WSOO (1230
AM) is a
radio station
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in
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Sault Ste. Marie ( ') is a city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Chippewa County, Michigan, Chippewa County and is the only city within the county. With a population of ...
. The station airs a gold-based
soft adult contemporary
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format during daytime hours, featuring music from the 1960s through the 2000s, and features
paranormal
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talk programming in late night timeslots. WSOO has been owned and operated by
Sovereign Communications since 2003, and is part of Sovereign's 7-station cluster in the Sault Ste. Marie and
Newberry market (see Infobox).
Broadcasting since June 25, 1940, WSOO is the first radio station to broadcast in the Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan radio market, and was only preceded in the region by the now-closed
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario AM station
CFYN
CFYN was a Canadian AM broadcasting, AM radio station, which broadcast at 1050 kHz in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, from 1977 to 1992. From 1934 to 1977, the station broadcast with the call sign CJIC.
CJIC
The first radio station in Sault Ste. ...
(formerly CJIC.) The station was launched and owned by the Hiawathaland Broadcasting Company, who later shifted the station to a
middle of the road format in the late 1960s, prior to selling the station to Patterson Communications (later the Miami County Broadcasting Company) in 1971, as owned by Richard E. Hunt, who also owned
WCBY AM &
-FM in Cheboygan and
WPTW AM &
-FM in his hometown of
Piqua, Ohio
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. WSOO was purchased by Fabiano-Strickler Communications in 1981, who shifted to its current adult contemporary/talk format in 1989. The station was ultimately purchased by current owners Sovereign Communications in 2003.
Live sports coverage on WSOO includes
Detroit Red Wings
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,
Detroit Tigers
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, and Sault High Blue Devils games, as well as the regional high school sports talk show ''Coach's Corner'', and annual coverage of the
International 500 snowmobile race in Sault Ste. Marie. Syndicated talk programs include the late-night paranormal programs ''Ground Zero'' and ''
Coast to Coast AM
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'', while the station also airs the Sunday morning Baptist
televangelist
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program ''Good News From The Good Book'' with Pastor Tim Rader, out of nearby
Kinross, Michigan. ''The Handyman Show with Glenn Haege'' previously aired on WSOO on Sundays until Haege's passing in September 2017. As well, the station features hourly newsbreaks from
ABC Radio.
Local on-air personalities at WSOO include morning host Allan Gibbs, DJ/news anchor John Bell, sports anchor Mark SanAngelo, chief meteorologist Karl Bohnak, and Sault High Blue Devils play-by-play announcer & ''Coach's Corner'' host Dave Watson.
Sources
Michiguide.com - WSOO History
External links
WSOO Website
SOO
Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Soft adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1940
1940 establishments in Michigan
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