WSRW (1590 AM) is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

broadcasting a

classic hits Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 1980s ...

format. Licensed to

Hillsboro, Ohio Hillsboro is a city in and the county seat of Highland County, Ohio, United States approximately 35 mi (56 km) west of Chillicothe, and 50 miles east of Cincinnati. The population was 6,605 at the 2010 census. History Hillsboro was p ...

, United States, WSRW is branded as "WSRW 101.5," utilizing the frequency of their FM translator, W268CC (101.5 FM), also licensed to Hillsboro. The station is currently owned by

iHeartMedia, Inc. iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc.), a company fou ...

and features programming from their

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network and

Premiere Radio Networks Premiere Networks (formerly Premiere Radio Networks, shortened as PRN) is an American media company, a wholly owned subsidiary of iHeartMedia, for which it currently serves as its main original radio content distribution and production arm. It ...

. Prior to December 26, 2015, WSRW operated as a full-time simulcast of

WCHO-FM WCHO-FM (105.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. The station is licensed to Washington Court House, Ohio, in the United States. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., through licensee iHM Licenses, LLC, and featur ...

as "Buckeye Country 105.5." Willard Parr - then a sergeant with the Hillsboro police department - joined WSRW as it was still being built in January 1956, and was the first voice heard as the station began broadcasting that July 17. Parr has remained with WSRW throughout its entire existence, and is still heard on the station every weekday morning. Cleveland-area radio broadcaster

Chuck Collier Charles Collier (May 6, 1947—September 22, 2011) was a radio personality, best known for his many years at radio stations WGAR (AM) and WGAR-FM in Cleveland, Ohio. Early life Collier was born on May 6, 1947 in Greenfield, Ohio, and as a boy ...

, a Hillsboro native, began his broadcast career at WSRW.http://www.timesgazette.com/print.asp?ArticleID=136638&SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1 Collier later voice-tracked for WSRW's previous classic country format before his death in October 2011. File:WSRW1.JPG, WSRW radio station located south of Hillsboro, Ohio. Once nicknamed "The Little Red Barn". File:WSRW2.JPG, Buckeye Country 105.5 FM (1590 AM) sign at WSRW.

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