medina county branding am 930 weol slogan news . sports . talk . frequency 930 khz first air date october 17 1948 format news talk sports power 1 000 watts daytime 1 000 watts nighttime class b facility id 19463 transmitter coordinates 41 16 10.00 n 82 00 16.00 w 41.2694444 n 82.0044444 w 41.2694444 ; 82.0044444 callsign meaning elyria lorain 1 affiliations cleveland cavaliers radio network cleveland indians radio network columbus blue jackets radio network fox sports radio ohio state img sports network westwood one owner elyria lorain broadcasting co. elyria lorain broadcasting co. sister stations wkfm wlkr wlkr fm webcast listen live website weol.com weol 930 am branded am 930 weol is a commercial news talk radio station licensed to elyria ohio serving the western parts of greater cleveland including lorain and medina counties . owned by elyria lorain broadcasting co. weol is the local affiliate for the dave ramsey show ; the sean hannity show ; syndicated personalities clark howard and jim bohannon ; fox sports radio ; abc radio ; and the wall street journal radio network . weol also serves as a local affiliate for the cleveland indians cleveland cavaliers columbus blue jackets and ohio state radio networks . 2 the weol studios are located in elyria while the station transmitter resides in nearby grafton . in addition to a standard analog transmission weol is available online . contents 1 history 2 current programming 3 references 4 external links history edit weol signed on on october 17 1948 at both 930 khz and 107.3 mhz in elyria ohio with studios in the elyria savings and trust building in downtown elyria . the fm installations like most of the era were established as an adjunct to the am programming . both stations were owned by the newly created elyria lorain broadcasting co. the station s early years were spent fighting for its very survival . in the 1930s and 1940s the lorain journal today known as the morning journal enjoyed a monopoly in news coverage and advertising revenue in lorain . with the establishment of weol however the journal feared the presence of this new competitor . in response the journal unofficially instituted an exclusivity policy that prevented journal advertisers from doing business with weol . weol s owners sued journal publishing and it went all the way to the u.s. supreme court . in the 1951 decision lorain journal co. v. united states 343 u.s. 143 it was found that the journal violated key provisions of the sherman antitrust act by seeking to maintain their near monopoly on advertising revenue . in addition the journal was found to have acted in a predatory and illegal manner . 3 on may 15 1958 elyria lorain broadcasting co. was purchased by the lorain county printing and publishing company making it a wholly owned subsidiary . lcp & p also owns the elyria chronicle telegram and medina gazette ; in effect forming a radio newspaper duopoly . this arrangement has lasted to this day grandfathered by fcc legislation that now prohibits such arrangements . through the 1950s weol was a real hot rocker playing the early gyrating rhythms of rock n roll to sock hops throughout lorain county and as far away as ontario canada . by this same time records show that the station had obtained a construction permit in the mid 1950s for weol tv on channel 31 but the television station never made it on the air . 4 personalities who worked at weol in their early years include alice weston later with wuab tv and who was present at weol s sign on dick conrad gary short later with were wdbn wdok wjw tv wuab tv ron and dick barrett ron penfound better known as captain penny on wews tv neil zurcher later with wjw tv jim mehrling later with were and wclv david mark later with wews tv wncr wksw wqal and wdok the promotional voice of many fox and upn tv stations across the country and radio image voice for radio stations around the world and jeff baxter later with wwiz wlro wdbn wlec who later teamed up with jack riley at were . for over 25 years jim mehrling has produced and hosted the high school scholastic games of lorain county programs on weol with david mark as the program announcer . jeff baxter also helped make nationally popular a recording artist in laura lee perkins . laura who recently moved to elyria from her home state of west virginia broke out into a song while visiting the weol studios . hearing her sing jeff gave her airtime on the station and eventually parlayed it into a west coast recording deal . laura now retired resides in michigan . 5 in 1968 weol fm started separate programming under new calls wbea with an automated easy listening format that still served the lorain county audience . the format changed in 1982 to top 40 while retaining the same call letters . initially an independent station weol affiliated with the mutual broadcasting system in the early 1960s and then switched to abc radio s american entertainment network in 1968 . throughout the 1970s 80s and 90s weol was your hometown radio station a middle of the road outlet that put a heavy emphasis on local news and sports programming . weol also hired the first radio newswoman in the county back in the mid 1970s with sandy kozel now with associated press radio . 