BEDFORD—105.5 WQRK, 102.5 LiteFM, and 1340 AM WBIW will host a celebration of life for Dean Spencer, local radio magnate and patriarch of the three local stations. Friends and family are invited to help memorialize Dean’s life and legacy at the place he loved so much: WQRK/WPHZ/WBIW studios, located at 424 Heltonville Road West in Bedford, on Saturday, August 3, from 2-4 p.m.
Dean’s ‘life’s work’ came when he moved his family to Bedford, Indiana, in 1974, where he became general manager of radio station WBIW 1340 AM. In subsequent years, he was granted two additional FCC station licenses and launched WBIF FM and WWEG FM. Dean spent the next four decades as owner and manager of these three commercial radio stations in Lawrence County, IN. The two FM stations are WQRK, 105.5, Southern Indiana Classic Hits and Litefm 102.5, and the heritage station WBIW 1340 AM The Voice of the Hoosier Hills. All 3 stations are successfully operational to this day due to the foundation Dean laid.
