WBEV (AM)
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| Broadcast area | Dodge County and surrounding area |
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| Frequency | 1430 kHz |
| Branding | 1430 ESPN |
| Programming | |
| Format | Sports |
| Affiliations | ESPN Radio Beaver Dam Golden Beavers Milwaukee Brewers baseball |
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| History | |
First air date | April 24, 1951 |
Call sign meaning | Beaver |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 4475 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 1,000 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°25′43.00″N 88°53′33.00″W / 43.4286111°N 88.8925000°W |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | dailydodge.com |
WBEV (1430 AM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a sports radio format. Licensed to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States, the station is currently owned by Good Karma Brands.[2]
WBEV originally signed on as a daytime-only station on April 24, 1951,[3] and added nighttime service in December 1979.[4] The station first ran a MOR format from the 1970s until 1984, and later adult contemporary for more than a decade beginning in 1984 and continued into the 1990s. Beginning in 1993, the station began adding news/talk programs into its lineup. Right when the 2000s rolled along, its music format was dropped and the station went into full-service brokered programming with news, talk, farm, and sports programs from ESPN Radio, as well as infomercial programming on both weekdays and weekends. In the 2010s, the station added an oldies music format to its brokered programming lineup.
On August 15, 2022, the station dropped its full-service brokered programming format and flipped to sports talk, retaining its ESPN Radio affiliation from its former full-service brokered programming lineup.
