WNIO
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| Broadcast area | Youngstown, Ohio |
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| Branding | 1390 WNIO |
| Slogan | "The Sports Animal" |
| Frequency | 1390 (kHz) |
| First air date | September 7, 1939 (as WFMJ) |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 9,500 watts (day) 4,800 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 13669 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
41°7′17″N 80°42′5″W / 41.12139°N 80.70139°W (day) 40°59′11″N 80°35′54″W / 40.98639°N 80.59833°W (night) |
| Callsign meaning | "W-NIles, Ohio" (city of license for WNIO's original home at 1540-AM, now WYCL) |
| Former callsigns | WRTK (1994-1999) WHOT (1990-1994) WFMJ (1939-1990) |
| Affiliations |
Fox Sports Radio Pittsburgh Pirates Radio Network Pittsburgh Steelers Radio Network Ohio State IMG Sports Network Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WAKZ, WBBG, WKBN, WMXY, WNCD W263CL |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | sportsradio1390.com |
WNIO (1390 AM, "1390 WNIO") — is an American radio station in Youngstown, Ohio, broadcasting at 1390 kHz with a sports talk radio format dubbed "The Sports Animal." WNIO also carries Ohio State University football and basketball, Pittsburgh Pirates baseball, Cleveland Cavaliers basketball, Pittsburgh Steelers football, and the Indianapolis 500 from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network.
The station was founded in 1939 as WFMJ by William F. Maag, Jr. from whose initials the call letters were derived. Maag was also publisher of the The Youngstown Vindicator. It was originally at 1420 kHz, and moved to 1450 kHz during the NARBA frequency shift on March 29, 1941. It moved to its present location 1390 kHz during the mid-1940s. During the 1940s and early 1950s WFMJ was an affiliate of the Blue Network and its successor ABC.
In 1948, Maag launched WFMJ-FM at 105.1 MHz; the FM station is now WQXK. On March 8, 1953, Maag started Youngstown's second television station WFMJ-TV on channel 73. The television station moved to its present location, channel 21, on August 7, 1954.
The AM station changed its callsign to WHOT on April 23, 1990, when it sold by its original owners to the owner of WHOT-FM, and it used the historic call sign from the former Top 40 AM station the originally broadcast daytime only on 1570 kHz and later full-time on 1330 kHz. Four years later, it was sold to Connoisseur Communications, and it changed to WRTK on February 15, 1995, assuming a talk radio format as "Real Talk 1390."
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