which has identified as wjmo since 2007 . for other uses see wjmo disambiguation . wjmo city cleveland ohio broadcast area greater cleveland branding praise 1300 slogan cleveland s inspiration station frequency 1300 khz first air date july 6 1949 format urban gospel talk power 5 000 watts unlimited class b facility id 41389 transmitter coordinates 41 20 28.00 n 81 44 30.00 w 41.3411111 n 81.7416667 w 41.3411111 ; 81.7416667 former callsigns were 1949 2007 affiliations rocket sports radio network owner radio one inc. blue chip broadcasting licenses ltd. sister stations wenz were wzak webcast listen live website praisecleveland.com wjmo 1300 am branded praise 1300 is a commercial urban gospel talk radio station licensed to cleveland ohio . owned by radio one the station serves greater cleveland and is the cleveland affiliate for the yolanda adams morning show and keepin it real with al sharpton . its studios are located along the euclid avenue corridor in cleveland s eastside while the station transmitter resides in the cleveland suburb of parma . contents 1 history 1.1 were 1300 am 1.1.1 people power 1.1.2 brokered programming 1.1.3 later years 1.2 2007 frequency trade 1.3 praise 1300 2 current programming 3 references 4 external links history edit were 1300 am edit not to be confused with cleveland market radio station were . 1948 were fm advertisement wjmo began as were on july 6 1949 broadcasting as 1300 khz . unlike most am stations of the time were actually went on the air a year after its fm sister station were fm at 98.5 mhz . both stations lasted under common ownership for the next fifty years as were fm primarily simulcast the programming of its more popular am sister station over the next 24 years where it went into separate programming as wgcl . during the 1950s were was the first popular top 40 station in the market spearheaded by now legendary personalities like bill randle captain carl reese phil mclean ronnie barrett howie lund and bob forster . randle was the most influential of the group as he was the first major market disk jockey in the northeast united states to play elvis presley and bolstered the careers of a number of young musicians including the four lads bobby darin and fats domino . future nbc announcer and voice over artist danny dark also was a host on were in the early 1960s . 1 were had obtained a construction permit in the mid 1950s for were tv on channel 65 . however due to the obscurity of the uhf dial at the time the television station never made it on the air . in the 1960s the station was a middle of the road radio station with personalities that included sportscaster bob neal in morning drive the team of jeff baxter and jack riley who would later achieve fame as eliot carlin on the bob newhart show in afternoon drive and bill gordon with a nightly talk show from his apartment on east 30th street . gordon s show was known as apartment 13 for the station s 1300 khz signal . were am served as the flagship station for the cleveland browns twice once from 1950 to 1951 and again from 1962 to 1967 . during the browns second stay at the station it was the memorable broadcast team of gib shanley and jim graner providing play by play and color commentary respectively . 2 from 1951 until 1972 were was the flagship station for cleveland indians radio broadcasts and was the first flagship for the expansion cleveland cavaliers in 1970 and 1971 in addition to hosting an evening sports call in show hosted by pete franklin . both the cavs and indians radio rights as well as franklin s sportsline program moved from were to wwwe in 1972 . people power edit starting in 1972 were adopted an edgy talk radio format with controversial hosts including gary dee gary d. gilbert merle pollis and joel rose . gary dee s populist redneck style combined with his morning drive time slot to make him cleveland s top rated talk host leading him to answer each on air call this is gary dee number one in cleveland . pollis who was ultraliberal had the show right after dee s. the station used the brand people power . around spring 1975 the station s finances got rocky as it was bought out by city council president george forbes and other unspecified investors . they turned it into an all news station that completely lacked the drawing power its immensely popular talk shows had brought it . eventually were moved back into an all talk format which it more or less maintained for the rest of the century . during the 1980s the station underwent a number of changes in ownership to metropolis broadcasting on august 25 1986 . bob fuller was the morning drive host followed by syndicated talk show host michael jackson . longtime cleveland broadcaster merle pollis followed in the noon 2pm time slot . another longtime cleveland broadcaster joel rose was pollis s foil in the 2 pm 4pm time slot . local news took over during drive time with cbs radio at the top of the hour and mutual radio at the bottom of the hour . jim mcintyre hosted . at 7 pm greg brinda now with wknr am 850 hosted his local call in sports talk show . the station changed hands again on september 22 1988 to metroplex communications headed by veteran local broadcasters norman wain and bob weiss . were was a charter affiliate for rush limbaugh s national