WSDZ

WSDZ
City of license Belleville, Illinois
Broadcast area Greater St. Louis
Branding Radio Disney St. Louis
Slogan Your Music Your Way
Frequency 1260 kHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date 1947 (as WIBV)
Format Contemporary hit radio
Power 20,000 watts day
5,000 watts night
Class B
Facility ID 4622
Transmitter coordinates 38°27′31.00″N 89°57′41.00″W / 38.4586111°N 89.9613889°WCoordinates: 38°27′31.00″N 89°57′41.00″W / 38.4586111°N 89.9613889°W
Callsign meaning St. Louis
DZ = Disney
Former callsigns WIBV (1947-1998)
Affiliations Radio Disney
Owner ABC, Inc. (Disney)
(Sale pending)
(Radio Disney Group, LLC)
Website www.radiodisney.com

WSDZ (1260 AM) is a Children's Contemporary hit radio[1] formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Belleville, Illinois, serving the Greater St. Louis. The station, which began broadcasting in 1947, is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company. The WSDZ broadcast license is held by Radio Disney Group, LLC.[2]

WSDZ along with KMOX are responsible for activation of the St. Louis area Emergency Alert System.[3]

History

The station began in July 1947 as WIBV ("Belleville's Voice"), daytime only, on 1060 kHz with 250 W power. It was owned by Belleville Broadcasting Co.[4]

WIBV aired various types of music, and broadcasting a variety of high school sports into the Metro-East area for many years, until the mid-1990s, when it became an all-news/talk station, a fore-runner of KTRS.

WIBV became WSDZ, when it transferred all of its programming over to KSD-AM, which became KTRS in early-1997. Since then, it has been the Radio Disney affiliate for the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area.

On August 13, 2014, Disney put WSDZ and twenty-two other Radio Disney stations up for sale, in order to focus more on digital distribution of the Radio Disney network.[5][6] Disney originally planned to temporarily shut down the station on September 26, 2014.[7] However, will remain on the air and continue carrying Radio Disney programming until it is sold.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Radio Disney". Disney–ABC Television Group – Corporate & Press Information.
  2. ↑ "WSDZ Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ Emergency Alert System Plan - June 2006
  4. ↑ "WIBV at Belleville, Ill., Takes Air as Daytimer" (PDF). Broadcasting. August 4, 1947. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Lafayette, Jon (August 13, 2014). "Exclusive: Radio Disney Moving Off Air to Digital". Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Radio Disney to Sell the Majority of Its Stations". Billboard. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  7. ↑ Venta, Lance (August 13, 2014). "Radio Disney To Sell All But One Station". Radio Insight. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  8. ↑ "NERW Extra: No Signoffs for Disney AMs". Northeast Radio Watch. Retrieved 27 September 2014. (subscription required)

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