WPNT (defunct)

WPNT
City	South Bend, Indiana
Broadcast area	South Bend, Indiana
Frequency	1490 kHz
First air date	1947
Format	Silent (was Sports)
Power	1,000 watts unlimited
Class	C
Facility ID	41673
Transmitter coordinates	41°41′38.00″N 86°13′50.00″W / 41.6938889°N 86.2305556°W / 41.6938889; -86.2305556
Callsign meaning	W-The PoiNT (former calls on 1620 to compliment former CNN Headline News audio simulcast)
Former callsigns	WDND (2006-2009) WNDV (1998-2006) WNDU (1947-1998)
Owner	Artistic Media Partners, Inc.
Sister stations	WDND, WNDV, WSMM, WSSM

WPNT (1490 AM) was a sports radio station licensed to serve the South Bend, Indiana, USA area. The station is owned by Artistic Media Partners, Inc.^[1]

History

The station first went on the air in 1947 as WNDU, under the ownership of the University of Notre Dame. In 1998 the college agreed to sell WNDU and sister station WNDU-FM to Artistic Media Partners, which changed the call letters of the two stations to WNDV and WNDV-FM.

In the fall of 2006, Artistic changed the call letters of 1490 WNDV to WDND, affiliating with ESPN Radio and implementing the Sports Talk format which had been airing on a South Bend station operated by Artistic at 1580 AM.

Artistic moved the WDND calls and format to its station at 1620 AM when the transmitting tower for the 1490 AM facility on the Notre Dame campus was dismantled to make room for a new hockey arena. The former call letters of the 1620 station, WPNT, were assigned to the silent 1490 operation on May 13, 2009.^[2]

The station at 1490 was expected to return to the air when Artistic found a new tower location.^[3]

On May 11, 2011, the license for 1490 AM was canceled by the FCC.^[4]

References

↑ "WPNT Station Search Details". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "WDND Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "South Bend Tribune news article on WDND's programming moving to 1620".
↑ Station Search Details fcc.gov. Accessed December 27, 2013.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WPNT

Radio-Locator Information on WPNT

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WPNT

Radio stations in the South Bend, Indiana market

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 88.9 89.7 89.9 90.7 91.7 92.1 92.5 92.9 93.5 94.3 95.3 95.7 96.1 96.5 96.9 97.7 99.1 99.9 100.7 101.5 102.3 103.1 103.9 104.7 105.3 106.3

By AM frequency	960 1270 1290 1340 1460 1580 1620

By callsign	W223AU W241AD W243AJ W287BL WAUS WBYT WCMR WCXB WDND WETL WFRN WGNC WHME WHLY WHPD WHPZ WKAM WNDV-FM WNIL WNSN WQLQ WRBR-FM WRDI WSBL-LP WSBT WSMK WSND WTRC WTRC-FM WUBS WUBU WVPE WYET WYXX WZOC

Defunct stations	WPNT (1490 AM)

Nearby radio markets Benton Harbor-St. Joseph Chicago Ft. Wayne Grand Rapids Kalamazoo Lafayette Muncie–Marion South Central MI See also List of radio stations in Indiana List of radio stations in Michigan

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