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City	San Antonio, Texas
Broadcast area	; San Antonio metropolitan area, South Texas;
Branding	Newsradio 1200 WOAI
Slogan	"San Antonio's News, Traffic and Weather Station"
Frequency	1200 kHz (also on HD Radio);
First air date	September 25, 1922
Format	News/Talk
Language(s)	English
Power	50,000 watts;
Class	A
Facility ID	11952
Transmitter coordinates	29°30′7.6″N 98°7′43.7″W / 29.502111°N 98.128806°W / 29.502111; -98.128806
Callsign meaning	; World Of Agriculture Information;
Affiliations	; Premiere Networks; Fox News Radio; Spurs Radio Network; Texas Longhorns Football; The Weather Channel;
Owner	; iHeartMedia, Inc. ; (CC Licenses, LLC);
Sister stations	; KXXM, KAJA, KQXT-FM, KRPT, KZEP-FM;
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	WOAI.com

WOAI (1200 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in San Antonio, Texas. It is owned and operated by San Antonio-based iHeartMedia, Inc., and it airs a news/talk radio format. WOAI is the flagship station for iHeartMedia. Its studios are located off Interstate 10 in Northwest San Antonio near Wonderland of the Americas Mall.

WOAI is known as the "50,000 Watt Blowtorch" of South Texas.^[2] It is a Class A, clear-channel station broadcasting at the maximum power of 50,000 watts. Its non-directonal antenna is off Santa Clara Road in Zuehl, Texas. In the daytime, WOAI covers most of Central and South Texas. At night, using a good radio, WOAI can be heard over much of the United States and Mexico, and parts of Central Canada.

Programming

WOAI airs a mix of local and nationally syndicated talk shows. Weekdays begin with "San Antonio's First News" with Charlie Parker. That's followed by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Berry (based at co-owned KTRH Houston), Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal. Joe Pagliarulo, known on the air as "Joe Pags," hosts a syndicated talk show in PM drive time based at WOAI. Weekends feature shows on money, health, gardening, the outdoors, home repair, technology and cars, some of which are paid brokered programming. Weekend hosts include Kim Komando and Bill Cunningham.

WOAI's local news operation features market veteran Jim Forsyth, Charity McCurdy, Cari Laque and Michael Board. It is a Fox News Radio network affiliate. WOAI serves as the flagship station of the San Antonio Spurs radio network. It also airs Texas Longhorns Football.

History

Early Years

WOAI signed on the air on September 25, 1922. At first it broadcast on 1190 kilocycles with only 500 watts. Over the next several years WOAI was issued permits by the Federal Radio Commission to move the transmitter site and increase its power from 500 to 1,000 watts; then to 2,000 watts, and then 5,000; and finally to 50,000 watts in 1930. During The Golden Age of Radio, WOAI was an NBC Red Network affiliate, airing its schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows, children's shows and big band broadcasts.^[3] For more than four decades, WOAI was owned by Southland Industries, Inc.

Because it went on the air in the earliest days of broadcasting, the station's call sign begins with a "W." Stations in Texas were assigned W call signs before 1923, when the dividing line moved from the Texas-New Mexico border to the Mississippi River. Both WOAI-TV and briefly WOAI-FM were later allowed to use the call sign as well. WOAI and WOAI-TV are currently the westernmost stations to have "W" call signs.

Clear Channel Status

In 1941, WOAI was moved to clear channel frequency 1200 kHz. This meant that WOAI was the only high power non-directional station that could be licensed on its frequency in the United States. In fact, until the 1980s, it was the only station of any power licensed to 1200 kHz in the United States or Canada. This was part of an early federal emergency plan similar to today's Emergency Alert System. In the 1940s, WOAI developed a sizable agricultural department and the station aired frequent farm market reports.

In 1949, WOAI-TV came on the air as San Antonio's first TV station. Because WOAI Radio was an NBC affiliate, Channel 4 was primarily an NBC-TV station, although it also carried some programs from CBS, ABC and Dumont.

In 1956, a Boeing B-29 collided with the tower, destroying it. The aircraft made a crash landing, and one person was killed.^[4] As network programming moved from radio to television in the 1950s, WOAI switched to a full service middle of the road music format, with frequent newscasts, farm reports and sports.

Ownership Changes

In 1965, WOAI-FM-TV were acquired by the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, originally founded in Ohio by Powel Crosley Jr.^[5] Crosley Broadcasting changed its name to Avco in 1968.

