City | Beaver Dam, Wisconsin |
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Broadcast area | Dodge County and surrounding area |
Branding | Your Hometown Station |
Frequency | 1430 kHz |
First air date | 1951 |
Format | talk/oldies/sports |
Power | 1,000 watts day 1,000 watts night |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 4475 |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°25′43.00″N 88°53′33.00″W / 43.4286111°N 88.8925000°W |
Callsign meaning | BEaVer |
Affiliations | ABC Radio , Westwood One, Milwaukee Brewers baseball, Green Bay Packers football, Wisconsin Badgers football |
Owner | Good Karma Brands |
Sister stations | WXRO |
Website | wbevradio.com |
WBEV (1430 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a mixed format of talk programs, oldies, and sports broadcasts. Licensed to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States, the station is currently owned by Good Karma Brands. WBEV originally signed on as a daytime only station in 1951, and added nighttime service in December 1979.
Notable people who worked for WBEV included Jack Horkheimer, the creator and host of Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer; he began work at the station in 1953 at age 15.