WIOT-FM
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| City | Toledo, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area |
Metro Toledo Monroe County, MI |
| Branding | 104-7 WIOT |
| Slogan | Toledo's Rock Station |
| Frequency | 104.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | October 1949 |
| Format |
Mainstream Rock HD2: Sports talk (WCWA simulcast) |
| ERP | 50,000 watts |
| HAAT | 165 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 19628 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°40′23.00″N 83°25′31.00″W / 41.6730556°N 83.4252778°W |
| Former callsigns | WTOL-FM (1949–65) WCWA-FM (1965–72) |
| Affiliations |
iHeartRadio Premiere Networks Premium Choice United Stations Radio Networks |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WCKY-FM, WCWA, WRVF, WSPD, WVKS |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 104.7 WIOT |
WIOT (104.7 FM) – branded 104-7 WIOT – is a commercial mainstream rock radio station licensed to Toledo, Ohio, serving Metro Toledo and Monroe County, Michigan. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., WIOT is the Toledo affiliate for The Bob & Tom Show and The House of Hair with Dee Snider. The WIOT studios are located in Downtown Toledo, while the station transmitter resides in the Toledo suburb of Oregon. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WIOT broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online via iHeartRadio.
WIOT began as WTOL-FM in October 1949.
WIOT was Toledo's first FM rock station when it went on the air December 25, 1972, replacing a beautiful music/classical format. The call letters stood for "In Our Time". The call letters were in the past WTOL-FM and WCWA-FM.
Buck and O'Connor hosted mornings in the early 80's. Buck McWilliams and Chris O'Connor. They left WIOT to Milwaukee and then Minneapolis. Other on air personalities at that time...Terry Sullivan one half of the Sullivan and O'Connor show. Lee Randall. Joan Major. Done Jardine. Never could forget Pat Still. Jane Perry. Pat and Jane.
In the late 1980s The Bob and Brian morning show became the next Toledo favorite. The show left for Milwaukee where they remain to this day, currently at WHQG.
The next morning team that created an impact was The Dawnbusters (known as Jeff Lamb and Mark Benson). Jeff provided all of the voices and skits, while Mark kept the shows pace. The show was a major success. In 1994 Jeff and Mark's, Dawnbusters, worried about all the firings in radio at the time, asked for a contract from WIOT. They said, "We don't give contracts here." So Jeff and Mark went to WXKR, who was the last place station at the time. 94.5 WXKR was a station who just upped its power to 30,000 watts and was looking to launch a fight against WIOT with a 100% classic rock format. In one rating book, they took WXKR from last place to first place.
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