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The Essentials

Frequency: 920am
Frequency: 101.3fm
City of License: West Lafayette
Metro(s): Lafayette
Power: AM: 5000 watts - Day, 1000 watts - Night, DA-Night (Class B) FM: 5000 watts @ 358 feet (Class A)
Format: AM: News/Jazz FM: Classical
Address: 712 Third Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2005
Phone: 765.494.5920
FAX: 765.496.1542
Ownership: Purdue University
Network Affiliation(s): American Public Media, NPR, PRI
Web Presence: http://www.wbaa.org

Station Personnel

Current

GM: Tim Singleton
PD: Greg Kostraba
Underwriting Coordinator: Brian Garrity (April, 2002 - Current)
Underwriting Coordinator: Pamela Dunn
Mornings: Jan Simon (8:00am - 12:00pm) (FM)

Former

GM: Dan Skinner (1992 - 2006) (Now President/GM of Texas Public Radio in San Antonio, Texas)
Chief Engineer: Ralph Townsley (Deceased 11 February 1998)
PD: Dave Bunte (AM)
PD: Brandi Parisi (FM) (PD: January, 2002 - Current) (From KSJN in St. Paul, Minnesota)
PD: Caryl Matthews (FM) (? - January, 2002) (FM)
Mornings: Brandi Parisi (8:00am - 12:00pm) (FM) (Fall, 2001 - Current) (From KSJN in St. Paul, Minnesota)

Station History

WBAA(AM): 920am signed on April 4, 1922. WBAA originally transmitted from the "entertainment" wavelength (360 meters/833khz). WBAA(AM) is Indiana's oldest AM Station. A fire in 1929 took WBAA-AM off the air for several months. By the 1930's, WBAA was broadcasting on 1400am, with 500 watts, and sharing time with WCMA, and WKBF. By September, 1936, WBAA was on 890am, at 1000 watts, daytime only.

WBAA(FM): WBAA-FM signed on in February, 1993.

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