WLYV
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| City | Fort Wayne, Indiana |
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| Broadcast area |
Metropolitan Ft. Wayne, Northeast East Central Indiana |
| Branding | 14-5-Oh WLYV |
| Slogan | Fort Wayne's Good Time Oldies |
| Frequency | 1450 kHz |
| First air date | March 28, 1948 (as WANE) |
| Format | Oldies |
| ERP | 1,000 watts |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 42082 |
| Former callsigns | WANE (1948-1966) |
| Affiliations | Westwood One |
| Owner | Adams Radio Group, LLC (Adams Radio of Fort Wayne, LLC) |
| Website | 1450 WLYV Website |
WLYV (1450 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Fort Wayne, Indiana. The station was purchased by Adams Radio Group, LLC in 2014. It airs an Oldies radio format known as "Good Time Oldies" supplied by syndicator Westwood One. WLYV broadcasts with 1000 watts from a transmitter near Winter Street and its studios and offices are on East State Boulevard.
WLYV has a rich history since its beginnings in 1948. Prior to becoming WLYV, the station was assigned the call letters WANE and was the radio companion of WANE-TV channel 15.
In the mid-1960s, the radio station was purchased by Sheppard Broadcasting of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Following the purchase by Sheppard, the station changed call letters (to become closely related to Sheppard's WLAV in Grand Rapids) and on January 1, 1966 changed formats to become Fort Wayne's first Top 40 station under the direction of programming consultant Mike Joseph, who had already successfully programmed stations in New York City, Detroit, and Chicago. The results were dramatic and immediate. Within a few months WLYV was the second-highest rated station in Fort Wayne. (Prior to the format switch, the old WANE was so low in listener rankings that two distant stations...CKLW in Windsor/Detroit and WLS-AM in Chicago...had higher ratings in Fort Wayne.)
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