On June 13, 1975, San Antonio businessmen L. Lowry Mays and BJ "Red" McCombs founded Clear Channel Communications by acquiring the WOAI radio from Avco Broadcasting.^[6] They already owned easy listening FM station KEEZ (now KAJA), acquired in 1972, and switched to a Top 40 format. Meanwhile, Avco sold WOAI-TV to United Stations which changed the call sign to KMOL-TV.

Switch to Talk Programming

Through the 1970s, WOAI had been adding more talk programming. It stopped playing music by the late 1970s. In 1979, KEEZ switched its call letters to WOAI-FM. But in 1981, it became Country Music station KAJA "KJ*97."

Through the 1980s, WOAI relied more on its newsroom and focused on local and national news, local talk shows and agricultural reports. WOAI also began including sports play-by-play, especially after acquiring the radio contract for all San Antonio Spurs NBA games. WOAI was the radio home of the San Antonio Gunslingers in the United States Football League (USFL).

In 1998, Clear Channel acquired the parent company of Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicated national talk shows such as Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura, Dr. Dean Edell, The Jim Rome Show and Coast to Coast AM. Rush and Dr. Laura had already been airing in San Antonio on competitor AM 550 KTSA and were switched over to WOAI's line up. WOAI news anchor Bob Guthrie celebrated 50 years on the radio station in 2006.

In 2001, Clear Channel acquired Channel 4 KMOL-TV San Antonio from Chris-Craft Industries. KMOL-TV had been WOAI-TV from its founding in 1949 until its sale in 1974. In December 2002, Clear Channel was granted permition from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to change the TV station's call sign back to WOAI-TV. The TV station has since been sold twice, to Newport Television and then to current owner Sinclair Broadcast Group.

In May 2012, WOAI added an FM simulcast on translator station K289BN at 105.7 MHz. The simulcast lasted only four months. On September 19, 2012, the 105.7 signal broke away from the simulcast to rebroadcast co-owned classic country station 92.5 KRPT. [1]

Clear Channel Becomes iHeart

On September 16, 2014, Clear Channel renamed itself iHeartMedia, Inc., to bring its corporate name in line with its iHeartRadio internet platform.^[7]^[8] WOAI audio streaming is available on through iHeartRadio.

Personnel

News: Charity McCurdy, Cari Laque, Megan Bishop, Jim Forsyth (News Director), Michael Board

Sports: Bill Schoening (Spurs Play-by-Play), Chris Duel (Host of Spurs post game "React")

Management: Breeanna Malik, President and Market Manager; Brian Gann (Director of AM Programming); Jim Forsyth (News Director)

Former staff: Tom Rickhoff (hosted "Judge Rickhoff On the Law"), Barclay Russell, Bob Guthrie, Jay Howard, Chris Russell, Jack Riccardi, Chris Duel, Carl Wiglesworth, Bill McReynolds, Henry Guerra, George Jennings, Pat Rogers, John Rooke, Allan Dale, Matari Jones, Steve Soliz, Paul Ihander, Eliza Sonneland, Ed Chandler, Michael Snell, John Stewart Socha (hosted the "Morning Report"), Jenna Rush (traffic), Lauri Pearson (traffic), Betsy Britton (traffic), Jack Berch^[9]

References

^ http://nelson.oldradio.com/origins.call-list.html

^ http://www.woai.com/pages/woaihistory.html

^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1935 page 58

^ http://ethw.org/WOAI_San_Antonio_Texas

^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1968 page B-165

^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-211

^ Sisario, Ben (September 16, 2014). "Clear Channel Renames Itself iHeartMedia, in an Embrace of the Digital". NYTimes.com. Retrieved August 13, 2017. CC Media Holdings, for example, the overall corporation, will be renamed iHeartMedia Inc., and Clear Channel Communications, its major subsidiary, will become iHeartCommunications..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

^ Press Release (September 16, 2014). "Clear Channel Becomes iHeartMedia". ClearChannel.com. iHeartMedia. Archived from the original on September 18, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2017. Effective today, CC Media Holdings, Inc. (OTCCB: CCMO) will become iHeartMedia, Inc. In connection with the company's new brand, the company's ticker symbol will also change, effective September 17. Of the company's major businesses, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment will become iHeartMedia; other company brands, including iHeartRadio, Premiere Networks, Total Traffic and Weather Network, Katz Media Group and RCS, will retain their current names.

^ "Births". Billboard. April 17, 1948. p. 44. Retrieved 2 December 2015.

