WFNB is an FM
radio station
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licensed to the city of
Brazil, Indiana
Brazil is a city in Clay County, Indiana, United States. The population was 7,912 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Clay County. It is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area. The current chief executive of Brazil ...
. The station operates on the
FM radio frequency of 92.7 MHz, FM channel 22
The studios were located at 1301 Ohio Street in
Terre Haute, Indiana. but were moved to 925 Wabash Avenue Suite 300. The building at 13th and Ohio was completely torn down in July 2013.
History
Brazil, Indiana's first radio station went on the air in 1958 as WITE, with a 3-tower directional antenna. In 1972, the AM station reverted to a daytime-only station with one tower, and the call letters, WWCM. This coincided with the construction of FM station WWCM at 97.7 that same year.
The FM station originally operated with 3,000 watts at 97.7 MHz when it signed on in 1972 as WWCM-FM, playing
country music
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. The format changed to
album rock
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Album-orient ...
in 1979 as WBDJ. However, both WBDJ and its AM sister (1130 WWCM, now
WAMB
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) went silent in 1983 after their owners declared
bankruptcy.
The stations were sold in 1985 to Mark Lange of Vincennes, Indiana, and returned to the air with new call letters and formats. 97.7 FM adopted the WSDM calls and an
adult contemporary
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format, which was soon dropped to simulcast with the country format of its AM sister (by then known as WBZL; it became WSDM in 1990 and WSDX in 2000). The FM's power was doubled to 6,000 watts in 1989. WBZL and WSDM were sold in 1990 to Dan Lacy and Mike Petersen (under the name Equity One Media Partners), and on Halloween of that year, WSDM-FM switched format to
oldies
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, utilizing
ABC
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/
SMN's
Pure Gold satellite service.
The WSDM stations were destroyed by a deliberately set fire on November 22, 1996; the
arsonist was immediately apprehended and later sentenced to 18 years in prison. Wisdom 98 was back on the air by the end of the month, although WSDM (AM) remained off the air until the following April. 1998 brought more changes for WSDM-AM-FM, as Dan Lacy and Mike Petersen bought out their fellow shareholders in Equity One Media Partners, creating Crossroads Communications, Inc., and the stations' main offices were moved from Brazil to Terre Haute.
On Halloween of 2005, WSDM-FM moved from 97.7 to 92.7 MHz (swapping frequencies with
WCLS in
Spencer, which continues to broadcast oldies under the name "Classic Hits 97.7") and adopted a unique Country/Rock format as "Crock 92.7."
On October 4, 2010, WSDM-FM changed the format to ESPN Radio sports, simulcasting WSDX. On September 24, 2012 WSDM-FM split from its simulcast with WSDX and changed the format to adult hits, branded as "92.7 Bob FM" under new call letters WFNB.
Effective December 31, 2012, Emmis Communications Corporation, through licensee Emmis Radio License, LLC, purchased WFNB and sister station
WFNF from Crossroads for $335,000.
On April 17, 2014, WFNB changed the format to hot adult contemporary, branded as "B92.7". On March 1, 2016, WFNB added The Elvis Duran Morning Show and Kyle West to the programming lineup.
On January 30, 2017, DLC Media took over ownership of WFNB and switched the format from hot adult contemporary to a simulcast of oldies-formatted
WAXI 104.9 FM Rockville, until new studios are built, then will switch to a soft AC format, to be branded as "Lite 92.7".
On May 12, 2017 at 2 pm, WFNB dropped its simulcast with WAXI and changed format to soft adult contemporary, branded as "Lite 92.7".
On February 15, 2019, WFNB changed their format from soft AC to active rock, branded as "92.7 The Rock".
92.7 The Rock Debuts in Terre Haute
Rdaioinsight - February 15, 2019
In 2021 it was announced 105.5 Jack-FM would change formats along with other DLC radio stations. While The Bob and Tom Show is now on 92.7 WFNB, the station's format will not change.
See also
Web Services Distributed Management Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM, pronounced ''wisdom'') is a web service standard for managing and monitoring the status of other services.
The goal of WSDM is to allow a well-defined network protocol for controlling any other service th ...
Previous logos
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Active rock radio stations in the United States