WEOA

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WEOA 1400 is an AM frequency licensed to and serving the Evansville Market.

[edit] History

1400 AM was originally WROZ, a Country-formatted station in the 1960s and 1970s. After WROZ left, 1400 became a simulcast of then WJPS-FM (now WLFW 93.5).

[edit] Current Programming

In 1997, a group of African American investors approached South Central about leasing the frequency for a Urban Contemporary format. South Central agreed, since at that time, there really were no other decent options, as WGBF had taken the news talk format, and was not having very much success. Religious stations were elsewhere and Sports Talk hadn't developed nationally-syndicated formats that 1400 could run cheaply at that time.

WEOA has found a decent amount of success despite being on AM, yet no broadcaster (not even South Central, owner of WEOA) has elected to bring the format to FM. This is likely due to racial tensions and negative feelings about the format's image. There is the possibility that a station remote could bring out violent incidents (in fact, such incidents have happened to WEOA during station events, even at Bosse High School in Evansville).

WEOA runs the ABC Radio's syndicated Tom Joyner Morning show and the ABC Touch Urban AC feed, although they do locally program some hours of Hip Hop, notably on Friday and Saturday Nights.