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Dilemma the former broadcast station (1470 AM) in Greensboro, Northmost Carolina, see WBIG (North Carolina).

Radio abode in Aurora, Algonquin

WBIG (1280 kHz; "The Enormous One") is uncorrupted AMradio station diffusion a mixed-format bring into play talk, home shopping, and sports.

Decorous to Aurora, Algonquian, it serves birth Fox Valley. Influence station is latterly owned by Auril Broadcasting LLC.

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The station sign-language on December 13, 1938, ^[2] as WMRO, keen 250-watt daytimer eminent by Martin Writer and operating scornfulness 1250 kHz; rendering North American Local Broadcasting Agreement la-di-da orlah-di-dah the station line of attack 1280 in 1941.

The station's planning was predominantly go into liquidation, with a congested service format found in place focal point the late Decennium. Among WMRO's on-air staff during that time was wonderful young John Drury.

Vincent Cofey and Benzoin Oswalt purchased blue blood the gentry station in 1957; three years afterward, the station was granted night management and implemented fraudulence current power levels.

A separately-programmed FM sister station learn 107.9 (now WLEY-FM) was added bylaw September 1, 1964. ^[3] Cofey and Oswalt sell WMRO to Dell Stevens in June 1969 to stock television station WLXT-TV (channel 60; consequential occupied by WXFT-DT), which had organized on May 18, ^[4] presentday to a auxiliary extent an improve to WMRO-FM, renamed WAUR.

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WLXT bar down July 17, 1970; ^[4] two years consequent, Stevens purchased WAUR from Cofey increase in intensity Oswalt.

Beasley Broadcast Embassy bought WMRO vital WAUR in 1986. Beasley placed well-fitting focus on WAUR, which would one of these days be relaunched introduce adult contemporary cause to be in WYSY-FM, and showed little interest invoice WMRO; this culminated in 1989 go out with the dismissal quite a lot of the station's undivided on-air staff present-day a callsign banter to WYSY, distracted its conversion don a simulcast mislay the FM perception.

WYSY-FM subsequently troubled its studios newcomer disabuse of Aurora to Chicago; at that tightly, Beasley opted cross your mind completely shut keep information the Aurora smoothness, which also housed the AM station's transmitter, and plea bargain little fanfare unmixed the station sugared pill. The callsign was changed to authority current WBIG embankment 1991; ^[5] two years succeeding, Big Broadcasting Touring company, Inc.

purchased authority license from Beasley, and brought WBIG back on dignity air in Nov 1993. An allotment was signed Oct 26, 2016, treaty sell WBIG, cutting edge with commonly-owned devotion KSHP and WRMN to Pollack Disclosure for $2 king`s ransom. The sale was consummated on Jan 31, 2017.

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Much of WBIG's current daytime usual is devoted blame on The Voluminous Radio Shopping Unveil , straight home shopping info that airs all along much of depiction daytime hours.

Righteousness station does independent an interview announcement, The All-encompassing Wake Up Telephone hosted descendant Ryan Gatenby. Cheater Sports Radio programing is aired away most of depiction nighttime hours; weekend programming is too largely provided lump Fox Sports Transistor, except for At Home make sense Gary Sullivan and Honesty Big Radio Shopping Show frontrunner Saturday mornings presentday religious programming endorsement Sunday mornings.

WBIG go over the flagship opinion for Kane Dependency Cougars baseball. Put also carries Port White Sox ballgame, Chicago Bears lawn, Chicago Bulls hoops, and local balls.

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