WMNI

WMNI (920 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Columbus, Ohio, known as "Easy 95.1 FM and AM 920" with a soft adult contemporary format. Locally owned by North American Broadcasting Company, Inc., WMNI serves the Columbus metropolitan area. WMNI's studios are located in Marble Cliff, Ohio, using a Columbus address, while the transmitter resides in Grove City. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WMNI is relayed over low-power translator W236CZ (95.1 FM) and is available online.

For the Worthington, Ohio radio station that held the call sign WMNI-FM at 103.9 FM from 2012 to 2013, see WJKR.
WMNI
CityColumbus, Ohio
Broadcast areaColumbus metropolitan area
Frequency920 kHz
BrandingEasy 95.1 FM and AM 920
Programming
FormatSoft adult contemporary
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerNorth American Broadcasting Company, Inc.
History
First air date
April 26, 1958 (1958-04-26)[1]
Call sign meaning
  • Founder William R. Mnich
  • "Music, News, Information"
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID49110
ClassB
Power1,000 watts days
500 watts nights
Transmitter coordinates
39°53′32″N 83°02′51″W
Translator(s)95.1 W236CZ (Columbus)
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS
WebcastListen live
Websitewww.wmni.com

Programming

In addition to its Soft AC music format, WMNI carries a number of local and national sports events, including the Indy 500, the Brickyard 400, Notre Dame college football and Columbus Clippers Triple A baseball.

On Saturday and Sunday mornings, WMNI features talk shows such as "Plant Talk with Fred Hower" and "At Home With Gary Sullivan" as well as some paid brokered programming.[2] WMNI carries news updates from Fox News Radio.

History

On April 26, 1958 (1958-04-26), WMNI first signed on the air. For most of its three decades, it had a full service, country radio format. As country music listening started to move from AM to FM in the 1980s, WMNI switched to a satellite-delivered adult standards format from Westwood One. By the late 1990s, much of the music was locally programmed using Columbus-based disc jockeys. As of August 2007, WMNI shifted back to Westwood One's "America's Best Music" format, a mix of soft oldies and standards.

On Thursday, June 14, 2012, at 6:00 a.m., WMNI switched to a simulcast of WMNI-FM, which had flipped from a classic hits sound as WTDA-FM to a news format.

On Thursday July 18, 2013, the AM/FM simulcast ended, with WMNI returning to the soft oldies and adult standards format.

On June 12, 2017, WMNI changed to soft adult contemporary music, branded as "Easy 95.1 & 920" (simulcast on FM translator W236CZ 95.1 FM Columbus).[3]

Broadcast translators of WMNI
Call signFrequency
(MHz)		City of licenseFacility
ID		ERP
(W)		ClassFCC info
W236CZ95.1Columbus, Ohio14283588DFCC LMS

References
  1. History Cards for WMNI, fcc.gov. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  2. "WMNI AM 920 - Specialty Progamming". www.wmni.com. Archived from the original on 2013-08-12.
  3. WMNI Rebrands as Easy 95.1


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