WIOD

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WIOD
Broadcast area Miami metropolitan area
Frequency 610 kHz
BrandingNewsradio 610 WIOD
Programming
Language(s) English
Format News/talk
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WBGG-FM, WHYI-FM, WINZ, WMIA-FM, WMIB, WXBN, WZTU
History
First air date
January 19, 1926;98 years ago (1926-01-19)
Former call signs
WCKR (1959–1962)
Call sign meaning
"Wonderful Isle Of Dreams"
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 14242
Class B
Power
  • 50,000 watts (day)
  • 20,000 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates
 25°42′40″N80°28′30″W / 25.71111°N 80.47500°W / 25.71111; -80.47500
Repeater(s) 105.9  WBGG-HD3 (Fort Lauderdale)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live (via iHeartRadio)
Website wiod.iheart.com

WIOD (610 AM) is a commercial radio station in Miami, serving South Florida. It airs a talk radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The stations studios are on SW 145th Avenue in Pembroke Pines.

Contents

WIOD is powered at 50,000 watts by day and 20,000 watts at night. Its transmitter is on Krome Avenue in West End, Florida. [2] WIOD uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array.

Programming

Weekdays on WIOD begin with two Florida-based talk shows, wake-ups with Ryan Gorman (from co-owned WFLA Tampa) and late mornings with station vet Manny Munoz. [3] [4] The rest of the schedule is made up of nationally syndicated shows, mostly from co-owned Premiere Networks: The Glenn Beck Radio Program , The Sean Hannity Show , The Jesse Kelly Show , Coast to Coast AM with George Noory , and from Compass Media Networks, This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal .

On weekends, specialty shows are heard on money, health, retirement, cars and pets, some of which are paid brokered programming. Weekend syndicated shows include Armstrong & Getty, The Ben Ferguson Show and Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham . In June 2024, WIOD began syndicating The Josh Hammer Show on weekends. [5] Most hours begin with an update from ABC News Radio. Accuweather supplies forecasts and the station has a news sharing arrangement with WTVJ channel 6.

History

Wonderful Isle of Dreams

Experimental broadcasts began in the spring of 1925 by Carl Graham Fisher, a Miami Beach developer. The station formally signed on the air on January 19, 1926;98 years ago. Fisher selected WIOD as the call sign, signifying the "Wonderful Isle of Dreams" to commemorate Collins Island, on which the station's studios and offices were located. WIOD is Florida's seventh-oldest continuously licensed broadcast radio station.

WIOD was an NBC Red Network affiliate through the 1930s, 40s and 50s. It aired NBC's schedule of dramas, comedies, news and sports during the "Golden Age of Radio." [6] The studios were at 600 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami. In the 1950s, as network programming was moving from radio to television, WIOD switched to a full service format of middle of the road music (MOR), news and sports.

WCKR

In 1956, Miami saw a new television station go on the air, channel 7 WCKT (now WSVN). Its owner was Biscayne Television, which was a joint arrangement with Miami's two daily newspapers, the Cox-owned Miami News and the Knight-owned Miami Herald . [7] In 1959, Biscayne also acquired 610 AM. The call sign was changed to WCKR, taking the initials of Cox, Knight and Radio for its call letters.

Branded Wacker Radio, it broadcast adult pop music by day, but offered Top 40 hits at night. The station featured noted South Florida disc jockey Rick Shaw. It also carried NBC Radio's "Monitor" program on weekends. In 1962, the station returned to its original call sign, WIOD.

Cuban interference

On June 16, 1981, WIOD began operating with 10,000 watts day and night, after having been powered at 5,000 watts for most of its post-war history. This was to overcome interference caused by a high-power station in Cuba. This special temporary authority, granted by the FCC, has been renewed on a regular basis since.

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On April 6, 2017, WIOD filed an application for an FCC construction permit to move to a new transmitter site, increase day power to 50,000 watts and increase night power to 20,000 watts. It was accepted for filing the following day. [8]

Honors and sports

WIOD has been a frequent winner in annual Florida Associated Press statewide competitions.[ citation needed ] WIOD may be best known for its continuous storm coverage, particularly during Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Wilma.

