W248AW is a commercial FM

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, broadcasting at 97.5 FM. Owned by the

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and operated under LMA by

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, the station simulcasts a

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format on WOLT's HD2 subchannel, known as "Business News 97.5". Studios are located on Fall Creek Road with transmitter on the northwest side of Indianapolis, near

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. Prior to the format change, the station served as a relay for AM station

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History

The translator signed on in 2004 under the ownership of the

(EMF), and was sold to

in 2015. The format, following the sale, was changed to a relay of

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affiliated

, branded as "Fox Sports Radio 97.5 FM/1260 AM". Around this time, WNDE also picked up the

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after

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-owned WIBC dropped the show. On July 22, 2019, iHeartMedia dropped the simulcast of

, airing a looped message informing listeners to change to

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for

programming. Later, on August 7, iHeartMedia had announced that W248AW, alongside 12 other translators, would be swapped to the Educational Media Foundation, in exchange for 6 translators that iHeartMedia had been leasing from EMF. This would reunite the translator under its original EMF ownership, though it does not relay an EMF station, as most of EMF's stations air non-commercial Christian-oriented formats. On August 15, 2019, at 5:00 p.m., W248AW launched a Top 40/CHR format under the name "97.5 KISS FM", airing commercial-free as part of the station's launch. The station will continue to be operated by iHeartMedia, despite the EMF sale. The sale to EMF closed on April 1. In May 2020, iHeartMedia quietly dropped the KISS FM format, with 97.5 becoming a

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affiliate afterwards.iHeartMedia Debuts "Business News 97.5" in Indianapolis
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References

External links

Business News 97.5 FM Online
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