talk show in 1989 wwwe am 1100 now wtam picked up the program in june 1990 and still had a variety of local hosts throughout the balance of the day with les levine taking over for brinda . while easily accessible in downtown cleveland and in the eastern suburbs were s position in the cleveland market has been hampered by a directional broadcast signal that misses the fast growing suburbs just to the west of cuyahoga county . in 1992 locally originated talk on were was replaced by an audio simulcast of cnn headline news with local news at 15 and 45 . hosts employed by were such as merle pollis joel rose and les levine were let go with the only local talk shows left on the station being brokered programs in which a host producer buys the time from the station . the local news product was eliminated in august 1993 as news staffers jim mcintyre bob fuller tom moore and cindy lin were let go . an article in the plain dealer on august 13 1993 referred to this as a shifting of the station s emphasis from local news to cheaper syndicated and community programming . brokered programming edit on september 1 1994 metroplex communications sold were and sister station wncx fm 98.5 along with the rest of metroplex s stations in florida and new york to clear channel communications . were continued with the format featuring mostly brokered programs . here a radio producer would purchase blocked time from the station and then produced the program sold commercial air time and keep the profit . as a result the programming was very diverse but listenership was very sparse with were sometimes not even showing up in the arbitron ratings . select programs on were during this period ranged from america s workforce labor issues in the cleveland area to the gay 90 s homosexual and diversity issues to talking books interviews with literary figures to those antique guys appraisals and commentary on antiques . one of the most popular shows on were during this period was the your music show a daily weekday block of a variety music from the 1940s through the 1970s programmed by jim davis who also served as an on air host from 1 3pm after illness took carl reese off the air followed by ted hallaman from 3 5pm after wrmr 1420 am signed off permanently in july 2004 . the your music show was sponsored by the original mattress factory and aired from august 2004 through january 2006 when the were daytime format was changed . later years edit logo before june 2007 on april 29 1999 were and wenz fm 107.9 were spun off by the clear channel jacor merger to lanham maryland based radio one . wncx was sold to infinity broadcasting which is today cbs radio . this marked the first time in the 50 year history of the two that wncx and were were no longer affiliated . wenz changed formats from modern rock to mainstream urban as z 107.9 shortly afterward while were stuck with the profitable brokered format until 2006 . 2007 frequency trade edit on june 4 2007 radio one radio stations were 1300 am and wjmo 1490 am were involved in what was then reported as a frequency trade . in reality these two stations swapped call letters along with their respective formats . were changed its call letters to wjmo and changed its format to gospel music . 3 praise 1300 edit this section needs expansion . you can help by adding to it . june 2013 current programming edit as part of its gospel format wjmo airs numerous programs from syndication one such as the early morning show hosted by donnie mcclurkin the gospel talk morning drive show hosted by erica campbell 4 and willie moore jr. in afternoon drive through the evening hours . local dj ed powell is heard middays . wjmo also airs during middays rev. al sharpton s daily talk show which is simulcast on sister talk station were am 1490 . 5 wjmo also broadcasts university of toledo football and men s basketball games as well as the respective coach s shows as it is the cleveland affiliate of the rocket sports radio network . 6 references edit webmasters mike olszewski 2002 03 04 . cleveland ohio broadcast radio archives project . cleve radio.com . retrieved 2014 08 18 . the voices of browns games past . the plain dealer . the plain dealer publishing co. november 10 2002 . p. j6 sunday arts . the browns primary radio announcing teams ... 1963 74 gib shanley and jim graner ... peticca mike september 12 2004 . modell leaves fans in the dark . the plain dealer . the plain dealer publishing co. p. s27 browns 1964 . fans without a ticket for the browns colts matchup did have options . they could listen to the legendary radio broadcast team of gib shanley and jim graner give their account of the action on were am 1300 ... washington julie may 19 2007 . were and wjmo trading am frequencies . cleveland.com . cleveland live inc. retrieved june 4 2007 . radio one cancels yolanda adams show radio insight.com ed powell 2014 08 13 . show schedules praise 1300 . praisecleveland.com . retrieved 2014 08 18 . learfield sports university of toledo rocket sports network external links edit official website query the fcc s am station database for wjmo radio locator information on wjmo query nielsen audio s am station database for wjmo 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 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