WBOB (AM)
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WBOB (600
By day, WBOB is powered at 50,000
History
Early years
On December 9, 1933, the station
In 1948, it added an FM station, WMBR-FM (now WEJZ), and in 1949, it put a TV station on the air, WMBR-TV (now WJXT). WMBR-TV was the first TV station in Jacksonville and carried programming from all the major networks initially.
Meanwhile, in 1942, another AM station went on the air in Jacksonville, WJDC at 1270 kHz.[6] It was owned by the Jacksonville Broadcasting Company and was powered at 5,000 watts. In a few years, it had moved to 600 kHz. It changed its call sign to WPDQ and was an ABC affiliate. Henderson Belk, a North Carolina businessman, purchased WPDQ in 1964 from Brush-Moore Newspapers.[7]
Moving to AM 600
In the 1960s and early 1970s, WPDQ carried a
In 1977, AM 600 switched its call sign to WSNY, calling itself "Sunny 60", although the format remained the same. Then, in 1980, the call sign were changed to WAIV, and began simulcasting Top 40 programming from its FM sister station WAIV-FM, known as "The Big Wave".
From Country to Talk
In 1994, Prism Radio Partners acquired the former WAPE, "The Big Ape". WAPE had Jacksonville's best AM signal, transmitting with 50,000 watts by day
Sports and Radio Disney
In 1996, WPDQ flipped to sports talk as "The Ball"; concurrent with the flip, WPDQ changed call sign to WBWL.
Cox Radio purchased the station in 1999, and in April 2002, WBWL was sold to The Walt Disney Company, and became Jacksonville's affiliate for Radio Disney on August 1 of that year.
WBOB Talk
Children's radio programming lasted until October 1, 2010, when Radio Disney sold WBWL to Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation. The call sign were changed to WBOB, and the format flipped to conservative talk radio, featuring Bill Bennett's Morning in America, Laura Ingraham and Glenn Beck, along with a variety of local news and talk programming.
As of the 2014 season, WBOB broadcasts games from the Jacksonville Sharks Arena Football League. Also in the mid-2010s, WBOB got a power boost, going from 5,000 watts day and night, to 50,000 watts in the daytime and 9,700 watts at night.
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WBOB". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "WBOB Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/WBOB
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1935 page 28
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1950 page 112
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1942 page 116
- ^ WPDQ Jacksonville sold for $750,000, Broadcasting, Volume 66, pp. 9, 96 (May 18, 1964)
- ^ Jacksonville stations undergo four-way juggle, Television/Radio Age, Volume 23, p.11 (1975)
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1976 page C-39
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1990 page B-67
External links
- WBOB in the FCC AM station database
- WBOB in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- Facility details for Facility ID 53588 (WBOB) in the REC Networks database
- FCC History Cards for WBOB
- W266CX in the FCC FM station database
- W266CX at FCCdata.org