WHBZ is a Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin

Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin

Sheboygan Falls is a city in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States whose population was 6,772 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Sheboygan, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

--licensed

City of license

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 radio station

Radio station

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 based in Sheboygan

Sheboygan, Wisconsin

-Airport:Sheboygan is served by the Sheboygan County Memorial Airport, which is located several miles from the city.-Roads:Interstate 43 is the primary north-south transportation route into Sheboygan, and forms the west boundary of the city. U.S...

 that plays a Active Rock

Active rock

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 format. The station is currently owned by Midwest Communications

Midwest Communications

Midwest Communications, Inc. consists of Midwest Communications, Inc. and WRIG, Inc., which collectively own forty-six radio stations. The Company got its start in Wausau, Wisconsin, with WRIG, Inc. and the acquisition by the D.E. Wright family of a 1400 kHz, 250 watt AM facility from the...

 and features the syndicated The Bob and Tom Show in the mornings, with some Fox News Radio

Fox News Radio

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 updates and forecasts provided by WLUK-TV

WLUK-TV

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 in Green Bay

Green Bay, Wisconsin

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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

Automation

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 through most of those two decades, with occasional simulcast

Simulcast

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ing 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

WBFM

WBFM is a country music station licensed to Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The station broadcasts at 93.7 MHz, on the FM dial. WBFM-FM is owned and operated by Midwest Communications under the sub-branding of Sheboygan Radio Group, which owns seven radio stations in Northeast Wisconsin and three other radio...

 on 93.7, and had the year before took on an automated adult contemporary format, and was also the pre-WLKN

WLKN

WLKN is a radio station serving the lakeshore cities of Sheboygan and Manitowoc/Two Rivers, Wisconsin, along with Manitowoc and Sheboygan Counties in general...

 home of Delilah

Delilah Rene

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. After Midwest's purchase of the three Walton stations in mid-2001 and a transitional Hot AC format from July 2001, the station changed their calls to WHBZ on December 29, 2001, and on the same day changed over to rock

Mainstream rock

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as The Buzz.