WOAM

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WOAM is an AM broadcasting station in Peoria, Illinois. WOAM broadcasts on 1350 kHz with a power of 1,000 watts. The station has an adult standards/middle of the road format. The local morning show is hosted by Roger Monroe and Royce Elliot. At other times, the programming is provided by syndication service.

[edit] History

The station signed on as WEEK. Peoria's TV channel 25 was started by the owners of 1350, and to this day channel 25 retains the callsign WEEK-TV, but 1350 itself has since switched callsigns several times.

Other call letters have included WAAP, WXCL, and WTAZ. The station was most successful as WXCL (AM) with a country music format adopted in 1965. Eventually WXCL was simulcast on 104.9 (a Pekin, Illinois station which carried the callsign WXCL-FM). In the 1994 the simulcast was dropped, with WXCL-FM 104.9 keeping the country format. 1350 became WOAM with the Music of Your Life format. Veteran Peoria native/broadcaster Cliff Shell hosted a highly rated morning drive show for its first two years. WOAM also became the highest rated AM station in Peoria during its second year on the air. In 1999 the station flipped to talk as (then) sister station WTAZ in Morton, Illinois) was moved from 102.3 FM to 1350 AM. In 2001 the WTAZ call letters and format were dropped and WOAM returned using the Timeless Classics syndicated adult standards format. In 2007 WOAM switched to Dial Global's Adult Standards syndicated format.

Personalities when the station was country WXCL included Don Elliot, Lee Ranson, Chuck Urban, Bill Bro, Paul Jackson, Arlen Horn, and Jim Crowley.

The station is currently owned by Kelly Communications along with 94.3 WPMJ Chillicothe, Illinois.

[edit] External links

Unforgettable 1350 WOAM - official site

v • d • e Radio stations in the Peoria, Illinois market (Arbitron #150) (R&R info)

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By AM frequency	1020 • 1140 • 1290 • 1350 • 1470 • 1560

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