External links

WOAI Radio

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Query the FCC's AM station database for WOAI

Radio-Locator Information on WOAI

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WOAI

[1] ttp://nelson.oldradio.com/origins.call-list.html

[2] ttp://www.woai.com/pages/woaihistory.html

[3] Broadcasting Yearbook 1935 page 58

[4] ttp://ethw.org/WOAI_San_Antonio_Texas

[5] Broadcasting Yearbook 1968 page B-165

[6] Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-211

[7] Sisario, Ben (September 16, 2014). "Clear Channel Renames Itself iHeartMedia, in an Embrace of the Digital". NYTimes.com. Retrieved August 13, 2017. CC Media Holdings, for example, the overall corporation, will be renamed iHeartMedia Inc., and Clear Channel Communications, its major subsidiary, will become iHeartCommunications..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

[8] Press Release (September 16, 2014). "Clear Channel Becomes iHeartMedia". ClearChannel.com. iHeartMedia. Archived from the original on September 18, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2017. Effective today, CC Media Holdings, Inc. (OTCCB: CCMO) will become iHeartMedia, Inc. In connection with the company's new brand, the company's ticker symbol will also change, effective September 17. Of the company's major businesses, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment will become iHeartMedia; other company brands, including iHeartRadio, Premiere Networks, Total Traffic and Weather Network, Katz Media Group and RCS, will retain their current names.

[9] "Births". Billboard. April 17, 1948. p. 44. Retrieved 2 December 2015.

v t e Radio stations in the San Antonio, Texas market
by AM frequency	550 630 680 720 760 810 860 930 990 1000² 1100 1130 1160 1200¹ 1250 1280 1310 1350 1380 1420 1450 1460 1480 1540 1580
by FM frequency	88.3 89.1 89.7 90.1 90.9 91.3 91.5 91.7 92.1 92.1 92.5 92.9 93.3 93.7 94.1 94.7 95.1 95.7 96.1 96.9 96.9 97.3 97.7 97.9 98.5 98.9 99.5 100.3 101.1 101.9 102.3 102.3 102.7 103.1 103.3 103.7 104.1 104.5 104.9 105.3 105.7 105.9 106.3 106.7 107.5
Digital radio	91.7-1 94.1-1 94.1-2 95.1-1 95.1-2 96.1-1 97.3-1 98.5-1 98.5-2 99.5-1 99.5-2 100.3-1 100.3-2 101.1-1 101.1-2 101.1-3 101.9-1 101.9-2 101.9-3 104.5-1 104.5-2 104.5-3 105.3-1 105.3-2 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.5-1 107.5-2
NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.450 (Kerrville) 162.475 (Seguin) 162.525 (D'Hanis) 162.550 (San Antonio)
by callsign	K227BH K229BJ K289BN K277CX KAHL KAHL-FM KAJA KAML KAMX KAWZ KBBT KBIB KCAF-FM KCHL KCJV-LP KCOR KCTI KCWM KCYY KDRY KEDA KGNB KHHL KISS-FM KJMA KJXK KKYX KLEY-FM KLMO-FM KLUP KMFR KMLR-FM KMYO KNBT KONO KONO-FM KPAC KPPC-LP KQXT-FM KRDY KROM KRPT KRTU-FM KSAH KSAH-FM KSAQ KSLR KSMG KSTX KSYM-FM KTFM KTKR KTKX KTMR KTSA KWED KWMF KXXM KXTJ-LP KXTN-FM KYFS KYTY KZAR KZDC KZEP-FM WNG600 WNG641 WOAI¹ WWF90 WXK67
Nearby radio markets Austin Corpus Christi Houston Kerrville–Fredericksburg Kingsville–Alice–Falfurrias Laredo Victoria See also List of radio stations in Texas ¹ = Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage. ² = Daytime-only AM radio station.

