WCLB
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| WCLB | |
| City of license | Sheboygan, Wisconsin |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Sheboygan |
| Branding | Sheboygan's ESPN Radio 950 |
| Frequency | 950 kHz |
| Format | Sports radio |
| ERP | 500 watts day 11 watts night |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 36423 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Callsign meaning | The CLuB (for station's pre-ESPN adult standards format) |
| Former callsigns | WKTS (1960's-1993), WCNZ (1993-2000) |
| Affiliations | ESPN Radio |
| Owner | Randal B. Hopper (d/b/a Yellow Dog Broadcasting) |
| Website | sheboygansespn950.com |
WCLB (950 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Sports radio format. Licensed to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA, the station serves the Sheboygan area. The station is currently owned by Randal B. Hopper under his Mountain Dog Media corporation, and is a full affiliate of ESPN Radio.[1]
[edit] History
The station came on the air in the 1960's as WKTS, and had a general MOR format mixed with local talk. Launching from studios located in the Walgreens building in downtown Sheboygan at the corner of North Eighth Street and Wisconsin Avenue, WKTS moved to the corner of Union Avenue and South 12th Street in the early 1980's. The station stayed on the air as WKTS until 1991, when the ownership group went bankrupt and the station went dark due to competition from WHBL and WWJR.
The station's license was then picked up by Star Cablevision, the city's cable provider and a precursor company to Charter Communications. The station came back on the air on June 11, 1993 as WCNZ, airing an audio simulcast of CNN Headline News and local news updates during the network's local affiliate update time (25/55 after the hour), along with broadcasts of Sheboygan A's semi-pro baseball games and some high school sports, with coverage usually provided via simulcasts from Star's WSCS TV8 public access station.
In 1997, the station was sold to Mountain Dog Media, the owners of WXER (104.5). Studios were merged with WXER's Falls Plaza facilities, and the station ended the Headline News simulcast and brought the station back to it's former MOR format. On May 4, 2000, WCLB changes their calls to WCLB, and then switched to an adult standards format as 950, The Club[2]. The station would remain so until January 3, 2004, when WCLB took an affiliation with ESPN Radio.
Currently local programming consists of an afternoon sports show based from Fond du Lac, while the station airs only play-by-play from ESPN's coverage of the Bowl Championship Series and NBA Finals due to a non-compete clause with Midwest Communications resulting from their sale of WXER in 2005[3].
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WCLB
- Radio Locator Information on WCLB
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for WCLB
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