WONW

WONW

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City of license	Defiance, Ohio
Broadcast area	Defiance, Ohio Bryan, Ohio Napoleon, Ohio Paulding, Ohio
Branding	"WONW AM 1280"
Slogan	"Defiance's News, Sports and Talk Station"
Frequency	1280 kHz
First air date	1949
Format	News/Talk/Sports Talk
Power	1,000 Watts daytime 500 Watts nighttime
Class	B
Affiliations	Fox Sports Radio
Owner	iHeartMedia, Inc. (CC Licenses, LLC)
Website	WONW Online

WONW is a News, Talk, and Sports formatted broadcast radio station, affiliated with Fox Sports Radio.

WONW is licensed to Defiance, Ohio, serving the Defiance/Bryan/Napoleon/Paulding area. WONW is owned and operated by Clear Channel Communications.

History

WONW has been on the air in Defiance since 1948 under the ownership of Tri-State Broadcasting, Inc.

It was in 1989 when WONW changed ownership for the first time when they were acquired by Maumee Valley Broadcasting, which at the time, owned now-sister station WNDH. Maumee Valley Broadcasting would later acquire now-sister FM station WZOM in 1994.

WONW would be sold for the third time back in 2000 to now-current owner Clear Channel Communications. In 2000, WONW's format changed from country to Adult Standards. It would remain the format until 2006, when WONW would become a news/sports/talk station, a format they used briefly in 1998 before returning for a brief time to country until 2000, when Clear Channel acquired WONW.

Today, WONW brings talk personalities from around the country, and a locally produced talk show. Several years ago, the station dropped its standards music programming to become an all news/talk outlet.

External links

• WONW AM 1280 Online
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WONW
• Radio-Locator Information on WONW
• Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WONW