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WHO is a clear channel radio station broadcasting 50,000 watts on 1040 AM with a news/talk format. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications and is located in Des Moines, Iowa. The station can also be heard over most of the continental United States during nighttime hours. Image File history File links WHOradiologo. ...
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Clear Channel Communications (NYSE: CCU) is a media company based in the United States of America. ...
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Clear channel stations are AM radio stations that are designated as such so that only one or two 50,000 watt powerhouses operate at night on each designated frequency, covering a wide area via sky wave propagation. ...
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Clear Channel Communications (NYSE: CCU) is a media company based in the United States of America. ...
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History
WHO first began broadcasting on April 11, 1924, from the top floor of the Liberty Buildingin downtown Des Moines. The callsign came from the fact that during the 1920s people searching for stations on the radio dial would ask, "Who is it?" The station was originally owned by Bankers Life, which is now the Principal Financial Group. After the FRC's General Order 40 reallocated frequencies in 1928, WHO ended up sharing time on the same frequency with WOC in Davenport. In 1930, B. J. Palmer, owner of WOC, bought WHO, and the two stations operated together as WOC-WHO until a new 50,000-watt transmitter near Mitchellville began operating on November 11, 1933. (WOC ceased broadcasting that day but returned on another frequency a year later.) WHO moved from 1000 AM to the current 1040 AM on March 29, 1941, as a result of the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement. Today WHO is one of only two 50,000-watt AM radio stations in Iowa (KXEL in Waterloo is the other). April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ...
1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Principal Financial Group NYSE: PFG is a publicly-traded corporation based in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The Principal Financial Group® is a leading global financial institution offering businesses, individuals and institutional clients a wide range of financial products and services. ...
The Federal Radio Commission (FRC) was a government body that regulated radio use in the United States from its creation in 1927 until its replacement by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1935. ...
General Order 40 was an order issued on August 30, 1928 by the new Federal Radio Commission under the Radio Act of 1927 which provided for a reallocation of the commercial broadcast radio spectrum. ...
WOC is a radio station licensed to Davenport, Iowa, and has a news and talk radio format. ...
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Mitchellville is a city located in Polk County, Iowa. ...
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In 1948, WHO-FM 100.3 signed on the air; WHO-FM has changed formats and call letters several times since then and now broadcasts as KDRB, "100.3 The Bus." In 1954, WHO-TV began broadcasting on channel 13. KDRB is the callsign for the radio station occupying 106. ...
WHO-TV is a television station that broadcasts on channel 13 in Des Moines, Iowa. ...
WHO was owned by the Palmer family until Jacor Broadcasting purchased the station in 1997; Jacor merged with Clear Channel Communications a year later. WHO and the other Clear Channel radio stations in Des Moines (KDRB, KPTL, KKDM, and KXNO) continued to share a building with WHO-TV until they moved into a new facility in 2005. Clear Channel Communications (NYSE: CCU) is a media company based in the United States of America. ...
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KKDM, known as Kiss 107 FM, is a contemporary hit radio station based in Des Moines, Iowa. ...
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Personalities and programming Ronald Reagan worked as a sportscaster with WHO from 1932 to 1937. Ronald Wilson Reagan, Hon GCB, (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ...
Current local talk show hosts include Van Harden and Bonnie Lucas, co-hosts of the Van and Bonnie morning show; Jan Mickelson; and Steve Deace, who previously did sports talk radio (most recently with sister station KXNO) before taking over the afternoon drive slot in June 2006. WHO also carries syndicated talk shows such as those hosted by Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura, and Michael Reagan. In the entertainment and news industries, syndication is a method of making content available to a range of outlets simultaneously. ...
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American cultural and moral commentator, most known as host of the very popular Dr. Laura radio advice call-in show. ...
Michael Edward Reagan (born March 18, 1945 as John Flaugher), adopted son of President Ronald Reagan and his first wife Jane Wyman, is the host of a conservative talk radio show, the Michael Reagan Show, which is syndicated to over 200 radio stations in the United States through Radio America. ...
WHO has also been the longtime home for University of Iowa sports. Jim Zabel, who joined WHO in 1944, was their play-by-play voice for Hawkeye football and basketball games from 1949 to 1996. While Gary Dolphin now handles those duties, Zabel remains with WHO as co-host (with Jon Miller of HawkeyeNation.com, who is the heir apparent to Zabel as WHO's Sports Director, announced in May of 2006) of the Sound Off sports talk show that airs after Hawkeye games, and as co-host of Two Guys Named Jim on Sunday nights with former Iowa State University football coach Jim Walden. The University of Iowa is a major national research university located on a 1,900-acre campus in Iowa City, Iowa, USA, on the Iowa River in East Central Iowa. ...
Play-by-play, in broadcasting, means the reporting of a sporting event with a voiceover describing the details of the action of the game in progress. ...
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Iowa State University (ISU) is a public land-grant and space-grant university located in Ames, Iowa. ...
In 2006, WHO began carrying classic monologues from "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" at 10:30 PM local time, thus directly competing with television's Jay Leno, which airs on sister WHO-TV, and David Letterman. For the article about the Erskine College president, see Dr. John Carson John William Johnny Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his iconic status as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. ...
Jay Leno (born James Douglas Muir-Leno April 28, 1950) is an American comedian who is best known as the current host of NBC televisions long-running variety and talk program The Tonight Show. ...
David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American late night talk show host, comedian, television producer, Indy Racing League car owner (Rahal Letterman Racing), and philanthropist. ...
WHO perennially ranks at or near the top of the Arbitron ratings in the Des Moines market. Arbitron is a radio audience research company in the United States. ...
References - Stein, Jeff, Making Waves: The People and Places of Iowa Broadcasting (ISBN 0971832315). Cedar Rapids, Iowa: WDG Communications, 2004.
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