WEHM is an Adult album alternative

Adult album alternative

Adult album alternative is a radio format. A spinoff from the album-oriented rock format, its roots trace to the 1960s and 1970s from the earlier freeform and progressive formats....

 formatted radio station that is licensed to Manorville, New York

Manorville, New York

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 and serves the eastern end of Long Island

Long Island

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 as well as the southeastern shore of Connecticut

Connecticut

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. It is owned by AAA Licensing LLC and broadcasts on 92.9 MHz with 6 kilowatts ERP

Effective radiated power

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 from a tower in Quogue, New York

Quogue, New York

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 with studios in Water Mill, New York

Water Mill, New York

Water Mill is a census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York, USA, and a hamlet of the Town of Southampton. The population was 1,724 at the 2000 census. Water Mill is the correct name per local government and the United States Postal Service...

 alongside sister stations WBAZ

WBAZ

WBAZ is the callsign of an adult contemporary radio station licensed to Bridgehampton, New York and serving the east end of Long Island and southeastern Connecticut. The station is owned by Long Island Radio Broadcasting and broadcasts on 102.5 MHz with 6 kilowatts ERP from a tower in Southampton...

 and WBEA

WBEA

WBEA is a Top 40 Mainstream radio station licenced to Southold, New York and serving the east end of Long Island plus southern Connecticut...

.

WEHM's programming is simulcast on 96.9 WEHN East Hampton

East Hampton (town), New York

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, the station which originally had been home to WEHM when it was located on 96.7 MHz. WEHN's signal covers the easternmost parts of Long Island as well as a rimshot signal into the New London

New London, Connecticut

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-Groton, Connecticut

Groton, Connecticut

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 and Westerly, Rhode Island areas.

It broadcasts from studios in Water Mill, New York

Water Mill, New York

Water Mill is a census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York, USA, and a hamlet of the Town of Southampton. The population was 1,724 at the 2000 census. Water Mill is the correct name per local government and the United States Postal Service...

 shared by WBAZ

WBAZ

WBAZ is the callsign of an adult contemporary radio station licensed to Bridgehampton, New York and serving the east end of Long Island and southeastern Connecticut. The station is owned by Long Island Radio Broadcasting and broadcasts on 102.5 MHz with 6 kilowatts ERP from a tower in Southampton...

 and WBEA

WBEA

WBEA is a Top 40 Mainstream radio station licenced to Southold, New York and serving the east end of Long Island plus southern Connecticut...

.

History

WEHM signed on in 1993 at 96.7 MHz licensed in East Hampton to East Hampton Broadcasting. Its ownership was made up of majority owners Leonard Ackerman, a local attorney and than SONY America Chairman Mickey Shulhof with minority interest held by such notables as Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley and others. The station's staff was filled with young but veteran staffers from the neighboring Nassau-Suffolk Arbitron market. Though the allocation had existed for several years prior. The station would sign on with an Adult Contemporary format until inexplicably changing to the eclectic-leaning AAA format. The AAA format was an odd match given its limited audience and the fact that it was actually gaining significant listenership in the Hamptons with its than current AC format.

In 2000, then-owner AAA Entertainment obtained a construction permit for a new FM station at 92.9 MHz licensed to Southampton. After several years of planning and development, the 92.9 frequency would sign on in June 2003 and would become WEHM's permanent home that July. At that time, the 96.7 frequency took the WHBE calls and took on a Bloomberg Radio format (a move reportedly done by the influence of Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg

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).
The two WEHM's would be united in April 2006 when WHBE quietly moved up the dial from 96.7 to 96.9 MHz and began to simulcast WEHM's programming. WHBE changed their call letters to WEHN.

On June 24, 2008, the FCC approved a change in WEHM's community of license from Southampton, NY to Manorville, NY.