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.
Read more about this topic: WIBW (AM)
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Bias, point of view, fury—are they ... so dangerous and must they be ironed out of history, the hills flattened and the contours leveled? The professors talk ... about passion and point of view in history as a Calvinist talks about sin in the bedroom.”
—Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)
“In history the great moment is, when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty;—and you have Pericles and Phidias,—and not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility. Everything good in nature and in the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astrigency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)