valley branding wibx and wibx950.com slogan your news talk and sports leader frequency 950 khz first air date december 5 1925 format news talk power 5 000 watts class b facility id 168 transmitter coordinates 43 6 12.00 n 75 20 31.00 w 43.1033333 n 75.3419444 w 43.1033333 ; 75.3419444 wibx former frequencies 1460 khz 1925 1926 1280 khz 1926 1927 1260 khz 1927 1928 1200 khz 1928 1941 1230 khz 1941 1948 affiliations fox news radio premiere radio networks westwood one citadel media owner townsquare media townsquare media licensee of utica rome inc. sister stations wlzw wfrg fm wodz fm webcast listen live website wibx950.com wibx 950 am is a talk radio station based in utica new york . the station is owned by townsquare media as part of a cluster with hot ac formatted wlzw country formatted wfrg fm and classic hits formatted wodz . contents 1 history 2 programming 3 references 4 external links history edit wibx went on the air december 5 1925 . 1 the station was originally owned by grid leak inc. a local radio dealer with wibx s facilities being housed at the store ; the following april grid leak transferred the station to a subsidiary wibx inc. and a month later a new facility was opened at the hotel utica . 1 initially operating at 1460 khz wibx moved to 1280 khz in late 1926 and then to 1260 khz in april 1927 . 1 the boston store acquired the station in early 1928 a move intended to keep wibx in utica ; that april the station was taken over by john c. drummond . 1 the federal radio commission moved wibx to 1200 khz on november 11 ; on december 1 the station moved its studios to the first national bank building . 1 the buffalo broadcasting corporation which operated several stations in buffalo including wgr wkbw and wmak acquired wibx in august 1929 ; in march 1931 the station was sold to a partnership of percy b brown and scott howe bowen . 1 bowen soon acquired brown s stake ; his family would maintain ownership for nearly five decades . 1 wibx affiliated with the columbia broadcasting system cbs on october 14 1934 ; 2 it would remain a cbs radio network affiliate for 76 years . 3 the north american regional broadcasting agreement moved wibx to 1230 khz on march 29 1941 . 1 however the station was limited to 250 watts on this frequency as had been the case at 1200 khz 1 and was not able to serve rome at night leading the rome sentinel to apply for a 5 000 watt station serving both cities in 1946 . 4 afraid that the new station which eventually became wrun would prove more attractive for cbs wibx sought to upgrade to its own 5 000 watt facility 5 and on may 2 1947 the federal communications commission granted the station a move to 950 khz from a transmitter site in whitesboro with the new facility going on the air in early 1948 . 1 the wibx studios would relocate to whitesboro as well in the early 1960s . 1 an fm sister station at 98.7 wibq now wlzw was added january 1 1974 ; 6 7 an earlier wibx fm at 96.9 fm was opened in october 1946 but had left the air during the early 1950s . 1 wibx logo prior to march 8 2011 the bowen family sold wibx to marathon communications in 1979 . 1 soon afterward the station s longstanding full service format began evolving away from music in favor of increased news talk and sports programming ; after rebs inc. acquired wibx in 1985 music programming was dropped entirely outside of the station s sunday morning polish language program polonaise . 1 maritime broadcasting bought the station in 1988 ; 1 the station was then sold to 950 communications corporation in 1992 8 to forever broadcasting in 1996 9 and to regent communications the predecessor to townsquare media in 1999 . 10 regent moved its stations to studios in marcy in 2003 . 1 wibx ended its long affiliation with cbs on february 28 2011 when it joined fox news radio ; prior to the affiliation change wibx was the only station radio or television to carry cbs content in the mohawk valley since the mohawk valley had no cbs television affiliate at the time . 3 cbs returned to the utica area november 22 2015 when nbc affiliate wktv affiliated its second digital subchannel with cbs television . 11 in 2015 wibx reached an agreement with nexstar broadcasting group and mission broadcasting whose stations are managed by nexstar under shared services and local marketing agreements to share programming allowing nexstar owned wfxv to simulcast wibx s morning show starring bill keeler while wibx began simulcasting mission owned wutr s 6 p.m. newscast . 