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The radio stations were co-owned with WOOD-TV , the NBC television affiliate for West Michigan , until 1972 . 1300 AM WOOD-AM is a News / Talk Radio Station in broadcasting at 1300 kHz. It is the oldest radio station in West Michigan and one of the oldest in the world, having signed on September 16 , 1924 as WEBK. It broadcast on Sundays and Wednesdays during its early years in order to avoid competition with stations in Chicago , Detroit and Cleveland --all of which could easily be heard in West Michigan. The station's original owners were backed by the Furniture Manufacturers Association of Grand Rapids. At their suggestion, the station became WOOD on January 26, 1926. It went through numerous owners over the years before being bought by John King (known as John Kunsky until 1936 ) and George Trendle, owners of WXYZ-AM 1270 in Detroit, in 1930 . They bought Grand Rapids' second radio station, WASH, a year later; the two stations had shared the same frequency, 1270, for four years. The station operated as WOOD-WASH (with WASH on the air during the day and WOOD at night) until 1942 . In 1946 , the fledgling American Broadcasting Company bought the King-Trendle stations, but the FCC forced ABC to sell WOOD since it had been an NBC affiliate since 1935 . After a two-year dispute between competing buyers, the station was finally sold to Harry Bitner, former general manager of the Hearst Newspaper Chain , in 1948 . Time, Inc. bought WOOD in 1957 and owned it until 1972 , when a local group bought the station. After a series of ownership changes over the next quarter-century, Clear Channel bought WOOD in 1996 . Today, WOOD's lineup includes Rush Limbaugh , Sean Hannity , Alan Colmes , Michael Savage , Paul Harvey and Laura Ingraham . Local programming runs weekdays from 5:00am to 11:45am, and national programming runs weekdays from 11:45am to 5:00am. Weekend programs and hosts are: Mike McConnell , Bob Brinker , Rusty Humphries , Coast To Coast AM , Focus On The Family Magazine, Kim Komando , Dave Ramsey , Ron Insana , Bruce Dumont , Matt Drudge and local programming about Cars , Home Improvement , Gardening , Mutual Funds , Health , Law , and Pets . The station also airs the weekly presidential radio address. The station is the Grand Rapids home of University Of Michigan Football and Basketball , as well as Grand Rapids Griffins Ice Hockey . Since 1951 , the station's mascot has been Willie Wood, a cartoon Woodpecker . 105.7 FM In 1962 , WOOD-FM signed on for the first time. It is an Adult Contemporary radio station on the frequency of 105.7 FM. WOOD-FM aired a Beautiful Music format for decades, which by the mid-1990s had evolved into the current AC format. WOOD-FM is promoted as Star 105.7 FM. Prior to adopting the "Star" name on November 12, 2001, the station had been known as "EZ 105.7." Presumably the name change was made to help dispel the station's image of being an "elevator music" station. The station's playlist was tweaked to become more of a brighter, more upbeat AC, which also meant dropping songs by "MOR" or "easy listening" artists such as Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow and the Carpenters. "EZ 105.7"'s change into "Star" also corresponded with a switch to continuous Christmas music for the 2001 holiday season; at the time, it was not common for AC stations to adopt all-Christmas formats so early in the year, but Star 105.7 successfully promoted its holiday music marathon as musical "comfort food" after the catastrophic events of September 11, and the station has gone all-Christmas every holiday season since. WOOD-FM also picked up Delilah's syndicated love-songs show (replacing its locally based "EZ Love Songs") after Delilah was dropped by Regent-owned competitor WLHT-FM (95.7 W-Lite). WLHT now airs John Tesh's syndicated night show to go head-to-head with Delilah on Star 105.7. Relationship with WOOD-TV Soon after Bitner bought WOOD-AM, he applied for a television license and bought a transmission site in northeast Grand Rapids. However, the application came just after the FCC imposed a freeze on new television construction permits. What was supposed to be a wait of a few months hadn't ended by 1951. Tired of waiting, Bitner cut a deal with Leonard Adrian Verslius, who owned WLAV-TV on channel 7, Michigan's first television station outside of Detroit. Verslius sold WLAV-TV to Bitner for almost $1.4 million, and on October 19 , 1949 , it became WOOD-TV . It moved to channel 8 in 1953 due to interference with WBKB-TV in Chicago (now WLS-TV . In 1955 , WOOD-AM-TV moved to a modern studio in downtown Grand Rapids. Time sold WOOD-AM-FM in 1972 and kept WOOD-TV, which changed its calls to WOTV. In late 1991 , WOTV asked its former radio partner for permission to change its calls back to the old WOOD-TV. The request was granted, and on New Year's Day 1992 , WOTV became WOOD-TV once again. External links |