WFUN (AM)

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This article is about AM radio station WFUN in Ashtabula, Ohio. For the former legendary station WFUN in South Miami, Florida, see WAXY.

WFUN

Broadcast area	Ashtabula, Ohio
Branding	News/Talk 970 WFUN
Slogan	The Monster on the Lake
Frequency	970 (kHz)
Format	News/Talk
Power	5,000 watts
Class	B
Callsign meaning	"The FUN spot on your dial!"
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Website	www.wfunam97.com

WFUN is an AM radio station in Ashtabula, Ohio, USA broadcasting at 970 kHz with a talk radio format. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications.

Contents 1 History 2 Programming 2.1 Weekdays 2.2 Saturdays 3 External link

[edit] History

The station signed on the air in the early 1940s as WICA. It started an FM station, WICA-FM, on 103.7 MHz around 1950 [1]; the station is now WREO (FM) 97.1. It also started WICA-TV on channel 15 in the 1950s. The television station started broadcasting around 1955 and had suspended operations by 1958.

WICA and WICA-FM later became WREO and WREO-FM, and the AM station changed its call sign to WFUN on July 3, 1978. The call letters WREO were retained by the sister FM station. Both AM and FM stations were owned by Richard D. and David C. Rowley in the name of their company Radio Enterprises of Ohio, Inc., which was formed on October 7, 1986. In May 2000 the Rowleys sold the stations to Clear Channel.

[edit] Programming

[edit] Weekdays

• 6:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.: AM Today with John Broom
• 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Glenn Beck
• 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.: Rush Limbaugh
• 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.: Jim Rome
• 6:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.: Fox Sports Radio
• 1:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m.: Coast to Coast AM with George Noory

[edit] Saturdays

• 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.: Swap Shop with John Broom
• 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: At Home with Gary Sullivan

[edit] External link

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WFUN