WSPD
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| City | Toledo, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area | Toledo, Ohio |
| Branding | News Radio 1370 WSPD |
| Slogan | Toledo's Home for News, Talk, and Weather |
| Frequency | 1370 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 92.9 (W225AM) (Toledo) |
| Repeater(s) | 101.5-2 WRVF-HD2 (Toledo) |
| First air date | April 15, 1921 |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 62187 |
| Callsign meaning |
W SPeeDene Oil W SPeeDy |
| Former callsigns | 1921-1928: WTAL |
| Affiliations |
Fox News Radio Rocket Sports Radio Network |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 1370 WSPD |
WSPD (1370 AM) is a news-talk radio station licensed to Toledo, Ohio. WSPD broadcasts on a full-time basis with 5,000 watts, including a directional signal pattern at night. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc..
WSPD's studios are located in downtown Toledo at Superior and Lafayette Avenues, and their transmitter is located on Oregon Road near Wales Road in Perrysburg Township. The transmitter site still contains a small DJ booth - reportedly the original broadcast studio - and features three unique free-standing towers.
Current programming on WSPD features local hosts Fred LeFebvre (morning drive) and Scott Sands (afternoon drive), as well as syndicated programs such as The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Glenn Beck Program and Coast to Coast AM.
WSPD is affiliated with Fox News Radio, which provides live top-of-the-hour newscasts, actualities, and breaking national news coverage. WSPD features local newscasts on the top and bottom of the hour during morning drive with Kevin Milliken.
WSPD is Toledo's longest running radio station, originally started on-air as WTAL in April 1921. It would be purchased by the nascent Storer Communications in January 1928, and was renamed WSPD. The call letters came from "Speedene Oil," a brand of gasoline that Storer Communications' founders, George B. Storer and brother-in-law J. Harold Ryan, owned and marketed. For decades, WSPD was commonly known as "Speedy 1370". Some locals still refer to the station as "Speedy" although that nickname is no longer officially used on the air (recently, traffic reports on WSPD were renamed "Speedy Traffic," a nod to the heritage slogan).
WSPD was the flagship of Storer Broadcasting until 1980, when it was spun off to "WSPD, Inc." Toledo Broadcasting Inc. acquired the station in 1986; eventually it would be sold to Jacor, which sold the station in 1999 to iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications). In the early 1990s as well as across the country radio consolidation affected the small independent stations, WSPD transitioned from a full-service adult contemporary/MOR station to its current corporate news/talk format - mainly with an extreme partisan conservative focus - and became known as "News Radio 1370 WSPD." The station went by the slogan "News/Talk 1370" from late 2005 until the winter of 2011. The station has since reverted to the "News Radio 1370 WSPD" slogan.
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