WIOO

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WIOO
Broadcast area Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Frequency 1000 kHz
BrandingCountry Gold FM & AM
Programming
Format Classic country
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Harold Z. Swidler
  • (WIOO, Inc.)
WCAT-FM, WHYL, WRDD
History
First air date
July 8, 1965(60 years ago) (1965-07-08)
Call sign meaning
a numerical representation of the first three digits of the AM frequency 1000
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 72985
Class D
Power
Transmitter coordinates
 40°09′30.32″N77°11′4.0″W / 40.1584222°N 77.184444°W / 40.1584222; -77.184444 (WIOO)
Translator(s) See § Translators
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website www.wioo.com

WIOO (1000 AM), known as "Country Gold FM & AM", WIOO is a commercial AM radio station licensed to serve Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The call sign stands for the station's former long-time branding, "W-100", referring to its position on the AM dial. WIOO airs "country gold" format, playing country music from approximately 5–50 years ago. The station is affiliated with Westwood One, and with Motor Racing Network, and Performance Racing Network for extensive NASCAR coverage.

Contents

WIOO is a "daytimer", broadcasting at full power from local sunrise to local sunset, and at reduced power from local sunset until 45 minutes later (during "critical hours"), after which it signs off to protect clear channel station WMVP in Chicago from skywave interference. The station's programming is simulcast 24 hours a day on FM translators 97.9 W250AP and 107.3 W297CO both in Carlisle. WIOO also simulcasts the majority of its programming on translator 93.9 W230AX, licensed to serve Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.

WIOO airs local news in Cumberland County, provides the noonday Tradio show for listener call ins each day as part of its one-hour news and information block, and carries live sports including locally produced Cumberland Valley Eagles football on the Carlisle frequencies and Shippensburg Greyhounds football on FM 93.9. The station carries major college and NFL football, NASCAR and Baltimore Orioles baseball during respective seasons.

History

WIOO signed on the air on July 8, 1965, and played contemporary music for most of its history. During the late 1960s and early to mid-1970s, it was a successful Top 40 station which, despite being a daytimer, competed with Harrisburg stations WKBO and WFEC for the teenage audience. [2]

WIOO has a long-standing history of morning personalities dating back to the mid-1960s. They include Bob Hamilton, Dick Raymond, R.J. Harris, Jim (J.J) Jefferson and Marissa Osborne, Ben Barber, Jack Wagner, Scott Donato, Kirk Wise (Wise Guy), Dave Eddy, Larry Flood, and currently on the air veteran broadcaster Hollis Z who doubles as assistant program director. Currently, afternoon drive is handled by air personality and program director Ray Thomas. Ray has been a major force in Carlisle radio for over a quarter of a century. Robin Quivers, now of The Howard Stern Show , received her first radio job on WIOO in late 1979. Quivers beat out a field of three applicants from the Broadcast Institute of Maryland (BIM) to get the news anchor position at WIOO. Robin had worked approximately one year for WIOO before accepting a position at another station.

WIOO was granted a construction permit by the FCC in 2015. The station's day power increased to 15,000 watts, and it gained critical hours power of 2,700 watts. [3] The station's critical hour power is subject to local sunset of WMVP in Chicago, Illinois, on the same frequency. [4]

Translators

WIOO programming is broadcast on the following translators:

Broadcast translators for WIOO
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) HAAT Class Transmitter coordinatesFCC info
W230AX93.9 FM Shippensburg, Pennsylvania 141635145−27.3  m (−90  ft)D 40°4′30.3″N77°32′7.9″W / 40.075083°N 77.535528°W / 40.075083; -77.535528 (W230AX) LMS
W250AP97.9 FM Carlisle, Pennsylvania 14161915023.3 m (76 ft)D 40°9′30.3″N77°11′47.9″W / 40.158417°N 77.196639°W / 40.158417; -77.196639 (W250AP) LMS
W297CO107.3 FM Carlisle, Pennsylvania 20035125095 m (312 ft)D 40°17′23.3″N77°08′8.9″W / 40.289806°N 77.135806°W / 40.289806; -77.135806 (W297CO) LMS

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WIOO". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "REELRADIO - the R.J. Heim Collection!".
  3. ↑ "FCC Construction Permit". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  4. ↑ http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/143974/radio-disney-sells-wrdz-a-chicago-to-polnet All Access News - July 30, 2015
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