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WEGE (104.9 FM, "The Eagle") is a small market radio station located in Lima, Ohio, (pop. 40,000). It is a locally-owned station operated by Maverick Media. Its sister stations WZOQ-AM "ESPN 940," WFGF-FM "Froggy 93," WWSR-FM "Star 92.1" (licensed to Wapakoneta) and WDOH-FM in Delphos make up Maverick Media's family of stations in the Lima market.
The station broadcasts a classic rock format. Originally it was founded in the late 1960s as WLSR (for "Lima Stereo Radio") airing a beautiful music format, which later moved to adult contemporary. Its AM sister WCIT (for its founder, the now defunct Lima Citizen newspaper) aired Top 40 music in the 1960s and 70s, and later switching to adult standards, then oldies in the 1980s and news/talk in the 1990s before being sold by Riggs Broadcasting to Forever Broadcasting becoming Urban/R&B-formatted WLJM "940 JAMZ" in 1997 which later switched to sports/talk "ESPN 940" after the sale to Maverick Media in 2005. The WLJM calls were previously used on this frequency in 1996 before moving to 940 AM which is now WZOQ-AM. It was briefly known as adult contemporary WAJC from 1997 to 1999.
On April 19, 2007, the FCC approved a call sign change from WUZZ to WEGE. WEGE had been the call sign of a station in Westerville, Ohio, owned by North American Broadcasting in the Columbus market, prior to changing its call sign to WTDA in 2004.[1]
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