WNCR (930AM) is a non-commercialradio station licensed toElyria, Ohio, United States. Owned by St. Peter the Rock Media, Inc, it features aCatholic–orientedreligious format as a full-time simulcast ofWCCR (1260AM), servingLorain andMedina counties and the western parts ofGreater Cleveland. The station's transmitter is in nearbyGrafton; in addition to a standardanalog transmission, WNCR simulcasts over low-power analog Elyriatranslator W262DM (100.3FM) and is available online.
This station signed on as WEOL in 1948 by the Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting Co. alongside FM adjunctWEOL-FM, featuring afull-service format oriented towards Lorain County with an emphasis on local news and sports. A court fight between WEOL andThe Lorain Journal over the newspaper's retaliatory policies against advertisers inLorain, Ohio, resulted in the 1951U.S. Supreme Court decisionLorain Journal Co. v. United States, atreble damages lawsuit filed against the paper that took 15 years and two retrials to resolve, and two separate license renewal challenges filed by theJournal. From 1958 onward, the station was controlled by the publishers of theElyria Chronicle-Telegram. Eliminating all music programming in late 1997 in favor ofall-news and latertalk radio, WEOL continued to feature various local shows and high school sports coverage until 2025, when the license was sold to St. Peter the Rock Media.
Organized on December 10, 1945, inElyria, Ohio,[2] the Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting Co. filed paperwork with theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) on April 24, 1946, to construct an AM station, one month after filing for an FM station permit.[3] In addition to multiple area businessmen that includedBendix president David O. Thomas[4] as chairman,[5] the leading stockholder in Elyria-Lorain was Roy W. Ammel,[6] vice-president of theElyria Telephone Company since 1941; Ammel previous achieved fame as the first pilot to fly nonstop fromNew York City to thePanama Canal in 1930.[7] The FM application, one of 11 filed in the Cleveland, Akron and Elyria area, was reviewed by the FCC beginning in April 1946, where Elyria-Lorain argued that Cleveland stations did not adequately coverLorain County.[8] The FM permit to broadcast at107.3MHz[9] was granted on June 30, 1947, alongside the ten other applicants,[6] and the AM permit to broadcast at930kHz was granted on September 11, 1947.[5]
By April 1948, both stations adopted the WEOL and WEOL-FM call signs, standing forWellington, Elyria,Oberlin andLorain.[9] Bert Koeblitz, associated withWHK for over 17 years, was hired as general manager.[10][11] In addition to studios at theElyria Savings and Trust Building in downtown Elyria and transmitter inGrafton Township, auxiliary studios were constructed atOberlin College and theAntlers Hotel in Lorain, a combined investment of $250,000.[2][12] Both WEOL and WEOL-FM took to the air at 7:30 a.m. on October 17, 1948, with minimal fanfare; the first program consisted oforgan music, staff were introduced on-air at 2 p.m. that afternoon.[2] Among the initial air staff wascooking program host Alice Schowalter,[13][14] who joinedWEWS-TV several months later under thestage name Alice Weston.[15][16]
Four area churches, including two affiliated with theAssemblies of God, filed complaints with the FCC ofreligious discrimination after WEOL declined to carry aninterdenominational program days before the stations signed on. Ammel countered that the Assemblies of God were not a recognized religious body.[17] On May 10, 1949, twelve off- and on-air staffers went onstrike in alabor dispute, taking both stations off-air.[18] Broadcasts were resumed one day later with replacement personnel[19][20] and the transmitter towers were monitored by the Lorain County Sherriff.[21] WEOL successfully sued Lorain's mayor, chief of police, and chief of public safety in July 1949 when they denied the station access to reports and information.[22][23] By April 1950, Maurice Condon, former sidekick toJack Paar[24] and brother ofPlain Dealer television editorGeorge E. Condon, was named general manager.[25] Condon was the sixth person in the role in two years; the instability was attributed to disagreements between management and Ammel.[26]
Alleging an "advertising dictatorship," WEOL pointed out that "an advertiser should be allowed to spend his advertising dollar as he sees fit" and attributed the newspapers' actions to a mutual "isolation policy" governing county ads.
"That may be sound local newspaper policy. But WEOL cannot, under the terms of its license, observe such a policy," [general manager Bert] Koeblitz observed. "Its facilities must be offered to all of Lorain County."
