WBEV
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| City of license | Beaver Dam, Wisconsin |
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| Broadcast area | Dodge County and surrounding area |
| Branding | Your Hometown Station |
| Frequency | 1430 kHz |
| First air date | 1951 |
| Format | News Talk Information |
| Power |
1,000 watts day 1,000 watts night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 4475 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°25′43.00″N 88°53′33.00″W / 43.4286111°N 88.8925000°W |
| Callsign meaning | BEaVer[1] |
| Affiliations | ABC Radio , Westwood One, Milwaukee Brewers baseball, Green Bay Packers football, Wisconsin Badgers football |
| Owner | Good Karma Broadcasting, L.L.C. |
| Sister stations | WXRO |
| Website | wbevradio.com |
WBEV (1430 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, USA, the station is currently owned by Good Karma Broadcasting.[2] WBEV originally signed on as a daytime only station in 1951, and added nighttime service in December 1979.
Notable people who worked for WBEV included Jack Horkheimer, the creator and host of Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer; he began work at the station in 1953 at age 15.
References
- ↑ "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web.
- ↑ "WBEV Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WBEV
- Radio-Locator Information on WBEV
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WBEV
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