WILB (AM)

Living Bread Radio Network

Logo of WILB (AM), the Living Bread Radio Network
City	Canton, Ohio
Broadcast area	Canton, Akron, Cleveland
Slogan	Proclaiming the Truth
Frequency	1060 kHz
Translator(s)	94.5 mHz
First air date	July 1, 2004
Format	Catholic
Power	15,000 watts day
Class	D
Callsign meaning	I am the Living Bread
Affiliations	EWTN Radio
Owner	Living Bread Radio Inc.
Webcast	WILB Live Feed
Website	www.livingbreadradio.com

WILB, the Living Bread Radio Network, is an AM radio station in Canton, Ohio, United States, that offers Catholic programming to the Canton, Akron and Cleveland areas. The station broadcasts daytime only with a power of 15,000 watts on 1060 kHz, making it the largest Catholic radio signal in the state of Ohio. Much of the station's programming is supplied by EWTN Radio. The station also produces many local programs and features.

Because WILB shares the same frequency as "clear channel" station KYW in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it broadcasts only during the daytime hours. However, listeners in the Canton vicinity can turn to the stations translator, 94.5 FM, to listen to programming. The station also has streaming audio online and on their mobile app.

Much of the same programming is heard on sister station WILB-FM, licensed to Boardman, Ohio, and serving the Youngstown market. WILB-FM began operations in March 2012 as a new sign-on.

The station was founded in 1946 by Stark Broadcasting Co. as WCMW, which established WCMW-FM at about the same time on 94.9 MHz. The FM station went off the air around 1953, and the frequency went unused until 1960 when WDBN (now WQMX) signed on. By 1961 the AM station had become WHOF, and it was a Top 40 outlet in the early 1960s.

In 1967 the call letters were changed again, this time to WOIO. After going through several more format changes, it once again became a Top 40 station in the fall of 1976 as WQIO (using the slogan "Q-10") and was successful for the next few years in the waning days of AM Top 40 radio, drawing the highest ratings in the history of the station, and driving competitor WINW-AM (also a daytime station) out of the format. When 106.9 FM in Canton (co-owned with WINW) changed to WOOS with an automated Top 40 format in 1978, WQIO's days as a Top 40 radio station were numbered, and by the fall of 1979 it began to head in a more adult contemporary direction.