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The Essentials

Frequency: 94.7fm
City of License: Indianapolis
Metro(s): Indianapolis
Power: 58,000 watts @ 804 feet (AUX: 36,300 watts @ 600 feet) (Class B)
Format: Classic Rock
Address: 6161 Fall Creek Road, Indianapolis, IN 46220-5097
Phone: 317.257.7565
FAX: 317.253.6501
Ownership: Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
Network Affiliation(s): Premiere Radio Networks (Bob & Tom Show) (flagship)
Web Presence: http://www.q95.com

Station Personnel

Current

GM: Rick Green
Chief Engineer: Scott Fenstermaker
GSM: Tom Doran
LSM: Brady Galbreath
NSM: Melissa Stoner
OM/PD: Buzz Casey
VP/Premiere Radio Networks/Bob and Tom Executive Producer: Marty Bender (PD: 1986 - 1988; OM/PD: 1990 - January 2000)
Program Coordinator/Network Coordinator, The Bob and Tom Show: Drew Carey (July 2004 - Current) (From PD of sister WNDE)
Production Director: Tim Denniston (September 2000 - Current) (From Assistant Production Director)
Creative Services Director: Michael Young (also MD at sister WRZX)
Commercial Production Director: Matt Pelsor
Production Assistant: Mark Allison
Production Assistant: Jim Thomas
Production Assistant: Jason Hoffsetz
Promotions Director: Dan Anderson
Assistant Promotions Director: Jessica Howard
Mornings: The Bob & Tom Show (5am - 10am) (March 7, 1983 - Current)
Mornings: Dean Metcalf (5am - 10am) (Producer) (August 1988 - Current)
Middays: Laura Steele (10am - 3pm)
Afternoons: Jimmy "Mad Dog" Matis (3pm - 7pm)
Nights: Big Rig (7pm - 12am)
Overnights: Jimbo (2am - 5am)
Weekends: Brian Casey (Septempber 2000 - Current) (From middays at WFWI)
Weekends: Jan Mitchner
Weekends: Jon Rump
Weekends: Rockin' Ralph

Former

VP/Market Manager/GM: Christopher J. Wheat (August 1984 - November 2006) (Now GM at WFMS, WJJK and WRWM)
Director of FM Programming: Scott Jameson (PD at sister WRZX 1992 - 2004)
GSM: Lee Anne Brooks
PD: Bill Wise
PD: John Roberts (Now PD at KIMN in Denver, Colorado)
PD: Mike Thomas (June 2000 - April 2004) (From PD at WTUE & WXEG in Dayton, Ohio) (Now PD at KGB in San Diego, California)
Production Director: Steve Wilmes (? - May 2000) (Now has his own production company)
Promotions Director: Jody Stumpe (National)
Promotions Director: Helen Zimmerman (National) (Now Director of Marketing and Promotions for The Bob and Tom Show)
Promotions Director: Tad Williams (Local)
Promotions Director: Jon Wainscott
Promotions Director: Josh Gonia
Assistant Promotions Director: Rico Fonseca
Imaging Director: Chris Geisen
Mornings: Glory-June (1978 - ?) (Prior to WFBQ, Glory-June worked in Chicago radio at WLUP-FM [97.9fm], WSDM [97.9fm], and WFYR [103.5fm])
Middays: Jay Baker (10am - 2pm) (1984 - 2001)
Nights: Carl "Rock-n-Roll" Russo (Mid to Late 1980's)
Nights: Dave "Gunner" Gunn (6pm - 10pm) (Now afternoons at WRZX)
Nights: "Nights With Alice Cooper" (7pm - 12am)
Overnights: Ace Cosby (12am - 2am)
Weekends: Jason Pearlman (From middays at WEDJ)
Airstaff: Bob Cummings

Station History

94.7fm signed on November 26, 1959. WFBQ's ownership progression: Gulf, Taft, Great American, Broadcast Alchemy, L.P., Secret Communications, L.P., SFX Broadcasting, Inc., Capstar, AM/FM, and is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications, Inc.

WFBQ was WXLW-FM, and WFBM. In spring 1974, WFBM changed calls to WFBQ. From 1974 through February 1978, the station was formatted with Rock music, using the automated "TM Stereo Rock" format. On February 14, 1978, WFBQ went live and local. On March 7, 1983, Bob Kevoin and Tom Griswold arrive from WJML in Petoskey, Michigan. Their morning show, "The Q-Zoo" is renamed The Bob and Tom Show within a few years. WFBQ was sold in October, 1996 by Secret Communications to SFX Broadcasting, Inc. as part of a 9 station deal, for $300 million. Other Indianapolis stations in that deal were WNDE and WRZX.

For Further Reading...

Deeb, Gary. "Soundstage is in line for some Ehrlich fine tuning." Chicago Tribune. 13 March 1978. Pages B8, B11.
Kukolla, Steve. "WFBQ plots statewide syndication for Bob and Tom." Indianapolis Business Journal. 16 August 1993. Page 1A, 39A.
Jacobson, Adam. "A Balance of Rock and Talk: How WFBQ/Indianapolis Keeps Bob & Tom Fans From Flipping Off the Classics." Radio & Records. 30 March 2001. Page 23.
Schoettle, Anthony. "Drive-Time Duo Carries Big Load." Indianapolis Business Journal. vol. 30, no. 37 (2009). Page 1-2.

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