WILB (AM)

WILB

Broadcast area	Canton, Ohio
Frequency	1060 kHz
First air date	1946 as WCMW
Format	Religious (Catholic)
Power	15,000 watts day 15,000 watts critical hours
Class	D
Callsign meaning	Living Bread (Branding)
Affiliations	EWTN Radio
Owner	Living Bread Radio
Webcast	WILB Live Feed
Website	www.livingbreadradio.com

WILB is an AM radio station in Canton, Ohio, USA, that offers Catholic programming. The station broadcasts daytime only with a power of 15,000 watts on 1060 kHz. Much of the station's programming is supplied by EWTN Radio.

Because WILB shares the same frequency as "clear channel" station KYW in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it broadcasts only during the daytime hours. However, much of the programming webcasts 24 hours daily.

Much of the same programming is heard on sister station WILB-FM, licensed to Boardman, Ohio, and serving the Youngstown market. WILB-FM began operations in March 2012 as a new sign-on.

History

The station was founded in 1946 by Stark Broadcasting Co. as WCMW, which established WCMW-FM at about the same time on 94.9 MHz. The FM station went off the air around 1953, and the frequency went unused until 1960 when WDBN (now WQMX) signed on. By 1961 the AM station had become WHOF, and it was a Top 40 outlet in the early 1960s.

In 1967 the call letters were changed again, this time to WOIO. After going through several more format changes, it once again became a Top 40 station in the fall of 1976 as WQIO (using the slogan "Q-10") and was successful for the next few years in the waning days of AM Top 40 radio, drawing the highest ratings in the history of the station, and driving competitor WINW-AM (also a daytime station) out of the format. When 106.9 FM in Canton (co-owned with WINW) changed to WOOS with an automated Top 40 format in 1978, WQIO's days as a Top 40 radio station were numbered, and by the fall of 1979 it began to head in a more adult contemporary direction.

In 1980, WQIO filed an application with the FCC to move the station from Canton to Canal Fulton, and broadcast full-time on 1070 kHz with 1,000 watts daytime and 500 watts nighttime. While this would have allowed WQIO to operate 24 hours a day, a Pittsburgh station also applied for the same frequency, and neither of the applications were granted, nor was WQIO able to acquire an FM station (it had passed on the chance to acquire 106.9, which went to WINW, and later pursued 95.9 in New Philadelphia, Ohio with an eye towards moving its tower closer to Canton, but was unsuccessful). Faltering in the ratings, WQIO switched to a short-lived country music format in 1981, but soon was put up for sale.

The station was purchased by Arcey Broadcasting, which changed the call letters to WRCW on June 14, 1982. The RC in the Arcey name and the call letters came from the initials of owner Ronald D. Colaner, who had joined the station in 1965 as a part-time engineer. Over the years, WRCW ran a varied mixture of talk shows and adult contemporary music, as well as specialty programming on weekends, most notably an oldies show hosted by local personality Ricco that ran for 18 years (Ricco later landed at WDPN) and a live Sunday-morning broadcast featuring the South Land Gospel Boys that had aired since the early 1960s.

In 1998 Arcey tried to sell the station to Otter Communications, headed by Dan Ott of Youngstown, but the sale did not go through. The call sign was briefly changed to WTOF on December 7, 1998, but it was changed back to WRCW on February 1, 1999. After 22 years, Arcey Broadcasting finally sold the station to Living Bread Radio for $300,000 in April 2004 , and it became WILB on July 1, 2004, adopting a Catholic-oriented format.

External links

Living Bread Radio

Query the FCC's AM station database for WILB

Radio-Locator Information on WILB

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WILB

Radio stations in the Canton, Ohio market

By AM frequency	960 990 1060 1310 1450 1480 1520 1540

By FM frequency	88.7 89.3 90.1 90.9 90.9 91.1 91.5 92.5 94.1 95.3 95.9 99.9 101.7 104.5 106.9

By callsign	WBTC WCWS-FM WDJQ WDPN WHBC WHBC-FM WHOF WILB WINW WJDD WJEE WJER WKLM WKRJ WKRW WKVX WNPQ WOFN WQKT WRMU-FM WRQK-FM WTIG WTUZ

Defunct	WCER (900 AM)

Ohio radio markets Akron Canton Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dayton Lima Marietta Toledo Youngstown–Warren Other Ohio radio regions Ashtabula Ironton Mid-Ohio Sandusky Southern Ohio Wheeling/Steubenville See also List of radio stations in Ohio

Religious radio stations in the state of Ohio

Stations	WAKW – Cincinnati WAOM – Mowrystown WAUI – Shelby WBCJ – Spencerville WBCY – Archbold WBIE – Delphos WBJV – Steubenville WCBV-LP – Lima WCCD – Parma/Cleveland WCCR – Cleveland WCNW – Fairfield WCRF-FM – Cleveland WCUE – Cuyahoga Falls/Akron WCVJ – Jefferson WCVV – Belpre WEEC – Springfield WFCJ – Miamisburg WFCO – Lancaster WFOT – Lexington WGOJ – Conneaut WGRI – Cincinnati WHSS -Hamilton WHJM – Anna WHKW – Cleveland WHKZ – Warren/Youngstown WHRQ – Sandusky WHVT – Clyde WHVY – Coshocton WILB – Canton WJDD – Carrollton WJEE – Bolivar WJFY-LP – Newark WJHE – Heath WJIC – Zanesville WJJE – Delaware WJTA – Glandorf/Leipsic WJTB – North Ridgeville/Cleveland WJYM – Bowling Green/Toledo WKCD – Cedarville WKJA – Brunswick WLRU-LP – Hillsboro WNHC-LP – Lima WNKL – Wauseon/Toledo WNOC – Bowling Green/Toledo WNOP – Newport/Cincinnati WNWT – Rossford/Toledo WOFN – Beach City WOHC – Chillicothe WOTL – Toledo WQRP – Dayton WRFD – Columbus-Worthington WRRO – Edon/Bryan WSHB – Willard WSJG -Tiffin WTGN – Lima WTLL-LP – Zanesville WTPG – Whitehouse WTTP-LP – Lima WUKV – Portsmouth WULM – Springfield/Dayton WVML – Millersburg WVMS – Sandusky WVSG -Columbus WWOW – Conneaut WWTL-LP – Logan WWYC – Toledo WXMF – Marion WXML – Upper Sandusky WXMW – Sycamore WYFY – Cambridge WYTN – Youngstown WYWH-LP – Athens WZCP – Chillicothe WZLP – Loudonville WZWP – West Union WYLR – Hubbard/Youngstown

Defunct	WCER – Canton

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Ohio See also Classical Jazz Religious Spanish Smooth Jazz Other

Daytime-Only radio stations in Ohio

Stations	WAIS - Buchtel WASN - Youngstown WBCO - Bucyrus WBZI - Xenia WCCD - Parma WCNW - Fairfield WDAO - Dayton WEDI - Eaton WGFT - Campbell WILB - Canton WINW - Canton WJMP - Kent WJTB - North Ridgeville WKFI - Wilmington WKTX - Cortland WLGN - Logan WLKR - Norwalk WPTW - Piqua WRFD - Columbus-Worthington WTNS - Coshocton WWGK - Cleveland WXIC - Waverly WYCL - Niles

Defunct	WAST - Ashtabula WATJ - Chardon

Coordinates: 40°50′03″N 81°25′48″W / 40.83417°N 81.43000°W / 40.83417; -81.43000

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