WDRV

WDRV/WWDV

City	Chicago, Illinois
Broadcast area	Chicago market / Northern Illinois
Branding	The Drive
Slogan	The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Frequency	97.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) 97.1-2 FM (WDRV-2 - Deep Tracks)
First air date	1955 (1955) (as WNIB)
Format	Classic rock
ERP	8,300 watts
HAAT	363 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	49552
Callsign meaning	Derived from "DRiVe"
Former callsigns	WNIB (1955 to March 15, 2001)^[1]
Owner	Hubbard Radio
Sister stations	WTMX, WSHE-FM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	97.1 The Drive

WDRV (97.1 FM "The Drive") is a radio station in Chicago, Illinois. The station is owned by Hubbard Radio, and simulcasts on WWDV (96.9 FM). "The Drive" programs a broad-based classic rock format called "Timeless rock."

WDRV now broadcasts in HD digital radio, with its normal format located at 97.1 HD1, while it airs Deep Tracks" (deeper album cuts) on 97.1 HD2.^[2] The main WDRV feed also streams on the Internet at wdrv.com, but Internet streaming of the "Deep Tracks" feed was discontinued in October 2013, due to its popularity.^[3]

WDRV has studios located in the John Hancock Center, and its transmitter is located atop the Aon Center.

History

The 97.1 frequency signed on in 1955 as WNIB (NIB = Northern Illinois Broadcasting, original owner), playing classical music. Later, the company purchased the station WKZN at 96.9 FM in Zion, changing the call letters to WNIZ and serving as a simulcast for communities north of Chicago. The stations were sold in 2000 to Bonneville International, which changed the station to its current format on February 12, 2001.

WNIB then became WDRV on April 2, 2001. It began as a classic hits format, but has slowly evolved into a broad-based classic rock format at the same time when former sister WLUP-FM was sold to Emmis and changed to a mainstream rock'n roll rock'n roll format in 2005. Many of The Drive's personalities have had long histories at other Chicago radio stations. The on-air staff includes morning host Steve Downes (the voice of the Master Chief in the Halo video games), Kathy Voltmer with morning news and traffic, Bob Stroud (middays), Steve Seaver (afternoons), Phil Manicki (evenings), and Greg Easterling (overnights). Current weekend personalities include Byrd, Allie Ellison, Jim Foster, Don Nelson, Tim Spencer, Sunday Night Stars, and Mitchell "Marc" Vernon.

On Saturday nights, "The Deep End with Nick Michaels" is aired. On Sunday mornings, Bob Stroud hosts his famous Rock & Roll Roots show, which debuted in 1980 at WMET. Steve Downes' nationally syndicated show, "The Classics", is aired every Sunday night.

Bonneville announced the sale of WDRV and 16 other stations, to Hubbard Broadcasting on January 19, 2011.^[4] The sale was completed on April 29, 2011.^[5]

In 2011, the station celebrated its 10th anniversary. On June 27, WDRV organized a free-entrance concert at the Rosemont Theatre by America and headliner Jethro Tull.

Although the station became WDRV on April 2, 2001, the station celebrated its 15th anniversary on Friday, May 20, 2016.

June 9, 2016, John Gallagher, vice president and market manager of Hubbard Radio Chicago, announced that veteran Chicago sports radio host Dan McNeil would be leaving WDRV after 16 months at the station.^[6]

WWDV 96.9 FM

Main article: WWDV

For many years, this station simulcast the programming of WNIB as WNIZ. When WNIB became WDRV, WNIZ became a simulcast of WDRV's sister station, WTMX. Call letters for 96.9 became WTNX. This simulcast did very little for WTMX's ratings, and management felt it would be more appropriate to be paired up with its neighbor at 97.1. On January 1, 2003, 96.9 became the north metro frequency for "The Drive", and the call letters were changed to WWDV.

References

↑ "Call Sign History (WDRV)". Retrieved April 15, 2010.
↑ http://www.hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=25
↑ "WDRV-FM's 'Decade Tracks' Stream Gets Deep Sixed". Chicago Radio and Media. October 16, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
↑ "$505M sale: Bonneville sells Chicago, D.C., St. Louis and Cincinnati to Hubbard". Radio-Info.com. January 19, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
↑ "Hubbard deal to purchase Bonneville stations closes". Radio Ink. May 2, 2011. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
↑ http://www.robertfeder.com/2016/06/09/dan-mcneil-exits-the-drive/

External links

97.1 The Drive

Query the FCC's FM station database for WDRV

Radio-Locator information on WDRV

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WDRV

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Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.

Key people	Stanley S. Hubbard

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Other stations	K42DJ (Azteca)¹ KSTC-TV (Independent) WNYA (MyNetworkTV)

Cable television channels	Ovation Reelz

Acquisitions	Omni Broadcasting

¹Owned by Hubbard and operated by News-Press & Gazette Company in a LMA.

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WDRV

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WWDV 96.9 FM

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