WEOA (1400 AM) is a

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licensed to and serving the

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market. The transmitter is located near the interchange of I-69 and Weinbach Avenue in Evansville.

History

1400 AM originally was WEOA (Evansville On the Air) then changed to WROZ, a Top 40 station in the 1960s with top personalities such as Charlie Shoe, Jack Etzel, Mark Clark, Steve Walling, and Johnny Carr, and

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in the 1970s and 1980s with top personalities: Tiny Hughes and Jim Embry. After WROZ left, 1400 became a simulcast of then WJPS-FM (now

WLFW WLFW is a Southern gospel-formatted radio station located in Johnston, South Carolina, and is part of the Augusta, Georgia, radio market (mostly on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River). The station is licensed by the Federal Communicat ...

93.5). In 1997, a group of African American investors approached

South Central Communications South Central Incorporated (Formally South Central Communications) is a privately owned company based in Evansville, Indiana, and owned and operated by the Engelbrecht family: John D. Engelbrecht (President & CEO), JP Engelbrecht (Vice-President & ...

about leasing the frequency for an

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format. South Central agreed. For 10 years, WEOA would be the only urban station in the Evansville area until August 2007 when CHR/Pop

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shifted to Urban. The

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with BLS Entertainment lasted until 2009, when BLS bought the station outright for $175,000. On March 19, 2018, WEOA changed its format from urban adult contemporary to urban contemporary, branded as "98.5 WEOA".WEOA Flips to Hip Hop
Radioinsight - March 19, 2018

Current programming

WEOA runs the ABC Radio's syndicated

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Morning Show and the ABC Touch Urban AC feed, although they do locally program some hours of hip hop, notably on Friday and Saturday nights.

References

External links

FCC History Cards for WEOA
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History

Current programming

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