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WJBO
WJBO (1150 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, calling itself "WJBO Newsradio 1150 AM & 98.7 FM." It carries a news/talk format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios are on Hilton Avenue, east of downtown Baton Rouge.
By day, WJBO is powered at 15,000 watts. But at night, to avoid interfering with other stations on 1150 AM, it reduces power to 5,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array. The transmitter site is on Rosedale Road (Louisiana Highway 76) in Port Allen. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator K254DM at 98.7 MHz.
Weekday programming on WJBO begins with the regionally syndicated morning show Walton & Johnson, with Steve Johnson and Kenny Webster. That's followed by The Glenn Beck Radio Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Michael Berry Show, The Jesse Kelly Show, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.
Weekends feature specialty shows on money, health, gardening, technology and the law., as well as repeats of weekday programs. Weekend programs include The Kim Komando Show, Armstrong & Getty, The Weekend with Michael Brown, Bill Handel on the Law and Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham. Most hours begin with an update from Fox News Radio.
The station was first licensed on April 17, 1922. It was given with the sequentially-assigned call letters WAAB and was owned by the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper. It was one of the first stations to receive a 4-letter call sign starting with a "W". WAAB made its debut broadcast on the evening of April 6, 1922.
A few months later ownership was transferred to the station's primary operator, Valdemar Jensen, at 137 South Saint Patrick Street. Jensen operated and experimented with the station from his house's basement.
In early 1926, the call letters were changed to WJBO. They stood for the Jensen Broadcasting Organization. The station began a policy of selling airtime. Following a few days of test transmissions, the station made its formal debut as "the first commercially operated radio station in the South" on February 28, 1926.
WJBO was one of the first stations to regularly broadcast news, working in tandem with The Times-Picayune. Jensen broadcast from the Roosevelt Hotel and Orpheum Theater. In 1932, he sold WJBO to the Manship family, owners of The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge. The Manships moved the station to Baton Rouge in December 1934 as the capital's first commercial radio station. It operated at 1420 kilocycles as a 100-watt daytimer.
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WJBO
WJBO (1150 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, calling itself "WJBO Newsradio 1150 AM & 98.7 FM." It carries a news/talk format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios are on Hilton Avenue, east of downtown Baton Rouge.
By day, WJBO is powered at 15,000 watts. But at night, to avoid interfering with other stations on 1150 AM, it reduces power to 5,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array. The transmitter site is on Rosedale Road (Louisiana Highway 76) in Port Allen. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator K254DM at 98.7 MHz.
Weekday programming on WJBO begins with the regionally syndicated morning show Walton & Johnson, with Steve Johnson and Kenny Webster. That's followed by The Glenn Beck Radio Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Michael Berry Show, The Jesse Kelly Show, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.
Weekends feature specialty shows on money, health, gardening, technology and the law., as well as repeats of weekday programs. Weekend programs include The Kim Komando Show, Armstrong & Getty, The Weekend with Michael Brown, Bill Handel on the Law and Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham. Most hours begin with an update from Fox News Radio.
The station was first licensed on April 17, 1922. It was given with the sequentially-assigned call letters WAAB and was owned by the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper. It was one of the first stations to receive a 4-letter call sign starting with a "W". WAAB made its debut broadcast on the evening of April 6, 1922.
A few months later ownership was transferred to the station's primary operator, Valdemar Jensen, at 137 South Saint Patrick Street. Jensen operated and experimented with the station from his house's basement.
In early 1926, the call letters were changed to WJBO. They stood for the Jensen Broadcasting Organization. The station began a policy of selling airtime. Following a few days of test transmissions, the station made its formal debut as "the first commercially operated radio station in the South" on February 28, 1926.
WJBO was one of the first stations to regularly broadcast news, working in tandem with The Times-Picayune. Jensen broadcast from the Roosevelt Hotel and Orpheum Theater. In 1932, he sold WJBO to the Manship family, owners of The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge. The Manships moved the station to Baton Rouge in December 1934 as the capital's first commercial radio station. It operated at 1420 kilocycles as a 100-watt daytimer.