WGEE (FM)

The station was opened in 1967 as WLIH, with its studios and transmitter just southeast of New London. The call letters played off a Wisconsin tourism slogan at the time, We Like It Here. Those call letters are now used by a station in Whitneyville, Pennsylvania. In 1981, the station was bought by the owners of the New London National Bank (now part of Citizens Bank, who changed the call letters to WNBK. Under both owners, the station carried music, local news and local high school sports. Those call letters are now used by a repeater station in Whitmire, South Carolina.

In 1991, Midwest Communications purchased the station, changing the call sign to WOZZ. Under those calls, the station started out with an

By the summer of 2011, "93 Rock" tweaked to a full blown mainstream rock format playing a mix of classic rock and rock from the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, to current active rock music.

On September 8, 2014, Midwest Communications announced that the “93 Rock” format on WRQE and W226BD would end on September 11, following a farewell event on that date. The last song on "93 Rock" was "You Never Met a Motherf***er Quite Like Me" by Kid Rock. On September 12, at Midnight, both 93.5 and 93.1 flipped to a classic country format, branded as "93.5 Duke FM," that complements Midwest's contemporary country-formatted WNCY-FM. ("Duke" is a reference to John Wayne, and was first applied by Midwest to a Terre Haute station that converted to classic country earlier in 2014.) The first song on "93.5 Duke FM" was "Baby Likes to Rock It" by The Tractors.^[3] To coincide with the format change, the call sign at 93.5 changed to WGEE-FM, resurrecting classic calls used twice before on Midwest-owned country stations in Green Bay, originally at 1360 AM (the current WTAQ) and during the mid-1990s at 99.7 FM (the current WDKF).^[4] (The "-FM" suffix of the call sign was dropped on March 23, 2015.)

References

External links

• Official website
• WGEE in the FCC FM station database
• WGEE in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
• W226BD in the FCC FM station database
• W226BD at FCCdata.org
• Midwest Communications corporate webpage
• Virtual tour of Midwest Communications' facilities

44°32′46″N 88°32′56″W / 44.546°N 88.549°W / 44.546; -88.549