WEEO (AM)

WEEO (1480 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to serve Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. The station simulcasts a classic country radio format with sister station WIOO Carlisle, called "Country Gold Radio". It is owned by Shippenburg Broadcasting.
By day, WEEO is powered at 410 watts. But to avoid interference at night with other stations on 1480 AM, WEEO reduces power to only 9 watts at sunset. Programming is heard around the clock on FM translator W230AX at 93.9 MHz.
History.
WSHP.
Arthur Greiner founded the station, originally known as WSHP, in 1961. The name of the original licensee was Town Radio, Inc. Greiner served as the company's president and the station's general manager. Greiner operated the radio station until his death.
WSHP originally was a daytimer station with a power output of 500 watts. It remained a daytime-only station until it received nighttime power authorization in the late 1980s that allowed it to operate after sunset.
Sale to Allegheny Mountain Network.
Cary Simpson's Allegheny Mountain Network group of station purchased the station in October 1996. On April 28, 2000, the station changed its call letters to WEEO.
In 2008 due to major mechanical failure of the internal radiator element of the Valcom, the station constructed a 150-foot folded unipole designed by R. Morgan Burrow, Jr. P.E., which yields a higher operating efficiency than the Valcom fiberglass antenna that had been used.
Call Sign History.
The WEEO call sign was previously assigned to a Top-40 station in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, broadcasting on 1130 kHz with 1,000 watts.
Translator.
WEEO programming is broadcast on the following translator: