[BC] Westinghouse WOWO

[Phil Alexander]

On 26 Feb 2006 at 21:58, Stanley Adams wrote:

> There were some people in N Central Indiana who listened to WGN and to WJJD
> (country) as well as WMRI and WLBC out of Muncie and Marion; WIBC out of
> Indy.  A few listened to WARU out of Pee-ru as the red necks up there say
> it.  It truly is the CIRCUS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD :).
> 
> But WOWO was the one everyone had to beat, there were not many group owners
> any better than Westinghouse in the 1960's.

Stanley,

A few factors did help "Whoa-Whoa" back in those days. WGN, well they were
WGN, not WLS. <g> WARU in Peru and WMRI in Marion were daytimers, while WLBC 
was a Class IV that didn't make it far out of Muncie at night. WIBC's night 
pattern has a null to the north and east so deep that you can't hear it 
10 miles away when the pattern is dialed in right even though their nite
power is 10 kW. As for the mighty 1160 WJJD, they ran daytime plus CH and
then called it a night. So, if you were listening to AM in north central
or east central Indiana in the early '60's you had a choice of WOWO and
a few local fulltimers that didn't cover far from their COL's. That was
one factor. The other was named Bob Siever in the morning with a set of
pipes that not even 50 kW could do justice, and an air personality straight
out of the golden age of radio. I grew up listening to WLW and WOWO. That
*was* radio, as I knew it in the early days.


Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology 
(a Div. of Advanced Parts Corporation) 
Ph. (317) 335-2065   FAX (317) 335-9037





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