WEOL
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| City | Elyria, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area |
Lorain County Medina County |
| Branding | AM 930 WEOL |
| Slogan | News. Sports. Talk. |
| Frequency | 930 kHz |
| First air date | October 17, 1948 |
| Format | News/talk/sports |
| Power | 1,000 watts (daytime) 1,000 watts (nighttime) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 19463 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°16′10.00″N 82°00′16.00″W / 41.2694444°N 82.0044444°W |
| Callsign meaning | Elyria Lorain |
| Affiliations |
ABC News Radio Cleveland Cavaliers Radio Network Cleveland Indians Radio Network Columbus Blue Jackets Radio Network Fox Sports Radio Ohio State IMG Sports Network Westwood One |
| Owner |
Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting Co. (Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting Co.) |
| Sister stations | WKFM, WLKR, WLKR-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | weol |
WEOL (930 AM) – branded AM 930 WEOL – is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Elyria, Ohio, serving the western parts of Greater Cleveland, including Lorain and Medina counties. Owned by Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting Co., WEOL is the local affiliate for The Dave Ramsey Show; syndicated personalities Clark Howard, Jim Bohannon and Kim Komando; Fox Sports Radio and ABC News Radio. WEOL also serves as a local affiliate for the Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Cavaliers, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Ohio State radio networks. The WEOL studios are located in Elyria, while the station transmitter resides in nearby Grafton. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WEOL is available online.
WEOL signed on on October 17, 1948 at both 930 kHz and 107.3 MHz, in Elyria, Ohio with studios in the Elyria Savings and Trust Building in downtown Elyria. The FM installations, like most of the era, were established as an adjunct to the AM programming. Both stations were owned by the newly created Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting Co. The station's early years were spent fighting for its very survival. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Lorain Journal (today known as The Morning Journal) enjoyed a monopoly in news coverage and advertising revenue in Lorain. With the establishment of WEOL, however, the Journal feared the presence of this new competitor. In response, the Journal unofficially instituted an "exclusivity policy" that prevented Journal advertisers from doing business with WEOL. WEOL's owners sued Journal Publishing, and it went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In the 1951 decision Lorain Journal Co. v. United States, 343 U.S. 143, it was found that the Journal violated key provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act by seeking to maintain their near monopoly on advertising revenue. In addition, the Journal was found to have acted in a "predatory" and illegal manner.
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