History
WIBW signed on in 1927. It was originally owned by Senator Arthur Capper along with the Topeka Daily Capital. Capper bought the license for a station in Logansport, Indiana and added a "W" to the initials of the original owner, Indiana Broadcast Works--thus making it one of the few stations west of the Mississippi River whose call letters begin with "W". However, the "W/K" divide for call signs was not always the Mississippi River, and Kansas was on the eastern side of the original call divide. Thus it would have been perfectly acceptable to have a "W" in Kansas in any event. The station eventually spawned a television station and an FM station, both of which still carry the WIBW calls.
Capper died in 1949, and his family sold his holdings to Stauffer Publications, owner of Topeka's other newspaper, the Topeka State Journal. Stauffer merged with current owner Morris Communications in 1995.
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