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WIBW (AM)
WIBW (580 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Topeka, Kansas. It is owned by Connoisseur Media and airs a talk and sports radio format. The studios and offices are on SW Executive Drive in Topeka. The transmitter is off NW Landon Road in Silver Lake.
WIBW is simulcast on 250 watt FM translator station K285GL at 104.9 MHz.
WIBW transmits at 5,000 watts around the clock. A single non-directional tower is used during the day. Due to WIBW's low transmitting frequency, plus Kansas's flat terrain and excellent ground conductivity, the station has an unusually large daytime coverage area, equivalent to that of a full-power FM station. It offers at least grade B coverage of a majority of Kansas, as well as large portions of Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Iowa. Besides its home market of Topeka, it can be heard at city-grade strength in Emporia, lower southeastern Nebraska, and most of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Grade B coverage includes most of southern and central Kansas, including Hays, Great Bend, Wichita, and Pittsburg, as well as Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, most of southwest Missouri, southwestern portions of Iowa, and northeastern Oklahoma as far as Tulsa. Under the right conditions, it can be heard in much of Iowa, as well as slivers of South Dakota and Arkansas.
At night a two-tower array directional antenna is used, which sends a majority of the signal westward to protect adjacent clear-channel stations, but still delivering a secondary signal to the Kansas City area. At night the station's signal can be heard in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and parts of Oklahoma.
WIBW features both local and nationally syndicated talk shows. Weekdays begin with AG Issues, a morning agricultural and news show with Greg Akagi. Middays feature national shows from Brian Kilmeade and The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. In afternoons, 580 SportsTalk, with Brendan Dzwierzynski, Dan Lucero, and Spencer Dupuis, is heard. Nights include Dave Ramsey along with Chad Benson. Coast to Coast AM with George Noory is heard overnight, with This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal airing before dawn. Weekends feature specialty shows on gardening, real estate and home repair. Most hours begin with world and national news from CBS News Radio, with state news coming from the Kansas State News Network.
The station features coverage of local high school sports, as well as Kansas State University Wildcats athletics. WIBW has been an affiliate of the Kansas City Royals Radio Network since the franchise began play in 1969 and has been on the Kansas City Chiefs Radio Network since the 2020 season.
On July 24, 1925, WIBW first signed on the air. It was owned by Dr. Lawrence L. Dill of Logansport, Indiana. Dill operated the station along with his business partner, Donald Harrell. Because it began in Indiana, a state where "W" call signs are standard, it has kept its WIBW call letters, even after its move to Missouri and then Kansas, states that mostly have call signs beginning with "K".
In late 1926, the station was acquired by C. L. Carrell of Chicago, who converted it into a portable broadcasting station. It joined a roster of seven stations controlled by Carrell. Portable stations could be transported from place-to-place on movable platforms such as trucks. These were generally hired out for a few weeks at a time to theaters, mostly located in small midwestern towns that didn't have their own radio stations, to be used for special programs broadcast to the local community. (Regulating "moving targets" proved difficult, so in May 1928 the Federal Radio Commission announced it was ending the licensing of portable facilities.)
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WIBW (AM)
WIBW (580 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Topeka, Kansas. It is owned by Connoisseur Media and airs a talk and sports radio format. The studios and offices are on SW Executive Drive in Topeka. The transmitter is off NW Landon Road in Silver Lake.
WIBW is simulcast on 250 watt FM translator station K285GL at 104.9 MHz.
WIBW transmits at 5,000 watts around the clock. A single non-directional tower is used during the day. Due to WIBW's low transmitting frequency, plus Kansas's flat terrain and excellent ground conductivity, the station has an unusually large daytime coverage area, equivalent to that of a full-power FM station. It offers at least grade B coverage of a majority of Kansas, as well as large portions of Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Iowa. Besides its home market of Topeka, it can be heard at city-grade strength in Emporia, lower southeastern Nebraska, and most of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Grade B coverage includes most of southern and central Kansas, including Hays, Great Bend, Wichita, and Pittsburg, as well as Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, most of southwest Missouri, southwestern portions of Iowa, and northeastern Oklahoma as far as Tulsa. Under the right conditions, it can be heard in much of Iowa, as well as slivers of South Dakota and Arkansas.
At night a two-tower array directional antenna is used, which sends a majority of the signal westward to protect adjacent clear-channel stations, but still delivering a secondary signal to the Kansas City area. At night the station's signal can be heard in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and parts of Oklahoma.
WIBW features both local and nationally syndicated talk shows. Weekdays begin with AG Issues, a morning agricultural and news show with Greg Akagi. Middays feature national shows from Brian Kilmeade and The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. In afternoons, 580 SportsTalk, with Brendan Dzwierzynski, Dan Lucero, and Spencer Dupuis, is heard. Nights include Dave Ramsey along with Chad Benson. Coast to Coast AM with George Noory is heard overnight, with This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal airing before dawn. Weekends feature specialty shows on gardening, real estate and home repair. Most hours begin with world and national news from CBS News Radio, with state news coming from the Kansas State News Network.
The station features coverage of local high school sports, as well as Kansas State University Wildcats athletics. WIBW has been an affiliate of the Kansas City Royals Radio Network since the franchise began play in 1969 and has been on the Kansas City Chiefs Radio Network since the 2020 season.
On July 24, 1925, WIBW first signed on the air. It was owned by Dr. Lawrence L. Dill of Logansport, Indiana. Dill operated the station along with his business partner, Donald Harrell. Because it began in Indiana, a state where "W" call signs are standard, it has kept its WIBW call letters, even after its move to Missouri and then Kansas, states that mostly have call signs beginning with "K".
In late 1926, the station was acquired by C. L. Carrell of Chicago, who converted it into a portable broadcasting station. It joined a roster of seven stations controlled by Carrell. Portable stations could be transported from place-to-place on movable platforms such as trucks. These were generally hired out for a few weeks at a time to theaters, mostly located in small midwestern towns that didn't have their own radio stations, to be used for special programs broadcast to the local community. (Regulating "moving targets" proved difficult, so in May 1928 the Federal Radio Commission announced it was ending the licensing of portable facilities.)