6 in 1982 weol and wbea moved to new studios on 538 broad street where weol remains at to this day . weol began broadcasting in c quam am stereo in the mid 1980s before dropping the standard in the late 1990s . on new year s day 1987 wbea changed to z rock wczr with an automated rock format ; then eleven months later wczr changed to smooth jazz as the wave wnwv positioned to serve the cleveland market . wnwv was sold off in december 2011 to the akron based rubber city radio group and subsequently moved out of their elyria studios . over the course of time weol s news and sports department has garnered dozens of awards from the ohio associated press and cleveland press club particularly outstanding news operation in large market radio . on november 28 1997 weol dropped its mor format for a news all day sports at night approach with the associated press all news radio network from 5 00 a.m. to 7 00 p.m. and one on one sports today sporting news radio from 7 00 p.m. to 5 00 a.m. along with long form local news programming in drive time hours . weol was re branded as the news station taking its cue from the all news radio positioners . weol started to segue into airing topical talk programming by adding clark howard in the late 90s jim bohannon in 2000 sam donaldson in 2001 and mitch albom s show in early 2003 . in may 2005 weol picked up glenn beck in the late morning slot one year after the cancellation of sam donaldson s talk show . at the beginning of 2006 weol replaced mitch albom whose show was no longer distributed nationally with sean hannity . 7 on july 15 2005 the associated press all news radio network ceased operations . while this prompted weol to pick up fox sports radio for evening and weekend programming the station maintained use of the all news radio news station name for on air promotions until april 2006 . on november 5 2008 weol replaced glenn beck with laura ingraham as wtam reacquired the rights to glenn s program . 8 from may 31 2005 until august 20 2010 les in the morning hosted by les sekely ran in morning drive as a mixture of news updates comedy contests and interviews . sekely left weol to take a full time teaching job at westlake high school as the advisor of the school television station . his replacement jeff thomas has been a long time sports update anchor with metro networks and wknr . thomas then left on august 26 2011 to become the new morning sports anchor on wkrk fm in cleveland ; his successors are long time weol staffers bruce van dyke and craig adams . 9 on october 17 2008 weol marked its 60th anniversary of broadcasting . 10 current programming edit weol personalities bruce van dyke and craig adams host the local morning show . middays are shared between the dave ramsey show and syndicated personality clark howard 11 and the sean hannity show airs afternoons . 12 syndicated personality jim bohannon airs late nights and repeats during overnights . 13 weol also serves as the local affiliate for fox sports radio ; abc radio ; the wall street journal radio network ; the cleveland indians ; 14 the cleveland cavaliers ; 15 the columbus blue jackets ; 16 and ohio state buckeyes football and basketball . 17 the station also airs various local high school sports including football basketball baseball and softball . 18 references edit http www.cleve radio.com index2.htm call % 20letters http weol.northcoastnow.com programming http caselaw.lp.findlaw.com scripts getcase.pl court us & vol 342 & invol 143 http members.aol.com jeff560 1958tv.html http www.rockabillyhall.com lauraleeperkins.html http weol.northcoastnow.com about http www.loraincounty.com entertainment feature.shtml f 7304 washington julie e. october 22 2008 . glenn beck heading back to wtam . the plain dealer . retrieved 2008 10 28 . http weol.northcoastnow.com weol morning show http www.weol.com 60.html . retrieved october 15 2008 . missing or empty title help dead link http www.clarkhoward.com listen stations times http www.hannity.com stations ohio http www.jimbotalk.net stationfinder action statesearch & state oh & programid 309 http cleveland.indians.mlb.com cle schedule radio affiliates.jsp http www.nba.com cavaliers multimedia broadcast.html http bluejackets.nhl.com club page.htm id 48232 http www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com sports m footbl spec rel radio network.html http www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com sports m baskbl spec rel radio network.html http weol.northcoastnow.com baseball softball external links edit official website query the fcc s am station database for weol radio locator information on weol query nielsen audio s am station database for weol v t e radio stations in the cleveland ohio market by fm frequency 87.7 88.3 88.3 88.7 89.3 90.3 91.1 91.5 92.3 93.1 95.5 96.5 98.5 99.1 99.5 100.7 102.1 103.3 104.1 104.9 105.7 106.5 107.3 107.9 by am frequency 850 930 1000 1040 1100 1220 1260 1300 1320 1330 1380 1420 1460 1490 1540 1560 defunct by wx frequency 162.55 by callsign khb59 w256bt wabq waks watj defunct wbwc wccd wccr wclv wcpn wcrf fm wcsb wdlw wdok wenz weol were wfhm fm wgar fm whk whkw whlk whwn wint wjcu wjmo wjtb wkhr wknr wkrk fm wlfm lp wmji wmms wncx wnwv wobl wqal wruw fm wtam wwgk wzak online owow radio ohio radio markets akron canton cincinnati cleveland columbus dayton lima marietta toledo youngstown warren other ohio radio regions ashtabula ironton mid ohio sandusky southern ohio wheeling steubenville see also list of radio stations in ohio radio stations in southwestern ontario clear channel stations with extended nighttime coverage . v t e news talk radio stations in the state of ohio stations wabq painesville wakr akron wasn youngstown wbex chillicothe wbtc uhrichsville wclt newark wcvx cincinnati weol elyria lorain were cleveland heights cleveland whbc canton whio dayton whio fm piqua whk cleveland whlo akron wint willoughby wkbn youngstown wkrc cincinnati wlw cincinnati wman mansfield wman fm fredericktown wmoh hamilton cincinnati wmrn marion wnir kent akron wonw defiance wspd toledo wtam cleveland wtod toledo wtvn columbus defunct wjmp kent akron see also adult contemporary classic hits college country news talk npr oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in ohio v t e fox sports radio stations in the united states by callsign kand kape kavl kbme kbxz kcbl kcub kdkt kfxn fm kgme kgmy kgmz khgg khgg fm khho khty klac klsd kmis kmns