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The Essentials
Frequency: 1500am (APP: 970am)
Frequency: Formerly 105.5fm
City of License: Valparaiso
Metro(s): Northwest Indiana
Power: 1000 watts - Daytime (DA-2), 25 Watts - Nighttime (Class D)
Format: News
Address: 2755 Sager Road, Valparaiso, IN 46383-0721
Phone: 219.462.6111
FAX: 219.462.4880
Ownership: Radio One Communications
Network Affiliation(s): CNN (News), Indiana University (basketball & football)
Web Presence:
Station Personnel
Current
GM: Leigh Ellis
SM: O.J. Jackson
News Director: Laura Waluszko
Mornings: Deana and John (7am - 9am)
Late Mornings: Peter Marshall (9am - 11am)
Middays: Jim Raposa (11am - 2pm)
Afternoons: Ben Starr (2pm - 5pm)
Late Afternoons: Deana Martin (5pm - 8pm)
Former
PD: Phil King
PD: Scott Wagner (March, 2001 - ?) (Now PD/afternoons at WPKR in Oshkosh/Appleton, Wisconsin)
Pete Probst (Now APD/MD at WETL)
Station History
WAKE(AM):
WAKE(AM) signed in November 4, 1964 (Election Day).
WAKE (AM) changed formats from standards to CNN News
in September, 2008.
WAKE(FM):
WAKE-FM signed on in the fall of 1967. WAKE-FM became
WLJE in the spring of 1974.
RadioWatch Mentions
31 March 2001
15 January 2005
29 October 2008
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