WFAW (940 AM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. WFAW previously aired news and talk and

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music, and for many years featured a

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format. Licensed to

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, United States, the station serves the Jefferson County and Janesville/ Beloit area. The station is owned by Magnum Media, through licensee Magnum Communications, Inc., and features programming from

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. Along with its sister station WKCH, WFAW is also a major broadcaster of UW-Whitewater Warhawks athletics. On October 5, 2020, WFAW changed their format from news/talk to oldies, branded as "Oldies 940". In December 2021 WFAW added an FM translator licensed to Janesville on 101.1 FM broadcasting from a tower near Edgerton which also provides

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coverage to the

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area. On August 22, 2022, WFAW changed their format from oldies to classic rock, dropping the remainder of local sports and the majority of local news programing. The new format branded "Rock 96.1/101.1", is also simulcast on translator W241BQ 96.1 FM Watertown, bringing FM coverage to most of the southern and eastern portions of the Madison market as well as the Janesville-Beloit market.Magnum Media Brings Classic Rock to Southern Wisconsin
Radioinsight - August 23, 2022 WFAW now competes with fellow rock outlet

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in the Janesville/Beloit area as well as Madison and Milwaukee based rock outlets. WFAW also compliments identically branded

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based rock station WAUN which similarly is paired with two FM translators. WAUN with its AM and two FM frequencies cover the northern side of the Madison market as well as the Wisconsin Dells sub-market effectively giving Magnum's new rock format coverage of the entire Madison area.

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