WBZB-FM

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WRRK (96.9 BOB-FM) is a Variety Hits radio station serving the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania market. The station, which is owned by Steel City Media, broadcasts at 96.9 MHz with an ERP of 45kw, and is licensed to Braddock, Pennsylvania.

[edit] History

Prior to its switch to the classic rock format in the late 1980s, WRRK's previous formats and call letters included easy listening and adult contemporary as WLOA-FM (it was also simulcast on an AM station when it was WLOA, which is now All-Talk WURP) and soft rock as WFFM and WMYG. The station originally continued to use the WMYG calls from the soft rock era when the classic rock format was launched, but eventually dropped them in favor of the WRRK calls.

As of November 1st, 2005, WRRK switched to a "we play everything" format, under the moniker Bob FM 96.9. Station IDs were accompanied by claims that listening to them is like "having your radio dial stuck in scan mode". Songs such as The Eagles' "Hotel California" are played back to back with Madonna's "Like a Virgin".

In early 2006, it was rumored that the station had changed it's call sign to WBZB. However, this was not true [1] and in early 2007, a Long Island, New York station (the former WBON) took the WBZB callsign.