On May 15, 1949, two agents from theU.S. Justice Department's antitrust division visited the offices ofThe Lorain Journal,[28] a daily newspaper that held amonopoly on news coverage and advertising revenue in Lorain.[29] The inquiry was centered around accusations of theJournal's public hostility towards WEOL and the FCC; theJournal described WEOL as "... the attempted invasion of the Lorain field by an outside radio station".[28] TheJournal and the co-ownedMansfield News-Journal inMansfield, Ohio, applied for radio stations in both cities in 1946, but were ultimately rejected by the FCC due toboycott practices against advertisers of Mansfield stationWMAN.[30][31] On November 15, 1948, WEOL accused theJournal on-air of an "advertising dictatorship" against the station that was "simply a carbon copy of the Mansfield situation" and criticized the paper (along with theElyria Chronicle-Telegram) for refusing to carry their program logs, even if offered as paid advertising.[27]
The Justice Department sued theJournal on November 15, 1949, with violating theSherman Antitrust Act by punishing business that wished to advertise on WEOL orThe Sunday News, a weekly newspaper,[32][33][34] and acting as a "private government which rules" Lorain.[35] TheJournal requested an immediate trial, with the paper's legal counsel Parker Fulton calling the lawsuit "too important a case to have a new and novel interpretation of law".[36] A pre-trial stop-gapinjunction the Justice Department sought for immediate relief to WEOL and theNews[32] was denied byU.S. Northern Ohio district court JudgeEmerich B. Freed.[37] Unaware of the dispute, the Lorain County Republican Party placed political advertising for both outlets but had theirJournal ads abruptly cancelled byJournal business manager D. P. Self; a party spokesman called it "unexpected" and "... completely disrupted our campaign advertising plans".[38]
The trial began on March 2, 1950, and lasted for eight days, with the Justice Department calling 65 witnesses to the stand.[39] Former WEOL manager Charles Thonquest testified the station offered to advertise in theJournal to promote their launch, but was denied. Self told Thornquest that it was against standard practice for Lorain businesses to advertise in theChronicle-Telegram or for Elyria businesses to advertise in theJournal.[40][41] An executive forSears, Roebuck & Co. testified theJournal refused to renew their contract if they continued to advertise in theSunday News,[42][43] and a Lorainhaberdasher testified he was personally visited by Self after agreeing to advertise with WEOL and pressured to choose between it or theJournal.[40] A letter written by Self to area businesses stated any advertisers associating with WEOL would have theirJournal contracts cancelled in 30 days.[43] Much of the testimony was repetitive and often unchallenged.[40]Cross-examination by Fulton revealed Ammel invited correspondence fromout-of-state listeners after Ammel learned of the Justice Department's investigation,[44] but Freed ruled the evidence obtained wasadmissible in court.[45] TheJournal's lone witness, publisher Samuel A. Horvitz, asserted their advertising policy was intended for clients to choose between advertising on the newspaper or the radio station.[39] Horvitz also claimedHoward Metzenbaum, then abroker for Will S. Halle & Co., offered to arrange a sale of WEOL to theJournal, which Horvitz rejected.[46]
Judge Freed issued amemorandum on August 29, 1950, finding theJournal violated key provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act in an attempt to maintain their near-monopoly on advertising revenue in Lorain.[48] Freed's opinion was combined with the rest of the U.S. Northern Ohio district court the following day.[49] TheJournal was additionally found to have acted in a "predatory" and illegal manner and tried to "destroy" WEOL;[50] theJournal vowed to appeal the ruling before theU.S. Supreme Court.[48] A proposed U.S. Justice Departmentdecree sought to forbid theJournal,News-Journal or the Horvitz family from purchasing any competing paper or radio station in Lorain or Mansfield, which theJournal called "repugnant".[51] As part of Freed's final ruling, an injunction was placed on theJournal forbidding them on refusing advertising from anyone that advertised with WEOL, and was required to publish a weekly notice to readers "in a conspicuous location" for 26 weeks.[52] The Supreme Court upheld Freed's decision inLorain Journal Co. v. United States, argued on October 17, 1951,[31] and decided unanimously on December 11, 1951.[29][53][54]
