WOAM

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WOAM is an AM broadcasting station in Peoria, Illinois. WOAM broadcasts on 1350 kHz with a power of 1,000 watts. The station has an adult standards/middle of the road format. The local morning show is hosted by Roger Monroe and Royce Elliot. At other times, the programming is provided by syndication service.

[edit] History

The station signed on as WEEK. Peoria's TV channel 25 was started by the owners of 1350, and to this day channel 25 retains the callsign WEEK-TV, but 1350 itself has since switched callsigns several times.

Other call letters have included WAAP, WXCL, and WTAZ. The station was most successful as WXCL (AM) with a country music format adopted in 1965, which lasted until late 1980's. Eventually WXCL was simulcast on 104.9 (a Pekin, Illinois station which carried the callsign WXCL-FM); after several years, 1350 dropped the simulcast, leaving 104.9 as the country-format WXCL (FM) that it remains today. The station became WOAM with a standards format in the early 90's. The station then flipped to talk as radio station WTAZ moved from 102.3 (at Morton, Illinois) to 1350. Eventually the WTAZ callsign and format were dropped, and 1350 became WOAM for a second time with the current format.

Personalities when the station was country as WXCL included Don Elliot, Lee Ranson, Chuck Urban, Bill Bro, Paul Jackson, Arlen Horn, and Jim Crowley.

The station is currently owned by Kelly Comminications along with 94.3 WPMJ Chillicothe, Illinois.