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At 990 kHz, WERK first signed on in 1965 from a six-tower array south of Muncie. The original WERK "990 WERK" featured a Top 40 format, built by the Poorman family, who operated an ad agency. WERK was the first commercial station in east-central Indiana with a Top 40 format, and for many years competed with WHUT (1470 AM) in Anderson, WGOM (860 ...
Separate sources suggest she was born at the Forks of the Wabash, closer to present-day Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana. [5] She was the granddaughter of Myaamia Chief Mihšihkinaahkwa (var. Little Turtle). Her father, Wok-shin-gah (var. Crescent Moon) was Mihšihkinaahkwa's son. Her mother was Nah-wah-kah-mo-kwa (var. Snow Woman). [6]
The new owners changed WOKZ's call letters to WERK-FM. At first, it stunted as "Louie 105" with a loop of "Louie Louie". [6] The station relaunched as "Oldies 105" on November 20. [7] American Hometown sold the pair of stations in 1997 to Dream Weaver Broadcasting. [8] Dream Weaver divested the AM station two years later by donating the license ...
WGOM's Top 40 format competed with Muncie's WERK (then at 990 AM) and the former WHUT (now WGNR/1470 AM in Anderson) throughout the 1970s. Subsequent formats since the WGOM days included adult standards and Southern Gospel prior to the current ESPN Radio sports format; the WMRI callsign was reinstated in 2006.
The Muncie Star was founded in 1899 and the Muncie Evening Press was founded in 1905. [14] [31] A new public library, which was a Carnegie library project, was dedicated on January 1, 1904, and served as the main branch of the city's public library system. [32] The forerunner to Ball State University also arrived at the turn of the twentieth ...
It was formed as an FM simulcast with the former WLHN 990 kHz (later WNAP, now defunct), also located in Muncie. The station first signed on in 2005 as WJPB-LP. WNAP-LP airs a oldies format as a simulcast of WNAP-FM (and its translators in Muncie and Edinburgh) and Cole, Indiana-based WNPP. WNAP-LP is owned and operated by New Beginnings Movement.
MUNCIE, Ind. – A historic and cultural landmark built from 1906 to 1908 near downtown Muncie is up for sale. ... The church building along Adams Street in the Old West End was built on the site ...
First Merchants Corporation is a financial holding company in Central Indiana, [1] headquartered in Muncie, Indiana. The Corporation includes First Merchants Bank and First Merchants Private Wealth Advisors (a division of First Merchants Bank). The company is listed on the NASDAQ as FRME. As of March 2023, total asset size of First Merchants ...