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WTVN (610 AM), branded as "News Radio 610 WTVN", is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Columbus, Ohio. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station serves the Columbus metro area. The WTVN studios area located in the McKinley Avenue Corridor northwest of Downtown Columbus, and its transmitter site is near Obetz. In addition to a standard analog transmission, the station simulcasts over the HD digital subchannel of co-owned 93.3 WODC, and streams online via iHeartRadio. WTVN began broadcasting in HD Radio in June 2005, but the in-band on-channel subcarrier was discontinued by 2015.
With 5,000 watts of power, during the day the station can be heard as far away as Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Detroit, and Cleveland. At night, a directional antenna protects stations operating on the same frequency, including KCSP in Kansas City, WTEL in Philadelphia, and WIOD in Miami. The nighttime signal is primarily radiated northward over central Columbus, and outlying suburbs in the direction of the nulls experience a degraded signal.
WTVN's programming is largely made up of co-owned Premiere Networks' nationally syndicated talk shows, including The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Glenn Beck Program and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory live and The Sean Hannity Show on tape delay. WTVN has three local weekday talk hosts: Mike Elliott is heard in morning drive time, Mark Blazor hosts afternoons from 3-6pm and Chuck Douglas is in at 6:00pm as host of "The Power Hour".. At night, WTVN also carries The Mark Levin Show from Westwood One.
Weekends feature shows on money, health, real estate, guns, home repair, cars and the law. Weekend syndicated programs include In the Garden with Ron Wilson, This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal and Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham. World and national news is supplied by ABC News Radio.
Effective December 1, 1921, the Department of Commerce, which regulated radio at this time, adopted regulations setting aside two wavelengths for use by broadcasting stations: 360 meters (833 kHz) for "entertainment" programs, and 485 meters (619 kHz) for "market and weather" reports. WTVN's first license, as WBAV, was issued on April 29, 1922, to the Erner & Hopkins Company at 146 North Third Street in Columbus, for operation on 360 meters. The WBAV call letters were randomly assigned from an alphabetical roster of available call signs.
The station made its formal debut on the evening of May 8, 1922, which the Columbus Dispatch heralded as "a success from every standpoint". A few months after receiving its initial license, WBAV was authorized to also broadcast on the 485 meter "market and weather" wavelength. In September 1922 the Department of Commerce set aside a second entertainment wavelength, 400 meters (750 kHz) for "Class B" stations that had quality equipment and programming. In May 1923 additional "Class B" frequencies were made available. One of the Ohio allocations was 770 kHz, and WBAV was assigned to this frequency on a time-sharing basis with WJAX in Cleveland. In mid-1924 WBAV was reassigned to 710 kHz, now sharing time with WLW in Cincinnati, which was changed in early 1925 to 1020 kHz, with a new timeshare partner of WEAO in Columbus.
In early November 1925, the American Insurance Union took over the station, changing the call letters to WAIU. WAIU was a charter member of the CBS Radio Network, being one of the 16 stations that aired the first CBS network program on September 18, 1927.
On June 15, 1927, the newly formed Federal Radio Commission (FRC) reassigned WAIU to 1060 kHz, still sharing time with WEAO. On November 11, 1928, the FRC made a major nationwide reallocation, implementing standards contained in its General Order 40. With these reassignments, most former "Class B" stations were granted a primary status on what were known as "clear channel" frequencies. However, WAIU was reduced to a secondary station on the clear channel frequency of 640 kHz. Also, now a "limited time" station, it had unrestricted daytime operating hours, but its evening hours were limited to operation only until sunset in Los Angeles, California, which was the location of the frequency's primary station, KFI.
WTVN
WTVN (610 AM), branded as "News Radio 610 WTVN", is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Columbus, Ohio. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station serves the Columbus metro area. The WTVN studios area located in the McKinley Avenue Corridor northwest of Downtown Columbus, and its transmitter site is near Obetz. In addition to a standard analog transmission, the station simulcasts over the HD digital subchannel of co-owned 93.3 WODC, and streams online via iHeartRadio. WTVN began broadcasting in HD Radio in June 2005, but the in-band on-channel subcarrier was discontinued by 2015.
With 5,000 watts of power, during the day the station can be heard as far away as Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Detroit, and Cleveland. At night, a directional antenna protects stations operating on the same frequency, including KCSP in Kansas City, WTEL in Philadelphia, and WIOD in Miami. The nighttime signal is primarily radiated northward over central Columbus, and outlying suburbs in the direction of the nulls experience a degraded signal.
WTVN's programming is largely made up of co-owned Premiere Networks' nationally syndicated talk shows, including The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Glenn Beck Program and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory live and The Sean Hannity Show on tape delay. WTVN has three local weekday talk hosts: Mike Elliott is heard in morning drive time, Mark Blazor hosts afternoons from 3-6pm and Chuck Douglas is in at 6:00pm as host of "The Power Hour".. At night, WTVN also carries The Mark Levin Show from Westwood One.
Weekends feature shows on money, health, real estate, guns, home repair, cars and the law. Weekend syndicated programs include In the Garden with Ron Wilson, This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal and Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham. World and national news is supplied by ABC News Radio.
Effective December 1, 1921, the Department of Commerce, which regulated radio at this time, adopted regulations setting aside two wavelengths for use by broadcasting stations: 360 meters (833 kHz) for "entertainment" programs, and 485 meters (619 kHz) for "market and weather" reports. WTVN's first license, as WBAV, was issued on April 29, 1922, to the Erner & Hopkins Company at 146 North Third Street in Columbus, for operation on 360 meters. The WBAV call letters were randomly assigned from an alphabetical roster of available call signs.
The station made its formal debut on the evening of May 8, 1922, which the Columbus Dispatch heralded as "a success from every standpoint". A few months after receiving its initial license, WBAV was authorized to also broadcast on the 485 meter "market and weather" wavelength. In September 1922 the Department of Commerce set aside a second entertainment wavelength, 400 meters (750 kHz) for "Class B" stations that had quality equipment and programming. In May 1923 additional "Class B" frequencies were made available. One of the Ohio allocations was 770 kHz, and WBAV was assigned to this frequency on a time-sharing basis with WJAX in Cleveland. In mid-1924 WBAV was reassigned to 710 kHz, now sharing time with WLW in Cincinnati, which was changed in early 1925 to 1020 kHz, with a new timeshare partner of WEAO in Columbus.
In early November 1925, the American Insurance Union took over the station, changing the call letters to WAIU. WAIU was a charter member of the CBS Radio Network, being one of the 16 stations that aired the first CBS network program on September 18, 1927.
On June 15, 1927, the newly formed Federal Radio Commission (FRC) reassigned WAIU to 1060 kHz, still sharing time with WEAO. On November 11, 1928, the FRC made a major nationwide reallocation, implementing standards contained in its General Order 40. With these reassignments, most former "Class B" stations were granted a primary status on what were known as "clear channel" frequencies. However, WAIU was reduced to a secondary station on the clear channel frequency of 640 kHz. Also, now a "limited time" station, it had unrestricted daytime operating hours, but its evening hours were limited to operation only until sunset in Los Angeles, California, which was the location of the frequency's primary station, KFI.