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Artistic Media Partners, which operates the flagship
stations for Indiana, Purdue and Notre Dame sports
broadcasts, repositioned its college sports broadcasts from
its CHR stations in Bloomington, Lafayette, and South Bend.
In Bloomington, WHCC 105.1 FM is now the flagship station
for Indiana University sports. In Lafayette,
WSHP 95.3 The
Rocket is the flagship station for Purdue University Sports.
In South Bend, Classic Rock WZOW now carries Notre Dame
men's basketball. Notre Dame football remains on
WNDV-FM.
The changes were made because the listening audience for
college sports matches the male intensive classic rock
audience more that a CHR station. Recent Arbitron ratings
show that both the CHR station and the new flagship station
benefited from the move.
In order to get Purdue to agree with the Purdue Sports move
to WSHP-FM, Artistic Media Partners changed
WSHP's frequency
to 95.3 FM because of its better coverage over West
Lafayette. Artistic Media Partners moved country station
WLFF to 95.7 FM.
In South Bend, Artistic Media Partners dropped the Love
Songs format on 102.3 FM, changed the call letters from WWLV
to WOZW, and simulcast the station with
WZOW, Classic Rock,
including Notre Dame men's basketball on 97.7 FM and 102.3
FM.
Also on South Bend, Notre Dame Olympic sports broadcasts
including hockey, baseball, women's basketball, women's
soccer and daily sports updates were moved to 1580 AM,
WDND
because of its broader coverage in the South Bend area. 1620
AM now carries Adult Standards, WHLY-AM.
Tommy Frank became Program Director for WNDV-FM in South
Bend and consults with Artistic Media Partners CHR radio
station in Lafayette, WAZY-FM. Artistic Media Partners and
Tommy were sued by Fort Wayne Radio (WJFX-FM) for allegedly
violating the terms of a non-compete agreement. The courts
have allowed Frank to continue as Program Director in South
Bend while the case against him competing with WJFX-FM is
still pending
In Fort Wayne, 106.3 FM changed its format to CHR in 2004
and has the new call letters WDDB-FM B106.3. The station was
previously WSHI-FM with a WW1 Adult Standards format. The
station often ranked in the top 5 in 12+ listenership, but
unfortunately ranked 13th in the market in revenue. The move
to CHR was designed to build on Artistic Media Partners CHR
success in Bloomington (WBWB-FM), Lafayette (WAZY-FM) and
South Bend (WNDV-FM).
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