Prior to the Supreme Court ruling, Elyria-Lorain sued theJournal seeking $984,000 intreble damages, triple the amount of revenue lost due to theJournal's advertising policies.[55][56] In a front-page editorial, theJournal decried the Elyria Telephone Company—who they claimed controlled WEOL due to Ammel's management—and the Ohio Independent Telephone Association as "true monopolies", assailing the litigation as a tactic to silence the paper over their coverage of rate increases.[57] WMAN then sued theNews-Journal for $1.8 million in treble damages, alleging they were subject to the same policies against advertisers.[58]
TheJournal andNews-Journal filed challenges to WEOL and WMAN's broadcast licenses when both came up for renewal in late September 1955,[3][59] claiming both stationspirated stories, circulated and broadcast false information to injure the newspapers, and questioned if they fulfilled program commitments made to the FCC.[60][61] The piracy allegations followedJournal editor Don Miller's arrest on November 20, 1952, after assaulting WEOL newscaster James Cochran at the Antlers studios; Miller claimed Cochran read aJournal story about a proposed highway on-air before the paper was to be printed.[62][63] WEOL denied the charges and accused Samuel A. Horvitz and theJournal of a history of trying to "eliminate and any all competition".[64] After being designated for hearing, the FCC denied the challenges and renewed the licenses for both on December 19, 1956.[3][59][65]
Horvitz died in 1956;[66] by the time WEOL's lawsuit went to trial on May 16, 1960, the executors of Horvitz's estate took his place as defendants.[67] TheJournal's treasurer was the lone witness the newspaper called to the stand, and stated WEOL experienced revenue gains throughout 1949, 1950 and 1951.[68] JudgeJames C. Connell initially ruled in favor of theJournal, citing a failure by the station to prove any damages to revenue occurred.[56] After theOhio District Courts of Appeals ordered a retrial, Connell reversed his ruling on February 6, 1964, in favor of WEOL,[69] but only awarded the station $30,000.[70] WEOL appealed the judgement to the Ohio District Court as inadequate, Connell was overruled and another retrial was ordered, with the appeals court implying a different judge oversee it.[71][72] The case was settled in 1967 with $96,000 awarded to WEOL; the WMAN lawsuit never went to trial and was settled one year later.[73]
In August 1952, Elyria-Lorain applied to operate a television station onUHF channel 31, allocated to Lorain; the application came after the FCC'sself-imposed "freeze" on television station permits was lifted.[74] TheJournal filed a competing application but withdrew in December 1953.[75][76] Eventually designated as WEOL-TV, Elyria-Lorain requested six deadline extensions between 1954 and 1958; theJournal's editorial page derided the proposed station as "completely mythical and hypothetical after more than four years of make-believe" and the FCC as "[making] itself a party to a continuing fraud against the public".[77] The delays with constructing WEOL-TV factored in theJournal's license renewal challenge against WEOL, as the paper claimed the station made "false and misleading statements" applying for the permit and sought to prevent theJournal from winning.[65]
WEOL-TV's permit was cancelled on February 19, 1960, as one of seven unbuilt UHF stations in Ohio and 54 nationwide.[78] The Lorain channel 31 allocation was later reopened and claimed byUnited Artists to constructWUAB on channel 43.[79][80]
Purchase by LCP&P and the Journal-WWIZ license fight
The Lorain County Printing and Publishing Company (LCP&P), publishers of theElyria Chronicle-Telegram, purchased all Elyria-Lorain stock held by Roy Ammel—a 23 percent ownership stake—for $214,200 on April 1, 1958.[81][82] LCP&P president Otto Schoepfle called the transaction an opportunity for theChronicle to extend itself into broadcasting and denied it had anything to do with WEOL's then-ongoing lawsuit against theJournal.[83] After the deal closed, Schoepfle was named president of Elyria-Lorain;[84] by August 1958,WJMO manager Paul Nakel was hired as WEOL general manager.[85] In February 1959, theJournal purchased what was initially reported as "a minority interest" of Lorain stationWWIZ,[86] but the money went to fund the station's construction in exchange for nonvoting and votingpreferred stock, making it an ownership transfer without FCC knowledge or authorization.[87] The FCC later cited this as an attempt by theJournal to gain a competitive advantage against WEOL.[88] When theJournal attempted to buy WWIZ outright in 1961,[89] Elyria-Lorain objected, and the FCC designated WWIZ's license for hearing.[90]
