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Mar 17, 2022 · Today, WLW is 50,000-watts. WLW radio turns 100 years old on March 23, 2022. Monday, Feb, 28, 2022 Liz Dufour, Liz Dufour/Cincinnati Enquirer. None of them had as large a share of the market as ...
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Mike McConnell, morning talk show host at WLW for almost 40 years, said social media has changed the game. Fewer celebrities travel to radio stations. And when they do, they don't want to take calls from the public, McConnell said.
Gary Burbank was a WLW radio show host from 1981 to 2007 and is a member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. Before he got into radio, Burbank was in the Army stationed in near Stuttgart, Germany in 1959. As Burbank and his Army buddies stood around tanks and jeeps, the radio kicked in. It was WLW. He doesn't remember what the program was. But he r...
Bill "Seg" Dennison was a student at Northern Kentucky University when he got a call from an executive at WLW in September 1978. They needed someone to type sports copy over the weekends. He's been there ever since covering the local sports scene. Local sports fans will instantly recognize Dennison distinct voice that has graced airwaves for more t...
The audience began to grow again across the nation. Perhaps there's no better example of WLW's reach in the 1980s and 1990s than Dale Sommers, aka "Truckin' Bozo." Michaels hired him in 1984 to host the overnight program geared toward truckers. His national audience grew to such an extent that he helped fight crime around the country. In 1986, he w...
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Mar 2, 2021 · Published March 2, 2021 at 12:19 PM EST. John Kiesewetter. It wasn't Cincinnati's first radio station, but WLW-AM is still the biggest. Cincinnati industrialist Powel Crosley, Jr. began ...
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Mar 23, 2021 · With WLW-AM starting into its 100th year of broadcasting, here are 100 things to celebrate about the self-proclaimed "Big One." Credit Courtesy WLW-AM WLW-AM's ad for Marty Brennaman and Joe ...
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Mar 17, 2022 · WLW will turn 100 years old on March 23, 2022. ItÕs the oldest radio station in the country. The station is part of iHeart Media, with studios in Sycamore Township. Thursday, March 3, 2022. Liz ...
Mar 17, 2022 · At one time in the 1930s WLW Cincinnati (700) broadcast at 500,000-watts. Next week “The Big One” will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Launched on March 23, 1922 by industrialist Powel Crosley, Jr., who later founded Voice of America, WLW is a 50,000 around-the-clock clear channel radio station that reaches most of Ohio, parts of Indiana and Kentucky.
As a way of celebrating the 100 th anniversary of the first broadcast at WLW, Chief Engineer Paul Jellison has been preparing the Continental 317C-1 to possibly return to the air just as he did at the turn of the century to restore voice to the long silent 107A. WLW has a whole room full of transmitters that tell the Crosley story vividly
