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Central Indiana (North), late 1983/early 1984 (AM)

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Here's what I remember hearing upon moving to Frankfort, IN in December 1983..located in the triangle between Indianapolis, Lafayette and Kokomo.

AM
550 KUSA, St. Louis..Country
580 WILL, Champaign IL NPR
670 WMAQ, Chicago, Country
700 WLW Cincinnati..full service/talk
720 WGN, Chicago News, full-service
780 WBBM, Chicago. News
810 WATI, Indianapolis. Beautiful
860 WGOM, Marion, IN. A/C
890 WLS, Chicago. Top 40/talk
950 WXLW, Indianapolis. Religious
980 WITY, Danville, IL (?)
1070 WIBC, Indianapolis. Full service A/C
1110 WFBM, Noblesville, IN. Big Band (now silent)
1190 WOWO, Ft. Wayne, IN. Full-serve A/C
1260 WNDE, Indianapolis. Oldies
1310 WIFE (maybe WMLX by then) (?)
1350 WIOU, Kokomo, IN Full-serve A/C
1410 WFTE, Lafayette, IN. Country
1430 WIRE, Indianapolis. Country
1450 WASK, Lafayette IN Full-serve A/C
1500 WBRI, Indianapolis. Religious
1570 WILO, Frankfort, IN. Full-service hodge podge (my employer)

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> 1110 WFBM, Noblesville, IN. Big Band (now silent)


I can remember hearing about 1110 when the calls were WYIC (I always liked the look of those letters together). I hadn't heard about it in years (and couldn't find it listed at Radio-Locator), so I had assumed it had disappeared. However, in looking online with "WYIC 1110" in Google searches to find out information on what it ran with those calls, I have found sites listing the station.... as if it still is broadcasting.

What is the deal with 1110? Is it still licensed (to Noblesville) and just sitting there silent? Why and when did it go silent? What format did it have with the WYIC calls?
 
Re: Central Indiana (North), late 1983/early 1984 AND Here's the FM side

I remember the WYIC calls, but don't remember the format. As far as I know, it's been deleted. WFBM was co-owned with the former WNON (100.9), Lebanon, IN for a time.

I also forgot to list WNTS, 1590, Indianapolis which was religious.

FM dial (sorry, but I didn't p[ay much attention to the educational band) late '83, early '84

92.3 WGTC, Bloomington, IN. Automated country (voice tracked the "old fashioned way"
92.7 WXUS, Lafayete, IN, A/C. (eventually swapped freqs with WZWZ, Kokomo)
93.1 WNAP, Indianapolis. CHR (leaning A/C)
93.5 WZWZ, Kokomo, IN (see 92.7..now 92.5)
94.1 WGFA, Watseka, IL. Small town programming
94.7 WFBQ, Indianapolis. AOR
95.3 WWET, Monticello, IN. Hot A/C as "Wet 95"
95.5 WFMS, Indianapolis. Country
95.9 WGAQ, Franklin, IN. A/C
96.5 WAZY, Lafayette, IN, CHR "Z96"
97.1 WENS, Shelbyville (Indianapolis), A/C. Great station at the time.
97.9 WLHN, Anderson, IN. A/C
98.3 WXIR, Plainfield, IN. Contemp Christian/Preaching
99.5 WZPL, Greenfield (Indianapolis), IN. CHR
99.7 WSHW, Frankfort, IN (my employer), Century 21 automated A/C.
(yes, with my trusty Sony ICF5900W I could separate the two with WSHW's tower being 15 miles away).
100.5 WWKI, Kokomo, IN Country
100.9 WNON, Lebanon, IN "Casual Country"
102.1 WDNL, Danville, IL. CHR
102.3 WSAL-FM,Logansport, IN. A/C, automated
102.5 WMDH, New Castle, IN. Country
103.3 WXTZ, Indanapolis. Beautiful
103.9 WLFQ, Crawfordsville, IN. Beautiful
104.5 WAJC, Indianapolis. Butler Univ Public Radio
105.3 WASK-FM, Lafayette, IN. Country
105.7 WTLC, Indianapolis. Urban
106.3 ??? Crawfordsville, IN. Wabash College programming
106.9 WMRN, Marion, IN. Beautiful
107.1 WGRT, Danville, IN. Black gospel

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Re: Central Indiana (North), late 1983/early 1984 AND Here's the FM side

> 92.3 WGTC, Bloomington, IN. Automated country (voice tracked
> the "old fashioned way"

Somewhere I have tape of a night when the announce reel was off by a couple of songs.

