WHBU

WHBU (1240 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Anderson, Indiana, USA, the station serves the Muncie-Marion area. The station is currently owned by Backyard Broadcasting Indiana Licensee, LLC.^[1] The station currently carries Rush Limbaugh, Dave Ramsey and Sean Hannity.

WHBU is the longest running commercial radio station in Anderson,the second oldest radio station in Indiana and the oldest commercial station in Indiana.

History

WHBU made its initial sign-on in April 1923. Its founder and original owner was the Anderson Broadcasting Corporation and for much of its history,was located(along with its rooftop transmitting tower...now razed) in the Citizens Bank Building on Meridian Plaza in downtown Anderson. Once located at 1210 kHz in the 1930s,it would affiliate with the CBS Radio Network until its sale in 1998. It was a stand-alone AM with a full service middle of the road format before becoming clustered with Muncie area stations operated by the present-day Backyard Broadcasting. WAXT(now WHTI) in nearby Alexandria would later join the cluster. A gradual trend towards soft adult contemporary took place beginning in the mid 1970s,which was reflected in its jingle package "Reaching Out, Touching You" produced by Pepper-Tanner Productions in Memphis. Its main competition was the former WHUT (AM)with a Top 40 (and later a country) format and the original WLHN "Stereo 98" as its FM sister with an easy listening format...which is now WGNR and WGNR-FM with a gospel format owned by Moody Broadcasting.

References

• Indiana Radio Archive article on WHBU

External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WHBU
• Radio-Locator Information on WHBU
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for WHBU

• Old radio tower demolition with photos