WHO (AM)

WHO is a clear channel radio station broadcasting 50,000 watts on 1040 AM with a news/talk format. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications and is located in Des Moines, Iowa. The station can also be heard over most of the continental United States during nighttime hours.

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WHO first began broadcasting on April 11, 1924, from the top floor of the Liberty Building in downtown Des Moines. The callsign came from the fact that during the 1920s people searching for stations on the radio dial would ask, "who is it?" The station was originally owned by Bankers Life, which is now the Principal Financial Group. After the FCC reallocated frequencies in 1928, WHO ended up sharing time on the same frequency with WOC in Davenport. In 1930, B. J. Palmer, owner of WOC, bought WHO, and the two stations operated together as WOC-WHO until a new 50,000-watt transmitter near Mitchellville began operating on November 11, 1933. (WOC ceased broadcasting that day but returned on another frequency a year later.) WHO moved from 1000 AM to the current 1040 AM on March 29, 1941. Today WHO is one of only two 50,000-watt AM radio stations in Iowa (KXEL in Waterloo is the other).

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