WCCD
{{short description|Radio station in Parma, Ohio, serving Cleveland}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name = WCCD
| above =
| logo = WCCD logo.png
| city = Parma, Ohio
| area = Greater Cleveland
| frequency = {{frequency|1000|kHz}}
| translator = {{Radio Relay|105.3|W287DQ|Cleveland}}
| branding = Radio 1000
| format = Urban Gospel - Christian talk and teaching
| owner = New Spirit Revival Center Ministries, Inc.
| airdate = {{start date and age|1973|5|31}}
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WSUM (1975–1987)|WCCD (1987–2001)|WHK (2001)}}
| callsign_meaning =
| licensing_authority = FCC
| facility_id = 25522
| class = D
| power = {{ubl|500 watts day|200 watts day (CP)}}
| coordinates = {{ubl|{{coord|41|19|11.19|N|81|46|6.47|W|region:US-OH_type:landmark_source:FCC|display=inline,title}}|{{coord|41|21|30.19|N|81|40|2.46|W|region:US-OH_type:landmark_source:FCC|name=WCCD (CP)}} (CP)}}
| webcast = {{listenlive|http://listen.radio1000.org}}
| website = {{URL|radio1000.org}}
}}
WCCD (1000 AM "Radio 1000") is a daytime-only radio station licensed to Parma, Ohio, and serving Greater Cleveland. It airs a religious format of urban gospel music and Christian talk and teaching programs. It is owned by New Spirit Revival Center Ministries, Inc., co-founded by the Rev. Darrell C. Scott. The studios are at The New Spirit Revival Church on Mayfield Road in Cleveland Heights.{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Robert L.|date=October 27, 2005|title=Worshipping New Spirit Revival Center|page=E3|website=The Plain Dealer|publisher=Advance Publications|url=http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2007/04/new_spirit_revival_center.html|access-date=March 12, 2017|via=Cleveland.com|archive-date=September 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903191252/https://www.cleveland.com/pdextra/2007/04/new_spirit_revival_center.html|url-status=live}}
WCCD is powered at 500 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array.[https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?sr=Y&s=C&call=WCCd&nav=home Radio-Locator.com/WCCD] But 1000 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A station WMVP in Chicago. That requires WCCD to go off the air at night to avoid interference. Programming is heard around the clock on 180-watt FM translator W287DQ at 105.3 MHz in Cleveland.[https://radio-locator.com/info/W287DQ-FX Radio-Locator.com/W287DQ]
History
=WSUM=
The station signed on the air on May 31, 1973.[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB-IDX/70s-OCR-YB/1976-YB/1976-BC-YB-for-OCR-Page-0410.pdf]{{dead link|date=August 2014}} The original call sign was WSUM. The initial lineup included longtime television fixtures Jim Doney, Linn Sheldon and Gib Shanley (sports director), plus Ted Alexander and Joey James. In addition, a full news staff included Michael Hissam (news director), Pat Longworth and Nancy Watson. Just a few months after its debut, WSUM's operators went bankrupt and the station had to leave the air.{{cite web |author=WebMasters, Mike Olszewski |date=March 4, 2002 |title=Cleveland, Ohio Broadcast Radio Archives Project |url=http://www.cleve-radio.com/index2.htm#WSUM-AM |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030201081329/http://www.cleve-radio.com/index2.htm#WSUM-AM |archive-date=February 1, 2003 |access-date=August 18, 2014 |publisher=Cleve-radio.com}}
The Christian Broadcasting Association of Canton purchased WSUM in October 1976 and resumed programming under new management. It began airing recorded religious programs from local and national sources. There was also talk radio programming with hosts including Merle Pollis.
