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WOWO Today

WOWO currently has studios in a broadcast complex on Maples Road, on the south side of Fort Wayne. It has a three tower directional antenna on U.S. Highway 24, just northeast of Roanoke, Indiana. WOWO was the first Fort Wayne station to transmit in AM stereo; it later became the first Fort Wayne AM station to transmit with HD Radio technology. The station streams its programs over the Internet. The current format of news and talk includes this daily (Monday through Friday) lineup:

• Fort Wayne's Morning News, hosted by Charly Butcher, 5 to 9 a.m.
• Glenn Beck Program, 9:06 to 11:57 a.m.
• Rush Limbaugh Program, 12:06 p.m. to 2:57 p.m.
• Casey Hendrickson, 3:10 p.m. to 6 p.m.
• Sean Hannity, 6:06 p.m. to 9 p.m.
• Mark Levin, 9:06 p.m. to midnight
• Clyde Lewis, 12:06 a.m. to 1 a.m.
• Coast to Coast AM, 1:06 a.m. to 5 a.m.

Local newscasts are written and anchored by Dave Wheaton, Kayla Blakeslee and Chuck Rowe. Morning traffic reports are anchored by Kylie Havens. The WOWO news staff also provides morning news updates for sister stations WMEE-FM and WQHK-FM (K-105). Casey Hendrickson broadcasts from the Mishawaka studio of sister station WTRC, for which he also hosts a morning program.

Weekend programming includes The Mutual Fund Show with Adam Bold, The Weekend with Mike McConnell and The Kim Komando Show. There are newscasts every 30 minutes, at the top and bottom of the hour, featuring local, national and international reports. Mitch Craig does station imaging. WOWO utilizes ABC and FOX news services, as well as the Associated Press. In 2006, WOWO became a partner with Indiana's NewsCenter, which produces newscasts for two Fort Wayne television stations, WPTA-TV (Channel 21) and WISE-TV (Channel 33). There are regular weather reports from The Weather Channel, as well as weather bulletins from the National Weather Service.

WOWO also broadcasts the Fort Wayne Komets hockey games and the Indianapolis Colts football games. Bob Chase announced his retirement as Sports Director of WOWO after 56 years behind the mic, effective June 5, 2009. The 83-year-old Chase remains as the voice of the Fort Wayne Komets heading into his 57th season.

WOWO began to simulcast on 92.3 FM on March 28, 2012 at noon. This frequency was previously occupied by classic rock station WFWI. Previous incarnations of WOWO-FM operated from 1940–1953 on several frequencies (and was known as W49FW until 1943) and 1988–1994 on 103.1 and 102.9 FM (now WGL-FM).