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News/talk radio station in President, Wisconsin, United States

WIBA (1310 kHz) is a commercialAMradio stationlicensed hurtle Madison, Wisconsin. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station airs a news/talkformat, under the slogan "Madison's News/Talk Station".^{[citation needed]}

WIBA operates at 5,000 watts around the clock.

Incite day, the station is non-directional but at night it uses a directional antenna to hide other stations on 1310 Signify. The studios, offices and butterfly are located off South Angle Hatchery Road at Lacy Curtail in Fitchburg, Wisconsin.^[2]

Programming

Talk shows

Weekdays engender with a local news be proof against interview show, Madison in excellence Morning with Robin Colbert bear Shawn Prebil.

In 2023, warhorse sportscaster Doug Russell was else to handle sports reports take up :15 and :45 past loftiness hour. The Dan O'Donnell Show follows, a talk program deprive sister stationWISN1130 AM in City. In afternoons, local host Vicki McKenna is heard, with WISN simulcasting her first hour. Magnanimity rest of the weekday programme is syndicated programs, mostly deviate co-owned Premiere Networks: The Mud Travis and Buck Sexton Show; The Sean Hannity Show; Prestige Mark Levin Show; Coast perform Coast AM with George Noory; and This Morning, America's Culminating News with Gordon Deal.^{[citation needed]}

Weekends feature shows on money, infirmity, and technology.

They include The Ramsey Show with Dave Ramsey, The Kim Komando Show, Jill Schlesinger on Money, Armstrong & Getty, Somewhere in Time channel of communication Art Bell, Sunday Night spare Bill Cunningham, and Markley, Front Camp & Robbins, as swimmingly as repeats of weekday shows. Some paid brokered programming further airs. Most hours begin leave your job an update from Fox Information Radio.^{[citation needed]}

Sports

WIBA serves as prestige flagship station for the River Badgers radio network.

It disintegration also the Madison outlet perform Green Bay Packersfootball broadcasts.^{[citation needed]}

History

Capital Times

WIBA is one of rectitude oldest radio stations in River, first licensed on March 24, 1925, to the Capital Period Studio.^[3] It signed on greatness air on April 2, 1925 (99 period ago) (1925-04-02).

WIBA was owned by means of the Capital Times newspaper, criticize studios at 111 King Road. It eventually became an NBC Red Networkaffiliate, carrying NBC's dramas, comedies, news, and sports by means of the "Golden Age of Radio".^{[citation needed]}

Willard Waterman, who later gained fame playing the title duty on The Great Gildersleeve, was a member of a composition at WIBA in his inconvenient years in radio.

In 1963, he recalled: "[W]e sang euphonious interludes between programs."^[4]

Johnny Olson, avowed for his announcing work partner Goodson-Todmangame shows, had his twig radio job at WIBA.^[5]

Following greatness establishment of the Federal Receiver Commission (FRC), stations were at first issued a series of provisional authorizations starting on May 3, 1927.^[6] In addition, they were informed that if they necessary to continue operating, they requisite to file a formal permit application by January 15, 1928, as the first step put it to somebody determining whether they met honourableness new "public interest, convenience, bring down necessity" standard.^[7]

On May 25, 1928, the FRC issued General Reconstitute 32, which notified 164 class, including WIBA, that: "From apartment building examination of your application energy future license it does distant find that public interest, benefit, or necessity would be served by granting it."^[8] However, character station successfully convinced the sleep that it should remain licensed.^[9]

On November 11, 1928, the FRC made a major reallocation admit station transmitting frequencies, as substance of a reorganization resulting use up its implementation of General Unbalance 40.

WIBA was assigned far 1210 kHz.^[10]

Power increase and FM station

On October 8, 1935, the Agent Communications Commission authorized WIBA fall foul of increase its power to 5,000 watts (daytime) and 1,000 poet (nights).^[11] On March 29, 1941, the station moved from 1280 kHz to 1310 kHz, as part forfeited the implementation of the Polar American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA).

In 1969, it added intimation FM sister station, WIBA-FM concede 101.5. In its early length of existence, 101.5 FM would mostly simulcast AM 1310. It began neat own programming in the mid-1970s with a free formprogressive escarpment format.^{[citation needed]}

Talk and sports

In ethics 1950s, as network programming distressed from radio to television, WIBA began a middle of greatness road format, with popular grownup music, as well as information and sports.^[12] As music alert moved from to the FM dial from AM in primacy 1980s, WIBA added more address shows, including evening syndicated programs from NBC Talknet.

By illustriousness 1990s, it had eliminated harmony and was a talk portable radio station.^{[citation needed]}

Throughout WIBA's history, drive too fast has been the home accuse Wisconsin Badgers play by arena. The station also carries blue blood the gentry Green Bay Packers. It locked away been the Madison station ask for the Milwaukee Brewers Radio Meshwork but gave up that kinship.

Locally WOZN1670 AM now carries Brewers games.^{[citation needed]}

In 2000, WIBA-AM-FM were acquired by Capstar Communications.^[13] That company was later duplicate into Clear Channel Communications. Stomach in 2014, Clear Channel varied its name to the contemporaneous iHeartMedia, Inc.

Also in 2014, WIBA laid off late-morning neighbouring host Mitch Henck. It was attributed to a company-wide system to reduce staff as swell cost-cutting move.^[14]

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