> 92.7 WXUS, Lafayete, IN, A/C.

Incredible talent at that station. Carolyn Gracie and Ellen Thomas moved on to L.A. Wasn't John Flint a talent nominee in the C.M.A. radio awards this year? Bob Vizza is still in Lafayette and still sounding better than just about anyone in the majors. Whatever happened to Steve West and Eric McCart?

> 106.3 ??? Crawfordsville, IN. Wabash College programming

Calls were WNDY.
 
Re: Central Indiana (North), late 1983/early 1984 AND Here's the FM side

> > 92.3 WGTC, Bloomington, IN. Automated country (voice
> tracked
> > the "old fashioned way"
>
> Somewhere I have tape of a night when the announce reel was
> off by a couple of songs.

When I worked at KGRC, Hannibal, MO we did voice tracks on cart and they were always getting out of sync. "Here's Fleetwood Mac" would go into Barry Manilow. It would always be easy to get distracted (phone rings, having to tend to the automation, etc. then losing your place. Not to mention when the machine messed up on its own!


> > 92.7 WXUS, Lafayete, IN, A/C.
>
> Incredible talent at that station. Carolyn Gracie and Ellen
> Thomas moved on to L.A. Wasn't John Flint a talent nominee
> in the C.M.A. radio awards this year? Bob Vizza is still in
> Lafayette and still sounding better than just about anyone
> in the majors. Whatever happened to Steve West and Eric
> McCart?
>
Definately a great station..nice to have played a very small part of it as an A/C working for Bob Vizza. Carolyn Gracie worked for Transtar's A/C format at one point. I'm not sure if Eric McCart is still running it as WKHY or not..or if he'll stay after the Shurz buyout is complete. Not sure about Steve West..I know Steve Dirksen went from WILO/WSHW to WXUS for overnights and eventually ended up programming WLHT in Grand Rapids.



> > 106.3 ??? Crawfordsville, IN. Wabash College programming
>
> Calls were WNDY.
>
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> > 1110 WFBM, Noblesville, IN. Big Band (now silent)
>
>
> I can remember hearing about 1110 when the calls were WYIC
> (I always liked the look of those letters together). I
> hadn't heard about it in years (and couldn't find it listed
> at Radio-Locator), so I had assumed it had disappeared.
> However, in looking online with "WYIC 1110" in Google
> searches to find out information on what it ran with those
> calls, I have found sites listing the station.... as if it
> still is broadcasting.
>
> What is the deal with 1110? Is it still licensed (to
> Noblesville) and just sitting there silent? Why and when
> did it go silent? What format did it have with the WYIC
> calls?
>
The station signed on in 1970 with the calls WHYT "White on the White River." I've got to research the owner's name, but the station was a hodge podge of talk and music. The signal was very directional (I could drive a mile from my childhood home where I could see the tower lights at night, and not get it's daytime signal at that location.) The original set up had 6 towers, but, as I heard the story, one of the towers kept falling over because it was placed on a peat bog, so they eventually got their pattern out of 5 towers.

The WFBM calls were picked up because the owner at that time had hired people associated with the original WFBM radio crew of the 60s in Indianapolis. Joe Pickett did mornings, Carolyn Churchman did a talk show, Lou Sherman did afternoons. All of them sold advertising for the station. (Bill Shirk brought the same line-up to WXLW in the mid-70s.)

I'm not sure if the frequency is still licensed to Noblesville or not. The last time the station operated, the studios were located in a strip mall just outside of Noblesville on state road 38. I THINK it's been dark since 97 or 98.
The towers and distribution sheds are also history.
 
> Here's what I remember hearing upon moving to Frankfort, IN
> in December 1983..located in the triangle between
> Indianapolis, Lafayette and Kokomo.
>
> AM

> 950 WXLW, Indianapolis. Religious

Did WXLW's signal get up into Frankfort? During my childhood in Noblesville I could never get them, and didn't realize they had a directional antenna.
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