WRDN

WRDN
City of license	Durand, Wisconsin
Broadcast area	Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Branding	Reel Country WRDN
Frequency	1430 KHz
First air date	1968
Format	Country music
Power	2,000 watts day 152 watts night
Class	D
Facility ID	65633
Transmitter coordinates	44°35′07″N 91°54′44″W / 44.58528°N 91.91222°W / 44.58528; -91.91222
Former callsigns	WQOQ
Owner	Durand Broadcasting, LLC
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	WRDN website

WRDN, branded as Reel Country WRDN, is an AM radio station operating in Durand, Wisconsin. It was owned by Zoe Communications, which operated the station as a simulcast of WDMO, until it was acquired in 2011 by Durand Broadcasting. In July 2011, WRDN was granted a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) construction permit to move to a new transmitter site.^[1]

History

The station was launched in 1968 as WRDN, operating in Durand. The station's original owner, F.M. Radio Network, Inc., was a locally based company. Sister station WDMO was launched sometime before 1976 with the call sign WRDN-FM.

F.M. Radio Network sold the stations to Zoe Communications in 2001. Zoe changed the AM signal's call sign to WQOQ in 2003, before returning to the original WRDN calls in 2011.^[2] Under Zoe Communications' ownership, the stations' programming originated from studios in Menomonie, a larger city closer to the Eau Claire broadcast market, and local programming targeted to Durand was no longer available. Through the 2000s, however, the AM signal was frequently either dark or operating at reduced transmitter power.

Durand Broadcasting, a company incorporated by broadcaster Brian Winnekins and his wife Karla, acquired the station in 2011 with the intention of reviving a local radio service in Durand.^[3] Brian Winnekins was previously a farm news reporter for WCOW-FM in Sparta.^[3]

Now programmed independently of its former parent, the station was relaunched in March 2012 with a mix of local news, sports and farm reports and country music from the syndicated Real Country service.^[1]

References

1 2 News Archive for April 2012. Northpine.com, April 2012.
↑ Call Sign History for WRDN. Federal Communications Commission.
1 2 "Couple readies return of Durand radio station". Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, October 30, 2011.

External links

WRDN website

Query the FCC's AM station database for WRDN

Radio-Locator Information on WRDN

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WRDN

Radio stations in the Eau Claire, Wisconsin market

By FM frequency	88.3 89.7 90.5 91.3 92.1 92.9 94.1 95.1 95.9 96.3 96.9 98.1 99.9 100.7 101.5 101.9 102.7 103.7 104.5 105.7 106.7

By AM frequency	680 790 880 1050 1150 1400 1430

By callsign	WATQ WAXX WAYY WBIZ WBIZ-FM WCFW WDMO WDRK WDVM WEAQ WECL WHEM WHWC WHYS-LP WJLM-LP WIAL WIEC-LP WISM-FM WMEQ WMEQ-FM WOGO WQRB WRDN WRFP-LP WUEC WVCF WWIB WWJC

Nearby radio markets La Crosse Minneapolis–St. Paul Rice Lake–Spooner Rochester Wausau–Stevens Point See also List of radio stations in Wisconsin

Country radio stations in the state of Wisconsin

By call letters	KDWZ - Superior/Duluth MN WACD – Antigo WAQE – Rice Lake WATQ – Chetek WAXX – Eau Claire WBFM – Sheboygan WBKY – Portage WBSZ – Ashland WCOW-FM – Sparta WCQM – Park Falls WCUB – Two Rivers WCYE – Three Lakes WDDC – Portage WDEZ – Wausau WDKF – Sturgeon Bay WDLS – Wisconsin Dells WDMP – Dodgeville WDMO – Baldwin WDMP-FM – Dodgeville WDUX – Waupaca WEKZ – Monroe WFON - Fond du Lac WGEE – New London WGLR-FM – Lancaster WHDG – Rhinelander WHIT – Madison WHSM-FM - Hayward WHTL-FM – Whitehall WISS – Berlin WIXK – New Richmond WJMC-FM – Rice Lake WJMQ – Clintonville WJMT – Merrill WJVL – Janesville WKQH – Marathon WKTI – Milwaukee WLTU - Manitowoc WMAD – Sauk City WMBZ – West Bend WMIL-FM – Waukesha WNCY-FM – Neenah-Menasha WNFM – Reedsburg WNRG-FM – Brookfield WOBT – Rhinelander WOCO – Oconto WOKY – Milwaukee WPCK – Denmark WPKR – Omro WPLT – Spooner WQCC – La Crosse WQPC – Prairie du Chien WQRB – Bloomer WRDN – Durand WRJC – Mauston WRLU – Algoma WSLD – Whitewater WTCH – Shawano WTMB – Tomah WVRE – Dickeyville WVRQ-FM – Viroqua WWQM-FM – Middleton WXRO – Beaver Dam WYTE – Marshfield

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Wisconsin

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