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Check Facts[edit]

So much of this article is wrong I don't know where to begin. (At least the callsign is right.) 121a0012 03:05, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are you troll fishing? Nearly all of this information is from various published histories of WOWO, such as here. Which facts are you challenging? Please itemize below with your alternative version. —Optikos 03:04, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Text is basically correct. My complaint was putting Art Salzberg up with Bob Seivers and Bob Chase. He was not a part of the Westinghouse great days and thus should not be included. WOWO Historian

Correction/clarification needed: Apparently WOWO was the first station "wholly owned" by Westinghouse Electric's then-new subsidiary, Westinghouse Broadcasting. But the way it's stated here is misleading -- as, of course, Westinghouse had built and continued to own several other pioneer radio stations, starting with KDKA, Pittsburgh, in 1920. The unofficial WOWO history Web site also makes this statement, but mentions that it was the first licensed to the subsidiary. In general, this "first" is meaningless trivia. I don't know why anyone would bother mentioning it. Also, when WOWO was discontinued as a Class A ("clear channel") station under the FCC rules because its nighttime power was reduced, WLIB did not in any way take over that status. WLIB is a Class B station that, unlike Class A stations, has no protection from interference for its nighttime, long-distance skywave signal. A footnote: WOWO was the last clear-channel station designated by the FCC when it increased its power in 1954 -- and the first to be discontinued.99.30.233.255 (talk) 06:51, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ironies[edit]

Isn't it ironic that WOWO was powered down to make room for Air America WLIB? --AlexDW 15:51, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't mix the timeline too much. WOWO was reduced from clear channel nearly a decade before Air America existed. —optikos 19:17, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Current Programming Schedule[edit]

As I see it, having the current programming schedule listed violates WP:NOT#DIRECTORY (Section 3) Wanted to get other thoughts on this. Acronjsmith 20:41, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

text moved here from Fort Wayne, Indiana[edit]

The following text was moved here from the main Fort Wayne article because it is not about Fort Wayne. - Davodd 20:10, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WOWO was one of the original Westinghouse stations, a 50,000 watt clear channel AM station heard all over the eastern seaboard. In 1992 Hurricane Andrew knocked off many radio stations in South Florida and WOWO was one of the stations Floridians could hear updated news of the Hurricane. WOWO was also well known in the 70's and 80's for it's extensive Indiana sports, agriculture and weather coverage. In the mid 1990's the signal was downgraded to 9,200 watts allowing station WLIB New York extend it's coverage. WOWO and WLIB share the same frequency and WOWO's dominant 50,000 watt signal prevented WLIB from extending it's coverage without a downgrade of WOWO's grandfathered signal.