WIOD was the radio flagship station of the 2006 NBA champions Miami Heat basketball team from 1996 until 2008. From 1966 until 2001 it was the radio flagship of the Miami Dolphins football team, the longest partnership between a Miami sports team and a radio flagship station. It also was the Florida Panthers' original flagship station from 1993 until 2003. Currently WIOD is the official broadcast emergency station for the Broward County Commission.

From April 2010 to March 2014 WIOD had been simulcast on FM translator W262AN at 100.3 MHz. That frequency is now used by a low-power FM station, WQNB. WIOD is also heard on the WBGG-FM 105.9 HD2 subchannel.

Former personalities

WIOD's former hosts include Larry King, Neil Rogers, Sally Jessy Raphael, Ron Bennington, Mike Reineri, Bill Calder, Alan Burke, Sandy Peyton, Rick and Suds, Hank Goldberg, Ed Berliner, Randi Rhodes, Big Wilson, Chris Baker, Phil Hendrie, Joey Reynolds, Tom Gauger, Dave LaMont, Tom Leykis, Jack Ellery and Ed Arnold. Former full-time anchors include Mike Woulfe, Lori Shepard, Lauren Pastrana, Patty DeMendoza, Wendi Grossman, Andrew Julian, Ron Hersey, Aron Bender, Randy Lantz, Christina Kautz and John Levitt. Mike Reineri hosted the last music show on WIOD on weekday mornings from 1974 to 1989. At that point, the station switched to a full time talk format. He was still with WIOD till 1992. Reineri's traffic reporter, Dave Mitchell, hosted the show on Saturday and Sunday mornings in the same time slot. Longtime anchor and News Director Lori Shepard left WIOD in August 2013. Other traffic reporters on WIOD in the 1980s and 1990s and 2003-2007 were Miami radio veterans: Richard Lewis, Joe Brennan, George Sheldon, Teri Griffin and Don Anthony (Dave Agony from the WAXY FM days). Joe Brennan left I-Heart's WIOD in 2018, Don Anthony (aka Don Agony) retired from radio broadcasting in 2009, George Sheldon retired from radio/television broadcasting January 31, 2013, in Asheville, NC, Teri Griffin (retired from broadcasting and has moved out of South Florida), and Trish Anderson (deceased). Since 1989 WIOD has had a news-talk format.

Jingles best remembered at WIOD have included "WIOD/Someplace Special," "The sunshine machine is coming your way/WIOD", "Mike Reineri/will get you started and on your way/every morning on WIOD", "Your Hometown Station/WIOD", "Go Dolphins! on WIOD" and "The Miami Heat on WIOD/The Game's On Us/WIOD". WIOD primarily used TM Productions jingles during the 1970s, mostly resung from KDKA packages. The station did not have an image song until it had JAM Creative Productions' "First of All" jingle package resung and customized for them in the mid-1980s. Other JAM jingle series that were reworked to accommodate the six-note WIOD logo include "The Spirit of New England," "New Day," "Superstation" and "New York Fan". WFAN New York's jingle melody is actually modeled after WIOD's jingle melody and, when WIOD had "New York Fan" resung for them, the station ordered a custom package, "Extra Innings", to accompany the "New York Fan" jingles. All JAM Creative Productions jingle series used by WIOD remain available from the company.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WIOD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "FCCdata.org - powered by REC". fccdata.org.
  3. ↑ "Ryan Gorman Show Expands To Miami".
  4. ↑ InsideRadio.com "People Moves - Manny Munoz" Nov. 21, 2022. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  5. ↑ "TALKERS News Notes". Talkers. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  6. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1942 page 114. Retrieved Aug. 9, 2024.
  7. ↑ Newspapers.com "Miami Channel 7 to Be One of Leaders" March 18, 1956. Retrieved Aug. 9, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Application for Construction Permit for Commercial Broadcast Station". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. April 7, 2017. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
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