WBYU

WBYU

City of license	New Orleans, Louisiana
Broadcast area	New Orleans metropolitan area
Frequency	1450 kHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	1970s
Format	Silent/Dark
ERP	1,000 watts
Class	C
Facility ID	20347
Callsign meaning	BaYoU
Former callsigns	WTIX WNPS WWIW
Owner	Disney/ABC Radio

WBYU is the New Orleans, Louisiana affiliate of Radio Disney and is owned by the American Broadcasting Company's Radio Disney Group. The station broadcasts at 1450 kHz with 1 kW-Unlimited power.

History

AM 1450 was originally WTIX with a Classical format until the 1950s when it flipped to Top 40. By 1958 it moved to 690 and donated the 1450 signal to the city of New Orleans and became WNPS.

In the 1970s it returned to commercial status and became a Country outlet. By the late 1970s it switched to Adult Standards as WWIW (In 1988 they picked up the call letters of the former WBYU-FM to replace WWIW).

But by 2001 the Adult Standards format was not profitable and it was replaced by a brokered health talk format until 2003 when ABC bought the station and flipped it to its current format.

On September 27, 2011 WBYU went silent as ABC seeks a buyer for the station.

External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WBYU
• Radio-Locator Information on WBYU
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for WBYU