Retro: Bloomington IN radio dial - 1969

[KeithE]

Source: My memory
Stations are Indianapolis unless otherwise stated.
d = daytime only

AM Stations
810d WATI (Easy Listening)
950d WXLW (MOR)
1010d WCSI (MOR, Columbus)
1070 WIBC (Full Service)
1260 WFBM (MOR)
1310 WIFE (Top 40)
1340 WBIW (Full Service, Bedford)
1370 WTTS (MOR/Top 40, Bloomington)
1430 WIRE (Country)
1500d WBRI (Religious)
1540d WCBK (Country, Martinsville)
1590d WNTS (Religious)

FM Stations
90.1 WIAN (Public Radio)
92.3 WTTV-FM (Adult Standards, Bloomington)
93.1 WNAP (Top 40/Album Rock)
94.7 WFBM-FM (Easy Listening)
95.5 WFMS (Easy Listening)
97.1 WSVL-FM (MOR, Shelbyville)
99.9 WTHI-FM (Easy Listening, Terre Haute)
100.7 WVTS (???, Terre Haute)
101.5 WCSI-FM (Easy Listening, Columbus)
102.3 WCBK-FM (Country, Martinsville)
102.7 WPFR (Country, Terre Haute)
103.3 WGEE-FM (???)
103.7 WFIU (Classical, Bloomington)
104.5 WAJC (Classical/Jazz)
105.7 WTLC (Urban)
107.5 WBOW-FM (Top 40, Terre Haute)
107.9 WIFE-FM (Easy Listening)

 

[SgtPepper9876]

> 103.3 WGEE-FM (???)

Wasn't WGEE-FM Beautiful Music at this time?

 

[KeithE]

> > 103.3 WGEE-FM (???)
>
> Wasn't WGEE-FM Beautiful Music at this time?

Might have been. That was one Indy station that didn't come in too well in Bloomington, mostly due to massive overload from WFIU's 75,000-watt on-campus transmitter 400 kHz up the dial.

I think it was in 1972 that they became WXTZ, about the same time WFIU moved to the WTIU Channel 30 tower on the south side of Bloomington. End of overload problems. :-D

 

[brian_stevens]

> > > 103.3 WGEE-FM (???)
> >
> > Wasn't WGEE-FM Beautiful Music at this time?
>
> Might have been.

WGEE also was simulcast on 1590. That frequency didn't become WNTS until the mid 70s.

 

[KeithE]

> > > > 103.3 WGEE-FM (???)
> > >
> > > Wasn't WGEE-FM Beautiful Music at this time?
> >
> > Might have been.
>
> WGEE also was simulcast on 1590. That frequency didn't
> become WNTS until the mid 70s.

WGEE was a rocker on 1590 in the early '60s but I thought it had changed to religion by 1969. IIRC, the Indy rock war was strictly between WIFE and WNAP by that time.

 

[brian_stevens]

> > > > > 103.3 WGEE-FM (???)
> > > >
> > > > Wasn't WGEE-FM Beautiful Music at this time?
> > >
> > > Might have been.
> >
> > WGEE also was simulcast on 1590. That frequency didn't
> > become WNTS until the mid 70s.
>
> WGEE was a rocker on 1590 in the early '60s but I thought it
> had changed to religion by 1969. IIRC, the Indy rock war
> was strictly between WIFE and WNAP by that time.

I remember them as sort of a forerunner of hot AC. Simulcast on 1590 and 103.3. FM was sold to WIRE and became beautiful music WXTZ. AM changed to country as WNIR. By the mid 70s 1590 had become news talk WNTS. Then moved to religion in '77 I believe.

 

[Jinglefreak]

> > > > > > 103.3 WGEE-FM (???)
> > > > >
> > > > > Wasn't WGEE-FM Beautiful Music at this time?
> > > >
> > > > Might have been.
> > >
> > > WGEE also was simulcast on 1590. That frequency didn't
> > > become WNTS until the mid 70s.
> >
> > WGEE was a rocker on 1590 in the early '60s but I thought
> it
> > had changed to religion by 1969. IIRC, the Indy rock war
> > was strictly between WIFE and WNAP by that time.
>
> I remember them as sort of a forerunner of hot AC. Simulcast
> on 1590 and 103.3. FM was sold to WIRE and became beautiful
> music WXTZ. AM changed to country as WNIR. By the mid 70s
> 1590 had become news talk WNTS. Then moved to religion in
> '77 I believe.
>

Brian is correct about WGEE. I still have an aircheck from my dad's midday shift from February, 1971. It was a 1971 version of what today would be considered AC. The top of the hour ID mentions "WGEE and WGEE-FM", so they were simulcast at that time.