The roles were reversed[91] when LCP&P sought to acquire Elyria-Lorain stock held by theLoren M. Berry foundation in September 1964, giving it positive control over the company. While the FCC approved the stock transfer, theJournal filed to block it.[92][93] The FCC designated both the sale and WEOL's license renewal for hearing by September 1965 on potentialmedia concentration issues in Elyria, with Elyria-Lorain facing a possible $10,000 fine.[94][95][96] TheJournal withdrew from the case before the evidentiary review began when a request to examine documents, some dating back to 1946, was denied,[97] and the examiner ruled in favor of LCP&P and WEOL.[93][98] The stock transfer and license renewal were approved by the FCC on October 6, 1966.[3][99] The FCC, however, declined to renew WWIZ's license in 1964,[100] which ceased broadcasting in July 1967.[101]
WEOL had a reputation as a training ground for future Cleveland announcers,[102] and retrospectively described as "a real hot rocker" in the 1950s.[14]Ron Penfound was news and sports director from 1950 to 1953 before finding fame aschildren's television host "Captain Penny" at WEWS.[103][104] Joe Mayer, later with WHK and WGAR, was advised by then-general manager Maurice Condon over a two-year process on how to be an announcer before the station hired him.[105][106] Ronnie Barrett co-hosted a show with brother Dick Barrett from 1953 to 1955 prior to joining WGAR.[107][108] Dick Conrad, later with multiple Cleveland stations, worked at WEOL from 1955 to 1959.[109][110] Jeff Baxter worked at WEOL from 1956 to 1958,[111] frequently hostingsock hops, including one with Conrad inChatham-Kent,Ontario;[112] Baxter was best known as sidekick toJack Riley atWERE.[102][113][114] While at WEOL, Baxter discoveredrockabilly singerLaura Lee Perkins after she broke out into a song when visiting the station's studios, helped secure her a record deal, and became her manager and legal guardian.[115][116]Neil Zurcher was news director in the early 1960s while also doing part-time work forWJW-TV; his reporting on the1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak and demonstrations at Oberlin College led to WJW hiring him as a reporter.[117]
WEOL-FM began airing separate programming in select hours in 1958.[118] On February 24, 1966, WEOL-FM was relaunched as WBEA with aneasy listening format; this followed a transmitter upgrade that boasted 100,000 watts of power and a coverage area of 500 square miles (1,300 km2).[119] The WBEA call sign stood for Bea Nakel, Paul Nakel's wife.[120] WBEA's format changed in 1983 tocontemporary hits as "B-107".[121] WBEA was converted on January 1, 1987, to WCZR, featuring ahard rock andheavy metal format targetingGreater Cleveland but maintained studios in Elyria alongside WEOL.[122][123] WCZR switched formats again on November 15, 1987, tonew-age/smooth jazz asWNWV;[124][125] WNWV remained in Elyria-Lorain ownership until December 2011, when it was acquired by the Rubber City Radio Group.[126]
Initially an independent station, WEOL affiliated with theMutual Broadcasting System in 1967,[127] and withABC Radio in 1968.[128] In 1982, WEOL and WBEA moved to new studios on 538 Broad Street, again in Elyria's downtown.[129] WEOL began broadcasting inC-QUAMAM stereo on September 1987[130] following upgrades to the station's transmitter equipment;[131] the station continued to use AM stereo as late as 1993.[132]
WEOL's former studios on Broad Street in downtown Elyria
Paul Nakel retired in December 1984 and was succeeded as general manager by Gary Kneisley,[133] who held the role until retiring in January 2006.[134] Mike Whitmore joined WEOL in 1980 under the on-air name "Mike James" and became program director with Kneisley's arrival.[135] Aside from a brief hiatus in 1990 following a heart attack,[136] Whitmore hosted morning drive on the station for over 13 years.[135] Wally Mintus joined WEOL in 1984 to host overnights and later became sports director and lead sportscaster, which he held until leaving in 2004.[137] Mintus' overnight show was replaced withautomation in 1994, but was restored several months later due to listener demand.[138] Jim Allen's daily high school sportscasts moved to WEOL in 1990 following an ownership change atWRKG,[139] andTim Alcorn was hired for play-by-play duties in 1992 after leavingWOBL.[140] The station had such a strong emphasis on sports coverage by the mid-1990s that evenings were hosted by a rotation of part-timers.[138] WEOL's news and sports departments were the recipient of multiple statepress club awards throughout the 1990s and 2000s;[141][142][143][144] Whitmore once remarked, "[w]e're running out of wall space and that's kind of nice for a change".[145]
