WFYI Public Television With a budget of $221,000, three black-and-white cameras, and nine employees, WFYI signed on the air October 4, 1970, at… Read More »WFYI Public Television
WFYI-FM WFYI-FM first aired as WIAN on November 1, 1954, through the efforts of and its PTA. It became the first… Read More »WFYI-FM
Wheaton World Wide Moving Ohio native Earnest S. Wheaton founded Wheaton Van Lines in 1945. He had entered the moving business in 1916 with… Read More »Wheaton World Wide Moving
Wheeler Mission Ministries In 1893, William V. Wheeler, a sales manager for the hardware firm of Layman and Carey, opened an unpretentious mission… Read More »Wheeler Mission Ministries
WIBC WIBC’s official broadcast debut was October 31, 1938. Owned by Glenn Van Auken’s Indiana Broadcasting Company and managed by C.… Read More »WIBC
WICR An operation of the (formerly Indiana Central University), WICR began broadcasting at 88.7 FM in August 1962, featuring a variety… Read More »WICR
WIFE Formerly WISH AM-FM, WIFE was purchased by Omaha radio owner Don Burden’s Star Stations in 1963. Operating at 1310 AM… Read More »WIFE
William B. Burford Printing Company The Burford Printing Company had its beginnings in the 1860s in a partnership between Miles W. Burford, a banker then… Read More »William B. Burford Printing Company
William H. Block Company In 1896, Herman Wilhelm Bloch, who later anglicized his name to , opened a small department store at 9 East… Read More »William H. Block Company
Willis Mortuary (C. M. C. Willis & Son Mortuary) Cassius Marcellus Clay Willis (C. M. C. Willis), the first certified Black mortician, funeral director, and undertaker in Indiana founded… Read More »Willis Mortuary (C. M. C. Willis & Son Mortuary)
