WHIO-FM
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| City | Pleasant Hill, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area | Dayton metropolitan area |
| Branding | News Talk Radio AM 1290/FM 95.7 WHIO |
| Slogan | Dayton's Weather, Traffic and News Station |
| Frequency | 95.7 MHz |
| First air date | November 30, 1960 (as WPTW-FM) |
| Format | News/Talk |
| ERP | 50,000 watts |
| HAAT | 145 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 73908 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°13′3.00″N 84°17′37.00″W / 40.2175000°N 84.2936111°W |
| Callsign meaning | OHIO |
| Former callsigns | WPTW-FM (1960-1989) WCLR (1989-2000) WDPT (2000-2006) |
| Affiliations |
Cleveland Browns Radio Network Fox News Radio Premiere Radio Networks Westwood One Network |
| Owner |
Cox Radio (Cox Radio, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WHIO, WHIO-TV, WHKO, WZLR |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | News/Talk Radio WHIO |
WHIO-FM (95.7 MHz) is an FM radio station licensed to Pleasant Hill, Ohio and serving the Dayton metropolitan area. The station is owned by Cox Radio and it simulcasts AM sister station 1290 WHIO. After a local news and interview morning show on weekdays, the stations air nationally syndicated talk programs, including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Clark Howard.
Until October 30, 2006, WHIO-FM was known as WDPT (for " Dayton's PoinT") "95.7 The Point." The station now carries the programming of News/Talk WHIO in Dayton. The WHIO-FM call letters were formerly used on 99.1 FM when it had a beautiful music radio format before becoming country music station WHKO "K-99.1 FM." The studios and offices are located at 1611 South Main Street in Dayton at the Cox Media Group Building. In July, 2011, the station changed its "community of license" from Piqua, Ohio to Pleasant Hill, Ohio. This change was reportedly necessitated by FCC requirements that the station's main studio be located within 25 miles of its community of license. With the move of Cox Media Group facilities to the South Main Street location, Piqua no longer met that requirement, but Pleasant Hill does. The transmitter site is northwest of Piqua.
WPTW started as a daytime AM station in 1947 with its FM station first signing on the air on November 30, 1960. WPTW stood for Piqua, Troy, and West Milton Ohio. After FCC rules changed over daytime AM stations operating on Mexican "clear channel" frequencies, WPTW was finally given approval by the FCC in 1986 to broadcast 24 hours a day, hence WPTW-FM ceased simulcasting a good chunk of WPTW's local news and sports programming and embraced a separate format and image with its call letter change. Hunt was also a co-owner of Valley Antenna Systems (dba:Piqua CATV), later absorbed by Centel Communications in the 1980s and by Time-Warner in the 1990s. For many years he owned WSOO and WSUE in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan as a separate entity before his retirement in the late 1990s. The station ran an easy listening format during the whole period.
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