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WIOD
Ownership
Owner
WBGG-FM, WHYI-FM, WINZ, WMIA-FM, WMIB, WXBN, WZTU
History
First air date
January 19, 1926; 98 years ago (1926-01-19)
Former call signs
WCKR (1959–1962)
Call sign meaning
"Wonderful Isle Of Dreams"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID14242
ClassB
Power
  • 50,000 watts day
  • 20,000 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
25°42′40″N 80°28′30″W / 25.71111°N 80.47500°W / 25.71111; -80.47500
Repeater(s)105.9 WBGG-HD3 (Fort Lauderdale)
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen Live
Websitewiod.iheart.com

WIOD (610

The Schnitt Show and Coast to Coast AM, and syndicated personalities Clyde Lewis and Bill Cunningham. The WIOD studios are located in Pembroke Pines, and the station transmitter is now in Western Miami-Dade County along Krome Avenue with four towers and 50kw day/20kw evenings. The former two tower array in North Bay Village, Florida has been removed. Besides its main analog transmission, WIOD simulcasts over the HD subchannel of co-owned WBGG-FM, and streams online via iHeartRadio
.

History

Experimental broadcasts began in the spring of 1925 by

signed on the air on January 19, 1926. Carl Fisher selected WIOD as the call sign
, signifying the "Wonderful Isle of Dreams" to commemorate Collins Island, on which the station's studios and offices were situated. WIOD is Florida's seventh-oldest continuously licensed broadcast radio station.

From 1959 to 1962 the call letters were changed to WCKR (for

NBC Radio's "Monitor" program on weekends. To accommodate WCKT, a new addition housing television studios was built on the artificial Broadcast Key in North Bay Village
.

On June 16, 1981, WIOD began operating with 10,000 watts day and night to overcome interference caused by a high-power station in Cuba. This special temporary authority, granted by the FCC, has been renewed on a regular basis since then.

Previous logo

On April 6, 2017, WIOD filed an application for an FCC

construction permit to move to a new transmitter site, increase day power to 50,000 watts and increase night power to 20,000 watts. It was accepted for filing the following day, [2]
but iHeartMedia has not built the new facility yet.

WIOD has been a frequent winner in annual Florida Associated Press statewide competitions.[citation needed] WIOD may be best known for its continuous storm coverage, particularly during Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Wilma.

WIOD was the radio

football team, the longest partnership between a Miami sports team and a radio flagship station. It also was the Florida Panthers
' original flagship station from 1993 until 2003. Currently WIOD is the official broadcast emergency station for the Broward County Commission.

From April 2010 to March 2014 WIOD had been

FM translator W262AN at 100.3 MHz. That frequency is now used by a low-power FM station, WQNB. WIOD is also heard on the WBGG-FM 105.9 HD2
subchannel.

Former personalities

WIOD's former hosts include Larry King, Neil Rogers, Sally Jessy Raphael, Ron Bennington, Mike Reineri, Bill Calder, Alan Burke, Sandy Peyton, Rick and Suds, Hank Goldberg, Ed Berliner, Randi Rhodes, Big Wilson, Chris Baker, Phil Hendrie, Joey Reynolds, Tom Gauger, Dave LaMont, Tom Leykis, Jack Ellery and Ed Arnold. Former full-time anchors include Mike Woulfe, Lori Shepard, Lauren Pastrana, Patty DeMendoza, Wendi Grossman, Andrew Julian, Ron Hersey, Aron Bender, Randy Lantz, Christina Kautz and John Levitt. Mike Reineri hosted the last music show on WIOD from 6 to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday from 1974 to 1989, until the station switched to a full time talk format. He was still with WIOD till 1992. Reineri's traffic reporter, Dave Mitchell, hosted the show on Saturday and Sunday mornings in the same time slot. Longtime anchor and News Director Lori Shepard left WIOD in August 2013. Other traffic reporters on WIOD in the 1980s and 1990s and 2003-2007 were Miami radio veterans: Richard Lewis, Joe Brennan, George Sheldon, Teri Griffin and Don Anthony (Dave Agony from the WAXY FM days). Joe Brennan left I-Heart's WIOD in 2018, Don Anthony (aka Don Agony) retired from radio broadcasting in 2009, George Sheldon retired from radio/television broadcasting 1/31/2013 in Asheville, NC, Teri Griffin (retired from broadcasting and has moved out of South Florida), and Trish Anderson (deceased). Since 1989 WIOD has had a news-talk format.

TM Productions jingles during the 1970s, mostly resung from KDKA packages. The station did not have an image song until it had JAM Creative Productions' "First of All" jingle package resung and customized for them in the mid-1980s. Other JAM jingle series that were reworked to accommodate the six-note WIOD logo include "The Spirit of New England," "New Day," "Superstation" and "New York Fan". WFAN
New York's jingle melody is actually modeled after WIOD's jingle melody and, when WIOD had "New York Fan" resung for them, the station ordered a custom package, "Extra Innings", to accompany the "New York Fan" jingles. All JAM Creative Productions jingle series used by WIOD remain available from the company.

Programming

Weekdays begin with a morning talk and information

conservative talk programs, including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Todd Schnitt, Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal
.

Weekends feature Live on Sunday Night, It's Bill Cunningham. WIOD has local news 24 hours a day and traffic reports around the clock every 15 minutes. World and national news is supplied by ABC News Radio. WIOD also has a news and weather sharing agreement with NBC affiliate WTVJ (channel 6).

Controversy

In June 2007 the all-Democratic county commission in Broward County was on the verge of rejecting WIOD as the official station for emergency information because of concerns that it was also home to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk show hosts. On his radio show Rush Limbaugh said, "They are politicizing the delivery of emergency news, which is non-partisan."[3] After complaints from around the country the commission decided to keep using the radio station.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WIOD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "Application for Construction Permit for Commercial Broadcast Station". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. April 7, 2017. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
  3. ^ "Broward County Democrats Risk Floridians' Lives to Protest Rush". RushLimbaugh.com, June 13, 2007.
  4. ^ "Broward may keep deal with Rush Limbaugh radio station". Sun-Sentinel, June 14, 2007.

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