WERT

The original owners also built and launched WERT-FM (98.9) in 1962, giving Van Wert its own FM service.Ray Livesay, from Mattoon, Illinois, then purchased the stations in 1971 and operated them throughout much of the 1970s and 1980s, boosting the power of WERT-FM to 50,000 watts in 1984.In 1988, Atlantic Resources, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, bought the stations for a reported $1 million with intentions to move the high power WERT-FM to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where it remains today as WBYR.In the interim, WERT continued to operate with reduced power by means of a temporary antenna and an internet audiostream until September 19, 2008 when the new tower was finished.The station returned to full power late in the afternoon on that day as reported by the Van Wert Independent newspaper.
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