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The Essentials

Frequency: Formerly 640am
City of License: Terre Haute
Metro(s): Terre Haute
Power: 250 watts - Day, 250 watts - Night (DA-Night) (CP: 250 watts - Day, 500 watts - Night) Class B
Format: County & Western
Address: P.O. Box 35, Terre Haute, IN 47808-0035
Address: 1341 Ohio Street, Terre Haute, IN 47807-3999
Phone: 812.232.5034
FAX: 812.234.4383
Ownership: Contemporary Media, Inc.
Network Affiliation(s): Indiana University (basketball & football), Talk America Radio Network
Web Presence:

Station Personnel

Former

GM: Ken Brown
SM: Robert Cox
PD: Chip Ramsey (1990-1991?) (Now PD at WEMP-AM in Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
PD: Dave North (Now afternoons at KXTC in Gallup, New Mexico)
PD: Tom Lisella (1991-1994?)
PD: Angel Stevenson
PD: Kyle West (December 2000 - October 4, 2001)
News Director: Taylor Brown
News Director: Mark Edwards
Mornings: Ronn Mott
Mornings: Tom Lisella
Middays: Taylor Brown
Afternoons: Chip Ramsey (1990's)
Weekends: Jim Grey (1990-1991)
Bob Rouse
Dean Taylor

Station History

1300am signed on May 23, 1958. 102.7fm signed on September 11, 1962. Call letters mean "Banks Of [the] Wabash [river]". Also was on 1230am (now WZZQ(AM).) By 1950, WBOW-FM was on the air at 101.1fm (20,000 watts). In June 1996, WBOW changed formats from standards to talk. In 1998, the FCC revoked the stations license as President Michael Rice was conviced of twelve felonies involving sexual assult of children and subsequently jailed. The FCC shut down the station, as well as all of the other Contemporary Media stations, on Thursday 4 October 2001.

NOTE: WBOW's call letters now reside on 1300am.

RadioWatch Mentions

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