WDND (1620 AM)

WDND (1620 kHz) was an AM radio station serving South Bend, Indiana. The station was owned by Artistic Media Partners, Inc. Its license was cancelled on April 15, 2019.
WDND's transmitter was in South Bend, located off Locust Road, near Lincoln Highway (U.S. Route 20 - U.S. Route 31). The studios and offices were on South Michigan Street, also in South Bend.
History.
Artistic Media Partners' station at 1620 AM first signed on the air as WJVA on November 6, 1998. It simulcast Westwood One's adult standards format with WHLY 1580 AM (Radio Hollywood). It took over the WHLY call letters and the music format in February 1999, while the WJVA call letters went to the station at 1580 AM with a classic country format. AM 1580 WJVA resumed simulcasting the adult standards programming of WHLY in spring 2001.
On November 3, 2001, the station adopted an all-sports format, as an affiliate ESPN Radio, with the new call sign WDND. The WHLY call letters returned to AM 1580, which continued to air the adult standards format. In March 2004, the sports format and call letters moved to AM 1580 while the WHLY call sign and adult standards format returned to 1620.
In March 2006, the call letters were changed to WWLV and the station adopted a soft AC format branded as "Love Songs 1620." In May 2008, the station became known as WPNT ("The Point") and began to broadcast an all-news format from CNN Headline News.
In late April 2009, Artistic's station at 1490 AM left the air as its transmitting tower on the campus of Notre Dame University was dismantled to make room for a new hockey arena. Artistic moved sports programming from 1490 to its station at 1620. On May 13, 2009, the call letters WDND were assigned to 1620 AM and WPNT was assigned to 1490.
On September 23, 2011, WDND changed its format from ESPN sports to a simulcast of co-owned Top 40 station WNDV at 92.9 FM, then known as "U93."
In March 2016, WDND stopped simulcasting U93, and returned to adult standards, using the "America's Best Music" syndicated format from Westwood One.
The station was taken off the air on March 2, 2018. Its license was cancelled on April 15, 2019.