Beginning in 1991, Jim Mehrling hostedThe High School Scholastic Games of Lorain County, a spin-off of a high schoolquiz show Mehrling presented on WERE.[146]The Scholastic Games aired over WEOL on a recurring basis for 35 years.[147][148] Mehrling's association with WEOL dated back to 1969[149] and he was the station's chief announcer in the mid-1970s alongside public affairs director David Mark;[150] Mark later served as announcer forThe Scholastic Games.[146]
WEOL dropped all music programming on November 28, 1997, for a hybrid format:all-news in the daytime largely supplied by theAssociated Press, andsports in the nighttime viaOne on One Sports.[151] Mike Whitmore, whose morning show was retained, said the move was partly made because of a decline of music listening on the AM dial, noting, "[w]e never were a music station".[152] Whitmore left the station in March 1998;[135] Bill King—with the station since 1996[153]—took over for him in mornings, while news director Craig Adams became operations manager.[154] While the format initially eschewedtalk radio,[151] by 2003, WEOL carried syndicated hostsClark Howard andMitch Albom, along withThe Other Side of Morning Drive, a late-morning local interview program.[155]
WEOL picked upThe Glenn Beck Program in May 2005, several weeks after WTAM dropped it;The Other Side was also cancelled[156] and King was replaced as morning host by Les Sekely, a former comedy writer.[157] Beck's addition came after a re-assessment of the all-news format by station management.[156] The station also affiliated withFox Sports Radio on July 16, 2005, for evenings and weekends.[158] Distribution of Albom's show ended on January 2006, with WEOL replacing it withThe Sean Hannity Show.[159] Sekely's show was the lone local program remaining on WEOL's schedule by May 2008 as the station's noon news block was phased out.[160][161]The Laura Ingraham Show replaced Beck on November 3, 2008, after WTAM reacquired the rights to Beck's program;[162][163] Ingraham was replaced withThe Stephanie Miller Show on April 30, 2012.[164] Sekely left the station in 2010 for a teaching position with theWestlake City School District.[165]
WEOL main air studio with afternoon host Andy "Bull" Barch, January 2020
WEOL news studio with anchor Matt Douglass, February 2019
WEOL newsroom with various station memorabilia, February 2019
Tim Alcorn was elevated to station operations manager in the mid-2010s;[166] under Alcorn, WEOL launched a local news/interview program hosted by Andy "Bull" Barch in February 2017, replacing Hannity.[167] Alcorn left the station in October 2019 to becomethe radio voice of theCleveland Cavaliers;[168]Joe Tait, the Cavaliers' first radio voice, frequently called high school basketball and softball games for the station alongside Alcorn, and lobbied for the team to hire him.[169][170] Tait additionally co-hosted apodcast for WEOL until his 2021 death, featuring recordings from his tape archive.[171][172] Barch's afternoon show ended in October 2020.[173] By 2013,[174] Craig Adams and Bruce Van Dyke co-hosted the morning show,[166] which ended in December 2023.[175]
There’s a lot of equity in the WEOL brand, we’ve been around for over 75 years... The heart and soul [of the station] is local sports and community news and we can still carry the mission forward doing it online.
Bill Hudnutt, president, Lorain County Printing and Publishing Company[176]
On May 31, 2025, Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting announced the sale of WEOL's license to St. Peter the Rock Media, owner ofCatholic radio station andEWTN Radio affiliateWCCR (1260AM);[176] the station became a WCCRrepeater the next day. Elyria-Lorain and LCP&P retained WEOL'sintellectual property and call sign with the sale, and concurrently announced WEOL's local programming—primarily high school sports coverage—would only be available online with new studios at theChronicle-Telegram offices.[177] The license sale and online streaming model had been under consideration for 18 months, and followed theChronicle's conversion to an online newspaper.[176] WEOL's broadcast of weekly services from theElyria First United Methodist Church, heard over the station since 1958,[161] was also dropped.[178]
The sale closed on September 12, 2025.[179] St. Peter the Rock Media subsequently changed the call sign to WNCR, effective December 8.[180]
Since August 2, 2019, WNCR has beenrebroadcast over Elyria, Ohio, FMtranslator W262DM (100.3 FM).[181] The translator was applied for as part of the FCC's "AM Revitalization" initiative.[182]
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