v t e News/Talk radio stations in Texas
All-News	KRLD – Dallas
News & Talk	KBDT – Highland Park KBRA – Freer KCOX – Jasper KCRS – Midland/Odessa KDET – Center KERA – Dallas KEXB – Dallas KFNA – Winters KFJZ – Fort Worth KFXR – Dallas KFYO – Lubbock KGKL – San Angelo KGNC – Amarillo KIXZ – Amarillo KJCE – Rollingwood KJDL – Lubbock KJTV – Lubbock KKAM – Lubbock KKSA – San Angelo KKTX – Corpus Christi KLBJ – Austin KLIF – Dallas KLUP – Terrell Hills KLVI – Beaumont KMNY – Hurst KNTH – Houston KPLT – Paris KPYN – Atlanta KRDY – San Antonio KROO - Breckenridge KSEV – Tomball KSFA – Nacogdoches KSKY – Balch Springs KSWA - Graham KTBB – Tyler KTBB-FM – Troup KTEK – Alvin KTMR – Edna KTRH – Houston KTSA – San Antonio KTSM – El Paso KUHF – Houston KURV – Edinburg KUTX – Leander KVNN – Victoria KVOP – Plainview KWEL – Midland/Odessa KWFS – Wichita Falls KWKC – Abilene KWTX – Waco KXYL – Brownwood KXYL-FM – Coleman WBAP – Fort Worth WOAI – San Antonio WTAW – College Station
See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Texas

v t e iHeartMedia
Corporate officers	Bob Pittman (Chairman/CEO)
Board of directors	Lowry Mays Irving Azoff B. J. "Red" McCombs J. C. Watts John H. Williams
Radio stations	List of radio stations owned by iHeartMedia
Radio networks	Evolution Fox Sports Radio Premiere Networks Premium Choice Total Traffic and Weather Network
Miscellaneous	Clear Channel Outdoor Clear Channel UK HowStuffWorks iHeartRadio List of programming syndicated by iHeartMedia Mediabase Radio Computing Services

v t e Clear-channel stations
These AM radio stations have a full-power nighttime skywave signal well beyond their daytime groundwave coverage, by international agreements.
Canada	CBEF CBK CBN CBR CBT CBW CBY CFRB CFTR CFZM CJBC CKAC CKDO CKGM CKWX
United States	KAAY KBBI KBRW KBYR KCBF KCHU KDKA KDLG KENI KEX KFAB KFAQ KFAR KFBK KFI KFQD KGO KICY KIRO KJNP KMOX KNBR KNOM KNX KNZR KOA KOAN KOKC KOMO KOTZ KRLD KSL KSTP KVNT KWKH KXEL KYUK KYW WABC WBAL WBAP WBBM WBBR WBT WBZ WCBS WCCO WCKY WFAN WFED WFME WGN WGY WHAM WHAS WHO WJR WLAC WLS WLW WMVP WOAI WOR WPHT WRVA WSB WSCR WSM WTAM WTIC WWKB WWL WWVA
Mexico	XEB XEEP XEG XEMR XEPRS XEQ XERF XEROK XEW XEWA XEWK XEWW XEX
Bahamas	ZNS-1
By frequency	540 (SK) 540 (NL) 540 (S.L.P.) 640 (NL) 640 (CA) 640 (AK) 650 (AK) 650 (TN) 660 (AK) 660 (NY) 670 (AK) 670 (IL) 680 (AK) 680 (CA) 680 (ON) 690 (B.C.) 690 (QC) 700 (AK) 700 (OH) 710 (WA) 710 (NY) 720 (AK) 720 (IL) 730 (QC) 730 (CDMX) 740 (ON) 750 (AK) 750 (GA) 760 (MI) 770 (AK) 770 (NY) 780 (AK) 780 (IL) 800 (Chih.) 810 (CA) 810 (NY) 820 (AK) 820 (TX) 830 (MN) 840 (KY) 850 (AK) 850 (CO) 860 (ON) 870 (LA) 880 (NY) 890 (AK) 890 (IL) 900 (CDMX) 940 (CDMX) 990 (MB) 990 (NL) 1000 (IL) 1000 (WA) 1010 (AB) 1010 (ON) 1020 (AK) 1020 (PA) 1030 (MA) 1040 (IA) 1050 (N.L.) 1060 (PA) 1060 (CDMX) 1070 (CA) 1080 (AK) 1080 (CT) 1080 (TX) 1090 (AR) 1090 (MD) 1090 (B.C.) 1100 (OH) 1110 (NC) 1110 (NE) 1120 (MO) 1130 (BC) 1130 (LA) 1130 (NY) 1140 (VA) 1140 (N.L.) 1160 (UT) 1170 (AK) 1170 (OK) 1170 (WV) 1180 (NY) 1190 (OR) 1190 (Jal.) 1200 (TX) 1210 (PA) 1220 (CDMX) 1500 (DC) 1500 (MN) 1510 (TN) 1520 (NY) 1520 (OK) 1530 (CA) 1530 (OH) 1540 (IA) 1540 (Bah.) 1550 (ON) 1560 (CA) 1560 (NY) 1570 (Coah.) 1580 (ON)
See also Daytime-only radio stations

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