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The Essentials

Frequency: Formerly 1330am
Frequency: Formerly 1400am
Frequency: Formerly 93.5fm
City of License: 1330am: Evansville 1400am: Evansville 93.5fm: Chandler
Metro(s): Evansville
Power: FM: 3200 watts @ 446 feet, DA (Class A)
Format: FM: Oldies
Address: P.O. Box 3848, Evansville, IN 47736-3848
Address: 1162 Mt. Auburn Road, Evansville, IN 47720-5479
Phone: 812.424.8284
Phone: 812.423.5608
FAX: 812.426.7928
Ownership: South Central Communications Corp.
Network Affiliation(s): FM: Westwood One
Web Presence: FM: http://www.wjps.com

Station Personnel

Former

WJPS-FM

VP/Evansville Market Manager: Tim Huelsing (November 24, 2003 - ?) (From Market Manager at Clear Channel Communications' Sandusky, Ohio properties.)
VP/Market Manager: Rob Burton (April 2001 - ?; GM/SM: ? - April 2001)
Chief Engineer: Lee Thompson
GSM/NSM: Ladonne Craig
SM: Jeff Kautz
PD: Rusty James (February 2005 - ) (From OM at Max Media's stations in Marion/Carbondale, Illinois)
PD: Johnny Kincaid ("Johnny Michaels")
PD: Charlie Harrigan (October 1999 - ?) (From PD at WCTD & WCTP in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)
PD: Bruce Butler
PD: Mark Baker
PD: Cindy Patrick (September 2003 - ?) (From Traffic Pulse Networks in Chicago, Illinois) (Now PD at WJLT)
Promotions Director: Paula Bone
Mornings: Gary McIntyre (6am - 10am) (May 2000 - ?) (From OM at WHUG & WKSN in Jamestown, New York)
Mornings: Joe Blair
Middays: Ann Taylor
Middays: Joe Warren (10am - 3pm)
Overnights: Robert Wolfe (12am - 6am)
Airstaff: David Land (Now GM at WFIW and WOKZ)
Airstaff: Jay Michaels
Airstaff: Jeremy Thomas

Station History

WJPS(AM) (1330am)

1330am signed on October 31, 1948. It's now WVHI.

WJPS(AM) (1400am)

1400am signed on in 1936. Formerly WIKY(AM). Now WEOA.

WJPS-FM (93.5fm)

93.5fm signed on April 2, 1994. The call letters stand for "J. Porter Smith" (the man who helped put the station on the air). WJPS-FM flipped formats from oldies to country on February 4, 2005. WJPS-FM is now WLFW.

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