WHIO-FM

WHIO-FM (95.7 FM) is a news/talk radio station licensed to serve the community of Pleasant Hill, Ohio.

Until October 30, 2006, WHIO-FM was known as WDPT (for " Dayton's PoinT") "95.7 The Point." The station now simulcasts the programming of News/Talk 1290 WHIO in Dayton. The WHIO-FM call letters were formerly used 99.1 FM with a beautiful music format before becoming "new country" WHKO "K-99.1 FM." The studios and offices are located at 1611 South Main Street in Dayton at the COX Media Group Building. In July, 2011, the station changed its "community of license" from Piqua, Ohio to Pleasant Hill, Ohio. This change was reportedly necessitated by FCC requirements that the station's Main Studio be located within 25 miles of its community of license. With the move of COX Media Group facilities to the South Main Street location, Piqua no longer met that requirement, but Pleasant Hill does. The transmitter site is northwest of Piqua.

History

From 2000 until 2006, "The Point" aired classic hits from the late 1970s and 1980s and was briefly simulcast on WDTP, 95.3 in Xenia before reverting to the WZLR calls as classic rock-formatted "The Eagle." Before that it was WCLR at first as "Clear 95" airing easy listening music (as did its predecessor WPTW-FM for many years) when the transmitter was moved from its studios to its present location near the rural community of Houston just north of Piqua in 1986. It switched to "light and easy favorites" in 1989 and again to 50s/60s/early 70s oldies as "Kool 95" in early 1993 with repeater station WZLR in Xenia (the former WDJK) and later to the "Oldies 95" branding after the station was sold by founder/owner Richard Hunt (dba:WPTW Radio Inc....later Clear 95 Inc.) to Cox in 1997. On January 24, 2007, Cox filed an application to move WHIO-FM to Sharonville, Ohio. Sharonville, is a suburb of Cincinnati. As of early 2009, those plans have now been scrapped.

Māori language

Maori or Māori (/ˈmaʊəri/; Māori pronunciation: [ˈmaː.ɔ.ɾi]) is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of New Zealand. Since 1987, it has been one of New Zealand's official languages. It is closely related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, and Tahitian.

According to a 2001 survey on the health of the Māori language, the number of very fluent adult speakers was about 9% of the Māori population, or 30,000 adults. A national census undertaken in 2006 says that about 4% of the New Zealand population, or 23.7% of the Maori population could hold a conversation in Maori about everyday things.

Name

The English word comes from the Maori language, where it is spelled "Māori". In New Zealand the Maori language is commonly referred to as Te Reo [tɛ ˈɾɛ.ɔ] "the language", short for te reo Māori.

The spelling "Maori" (without macron) is standard in English outside New Zealand in both general and linguistic usage. The Maori-language spelling "Māori" (with macron) has become common in New Zealand English in recent years, particularly in Maori-specific cultural contexts, although the traditional English spelling is still prevalent in general media and government use.

WHIO

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WHIO (AM)

WHIO (1290 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Dayton, Ohio, USA, the station serves the Cincinnati and Dayton area. The station is currently owned by Cox Radio, and features programing from Fox News Radio, Jones Radio Network and Premiere Radio Networks. Its studios are co-located with its WHIO-FM-TV partners, the Dayton Daily News and two more radio stations in the Cox Media Center building near downtown Dayton.

WHIO broadcasts with a power of 5,000 watts 24 hours a day from a transmitter in Kettering, Ohio; the antenna is non-directional daytime, but directional nighttime using a three-tower array.

Programming

WHIO is home to popular talk radio shows such as Herman Cain, Rush Limbaugh, Clark Howard, and Sean Hannity. Miami Valley's Morning News is an all-news format from 5 to 9 am. During the day, news is on the hour and at the half, with traffic and weather throughout the day. WHIO serves as the broadcast home for University of Dayton football and basketball. The station is a Fox News Radio affiliate.