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The Essentials

Frequency: 94.1fm
Frequency: Formerly 89.1fm
Frequency: Formerly 91.3fm
City of License: Roanoke
Metro(s): Fort Wayne
Power: 6000 watts @ 328 feet (Class A)
Format: News/Classical/Jazz
Address: P.O. Box 8459, Fort Wayne, IN 46898-8459
Address: 3204 Clairmont Court, Fort Wayne, IN 46808-4513
Phone: 260.452.1189
FAX: 260.452.1188
Ownership: Public Broadcasting of Northeast Indiana, Inc.
Network Affiliation(s): NPR, PRI
Web Presence: http://www.wbni.org

Station Personnel

Current

GM: Bruce R. Haines
Assistant GM: Karen Fraser
Chief Engineer: Mike Peters
OM/Production Director: J. Michael Venable
News Director: Colleen Condron (July, 1998 - Current)

Former

Newsperson: Bill Rice (? - March, 1998) (Now ???)
Mornings: Brian Eckstein (September, 1995 - December, 1997)
Host: Rosalie Guillot ("Matinee", "Saturday Opera") (deceased 21 January 2000)
Daniel Drayer

Station History

WBNI's call letters just kept moving down the dial. Follow along, won't you?

89.1fm

The 89.1fm frequency signed on in 1978 as WIPU.

91.3fm

In September, 1998, WBNI announced they would be trying for an addition frequency to simulcast WBKE. The programming split occured on 2 February 2002, as WBOI (at 91.3fm) and translator W204BF (at 88.7fm) signed on. WBNI (then at 89.1fm) switched frequencies with WBOI (91.3fm) on 28 June 2004. Management decided that the WBNI calls meant "Classical" to listeners, so the WBNI call letters moved to 91.3fm and 89.1fm became WBOI.

94.1fm

With parent Public Broadcasting of Northeast Indiana, Inc.'s acquisition of 94.1fm for $1.75 million in early 2007, the WBNI calls moved from 91.3fm to 94.1fm on 1 May 2007 at 10:00AM.

For Further Reading...

Strudler, Shelby. "Alternative Airwaves." Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. 5 May 1999. Page 6D.

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