WHAK-FM

WHAK-FM

City of license	Rogers City, Michigan
Broadcast area
Branding	99-9 The Wave
Slogan	Super Hits of Rock & Roll
Frequency	99.9 MHz
First air date	circa 1994
Format	Classic Hits
ERP	50,000 watts
HAAT	145 meters
Class	C2
Facility ID	29289
Callsign meaning	Harvey A. Klann (original owner)
Former callsigns	WELG (2/1/94-4/1/97)
Affiliations	Classic Hits (Westwood One) Michigan IMG Sports Network
Owner	Edwards Communications

WHAK-FM (99.9 FM, "The Wave") is a radio station licensed to Rogers City, Michigan. The station serves the Alpena, Cheboygan and Mackinaw City areas of northeastern Michigan. It broadcasts a classic hits music format featuring hits of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The station has a local weekday-morning show and airs Westwood One's Classic Hits/Pop format the remainder of the time.

Prior to April 1999, the station broadcast a satellite-fed country format as "Eagle 100" (with the call sign WELG from 1994 to 1997). The move to the oldies format helped to fill a void in the Northeast Michigan radio scene left when 92.5 WAIR (now WFDX) switched from oldies to country music.

WHAK-FM is owned by Edwards Communications along with WHSB-FM 107.7 in Alpena, and WWTH-FM 100.7 in Oscoda. Sister station WHAK-AM 960 is leased to Michigan Broadcasters, LLC and is a simulcast of WYPV of Mackinaw City.

AM 960 WHAK was a longtime full service adult contemporary/MOR station serving Rogers City and Presque Isle County. By 1999, the station was airing a mostly automated gold-based country format, still as a standalone. WHAK went off the air in November 2000 and returned almost a year later with talk programming, mainly from the Michigan Talk Radio Network, dubbing itself "Your Information Source in the North." This continued until the station became a simulcast of the new "Thunder Country" WWTH Oscoda in April 2005. In the summer of 2012, WHAK-AM was noted simulcasting WHAK-FM rather than WWTH.

The WHAK calls stand for the station's original owner, Harvey A. Klann. Klann is a lifelong resident of Rogers City and World War 2 veteran.

Sources

Michiguide.com - WHAK-FM History

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WHAK

Radio-Locator information on WHAK

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WHAK

Radio stations in the Alpena / Tawas City, Michigan area

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.7 91.3 91.7 92.5 94.9/98.1 95.7 96.7 99.3 99.9 100.7 103.3 104.7 105.7 106.1 107.7

By AM frequency	960 1480

By callsign	WATZ-FM WCMB-FM WCML-FM WFDX WGJU WGZR WHAK (AM) WHAK-FM WHSB WHST WIOS WJOJ WKJC WSFP WKJZ WQLB WRGZ WWTH WZTK

Defunct	WATZ (1450 AM)

Nearby radio markets Detroit Flint North Central Michigan Thumb of Michigan Traverse City–Petoskey Tri-Cities See also List of radio stations in Michigan

Oldies radio stations in the state of Michigan

By frequency	850 910 1160 1360 1400 1450 1460 (silent) 1480 1590 93.9 97.3 99.3 99.5 99.9 100.9 103.7 103.7 105.5

By callsign	WBET-FM WCSY-FM WCXI WDEE-FM WGKL WGTO WGVS WGVU WHAK-FM WHTO WHYB WKLA WKYO WNBY-FM WNGE WPON WQXC-FM WQXO WTVB

By city	Allegan Caro Cassopolis Coldwater Fenton Gladstone Kentwood/Grand Rapids Ludington Menominee Muskegon Munising Negaunee Newberry Reed City Rogers City South Haven Sturgis Walled Lake

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Michigan

Coordinates: 45°23′53″N 83°55′19″W / 45.398°N 83.922°W / 45.398; -83.922

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