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"THE STATIONS YOU CAN COUNT ON"

Call Letters: WSMI & WSMI-FM
Format: News, Information, Local Sports on both stations;
Classic Country on WSMI and Contemporary Country on WSMI-FM

Address (mail):
WSMI Radio Station
P.O. Box 10
Litchfield, IL
62056

(deliveries: FedEx, UPS)
WSMI Radio Station
6308 IL Route 16
Hillsboro, IL 62049

General Email:
E-mail Address: wsmi@wsmiradio.com

PHONE: (217) 324-5921
FAX: (217) 532-2431

AG NEWS: (217) 324-5921

Farm Director: Rita Frazer
E-mail Address: RitaFrazer@wsmiradiostation.com

MACOUPIN COUNTY NEWS: (217) 854-7745

Macoupin County News Anchor: Rick Davis
E-mail Address: wsmi@macoupincountynews.com

MONTGOMERY & BOND COUNTY NEWS: (217) 532-7859

Montgomery County News Anchor: Tobin Ott
E-mail Address: news@wsmiradio.com


General Manager: Hayward Talley
E-mail Address: hayward@wsmiradio.com
Private E-mail Address: hayward@talleybroadcasting.com Please follow up, this box is not checked on a regular basis. Use this address for job applications.

Operations Manager: Brian Talley
E-mail Address: brian@wsmiradio.com

Sales Manager : Mike Niehaus
E-mail Address: mike@wsmiradio.com

PD: Terry Todt
E-mail Address: terry@wsmiradio.com


TALLEY BROADCASTING CORPORATION
Our History


WSMI (AM) was established on November 2, 1950 by Hayward Talley and his partner Tom Payton. The call letters WSMI were chosen for We SERVE Mid-Illinois. Upon Tom's untimely death in 1952, Hayward and Emma Talley became sole owners.

Studios and offices were established in Litchfield-Hillsboro and on the campus of Blackburn College in Carlinville. Later the Carlinville studio was moved to the Carlinville square.

Early in the 1950's Hayward Talley established and conducted one of the country's first telephone talk shows, "WSMI Party Line". WSMI added a live country band and a gospel quartet. WSMI added a mobile unit, and one of the early broadcasts was of President Harry Truman as his train stopped at the Litchfield depot.

In 1960 a sister station was built....WSMI-FM. At the time there was only a single FM station in St. Louis and FM receivers were few. By broadcasting high school sports, FM sets began to be purchased and the FM audience grew.

WSMI established a full-time news department, very unusual for small town radio. And later followed a full-time farm department. WSMI became a network news station when it joined the Mutual Radio Network, continuing until Mutual was absorbed by CNN Radio.

In 1999 a third station was added to the Talley group, WAOX. The station features "Today's Best Hits" along with the Jonathan and Mary morning show, ABC news, and Edwardsville High School sports.


TALLEY RADIO GROUP
Locally Owned and Operated By
Talley Broadcasting Corporation

BOARD OF DIRECTORS


KEVIN M. TALLEY: Graduated with a Major in Broadcasting. Minor, Business. Has worked in broadcasting at WSMI for over 20 years.

EMMA C. TALLEY: B.S. Illinois State University; M.S. University of Illinois.
High School Teacher for 9 years.

BRIAN C. TALLEY: Graduated Magne Cum Laude. Major, Broadcasting. Minor, Business with additional studies in Electronics. Has worked for TBC
for over 20 years supervising daily operations.

HAYWARD L. TALLEY: B.S. University of Illinois, 1948. Also studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology, The University of Chicago, and Harvard University. Veteran of WWII. Instructor, Eastern Signal Corps schools. Founded WSMI in 1950, WSMI-FM in 1960. Also founded KBKB-FM and KLSS-FM. WAOX was founded in 1999. Recipient of the Illinois Broadcasters Association 2002 Vincent T. Wasilewski Broadcaster of the Year award.

Hayward L. Talley, President & General Manager
Brian C. Talley, Senior V.P. & Operations Manager
Terry Todt, WSMI AM-FM Program & Sports Director
Dan Lopez, WAOX Program Director
Rita Frazer, Farm Director
Tobin Ott & Rick Davis, News Anchors
Mike Niehaus, Local Sales Manager

 

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