W248AW

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W248AW
Simulcasts WOLT-HD2, Indianapolis
W248AW, Business News 97.5FM logo, Indianapolis.png
Broadcast area Indianapolis, Indiana
Frequency 97.5 MHz
BrandingBusiness News 97.5FM
Programming
Format Business news
Affiliations Bloomberg Radio
Ownership
Owner Educational Media Foundation
Operator iHeartMedia
WFBQ, WNDE, WOLT, WZRL
History
First air date
 2004
Call sign meaning
(serially assigned)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 140551
Class D
ERP 150 watts
HAAT 272 meters (892 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 39°53′39.90″N86°12′21.00″W / 39.8944167°N 86.2058333°W / 39.8944167; -86.2058333
Translator(s) relay of WOLT-FM-HD2
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website businessnews975fm.iheart.com

W248AW is a commercial FM radio station translator in Indianapolis, Indiana, broadcasting at 97.5 FM. [2] [3] Owned by the Educational Media Foundation and operated under LMA by iHeartMedia, [4] the station simulcasts a business news format on WOLT's HD2 subchannel, [2] [5] known as "Business News 97.5". [5] Studios are located on Fall Creek Road with transmitter on the northwest side of Indianapolis, near Meridian Hills.

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Prior to the format change, the station served as a relay for AM station WNDE.

History

The translator signed on in 2004 under the ownership of the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), and was sold to iHeartMedia in 2015. [3] The format, following the sale, was changed to a relay of Fox Sports Radio affiliated WNDE, branded as "Fox Sports Radio 97.5 FM/1260 AM". Around this time, WNDE also picked up the Rush Limbaugh Show after Emmis Communications-owned WIBC dropped the show. [6]

On July 22, 2019, iHeartMedia dropped the simulcast of WNDE, airing a looped message informing listeners to change to 1260 AM for Fox Sports Radio programming. Later, on August 7, iHeartMedia had announced that W248AW, alongside 12 other translators, would be swapped to the Educational Media Foundation, in exchange for 6 translators that iHeartMedia had been leasing from EMF. [4] [7] This would reunite the translator under its original EMF ownership, though it does not relay an EMF station, as most of EMF's stations air non-commercial Christian-oriented formats.

On August 15, 2019, at 5:00 p.m., W248AW launched a Top 40/CHR format under the name "97.5 KISS FM", airing commercial-free as part of the station's launch. The station will continue to be operated by iHeartMedia, despite the EMF sale. [5] The sale to EMF closed on April 1.

In May 2020, iHeartMedia quietly dropped the KISS FM format, with 97.5 becoming a Bloomberg Radio affiliate afterwards. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for W248AW". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. 1 2 "FCC Public Inspection File". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  3. 1 2 "FCCdata.org - powered by REC". FCCData.org. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  4. 1 2 Venta, Lance. "iHeartMedia & EMF Swap Thirteen Translators". radioINSIGHT.
  5. 1 2 3 Venta, Lance. "iHeartMedia Launches 97.5 Kiss-FM Indianapolis". radioINSIGHT. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Rush Limbaugh's New Indianapolis Affiliate Is WNDE, Now With An FM Translator Simulcast". All Access Music Group.
  7. ↑ Mack, Justin. "You won't hear Indy Fox Sports radio on 97.5 FM anymore". IndyStar.com.
  8. ↑ iHeartMedia Debuts "Business News 97.5" in Indianapolis
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