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{{Infobox Radio station
{{Infobox Radio station
| name = WEBC-AM
| name = WEBC
| image =
| image =
| city = [[Duluth, Minnesota]]
| city = [[Duluth, Minnesota|Duluth]], [[Minnesota]]
| area = [[Duluth-Superior]]
| area = [[Duluth-Superior]]
| branding = ''560 ESPN''
| branding = ''560 ESPN''
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| format = [[Commercial radio|Commercial]]; [[Sports radio|Sports]]
| format = [[Commercial radio|Commercial]]; [[Sports radio|Sports]]
| power = 5,000 [[watt]]s
| power = 5,000 [[watt]]s
| erp =
| facility_id =
| class = B
| class = B
| callsign_meaning = [http://home.earthlink.net/~nelsonbe/origins.call-list.html '''E'''dwina & '''B'''arbara '''C'''linton]
| callsign_meaning = [http://home.earthlink.net/~nelsonbe/origins.call-list.html '''E'''dwina & '''B'''arbara '''C'''linton]
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| webcast = [http://www.fan560.com/common/gap_streamer.php Listen Live!]
| webcast = [http://www.fan560.com/common/gap_streamer.php Listen Live!]
| sister_stations = [[KBMX]], [[KKCB]], [[KLDJ]], [[WEBC]]
| sister_stations = [[KBMX]], [[KKCB]], [[KLDJ]], [[WEBC]]
| website = [http://www.webc560.com/ www.webc560.com]
| website = [http://www.webc560.com/ webc560.com]
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| webcast = [http://nick8.surfernetwork.com/Media/WEBC.asx Listen Live]
| affiliations = [[ESPN Radio]]
| affiliations = [[ESPN Radio]]
| sister_stations = [[WEBC]], [[KLDJ]], [[KKCB]], [[KBMX]]
| sister_stations = [[KBMX]], [[KKCB]], [[KLDJ]]
}}
}}

'''WEBC''' (560 [[AM broadcasting|AM]], "560 ESPN") is a [[radio station]] located in [[Duluth, Minnesota]], airing programming from [[ESPN Radio]] is owned by [[GapWest Broadcasting]], who purchased WEBC along with 3 of its sister stations from [[Clear Channel Communications]].
'''WEBC''' (560 [[AM broadcasting|AM]], "560 ESPN") is a [[radio station]] located in [[Duluth, Minnesota]], airing programming from [[ESPN Radio]] is owned by [[GapWest Broadcasting]], who purchased WEBC along with 3 of its sister stations from [[Clear Channel Communications]].


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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.webc560.com/ ESPN560 WEBC official website]
*[http://www.webc560.com/ ESPN560 WEBC official website]
*{{AM station data|WEBC}}
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*[http://nick8.surfernetwork.com/Media/WEBC.asx Listen Live]
*{{AMQ|WEBC}}
*{{AML|WEBC}}
*{{AMARB|WEBC}}
*[http://www.northpine.com/broadcast/webc A Technological History of WEBC Radio]
*[http://www.northpine.com/broadcast/webc A Technological History of WEBC Radio]


{{Duluth Radio}}
{{Duluth Radio}}
{{Sports Radio Stations in Minnesota}}
{{GapWest}}
{{GapWest}}


Revision as of 17:33, 2 August 2009

WEBC
Broadcast areaDuluth-Superior
Frequency560 AM (kHz)
Branding560 ESPN
Programming
FormatCommercial; Sports
AffiliationsESPN Radio
Ownership
OwnerGapWest Broadcasting
KBMX, KKCB, KLDJ
History
Call sign meaning
Edwina & Barbara Clinton
Technical information
ClassB
Power5,000 watts
Links
WebcastListen Live
Websitewebc560.com

WEBC (560 AM, "560 ESPN") is a radio station located in Duluth, Minnesota, airing programming from ESPN Radio is owned by GapWest Broadcasting, who purchased WEBC along with 3 of its sister stations from Clear Channel Communications.

The studios and offices are with its three other sister stations at 14 E. Central Entrance, on the west side of Duluth.

WEBC primarily competes with KFAN affiliate KQDS 1490. ESPN 560 broadcasts Minnesota Vikings games.

History

WEBC is the oldest radio station in the Duluth-Superior market. It signed on the air on June 1, 1924 in Superior, using 50 Watts on AM 1240. Duluth studios were established in 1926 and the community of license was later changed to Duluth, though WEBC's transmitter has always remained on the Wisconsin side of the bridge. The station ended up on 560 in the mid 1950's after a series of upgrades and frequency changes.

The station was temporarily raised to 500 watts in 1928 in order to provide radio service to President Calvin Coolidge who was vacationing nearby. The New York Times nicknamed it "The President's Station." WEBC joined NBC at this time, so as to provide the vacationing president with coverage of the national political conventions.

WEBC's owners founded WMFG in Hibbing, Minnesota in 1935 and WHLB Virginia, Minnesota in 1936. The three stations were linked for local programming as part of the Arrowhead Radio Network. WEBC's influence in regional programming was strengthened in 1942 when WMFG and WHLB switched to NBC from CBS.

WEBC and its NBC programming dominated the market in the 1930s and 1940s. Like most other stations in the "Golden Age of Radio", WEBC carried a general entertainment format as the local affiliate of the NBC Radio Network. In 1955, with radio losing listeners to TV, WEBC dropped NBC and adopted a hot new format -- Top 40. WEBC featured announcers such as Lance "Tac" Hammer, Lew Latto, and "Doctor" Don Rose, among many others.

WEBC founded an FM station in Duluth in the 1940s, WDUL, but the project was a financial failure. This probably contributed to WEBC's decision to not go into television. Instead, WDSM and KDAL were able to finally overcome their longtime rival by going into TV in 1953. WDSM-TV's being an NBC-TV affiliate contributed to WEBC's 1955 switch to Top 40 programming.

WEBC began carrying ABC Radio newscasts in 1964.

WEBC was a top-rated station until the mid-1970s, when FM began to attract more listeners. Talk programming was added to the lineup and took over the entire schedule in 1990. The format was then changed to Sports in 2003 after a sale to Clear Channel, which syndicated the "FAN" radio network to a number of its stations in the region. WEBC is now an ESPN Radio station.

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