WEUS-AM 1240
Eustis
Original Call Letters: WLCO
Originally Licensed: Jun 1955
Power: 1,000 watts daytime/250 nighttime
Original City of License: Eustis
Original Format:
Owner(s): 1955-Floyd William ''Bill'' Hess (died at age 70 in 1987)
1965-Caroll Barringer
1981-
1983-Lake Media (Dalton Wright)
1995-Christianson Broadcasting Inc
1998-McKenzie Broadcast Associates, Inc.
2003-Gateway Broadcasting and Internet, Inc
2003-McKenzie Broadcast Associates, Inc.
2004-Rama Communications
History Of Call Letters and Formats: WLCO-1965-Variety "Radio Wilco!"
WLCO-1973-Variety
WEUS-1985-Country and News/Talk
WLCF-1987-Country
WWLB-1989
WKIQ-1989-Country "Classic Hit Country"
WKIQ- -Adult Standards
WKIQ-1993-News/Talk
WKIQ-2004-Silent
WKIQ-2004-Urban AC
WKIQ-2004-Country
WKIQ-2005-Spanish
History of WEUS
1985-Just minutes after a tornado spawned by Hurricane Elena touched down in Leesburg, the station received its first call from a resident who saw some of the damage caused by the twister. The regular news format was dropped, and station manager Bill Rooney and chief engineer Don Connelly spent the next 38 hours broadcasting live reports from more than 1,000 residents who called the station. A live report of tornado damage in Leesburg also was the lead story on the ABC's national broadcasts. Rooney is kept the country format, but adding more news, in hopes that WEUS would garner a larger share of the radio advertising market. WEUS will extended their broadcast hours to 24 hours a day.
Names in WEUS History
Floyd William ''Bill'' Hess-1955 In Memory
Caroll Barringer-1965
Dalton Wright-1983
Bill Rooney-1985-Vice president of Lake Media Inc./General manager
Joyce Phillips-1985-Tavares Chamber of Commerce executive director
Terry Cox-1985-Eustis Chamber of Commerce Executive Director
Don Connelly-1985-Chief engineer
Warren Hoover-"Psychic Frontier"
Other Programs in WEUS History
Florida Agrinet-Ocala-based Independent farm radio network. Agrinet vice president Chuck Zimmerman.
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Photos courtesy of John Fuller