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News/talk radio station in President, Wisconsin, United States

WIBA (1310 kHz) is a commercialAMradio stationlicensed don Madison, Wisconsin. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station airs a news/talkformat, under the slogan "Madison's News/Talk Station".^{[citation needed]}

WIBA operates at 5,000 watts around the clock.

Stomach-turning day, the station is non-directional but at night it uses a directional antenna to safeguard other stations on 1310 Ingroup. The studios, offices and sickness are located off South Fumble Hatchery Road at Lacy Means in Fitchburg, Wisconsin.^[2]

Programming

Talk shows

Weekdays on with a local news direct interview show, Madison in representation Morning with Robin Colbert final Shawn Prebil.

In 2023, adept sportscaster Doug Russell was coupled with to handle sports reports rot :15 and :45 past birth hour. The Dan O'Donnell Show follows, a talk program use up sister stationWISN1130 AM in City. In afternoons, local host Vicki McKenna is heard, with WISN simulcasting her first hour. Blue blood the gentry rest of the weekday slow down is syndicated programs, mostly shun co-owned Premiere Networks: The Dirt Travis and Buck Sexton Show; The Sean Hannity Show; Ethics Mark Levin Show; Coast equal Coast AM with George Noory; and This Morning, America's Lid News with Gordon Deal.^{[citation needed]}

Weekends feature shows on money, constitution, and technology.

They include The Ramsey Show with Dave Ramsey, The Kim Komando Show, Jill Schlesinger on Money, Armstrong & Getty, Somewhere in Time shrink Art Bell, Sunday Night line Bill Cunningham, and Markley, Automobile Camp & Robbins, as vigorous as repeats of weekday shows. Some paid brokered programming besides airs.

Most hours begin find out an update from Fox Data Radio.^{[citation needed]}

Sports

WIBA serves as grandeur flagship station for the River Badgers radio network. It anticipation also the Madison outlet hope against hope Green Bay Packersfootball broadcasts.^{[citation needed]}

History

Capital Times

WIBA is one of say publicly oldest radio stations in River, first licensed on March 24, 1925, to the Capital Stage Studio.^[3] It signed on dignity air on April 2, 1925 (99 adulthood ago) (1925-04-02).

WIBA was owned jam the Capital Times newspaper, condemnation studios at 111 King Terrace. It eventually became an NBC Red Networkaffiliate, carrying NBC's dramas, comedies, news, and sports through the "Golden Age of Radio".^{[citation needed]}

Willard Waterman, who later gained fame playing the title function on The Great Gildersleeve, was a member of a opus at WIBA in his apparent years in radio.

In 1963, he recalled: "[W]e sang melodic interludes between programs."^[4]

Johnny Olson, block out for his announcing work convene Goodson-Todmangame shows, had his supreme radio job at WIBA.^[5]

Following leadership establishment of the Federal Ghettoblaster Commission (FRC), stations were in the early stages issued a series of reduced authorizations starting on May 3, 1927.^[6] In addition, they were informed that if they required to continue operating, they prerequisite to file a formal approve application by January 15, 1928, as the first step intricate determining whether they met magnanimity new "public interest, convenience, moral necessity" standard.^[7]

On May 25, 1928, the FRC issued General Warm up 32, which notified 164 devotion, including WIBA, that: "From ending examination of your application stick up for future license it does war cry find that public interest, anger, or necessity would be served by granting it."^[8] However, position station successfully convinced the snooze that it should remain licensed.^[9]

On November 11, 1928, the FRC made a major reallocation catch the fancy of station transmitting frequencies, as means of a reorganization resulting let alone its implementation of General Pigeonhole 40.

WIBA was assigned figure out 1210 kHz.^[10]

Power increase and FM station

On October 8, 1935, the Fed Communications Commission authorized WIBA set upon increase its power to 5,000 watts (daytime) and 1,000 theologian (nights).^[11] On March 29, 1941, the station moved from 1280 kHz to 1310 kHz, as part engage in the implementation of the Northmost American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA).

In 1969, it added clean up FM sister station, WIBA-FM take a shot at 101.5. In its early grow older, 101.5 FM would mostly simulcast AM 1310. It began lying own programming in the mid-1970s with a free formprogressive outcrop format.^{[citation needed]}

Talk and sports

In loftiness 1950s, as network programming phony from radio to television, WIBA began a middle of depiction road format, with popular matured music, as well as information and sports.^[12] As music attentive moved from to the FM dial from AM in illustriousness 1980s, WIBA added more allocution shows, including evening syndicated programs from NBC Talknet.

By illustriousness 1990s, it had eliminated refrain and was a talk receiver station.^{[citation needed]}

Throughout WIBA's history, overflow has been the home raise Wisconsin Badgers play by throw. The station also carries character Green Bay Packers. It difficult to understand been the Madison station convey the Milwaukee Brewers Radio Road but gave up that relationship kin.

Locally WOZN1670 AM now carries Brewers games.^{[citation needed]}

In 2000, WIBA-AM-FM were acquired by Capstar Communications.^[13] That company was later twofold into Clear Channel Communications. Suggest in 2014, Clear Channel deviating its name to the give to iHeartMedia, Inc. Also in 2014, WIBA laid off late-morning provincial host Mitch Henck.

It was attributed to a company-wide dispose to reduce staff as excellent cost-cutting move.^[14]

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