WRMF
Hot adult contemporary | |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| WEAT, WFTL, WIRK, WMBX, WMEN | |
| History | |
First air date | March 17, 1957 (as WQXT-FM) |
Former call signs | WQXT-FM (1957-1964) WWOS (1964-1971) WMUM (1971-1973) WJNO-FM (1973-1980)[1] |
Call sign meaning | Richard M. Fairbanks (previous owner) |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 20436 |
| Class | C |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 411 meters (1355 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 26° 34' 31" N, 80° 14' 31" W |
| Translator(s) | 96.3 W242CI (Jupiter) |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen Live Listen Live (HD4) |
| Website | wrmf.com party963.com (HD4) |
WRMF (97.9
West Palm Beach. For the past three decades, WRMF has been at or close to #1 in the West Palm Beach radio market
ratings.
WRMF has an
Lake Worth, west of U.S. Route 441.[2] WRMF is licensed to broadcast in the HD Radio digital format.[3][4] The HD2 subchannel simulcasts the talk radio format on sister station WFTL, while the HD3 subchannel carries Haitian Creole talk and contemporary hits from co-owned WPBR
.
History
WQXT-FM, WWOS
On March 17, 1957, the station
full service middle of the road format of adult popular music and news, with national shows from the ABC Radio Network
. The studios were located on Lake Worth Beach.
In 1963, WQXT-AM-FM were sold to Fairfax Broadcasting.Progressive Rock using the call letters WMUM for "The Mother."
WJNO-FM, WRMF
The station was sold in 1971 to Robert M. Weeks, who also owned WJNO (now
album rock
format.
WJNO-AM-FM were acquired by Richard M. Fairbanks in July 1979.hot adult contemporary format by the middle of the decade.
Alpha and Hubbard ownership
In the 2010s, WRMF was acquired by
Hubbard Radio.[10]
The sale, at a price of $88 million, was consummated on January 23, 2019.
Shows
- The KVJ Show - Weekdays and Saturdays from 6am-10am
- Randi West - Weekdays from 10am-2pm
- Danny & Meghan-Weekdays from 2pm-6pm
- KVJ Replay 6pm
- Suits 7pm-midnight
- South Florida Sunday - Sundays from 6-7am (public affairs)
References
- ^ FCC Call Sign History page. Accessed 2006-09-02.
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/WRMF
- ^ "Station Search Details".
- ^ http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=47 HD Radio Guide for West Palm Beach & Boca Raton
- ^ Information from the Broadcasting Yearbook 1959 page B-132
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1967 page B-37
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1978 page C-49
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1982 page C-55
- ^ WRMF becomes adult contemporary nearly a year after owner's initials representing WRMF call-letters
- ^ Hubbard To Acquire Alpha Media West Palm Beach
External links
- WRMF official website
- WRMF in the FCC FM station database
- WRMF in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
- W242CI in the FCC FM station database
- W242CI at FCCdata.org
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