN 46904-2208
Address: 671 E. 400 S., Kokomo, IN 46902-8101
Phone: 765.453.1212
Ownership: Hoosier AM/FM, LLC
Web Presence: http://www.1350amwiou.com
Station Personnel
Former
VP/GM: George Corwin
GM: Richard Yankus (February 4, 1988 - ?) (from VP/GM at WMJC and WHND in Detroit, Michigan)
GM: Rick Shaw (1995 - March 1998) (Now GM at WLRO, WLTO, and WXZZ in Lexington, Kentucky)
GM: Steve Lake
GM: Steve LaMar
GM: Ernie Caldemone
GSM: Joan Lake
SM: Lora Lacy
OM/PD: Allan James
OM: Jessica Green (From the Clear Channel radio stations in Dickinson, North Dakota)
News Director: Jeff Steers
News Director: Amber Stearns (Now a newsperson at WIBC-FM)
Sports Director: Greg Bell
Production Director: Rob Rupe (August 1998 - ?) (From MD/middays at WZWZ)
Mornings: Barb Runyon (April 2008 - February 2010)
Mornings: Rob Rupe (6:00am - 9:00am) (August 1998 - ?) (From MD/middays at WZWZ)
Late Mornings: Glenn Beck (9:00am - 12:00pm)
Middays: Rush Limbaugh (12:00pm - 3:00pm)
Mid-Afternoons: Peter Heck (3:00pm - 4:00pm)
Afternoons/Evenings/Overnights: ESPN (4:00pm - 6:00am)
Nights: Scott Howard (1979 - 1981)
Airstaff: Chuck Hancock ("Chuck Fairbanks") (Deceased 25 May 2014)
Airstaff: Victor H. Sterling (Deceased 1 August 2001)
Station History
1350am signed on July 16, 1948. The owners wanted "WIO" as the first three call letters. The wife of a WIOU board member said it should be "U" because, "You've borrowed money from everyone in town, so you might as well call it
WIOU because you owe everyone in town." Formerly owned by Booth American Co. Formerly owned by Mid-America Radio Group, Inc. Former Chicago Cubs
radio affiliate. WIOU changed formats and dropped talk (becoming ESPN Sports) on July 1, 2013. WIOU flipped to FOX Sports on August 1, 2024.
For Further Reading...
"Fates & Fortunes." Broadcasting. 14 January 1974. Pg. 46.
Mettert, Andrea. "Radio, TV broadcastor Victor H. Sterling dies." The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. 3 August 2001. Page 3C.
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