WONE (AM)
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| City | Dayton, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area | Dayton, Ohio |
| Branding | 980 WONE |
| Slogan | Fox Sports 980 |
| Frequency | 980 (kHz) (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1949 |
| Format | Sports Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 1903 |
| Callsign meaning | previous owner Group ONE |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WCHD, WRZX, WIZE, WYDB, WMMX, WTUE, WZDA |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | Fox Sports 980 |
WONE is an AM radio station in Dayton, Ohio operating on 980 kHz with a Sports Talk format. It carries programming from Fox Sports Radio, as well as the Dan Patrick Show (Patrick was originally an on-air personality on sister station WTUE under his real name, Dan Pugh). Its studios are located just outside downtown Dayton and its transmitter is in Kettering, Ohio.
The station took the air in 1949, licensed to Skyland Broadcasting Corp. It was sold in 1961 to Brush-Moore Newspapers, publisher of the Canton Repository. In 1965 the station was sold to Group One Broadcasting of Akron, owner of WAKR. During the mid 1960s WONE was known as "Channel 98," and it was one of Dayton's two popular Top 40 stations, the other being WING. The format changed to adult contemporary around 1967, when it was called "Charisma Radio". Sometime thereafter, around 1969 it switched to country music calling itself "One Country" or "Country-Wide W-1" to remain synonymous with its then-owner Group One.
On September 8, 1986, Group One was dissolved, and the station was sold to DKM Broadcasting. (One year beforehand, Group One obtained permission to place the WONE call sign on WAKR's FM sister station in Akron.) WONE's ownership passed to Stoner Broadcasting on December 9, 1992, to American Radio Systems on September 13, 1993, and to Jacor Communications on October 17, 1997.
After 25 years as a country music station, WONE changed from "98 Country" to Adult Standards, Dayton's ONE for Original Hits, on November 29, 1994 and acquired Springfield-based former Top 40 giant WIZE along the way (which at the time also aired adult standards). WIZE since then virtually simulcast all of WONE's programming until April 22, 2011, when WIZE broke away to launch a country format aimed specifically at the Springfield region.
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