WFNI 1070 Indianapolis To Leave The Air August 2.

[Kennelly Heaviside]

Arguably Indiana's most powerful AM station, at 50 kW Day/10 kW Night, WFNI 1070 will leave the air August 2, with no definitive plan to return to the air. Another sad chapter in the history of Indiana Radio. It was the legendary WIBC until 2007.

[WOHO]

Damnitallanyhow. Nobody to rescue the other Indiana 50KW station? WIBC- too close to make it a clone of WSM.

[FakeAndyStuart]

1070 for decades was to Indy what WJR was to Detroit in terms of brand perception.

Sorry, MW, but those decades ended over a decade ago. WIBC took over 93.1 FM in 2007, with all sports going on 1070AM right away. And as soon as they could, "107.5 The Fan" dropped all mention of AM.



This actually marked one of the first FM's to feature Rush Limbaugh... without doing any research, I'll bet it's the only Nielsen PPM market where Limbaugh is exclusvily on FM. This is only a shock to the system of people like the poster above you, who is SO stuck in the past, I'll bet still types out posts on a flip phone.

[FakeAndyStuart]

Damnitallanyhow. Nobody to rescue the other Indiana 50KW station? WIBC- too close to make it a clone of WSM.

Couple of points - 50K Day only - 10K Night, both signals highly directional, no real listenership outside of Indy for years.

"Clone of WSM"? What could you possibly mean by that? WIBC is alive and healthy on FM. There is truly nothing at 1070 left to save.

[zzand]

They dropped Limbaugh quite a while ago so they could go with a local host. Limbaugh fans had to turn to WOWO to listen daily.

[ftballfan]

Damnitallanyhow. Nobody to rescue the other Indiana 50KW station? WIBC- too close to make it a clone of WSM.

Couple of points - 50K Day only - 10K Night, both signals highly directional, no real listenership outside of Indy for years.

"Clone of WSM"? What could you possibly mean by that? WIBC is alive and healthy on FM. There is truly nothing at 1070 left to save.

Wasn't 1070 50kW night until a few years ago?

[tymunes]

Rush was on WNDE 1260, a sports station.

[JGP1954]

Does this make that frequency up for grabs?

[Kennelly Heaviside]

Does this make that frequency up for grabs?

No. Let them apply for an STA location to broadcast from in the mean time, and a workable CP, even with flea power at Night. Then make them a reasonable offer.