12 citing closed captioning expenses wfxv dropped the simulcast of keeler s show on january 4 2016 but reinstated it may 9 2016 . 13 14 programming edit wibx primarily broadcasts a syndicated conservative talk programming from the premiere networks lineup with a local morning program hosted by longtime central new york media personality bill keeler . the glenn beck program the rush limbaugh show the sean hannity show ground zero with clyde lewis and coast to coast am all air on wibx . the station also carries hugh hewitt clark howard the kim komando show bob brinker and handel on the law . the station conducts a radiothon for the american heart association every march ; it was first held in 1971 in memory of ralph allinger a wibx staffer that had died of a heart attack . 3 in subsequent years the american heart association has also held additional fundraisers in the mohawk valley including a run and walk to supplement the radiothon . 3 historically wibx included in its lineup the sports program sportswatch which debuted in the 1950s and included among its numerous hosts bill o donnell lee hacksaw hamilton tim roye bob papa jim jackson and mike haynes . sportswatch ended its run in january 2013 . 15 references edit a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p reed jerry ; naughton peter december 3 2010 . potw early days of wibx c. 1926 . cnyradio.com . retrieved december 5 2010 . some history of cbs . history of american broadcasting . retrieved february 28 2011 . a b c d switch from cbs to fox part of wibx rebranding . cnyradio.com . february 28 2011 . retrieved march 1 2011 . sentinel company files applications for 2 radio stations pdf . rome sentinel . april 25 1946 . retrieved december 5 2010 . alan cole . utica am radio . retrieved december 5 2010 . broadcasting yearbook 1975 pdf . 1975 . p. c 133 . retrieved december 5 2010 . broadcasting & cable market place pdf . 1992 . p. a 245 . retrieved december 5 2010 . application search details 1 . cdbs public access . federal communications commission . retrieved december 5 2010 . application search details 2 . cdbs public access . federal communications commission . retrieved december 5 2010 . fybush scott august 6 1999 . sales galore . north east radiowatch . retrieved december 5 2010 . wktv bringing cbs affiliation to utica . wktv . october 26 2015 . retrieved october 26 2015 . keeeler radio show to be simulcast on wfxv tv . wibx . june 26 2015 . retrieved june 27 2015 . http wibx950.com keeler show notes for monday january 4th 2016 http wibx950.com keeler show to be simulcast daily on wfxv fox 33 tv former wibx hosts offer sportswatch postmortems . cnyradio.com . retrieved january 18 2013 . external links edit official website query the fcc s am station database for wibx radio locator information on wibx query nielsen audio s am station database for wibx v t e radio stations in the utica rome new york market by am frequency 570 950 1230 1310 1350 1420 1450 by fm frequency 88.1 88.7 89.5 89.9 90.3 90.7 91.5 91.7 91.9 92.7 93.5 94.9 96.1 96.9 97.3 97.9 98.7 99.7 100.3 100.7 101.9 102.5 103.5 104.3 105.5 107.3 by callsign w201bs w238ca warw wbgk wfrg fm whcl fm whih lp wibx wixt wjiv wkal wkll wkvu wlzw wmvn wnrs wodz fm wopg fm wour wpnr fm wqbj wrny wrun wrvn wsks wsku wsyr wtlb wumx wuny wutq fm wvhc wxlb wxur defunct stations 1150 wuti 1480 wadr 1550 wusp new york radio markets albany schenectady troy binghamton buffalo niagara falls elmira corning hudson valley nassau suffolk long island new york city olean plattsburgh poughkeepsie rochester syracuse utica rome watertown other new york radio regions ithaca jamestown dunkirk north country saratoga see also list of radio stations in new york v t e news talk radio stations in the state of new york all news wcbs new york wins new york news & talk wabc new york wack newark watn watertown waub auburn wben buffalo weck cheektowaga weni corning weny elmira wflr dundee wgdj rensselaer wgva geneva wgy schenectady wgy fm albany wham rochester whcu ithaca wibx utica wjip ellenville wjjf montauk wkal rome wkip poughkeepsie wlea hornell wlvl lockport wnbf binghamton wnyy ithaca wor new york wrcn riverhead wsyr syracuse wsyr fm solvay wxxi rochester defunct wuti utica see also adult contemporary classic hits college country news talk npr oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in new york v t e townsquare media formerly regent communications and including former gap broadcasting group and double o 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