WBAP

WBAP is an AM radio station in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex following a talk format. WBAP broadcasts at the 820 kHz frequency.

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WBAP plays news in the morning until 9 A.M. The Mark Davis show airs from then until noon, followed by the Rush Limbaugh show from noon until 3 P.M (delayed one hour with respect to WABC-AM, which is the station from which Limbaugh broadcasts). Sean Hannity airs from then until 6 P.M., followed by local talk show host Gary McNamara. On July 25, 2005, McNamara, who had been with the station since 2000, joined the Midnight Trucking Radio Network and was replaced by a female on-air personality.

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The station previously broadcast the Randy Galloway sports program before switching to all political talk shows in 2003. Another consequence of this change was the elimination of the Hello Texas noon news program which featured Dan Potter. Potter still participates in the morning news broadcasts.

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WBAP was formerly a country music station, changing to the news talk format in 1993.

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The morning news show features several fictitious characters, such as spoofs of Andy Rooney and Gene Robinson, "Sam from Sales" (a high-pressure salesman with humorous stories about his very large family), "Leaf Raker" (a stand-up comedian/gardener featuring corny jokes), "Mystic Chuck" (a psychic who has "visions" but never answers the question, as a spoof of the great Carnac the Magnificent), "This Reporter" (a reporter who always gets off subject), "Willie Landum" (the self-proclaimed "Fishing Guide to the Stars" who provides oddly-named, and sometimes sexually suggestive, fishing lure names), and "Natural Howard" (a spoof of the station's own "Dirt Doctor" weekend gardening show host, Howard Garrett, who believes all gardening issues are best handled with "natural" solutions and cannot pronounce the word "herb"). A short segment with a character airs near the end of the 6 o'clock and 7 o'clock hours. Since at least the early days of the 2003 occupation of Iraq, a character named "Achmed Dangerfield, the 'Wacky Iraqi'" has been featured, a nightclub comedian performing in the middle of bombings and terrorist attacks.

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Local television station KXAS channel 5, currently part of the NBC network, was also originally known as WBAP-TV.

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