WOAP AM 1080 Owosso

WOAP AM 1080 Owosso

Slogan/Positioner: The Big 1080; Michigan's Big Oldies

Format: Oldies

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Class: D
Daytime Power / # of Towers: 1,000 watts / 1 / omnidirectional
Daytime operations only

Construction permit:
Class: D
Daytime Power / # of Towers: 50,000 watts / 6 / directional
Nighttime Power / # of Towers: 4,500 watts / 6 / directional
Community of license change to Waverly

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Call Sign History: WOAP

Call Sign Origin: Owosso Argus Press (original owner)

On Air Date: January 1, 1948

Owner: Birach Broadcasting

Telephone: (248) 557-3500

Notes/History:

8/14/2009: WOAP resumes operation from its Owosso studio location with an oldies format and announces that plans to move the station to Lansing were being abandoned.

7/2009: FCC approves purchase of WOAP and WCAR and the deal closes.

5/2009: Birach Broadcasting purchases WOAP AM 1080 Owosso and WCAR AM 1090 Livonia/Detroit from 1090 Investments, LLC for $1,025,000 pending FCC approvals and closing.

11/2008: Construction permit granted to add nighttime service at Waverly (4,500 watts with 6-tower array).

Summer 2008: Station returns to the air for a short time then again goes silent.

7/20/2007: Station is silent once again.

3/2007: WOAP returns to air; programming is Religious/Catholic once again, simulcast of WCAR 1090 Detroit

3/2007: Construction permit granted for community of license change from Owosso to Waverly, increase in power from 1,000 watts to 50,000 watts with a new 6-tower array to be built in Ingham county south of Lansing.

8/2006: Major change application for moving the station's daytime operations to the Lansing area (Waverly) reinstated. Station withdrew its applicaton for nighttime operations.