WEUS

WEUS

City of license	Orlovista, Florida
Broadcast area	Greater Orlando
Frequency	810 kHz
First air date	January 2006
Format	Talk Radio
Power	10,000 watts day 400 watts night
Class	B
Facility ID	129548
Transmitter coordinates	28°34′18.00″N 81°26′2.00″W
Affiliations	NBC Radio, CNN Radio, Florida News Network. Talk Radio Network, Genesis Communications
Owner	Star Over Orlando, Inc. (Star Over Orlando, Inc.)

WEUS (810 AM) is a radio station licensed to Orlovista, Florida, serving the Orlando area. The station is owned by Star Over Orlando, and airs a talk radio format.

Signing on in January 2006, WEUS is one of the United States' newest full-powered AM radio stations below the expanded band (1600 kHz and under). WEUS went on the air with an oldies format, filling a void created when Clear Channel's WEBG flipped from oldies to a Spanish-language format over a year earlier. WEUS was running the Scott Shannon's "True Oldies Channel" format via satellite through automation. WEUS was also the flagship station for Mike Harvey's syndicated Supergold program, which is based in Orlando. On June 1, 2008, about six months after oldies returned to FM (when WOCL resumed carrying the format), the station changed ownership, as well as formats. The new ownership, Communicomm Corporation of America, was running a hybrid religious format in place of the syndicated oldies format. As such, the station's original big810.com website had been taken offline.

Communicom Corporation eventually broke its lease-management agreement with Star Over Orlando as Communicom's poor business practices resulted on a loss of over $500,000 over an 18 month period. Effective February 1, 2010 the station resumed operation under the management team of owner Carl Como Tutera and Carmine Tutera. The new web site for the station is [1]

The station began reimaging itself as a local-oriented talk station in mid-2010. With the demise of smooth jazz WLOQ-FM, WEUS is one of the last of the independently owned radio stations in the Central Florida market. In early 2011, the station began a billboard campaign touting its talk lineup, including a controversial billboard showing Shannon Burke holding a smoking microphone with the slogan "Listen or Else."[2][3] This caused a stir amongst local women's abuse groups due to an incident wherein Burke accidentally discharged a gun in his home; the bullet hit his dog and grazed his wife's head [4]. Burke and the station insisted that the smoking microphone (an Electro-Voice RE-20 which in no way resembles a gun) referenced the "hot talk" on Burke's show. Clear Channel Outdoors had placed a number of the billboards before removing the Burke boards due to apparent pressure from local groups. A reworked image appeared on CBS billboards.

Currently, "The Mancow Experience," "The Doc Show" with former WXXL morning host Doc Holliday; "Alex Jones, "The Todd Schnitt Show, "The Free Radicals" with hosts Whit Kincaid and John Kurtz; "The Train Wreck"; "The Nick and Artie Laing Show" and "The Phil Hendrie Show" air during the week. The station airs a growing number of locally-based programs throughout the weekend, including "Alt.Classics," the only classic alternative, indie, punk and new wave music program on Central Florida radio, as well as "The Nick Carioti Show", real estate talk radio. WEUS also aired "The People Power Revolution with George Crossley & John Hamilton" until Crossley's death in September 2010.

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External links

• WEUS website
• Burke Billboard Story Fox 35
• More Burke Billboard Info Orlando Sentinel
• Abuse Advocates & Burke Billboards
• The People Power Hour with George Crossley
• Central Florida Radio: Big 810
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WEUS
• Radio-Locator Information on WEUS
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for WEUS