WIBQ

WIBQ (1230 AM, "NewsTalk 1230") is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk format. Licensed to Terre Haute, Indiana, the station serves the Terre Haute area. It first began broadcasting in 1983 under the call sign WPFR. The station is currently owned by Duey E. Wright, through licensee Midwest Communications, Inc.

History

AM 1300 history

The station went on the air as WPFR-AM on March 17, 1983, as a sister station to WPFR-FM (now WDWQ). On November 9, 1987, the call sign was changed to WYTL. The company that owned WPFR, WPFR-AM, and WYTL went into bankruptcy and both stations went off the air in 1991.

In 1992, current WAXI morning personality Ronn Mott purchased the station with the help of banker Terry Tevlin, the call sign had been changed to WJSH prior to the sale on October 22, 1991. The station was again sold to an individual in Connecticut which eventually led to the station going off the air for a second time in 1996.

The station was again sold in late 1996, this time to current owner Crossroads Communications. They brought the station back on the air in January 1997, simulcasting new sister station WSDM-FM. In 1998 the simulcast ended and the format was changed to Southern Gospel with some programming coming from Reach Network out of Nashville, Tennessee.