WDMN

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WDMN
City of license Rossford, Ohio
Broadcast area Toledo, Ohio
Branding Dominion 1520 AM
Frequency 1520 kHz
Format Contemporary Christian
Power 500 watts day
400 watts night
Class B
Facility ID 40858
Transmitter Coordinates 41°30′32.00″N 83°33′7.00″W / 41.5088889, -83.5519444
Former callsigns WVOI (1981-1998)
Affiliations CNN Radio
Owner Cornerstone Church, Inc.
Sister stations WNKL, WMNT-CA

WDMN (1520 AM, "Dominion 1520 AM") is an American radio station licensed to Rossford, Ohio, and serving the Toledo, Ohio, area. Until April 2008, it was a Christian and Gospel formatted radio station. The station is owned and operated by Cornerstone Church in Maumee, Ohio.

[edit] History

1520 kHz in Toledo, Ohio has a long and storied past. In the late 1960s, 1520 was known as WTTO - a Top 40 station to compete with WOHO, Toledo and CKLW, Windsor, Ontario. In the 1970s, the station adopted the call sign WTUU and featured modern country music as "Fun Country W15-2". Later incarnations included an all news radio format, an urban music format with the call letters WVOI, and a religious format that featured a daily "Radio Rosary". Another call sign change came along, then later the calls were changed to the current WDMN with the Cornerstone Church ownership.

The station was unusual in that it had two different transmitter and tower sites for many years, located in two different states. Daytime broadcasts were from the transmitter and towers located on Jackman Road in Bedford, Michigan, and nighttime broadcasts were from a straight row of 6 towers (parallel to I-75 near the Ohio Turnpike) in Perrysburg Township, Ohio. The current site is also in Perrysburg Township, but Southeast of the original decaying tower array.[1]

WDMN is the Toledo affiliate for the Cleveland Browns and the Columbus Blue Jackets.

As of early May 2008, Toledo-area listeners report that WDMN has apparently ended its "Dominion 1520" format and is airing a combination of conservative talk radio programming, smooth jazz and easy listening music, and some sports programming. Whether this is a stunt or indicative of a permanent programming direction for the station is still unclear.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tower Site Hunting from the Air
  2. ^ The Toledo Free Press - A tradition for Toledo's future

[edit] External links


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