WMOH (1450 AM "The Ticket") is a

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Hamilton, Ohio Hamilton is a city in and the county seat of Butler County, Ohio, United States. Located north of Cincinnati, Hamilton is the second largest city in the Greater Cincinnati area and the 10th largest city in Ohio. The population was 63,399 at th ...

, and serving the

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. It broadcasts a mixed

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and

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and is owned by Vernon R. Baldwin, Inc. WMOH is powered at 1,000

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s around the clock, using a

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. The

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s and

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are on Fairgrove Avenue in Hamilton.Radio-Locator.com/WMOH
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Programming

Weekdays begin with a local talk and information show with Chris Theiss and Steve Vaughn. That's followed by syndicated

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shows from

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and

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with a break at noon for the

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's sports oriented program. Late nights and weekends feature

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programming. AM 1450 is the

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for

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and basketball, from the Ohio-based

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. WMOH is also the Cincinnati affiliate for the

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team and carries Butler County

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and basketball games as well.

History

On August 15, 1944, WMOH

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the air. Its founder and original owner/operator was Fort Hamilton Broadcasting. WMOH added an FM station in 1959, now

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-owned 103.5

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. Both stations went to separate ownership in the 1970s. In the 1950s and 1960s, WMOH maintained a

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middle of the road format before switching to contemporary hits in the 1970s. Around the mid-1980s, the station moved to a mix of

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, talk and sports, until it eliminated the music in the 1990s, switching to all-sports. The station had been Cincinnati's affiliate for

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until July 2007, when ESPN switched to

WSAI WSAI (1360 AM) is a Cincinnati, Ohio commercial radio station. Owned and operated by iHeartMedia, its studios, as well as those of iHeartMedia's other Cincinnati stations, are in the Towers of Kenwood building next to I-71 in the Kenwood secti ...

. WMOH has since become more of a mixed news and sports talk station, featuring talk shows from

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, and

. WMOH serves as the flagship radio station for Miami (Ohio) University athletics, and broadcasts local high school baseball, basketball, and football games. Since January 2008, WMOH has featured its own morning news and sports talks show, hosted by Chris Theiss and long-time WMOH employee Steve Vaughn.

References

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