WUBE-FM

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WUBE-FM
MHz (HD Radio)
BrandingB-105.1
Programming
FormatCountry
Ownership
Owner
WKRQ, WREW, WYGY
History
First air date
January 15th,1966 (as WCXL-FM and WUBE AM) Begin as a country station on WUBE AM on April 1st, 1969.
Former call signs
WCXL-FM (1966–1971)
WUBE-FM (1971–Present)
Technical information
Facility ID10140
ClassB
ERP14,500 watts
HAAT280 meters (919 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
39°7′30.00″N 84°29′56.00″W / 39.1250000°N 84.4988889°W / 39.1250000; -84.4988889
Links
WebcastListen Live
Websiteb105.com

WUBE-FM (105.1

radio station broadcasting a country music radio format. Licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio, it is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting.[1][2]

WUBE-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 14,500 watts. It broadcasts using HD Radio technology. It airs an alternate country music format on its HD2 digital subchannel.[3] The studios are located on Kennedy Avenue in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati where they have been since August of 2021,[4] while the transmitter remains closer to Downtown Cincinnati, in the Walnut Hills neighborhood.

History

The station was originally known as WCPO-FM, owned by the

Cincinnati Post, along with WCPO (1935) 1230 AM, now WDBZ) and WCPO-TV (channel 9). One of the WCPO-FM announcers identified the frequency in the legal ID as 10-51 (ten-fifty-one) which was unique at the time. A video with audio of a WCPO-FM legal ID can be seen on YouTube. In January 1966, shortly after Scripps sold WCPO-AM-FM to Kaye-Smith Broadcasting, both stations changed their call signs
to WUBE-AM & WCXL-FM. WUBE-AM switched to its long-running country format in April 1969. In October 1971, WCXL-FM dropped it’s good time automated music format to become country WUBE FM with the FM partially simulcasting the AM throughout the early 1970s. Then in 1975, the FM became the dominant signal. The Mornings and Afternoons were usually simulcast with Middays and Evenings split into separate air shifts. Then in September 1981, WUBE AM switched to WMLX Music of your Life format until 1985 when they switched to the original WDJO oldies until 1990 while WUBE FM stayed country.

Kaye-Smith Broadcasting sold WUBE-AM-FM to

Entercom
on August 21, 2006, along with CBS Radio's other Cincinnati stations.

On January 18, 2007, almost as soon as it entered the Cincinnati radio market, Entercom announced its exit from the market by trading its entire Cincinnati cluster, including WUBE, to Bonneville International. Also included in the sale were three radio stations in Seattle, in exchange for all three of Bonneville's FM radio stations in San Francisco, and $1 million cash.[5] In May 2007, Bonneville officially took over control of the Cincinnati radio cluster through a local marketing agreement (LMA), with Bonneville acquiring Entercom's remaining interest in the stations outright on March 14, 2008.

WUBE was one of the winners in the 2008 NAB Crystal Radio Awards.[6]

On January 19, 2011, Bonneville International announced it would sell WUBE and several other stations to Hubbard Broadcasting for $505 million.[7] The sale was completed on April 29, 2011.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "WUBE-FM Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. Arbitron
    .
  3. ^ "HD Radio Station Guide". HD Radio. iBiquity.
  4. ^ https://www.radioworld.com/tech-and-gear/facilities/a-bright-new-airy-home-for-hubbard-cincinnati
  5. ^ Virgin, Bill (January 18, 2007). "Entercom trades radio stations". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  6. ^ "NAB announces Crystal Radio Award winners" (Press release). National Association of Broadcasters. April 15, 2008.
  7. ^ "Another Big Radio Deal: Q102, B105, Rewind, Wolf Sold". Archived from the original on 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
  8. ^ "Hubbard deal to purchase Bonneville stations closes". Radio Ink. May 2, 2011. Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved May 2, 2011.

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