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| WHBZ |
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| City of license |
Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin |
| Broadcast area |
Sheboygan County, Wisconsin |
| Branding |
106-5, The Buzz |
| Slogan |
How Sheboygan Rocks |
| Frequency |
106.5 MHz |
| First air date |
c. 1970's |
| Format |
Album Oriented Rock |
| Audience share |
6.5 (Fa'07, R&R[1]) |
| ERP |
6,000 watts |
| HAAT |
73.0 meters |
| Class |
A |
| Facility ID |
41614 |
| Transmitter Coordinates |
43°43′16.00″N 87°44′3.00″W / 43.7211111, -87.7341667 |
| Callsign meaning |
WHBL, The BuzZ |
| Former callsigns |
WWJR (1970's-2001) |
| Affiliations |
The Bob and Tom Show,
ABC Radio,
WLUK (weather coverage) |
| Owner |
Midwest Communications, Inc. |
| Sister stations |
WHBL, WBFM, WXER |
| Website |
WHBZ.fm |
WHBZ (106.5 FM) is a Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin--licensed radio station based in Sheboygan that plays an Album Oriented Rock format. The station is currently owned by Midwest Communications and features the syndicated The Bob and Tom Show in the mornings, with some ABC Radio News updates and forecasts provided by WLUK-TV in Green Bay.[2]
[edit] History
The station originally went on the air as WWJR in the 1970's on 97.9 as Sheboygan-licensed 98 FM, WWJR, and then moved to 93.7 in March 1993 (with updated JR 93.7 branding), playing a basic adult contemporary format which was mostly automated through most of those two decades, with occasional simulcasting with sister AM station WHBL under the local ownership of the Walton family. The station moved to a new frequency licensed to Sheboygan Falls at 106.5 on April 4, 1997 to make room for country station WBFM on 93.7, and had the year before took on an automated soft rock format, and was also the pre-WLKN home of Delilah. After Midwest's purchase of the three Walton stations in mid-2001, the station changed their calls to WHBZ on December 29, 2001, and on the same day changed over to AOR as The Buzz.[3]
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