Short answers, pulled from the story.
WING was first licensed on the 31st of May, 1924, under the call letters WDBS, assigned to the S.M.K. Radio Corporation at 39 East Third Street in Dayton, Ohio. Its formal debut broadcast took place on the evening of the 4th of June, 1924.
The call letters WING were adopted in 1939 when Cincinnati businessman Charles Sawyer bought the station, on the suggestion of Jack Snow. The name was chosen to connect the station to Dayton's history as a center of aviation.
Scatman Crothers, the actor, dancer, singer, and musician, got his professional start at the station during the WSMK era in 1932. Nancy Cartwright, who later had a successful voiceover career, worked at WING's FM sister station WJAI during its early years.
WING 1410 currently broadcasts sports talk programming as a Dayton affiliate for ESPN Radio. It also carries Ohio State Buckeyes football and men's basketball, Cincinnati Reds games, and Columbus Blue Jackets games.
The Lively Guys were a stable of on-air personalities at WING during its Top 40 era, a name possibly inspired by WSAI's "Good Guys" in Cincinnati. The roster included Gene "By Golly" Barry, Steve Kirk, Lou Swanson, Jerry Kaye, Ken Warren, Big Jim Quinn, and many others who broadcast from the studio known as "WING Island" in Dayton's Talbott Tower building.
WING is currently owned by Connoisseur Media, following a merger with Alpha Media on the 4th of September, 2025. Alpha Media had previously acquired the station from Main Line Broadcasting in 2014, which had taken over from Radio One on the 14th of September, 2007.