WMBD (AM)

Infobox Radio station
name = WMBD


city = Peoria, Illinois
area = Peoria, Illinois
branding = 1470 WMBD
slogan = Peoria's News and Talk Station
frequency = 1470 kHz
airdate = 1927
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format = News-talk
power = 5000 watts day/night "(2 towers day; 4 towers night)"cite web
url = http://www.fccinfo.com/CMDProFacLookup.php?sCurrentService=AM&sFacilityID=42119&tabSearchType=Facility+ID+Search
title = FCCInfo Facility Search Results: 42119
publisher = Cavell Mertz & Associates, Inc.
date = 2007-11-27
accessdate = 2007-11-28 ]
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class = B
facility_id = 42119
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affiliations = Fox News Radio
owner = Triad Broadcasting Company, LLC
licensee = Monterey Licenses, LLC
sister_stations ="Traditional:" WPBG "From 1990s": WIRL, WSWT "From 2000s": WDQX, WXCL
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website = [http://www.1470wmbd.com/ www.1470wmbd.com]

WMBD (AM) is the oldest broadcasting station in Peoria, Illinois. It broadcasts in stereofact|date=November 2007 on 1470 kHz with 5000 watts day and night, with a 2-tower pattern during the day and a 4-tower pattern at night.

The station started broadcasting in 1927. The call letters WMBD are associated with the phrase "World's Most Beautiful Drive", referring to Grandview Drive where the original station was located.

Though marketed as a news-talk station now, WMBD has traditionally been a full service radio station, broadcasting a variety of programs. Past personalities included Bob Carlton, Farmer Bill, Milton Budd, and John Williams, who is now at WGN (AM). The station always had strong agri-business coverage, and for many years had a noon farm show, which has now moved to sister station WIRL. Colleen Callahan was the long-time agriculture news director. The station was a long-time CBS radio affiliate until 2001.

Current personalities include Dan DiOrio, Greg Batton, Jamie Markley, and Phil Luciano. The station carries "The Rush Limbaugh Show" and is a radio affiliate of Fox News Radio. WMBD has broadcast Bradley University basketball games for over 60 years. Current Bradley announcer is Dave Snell who has been doing Bradley play-by-play for over 25 years. WMBD also carries St. Louis Cardinals baseball games.

Ownership

WMBD (AM) is no longer co-owned with WMBD-TV channel 31; Midwest Television, who owned WMBD (AM), WPBG, and WMBD-TV for decades, divested itself of all its stations outside of San Diego in the 1990s, selling WMBD-TV to Nexstar Broadcasting and the radio stations to JMP Radio Group, a local division of Triad Broadcasting; Triad has since bought WIRL, WSWT, WXCL, and WDQX.

References

ee also

* Grandview Drive
* WMBD-TV

External links

* [http://www.1470wmbd.com/ 1470 WMBD] — official site