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WDBZ
WDBZ (1230 AM) is a radio station serving Cincinnati, Ohio. The station mostly plays urban talk while also providing urban oldies and urban contemporary gospel music. Owned by Urban One, its studios are located at Centennial Plaza in Downtown Cincinnati and its transmitter site is in Eden Park.
WDBZ is one of the oldest Cincinnati radio stations. The station was originally licensed on December 8, 1924, as WFBE, with 20 watts on 1330 kHz to John Van de Walle of the Van De Walle Music & Radio Co. at 208 West Second Street in Seymour, Indiana. The call letters were randomly assigned from a sequential roster of available call signs. In late 1926, the station moved to Cincinnati, now owned by the Garfield Place Hotel Co. (Robert A. Casey).
Following the establishment of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), stations were initially issued a series of temporary authorizations starting on May 3, 1927. In addition, they were informed that if they wanted to continue operating, they needed to file a formal license application by January 15, 1928, as the first step in determining whether they met the new "public interest, convenience, or necessity" standard. On May 25, 1928, the FRC issued General Order 32, which notified 164 stations, including WFBE, that "From an examination of your application for future license it does not find that public interest, convenience, or necessity would be served by granting it." However, the station successfully convinced the commission that it should remain licensed.
On November 11, 1928, the FRC implemented a major reallocation of station transmitting frequencies, as part of a reorganization resulting from its implementation of General Order 40. WFBE was assigned to 1200 kHz. It was the weakest of three stations in Cincinnati.
Scripps-Howard Newspapers (now the E. W. Scripps Company) purchased the station in October 1935, renaming it WCPO after The Cincinnati Post. (Scripps-Howard Broadcasting would later launch sister stations WCPO-TV and WCPO-FM.) In March 1941, most of the stations on 1200 kHz, including WCPO, moved to 1230 kHz, as part of the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement.
WCPO was Cincinnati's first Top 40/Rock 'n' Roll station, and was in the format from 1956 until it was sold in 1966. WCPO encountered serious competition from the stronger WSAI 1360 when that station entered the Top 40 format in July 1961. WSAI broadcast with 5,000 watts day and night, while WCPO broadcast with 1,000 watts during the day and only 250 watts at night. Some of the DJs on WCPO in the 1960s included Shad O'Shea, Mike Gavin, Bob Keith, Mark Edwards, Gary Allyn, Ron Beach and Gary Cory.
Scripps-Howard sold the station to Kaye-Smith Broadcasting whose principals were entertainer Danny Kaye and business associate Lester Smith, in January 1966. On January 15, 1966, the station call letters were changed to WUBE, and almost the entire air staff was replaced. After another three-year run as a Top-40 station under the direction of legendary programmer Bill Drake as "1-2-3-W-B", it became a country music-formatted station in April 1969. They operated the station along with their FM sister (which was renamed WUBE-FM), until the late 1970s, when they sold all their radio properties to Plough Broadcasting, then a part of the pharmaceutical company, Schering-Plough.
After partially simulcasting with its FM sister station for years, the station changed to a Big Band/Nostalgia format in September 1981 using Al Hamm's syndicated "Music of Your Life" service and changed the call letters to WMLX.
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WDBZ
WDBZ (1230 AM) is a radio station serving Cincinnati, Ohio. The station mostly plays urban talk while also providing urban oldies and urban contemporary gospel music. Owned by Urban One, its studios are located at Centennial Plaza in Downtown Cincinnati and its transmitter site is in Eden Park.
WDBZ is one of the oldest Cincinnati radio stations. The station was originally licensed on December 8, 1924, as WFBE, with 20 watts on 1330 kHz to John Van de Walle of the Van De Walle Music & Radio Co. at 208 West Second Street in Seymour, Indiana. The call letters were randomly assigned from a sequential roster of available call signs. In late 1926, the station moved to Cincinnati, now owned by the Garfield Place Hotel Co. (Robert A. Casey).
Following the establishment of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), stations were initially issued a series of temporary authorizations starting on May 3, 1927. In addition, they were informed that if they wanted to continue operating, they needed to file a formal license application by January 15, 1928, as the first step in determining whether they met the new "public interest, convenience, or necessity" standard. On May 25, 1928, the FRC issued General Order 32, which notified 164 stations, including WFBE, that "From an examination of your application for future license it does not find that public interest, convenience, or necessity would be served by granting it." However, the station successfully convinced the commission that it should remain licensed.
On November 11, 1928, the FRC implemented a major reallocation of station transmitting frequencies, as part of a reorganization resulting from its implementation of General Order 40. WFBE was assigned to 1200 kHz. It was the weakest of three stations in Cincinnati.
Scripps-Howard Newspapers (now the E. W. Scripps Company) purchased the station in October 1935, renaming it WCPO after The Cincinnati Post. (Scripps-Howard Broadcasting would later launch sister stations WCPO-TV and WCPO-FM.) In March 1941, most of the stations on 1200 kHz, including WCPO, moved to 1230 kHz, as part of the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement.
WCPO was Cincinnati's first Top 40/Rock 'n' Roll station, and was in the format from 1956 until it was sold in 1966. WCPO encountered serious competition from the stronger WSAI 1360 when that station entered the Top 40 format in July 1961. WSAI broadcast with 5,000 watts day and night, while WCPO broadcast with 1,000 watts during the day and only 250 watts at night. Some of the DJs on WCPO in the 1960s included Shad O'Shea, Mike Gavin, Bob Keith, Mark Edwards, Gary Allyn, Ron Beach and Gary Cory.
Scripps-Howard sold the station to Kaye-Smith Broadcasting whose principals were entertainer Danny Kaye and business associate Lester Smith, in January 1966. On January 15, 1966, the station call letters were changed to WUBE, and almost the entire air staff was replaced. After another three-year run as a Top-40 station under the direction of legendary programmer Bill Drake as "1-2-3-W-B", it became a country music-formatted station in April 1969. They operated the station along with their FM sister (which was renamed WUBE-FM), until the late 1970s, when they sold all their radio properties to Plough Broadcasting, then a part of the pharmaceutical company, Schering-Plough.
After partially simulcasting with its FM sister station for years, the station changed to a Big Band/Nostalgia format in September 1981 using Al Hamm's syndicated "Music of Your Life" service and changed the call letters to WMLX.