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The Essentials
Call Letters: WBZQ
Frequency: 1300am
City of License: Huntington
Metro(s): Fort Wayne
Power: 500 watts - Day, 19 watts - Night (3 Tower DA) (Class D)
Format: Spanish
Address:
Phone:
Ownership: Fifty Seven Media LLC
Web Presence: http://wbzq.radio.net
Station Personnel
Current
Former
WHLT(AM)
President/GM: Edwin R. Huse
GM: Ron Clark
Chief Engineer: Howard Waterhouse
Chief Engineer: Jeff Goode
VP/OM: Helen Huse
PD: Chris Larko (Deceased 19 February 2010)
News Director: Russ Phillips
Airstaff: Jim Brennan
WCER(AM)
President/GM: Robert Sherman
Chief Engineer: Jeff Goode
VP/OM: Helen Huse
PD: Rick Martin
MD: Holly Sands
News Director: Greg McClain
WPDJ(AM)
Owner: Sue H. Williams
GM/SM/PD: William Dinkins
Airstaff: Stacy Thorne
WBZQ(AM)
Owner: Chris Larko (Deceased 19 February 2010)
GM: Susan R. Derr
News Director: Mike Nelson
Mornings: Ron Gregory (January 2005 - February 2010) (From mornings at WSHI)
Station History
1300am signed on May 25, 1957.
WHLT(AM)
Owned by Huse Radio, Inc. Studios formerly located at 1600 E. Taylor St., Huntington, IN 46750-4045.
WCER(AM)
Owned by Group G Broadcasting, Inc. of Indiana Country and Western format. Studios formerly located at 1600 E. Taylor St., Huntington, IN 46750-4045.
WPDJ(AM)
Studios located at 1600 E. Taylor, Huntington, IN 46750-4045 (Telephone: 219.358.0718). Variety format. Williams Radio, Inc. sold WPDJ to Larko
Communications, Inc. in April 1999. The FCC approved the sale on 6 September 2000.
WBZQ(AM)
WBZQ changed formats from Soft AC to Oldies in June 2006. Chicago Cubs affiliate. After Chris Larko's 2010 death, Larko Communications, Inc. sold WBZQ to
Fifty Seven Media LLC for $75,000 in 2012.
For Further Reading...
Kilbane, Kevin. "DJ Creates Outlet for Big Band Music on Huntington Airwaves". Fort Wayne News-Sentinel January 8, 1992. Page 1F.
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