[BC] WIBC

[Vernon Kuehn]

I don't know that if I were the decision maker I could have been 
convinced to do this "stunt" but there is more to the story.  Their 
morning man on WIBC for the last 20 years abruptly resigned a week 
ago which had people scratching their heads for a couple of 
days.  Their two previous morning men each had a tenure in the range 
of 20 years.  (One followed the other, they were not there at the same time.)

Then the other shoe fell.  The institution, the mothership of the 
Indy 500 broadcast for so many years, the 50,000 watt station will 
pack up those call letters and ship them (and something kin to the 
current programming) over to the FM station that has been co-owned 
all these years under maybe 3 owners.  WIBC-AM under new call letters 
will become an ESPN Sports talker as I understand it.  So we have a 
93 day stunt to call attention... I guess to 93.1 on the dial, to 
make sure everyone in town is talking about the shift-around.

None the less, it is still a bit "tacky".

Vernon Kuehn,  who spent 34 years in Indy and remembers a lot of the 
WIBC glory days.  (I didn't work for them.)



At 06:52 PM 10/10/2007, you wrote:
>Yep!
>
>The Emmis 93 days of Christmas! Next year it starts on July 5th!
>
>-D