WDWS

WDWS

City	Champaign, Illinois
Broadcast area	Champaign–Urbana
Branding	News Talk 1400 DWS
Frequency	1400 kHz
First air date	January 24, 1937
Format	News Talk Information
Power	1,000 watts unlimited
Class	C
Facility ID	14961
Transmitter coordinates	40°5′4.00″N 88°14′53.00″W / 40.0844444°N 88.2480556°W / 40.0844444; -88.2480556
Callsign meaning	David W. Stevick
Affiliations	CBS Radio News , Fox Sports Radio, Premiere Radio Networks, Learfield Sports, Dial Global Radio Network, Compass Media Networks
Owner	Professional Impressions Media Group (D.W.S., Inc.)
Sister stations	WHMS, WKIO
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wdws.com

WDWS (1400 kHz AM) is a news-talk radio station in Champaign, Illinois. The station operates at 1 kW of power, and is owned by Professional Impressions Media Group along with The News-Gazette, the primary newspaper in the Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Area. The station provides news and information for the city, and agricultural information for surrounding farmland. The station broadcasts Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dave Ramsey, Kim Komando, Jim Bohannon and Bill Cunningham.

History

The station signed on for the first time on January 24, 1937 as the area's first commercial radio station. David W. Stevick, publisher of the News-Gazette, had applied for a license in 1935, and his wife Helen and daughter Marajen continued the project. They named the station WDWS in his honor. Although the station broadcasts at only 1,000 watts, the signal is easily received throughout much of east-central Illinois due to the area's flat land and near-perfect ground conductivity.

WHMS-FM, which also broadcasts from Champaign, is the sister station to WDWS, and was known as WDWS-FM for many years.

The two stations are the flagships for Illinois Fighting Illini football and basketball games; a role that WDWS has held throughout its history. Longtime sports director Jim Turpin also doubled as the radio voice of the Illini from 1960 until 2002. WDWS also airs the Illini women's basketball, volleyball, and baseball games exclusively. WDWS broadcast the Chicago Cubs in 2011, however Cubs games moved to WGKC in 2012. WDWS was the east central Illinois affiliate for the St. Louis Cardinals when it signed on until 2010.

WDWS has been a CBS Radio affiliate for its entire history, except for a period from 2001 to 2009 when it was affiliated with ABC News Radio.

The station has been carrying Rush Limbaugh's show(it started on August 1, 1988) since the mid to late 1990s. Sean Hannity was added in 2009.

WDWS is known throughout the area for its morning program, Penny for Your Thoughts. The show, hosted by Turpin, is known for its unique open-line format.

The station is also the affiliate for other Big Ten games on the radio, with most of them coming from Learfield Sports or IMG College. It also airs high school basketball games every Friday.

Notable staff

Robert Goralski
Larry Stewart^[1]
Elizabeth Hess
Dave Gentry
Greg Soulje
Brian Barnhart
Dave Loane
Brian Moline
Steve Kelly
Ed Kelly

References

↑ http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2009-10-02/larry-stewart.html

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WDWS

Radio-Locator Information on WDWS

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WDWS

Radio stations in the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois market

By AM frequency	580 1400 1460 1580

By FM frequency	88.3 88.7 89.3 90.1 90.9 91.7 92.1 92.5 93.5 94.5 95.3 95.7 96.1 97.5 97.9 98.3 99.1 99.7 100.3 101.1 102.1 102.5 103.3 (CP) 103.9 104.5 104.9 105.5 105.9 107.1 107.9

By callsign	W202CF WBCP WBGL WCZQ WDNL WDWS WEFT WGKC WGNJ WGNN (+W280DE) WHMS-FM WILL WILL-FM (+W266AF) WIXY (+W211CK +W259BG) WJEK WKIO WKJR WKZS WLHF-LP WLRW WPCD WPGU WPXN WQQB WREE WRFU-LP WSJK WWHP WYXY

Nearby radio markets Bloomington Chicago Decatur Kankakee Lafayette Springfield Terre Haute See also List of radio stations in Illinois

News/talk radio stations in the state of Illinois

All-news	WBBM – Chicago WCFS – Elmwood Park

News and talk	WAIK – Galesburg WBBA-FM – Pittsfield WBEL – South Beloit WBIG – Aurora WBGZ – Alton WCIL – Carbondale WCMY – Ottawa WCPT – Willow Springs WCRA – Effingham WCSJ – Morris WDAN – Danville WDWS – Champaign WFIW – Fairfield WGEM – Quincy WGFA – Watseka WGIL – Galesburg WGN – Chicago WGNU – Granite City WHOW – Clinton WIND – Chicago WINI – Murphysboro WJBC – Bloomington WJBM – Jerseyville WJOL – Joliet WJPF – Herrin WKAN – Kankakee WKEI – Kewanee WKYX – Golconda WLBK – DeKalb WLMD - Bushnell WLS – Chicago WMIX – Mount Vernon WRHL – Rochelle WRMN – Elgin WROK – Rockford WRPW – Colfax WSDR – Sterling WSDZ – Belleville WSOY – Decatur WTAD – Quincy WTAX – Springfield WTIM – Assumption WTRH – Ramsey WWHP - Farmer City WZOE – Princeton WZUS – Macon

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Illinois

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