WUCO
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WUCO "St. Gabriel Radio" (for Union County Ohio) is an AM broadcasting radio station currently broadcasting with 500 Watts with a critical direction pattern at 1270 kHz with transmitter located on East U.S. Route 36 in Marysville, Ohio (its city of license) and studios and offices recently moved from Marysville to Bethel Road in Columbus since the summer of 2007.
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[edit] Early history
WUCO signed on in 1984 with a country music format switching to adult contemporary in the late 1990s and was previously owned by Frontier Broadcasting based in the Columbus suberb of Westerville and was founded by Bart Johnson,the son of the late farm broadcaster Ed Johnson.It switched again to a classic country format in 2003 before the station was sold to the newer owners in 2005.
Since WUCO moved its studios to Columbus in July of 2007, WMHO, a micropower AM broadcaster at 1620 kHz has stepped up to help fill the void for local community radio and the classic country format left by WUCO.
[edit] St. Gabriel Radio
(Named for the Archangel Gabriel who is the patron saint of communication workers worldwide.)
Beginning in 1998 St.Gabriel Radio Inc. was formed and eventually purchased WUCO in August of 2005 and has since been airing Catholic programming..mostly the programming schedule of EWTN Radio . The move to Columbus enables the station to expand its reach into the Columbus market and its volunteer base. WUCO also operates an FM repeater...WFOT 89.5 mHz licensed to Lexington serving the Mansfield area which first signed on in February of 2007. Plans are now underway to acquire additional stations to form a repeater network and has applied for a power increase for originating station WUCO. Currently its daytime signal and west to northwest direction pattern reaches into portions of West Central Ohio,East Central Indiana and the southern portion of Northwest Ohio with the nighttime signal and east to southeast direction pattern covering Union,Delaware and Franklin counties. The power increase (when granted)will cover all of Union,Franklin and surrounding counties in the daytime as well as into the evening.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official site of WUCO St. Gabriel Radio (with streaming audio)
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WUCO
- Radio Locator Information on WUCO
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