Mortenson Broadcasting put both WSUM and WTOF up for sale in August 1986 after purchasing Akron station WHLO.{{Cite news |last=Dyer |first=Bob |date=August 7, 1986 |title=Deals set for WHLO and WCUE |page=C5 |newspaper=Akron Beacon Journal |location=Akron, Ohio |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108800543/deals-set-for-whlo-and-wcue/ |access-date=September 2, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=September 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903191255/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108800543/deals-set-for-whlo-and-wcue/ |url-status=live }} Jack Mortenson, co-founder of the chain, purchased WHLO because it had a stronger signal than both WSUM and WTOF combined, and common ownership of more than one AM station with overlapping signals was prohibited at the time.{{Cite news |last=Dyer |first=Bob |date=November 29, 1987 |title=DJs and Disciples Who Mix Music with a Message |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108798969/djs-and-disciples-who-mix-music-with-a/ 6], 7, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108799026/djs-and-disciples-who-mix-music-with-a/ 8], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108799332/djs-and-disciples-who-mix-music-with-a/ 10], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108799361/djs-and-disciples-who-mix-music-with-a/ 11] |newspaper=Akron Beacon Journal Beacon Magazine |location=Akron, Ohio |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108798999/djs-and-disciples-who-mix-music-with-a/ |access-date=September 2, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=September 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903191255/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108798999/djs-and-disciples-who-mix-music-with-a/ |url-status=live }}
=WCCD=
When the sale to Jack Boyd's American Sunrise Communications{{Cite news |date=February 2, 1990 |title=Transactions: New Guardian Saves Sunrise Stations |page=8 |work=Radio & Records |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1990/RR-1990-02-02.pdf |access-date=March 10, 2021 |archive-date=October 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211001101255/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1990/RR-1990-02-02.pdf |url-status=live }} was completed on January 1, 1987, WSUM was renamed WCCD on February 1, retaining the religious format.{{Cite news |last=Dyder |first=Bob |date=February 1, 1987 |title=Reagan's radio talks not exactly chart-busters |page=B2 |newspaper=Akron Beacon Journal |location=Akron, Ohio |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108798102/reagans-radio-talks-not-exactly/ |access-date=September 2, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=September 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903191256/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108798102/reagans-radio-talks-not-exactly/ |url-status=live }} American Sunrise sold WCCD, along with four other stations, to Guardian Communications for $5.6 million in 1990.
Under Guardian ownership, WCCD marketed itself as a "family-friendly" Christian station that de-emphasized preaching of the "fire and brimstone" archetype, but still featured conservative personalities including Phyllis Schlafly and Dr. James Dobson.{{cite news |last=Santiago |first=Roberto |date=October 13, 1994 |title=Christian radio with a family bent |page=14E |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |location=Cleveland, Ohio |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid%2Finfoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=NewsBank&req_dat=1082885C71926A79&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F0F807DB87799262E |url-access=subscription |access-date=September 2, 2022 |via=NewsBank |archive-date=September 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903191300/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&docref=news/0F807DB87799262E&f=basic |url-status=live }} Despite the marketing, WCCD's most popular program was the reactionary populism-themed What's Right, What's Left, hosted by the Rev. Ernie Sanders, a Berea pastor who became a visible leader in anti-abortion movements.{{cite news |last=Sangiacomo |first=Michael |date=April 23, 1992 |title=Clinic endures seven years of protest |page=14A |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |location=Cleveland, Ohio |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid%2Finfoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=NewsBank&req_dat=1082885C71926A79&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F0F803A31A97B382C |url-access=subscription |access-date=September 2, 2022 |via=NewsBank |archive-date=September 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903191300/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&docref=news/0F803A31A97B382C&f=basic |url-status=live }} He was described by station management as "even more to the right than Rush Limbaugh".
Guardian put up the nine-station chain for auction in September 1996 after Carl Linder (who through Great American Insurance held a 50 percent ownership stake in the company and recently divested its stake in Citicasters){{cite news |last=Gleisser |first=Marcus |date=September 29, 1996 |title=Cincinnati company wants to sell WCCD |page=3H |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |location=Cleveland, Ohio |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid%2Finfoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=NewsBank&req_dat=1082885C71926A79&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F0F808D50A2F71E94 |url-access=subscription |access-date=September 2, 2022 |via=NewsBank |archive-date=September 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903191300/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&docref=news/0F808D50A2F71E94&f=basic |url-status=live }} announced his intention to sell his stake in Guardian, inducing the company's other co-owners to follow along.{{Cite news |last=Harrington |first=Jeff |date=September 24, 1996 |title=Lindner will liquidate rest of radio holdings |page=B10 |work=Cincinnati Enquirer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73177631/ |access-date=March 10, 2021 |archive-date=September 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903191259/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73177631/lindner-will-liquidate-rest-of-radio/ |url-status=live }} While the stations were originally intended to be sold separately, with a $700,000 minimum offer price for WCCD, Salem Communications purchased it, along with Guardian's Baltimore and Cincinnati stations, for $3 million.