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Farm in Atlanta?

faaradar said:
Growing up north of Indianapolis; I can say that we only EVER listened to Bob and Tom on WFBQ, Q-95 back in the 80's. I don't recall them originating from an AM station. There was an AM in their combo however; and I seem to recall that it was sports.
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My memory may be a bit fuzzy around the edges. The station that lost the tower was 1260 A.M. now known as WNDE. They had moved programming operations out to Fall Creek Parkway just west of Shadeland in what had been the transmitter site FOREVER. Whether Bob and Tom were broadcasting on the AM or the FM (or both?) they made a big deal out of the erection of the new A.M. tower that day.

The AM station for many years had been WFBM and studios had been downtown on Meridian with the TV station. When McGraw-Hill sold the radio properties, I thought the AM calls were changed from WFBM to WFBQ. (The TV station kept WFBM?) This history of the FM calls and who changed what and when I don't even have a fuzzy memory.

We may have to move this conversation to the Indianapolis forum if we really want those questions answered. Then again, we may be surprised how many people in Atlanta arrived here via a stop-over in Indy.

As fertile as the Fall Creek soil appeared to be, I guess it wasn't a good place to plant a tower farm. The station had two nice healthy towers alright, free-standing at that (no guy wires and no gal wires, but that third tower that blew down and had to be replaced was always a little bitty runt. That is what bad soil does to an antenna farm.

A great air-check would be a collection of those sassy WOOF-BOOM MARY things from the McGraw-Hill days. (WOOF-BOOM was common translation of WFBM.)
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
The AM station for many years had been WFBM and studios had been downtown on Meridian with the TV station. When McGraw-Hill sold the radio properties, I thought the AM calls were changed from WFBM to WFBQ. (The TV station kept WFBM?) This history of the FM calls and who changed what and when I don't even have a fuzzy memory.
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WFBM--World's Finest Book Makers???? Reference to McGraw-Hill? Just a guess.
 
FAARADAR was right. The WFBQ calls were first assigned to the FM station circa 1973 shortly after the WNDE calls were assigned to the AM station. Bob and Tom came along about ten years later and began their big time career in Indy on WFBQ (FM).

The WFBM calls apparently go back to 1926 at the founding of the station by Merchants Heating and Light Company. No book markers. ;D
 
and unfortunately, Bob and Tom were hilarious then and into the early 90's; but I kinda think they lost their edge when they started syndication.

Most of their best bits were local in flavor.
 
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