WHBC-FM (94.1

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) is a

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in Canton, Ohio, United States with a

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format. The station was established in 1948 as the sister station to WHBC, and it has been commonly owned with the AM station ever since. In the 1980s WHBC-FM aired a

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format using reel to reel tapes. By 2007, the station gradually morphed from

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...

modern adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet sto ...

and in later years moved to a traditional adult top 40 format.

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reports the station as a

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