{{Cite news |date=March 28, 1997 |title=Transactions |page=6 |work=Radio & Records |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1997/RR-1997-03-28.pdf |access-date=March 10, 2021 |archive-date=September 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903191258/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Archive-RandR/1990s/1997/RR-1997-03-28.pdf |url-status=live }} Salem retained the religion format as a complement to WHK (AM),{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Roger |date=March 17, 1997 |title=WHK parent shopping for more stations |page=7D |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |location=Cleveland, Ohio |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid%2Finfoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=NewsBank&req_dat=1082885C71926A79&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F0F80C53B9CA37CA6 |url-access=subscription |access-date=September 2, 2022 |via=NewsBank |archive-date=September 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903191301/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&docref=news/0F80C53B9CA37CA6&f=basic |url-status=live }} which had been purchased by the chain the previous year.{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Roger |date=August 11, 1996 |title=Broadcasting message of Christianity: Religious radio stations growing here, elsewhere |page=1J |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |location=Cleveland, Ohio |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid%2Finfoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=NewsBank&req_dat=1082885C71926A79&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F0F808D2053973FEF |url-access=subscription |access-date=September 2, 2022 |via=NewsBank |archive-date=September 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903191321/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&docref=news/0F808D2053973FEF&f=basic |url-status=live }}
=WHK=
During a transition period in the summer of 2001 when Salem divested WHK as part of a complex seven-station asset swap, WHK's three-letter callsign was temporarily "parked" on WCCD beginning on February 26, 2001, and lasting through August 3, 2001,{{Cite web |title=Call Sign History: WCCD |url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=25522&Callsign=WCCD25522 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815042907/https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=25522&Callsign=WCCD25522 |archive-date=August 15, 2021 |access-date=August 14, 2021 |website=licensing.fcc.gov}} when the WHK calls moved to WHKW.{{Cite web |title=Call Sign History: WHKW |url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=14772&Callsign=WHKW14772 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815042906/https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=14772&Callsign=WHKW14772 |archive-date=August 15, 2021 |access-date=August 14, 2021 |website=licensing.fcc.gov}}
Salem changed WCCD's format by late January 2003, dropping all of the religious and brokered programming in favor of conservative talk as The Voice, programmed largely by the Salem Radio Network; syndicated hosts included Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt.{{Cite news |last=O'Connor |first=Clint |date=February 14, 2003 |title=WCCD lineup offers conservative Voice |page=E5 |work=The Plain Dealer |location=Cleveland, Ohio |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid%2Finfoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=NewsBank&req_dat=1082885C71926A79&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F0F9373A8B96A28DF |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=September 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902015705/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&docref=news/0F9373A8B96A28DF&f=basic |archive-date=September 2, 2022 |via=NewsBank}} This format moved to {{Frequency|1420|AM}} on July 14, 2004, when Salem re-purchased that station (then identifying as WRMR) and relaunched it as WHK.{{Cite news |last=O'Connor |first=Clint |date=July 8, 2004 |title=Station sale moves WHK back to former spot on the dial |page=F4 |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |location=Cleveland, Ohio |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid%2Finfoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=NewsBank&req_dat=1082885C71926A79&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F103B8680753D932D |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=August 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329015051/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&docref=news%2F103B8680753D932D&f=basic |archive-date=March 29, 2022 |via=NewsBank}}{{Cite press release |url=https://investor.salemmedia.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/561/salem-communications-to-acquire-wrmr-am-cleveland-station |title=Salem Communications to Acquire WRMR-AM, Cleveland; Station Will Broadcast as WHK-AM in News/Talk Format |last=Davis |first=Denise |date=July 7, 2004 |website=Salem Media Group |access-date=November 29, 2019 |archive-date=October 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027131305/https://investor.salemmedia.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/561/salem-communications-to-acquire-wrmr-am-cleveland-station |url-status=live}}
=New Spirit Revival Church=
WCCD was put up for sale, airing a mix of Christian contemporary music and leased-time urban gospel music paid for by the New Spirit Revival Center Church. The church ultimately bought the station in April 2005 and over time turned it into a more preacher focused religious format, featuring a mix of local and national hosts. Dr. Darrell C. Scott - co-founder of the New Spirit Revival Center - hosts a daily program on WCCD, as does his wife Belinda.{{Cite web|title=On-Air|url=https://radio1000.org/on-air/|access-date=August 12, 2020|website=The All New WCCD Radio 1000|language=en-US|archive-date=September 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922080604/https://radio1000.org/on-air/|url-status=live}}
The station filed for an STA request for a power reduction with the FCC on June 16, 2022, after their North Royalton transmitter site was to be redeveloped by the land owner.{{Cite web |last=Manarchuck |first=Jerome J. |date=June 16, 2022 |title=Re: New Spirit Revival Center Ministries, Inc. WCCD(AM), Parma, OH - Fac. ID No.: 25522 - Special Temporary Authority |url=https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=102681 |access-date=January 7, 2023 |website=Media Bureau, Audio Division |publisher=Federal Communications Commission |place=Washington, D.C.}} The station was taken silent on September 22, 2022, with an application to move to WHK's transmitter site in Seven Hills.{{Cite web |title=WCCD Parma OH - AM Broadcast - 1000 kHz |url=https://fccdata.org/?facid=25522 |access-date=January 7, 2023 |website=FCCdata.org |via=REC}} The station returned to the air on June 13, 2023.
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.radio1000.org/}}
{{AM station data|25522|WCCD}}
{{Cleveland Radio}}
{{Religious Radio Stations in Ohio}}
{{Daytime-only radio stations in Ohio}}
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Category:1973 establishments in Ohio
Category:Gospel radio stations in the United States