WHBC-FM is a commercial FM

Frequency modulation

In telecommunications and signal processing, frequency modulation conveys information over a carrier wave by varying its instantaneous frequency. This contrasts with amplitude modulation, in which the amplitude of the carrier is varied while its frequency remains constant...

 radio station

Radio station

Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...

 in Canton, Ohio

Canton, Ohio

Canton is the county seat of Stark County in northeastern Ohio, approximately south of Akron and south of Cleveland.The City of Caton is the largest incorporated area within the Canton-Massillon Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, USA, broadcasting at 94.1 MHz with a Hot AC format. The station was established in 1948

1948 in radio

The year 1948 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.-Events:*22 March: The Voice of Firestone becomes the first radio program to be aired on both AM and FM radio stations....

 as the sister station to WHBC (AM), and it has been commonly owned with the AM station ever since.

The station back in the 1980s was Beautiful Music

Beautiful music

Beautiful music is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in American radio from the 1960s through the 1980s...

 using reel to reel tapes. The station pushes about 50,000 watts of power, and can be heard as far north as Cleveland, OH and down south as far as Wheeling, WV.

By 2007

2007 in radio

The year 2007 in radio involved some significant events.-Events:*January 8: Nanci "The Fabulous Sports Babe" Donnellan returns to radio after a six-year absence, filling in for local hosts in Florida....

, the station gradually morphed from adult contemporary to modern adult contemporary and in later years moved to a traditional adult top 40 format. Mediabase

Mediabase

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 reports the station as a hot adult contemporary.