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affiliate and adopted the slogan "National Sports with a Shore View." WADB mostly broadcast Fox Sports Radio programming. The station also broadcasts

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along with sister station WOBM. The station held the WJLK call sign until November 4, 1996, and was called WADB from that date until September 18, 2008. Millennium Radio then renamed the station WBUD before changing the name back to WADB on June 4, 2009. For most of the period since 1952, the WBUD call letters were used by the radio station at 1260 kHz licensed to Trenton, N.J. Millennium Radio moved the call letters to its Asbury Park AM station when the Trenton operation was sold to a religious broadcaster. According to the

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database, there is a low-power TV station serving Blairsville, Georgia using the call letters WBUD-LP. The WJLK call letters live on at Millennium's 94.3 FM station licensed to Asbury Park. The WADB call letters previously belonged to the first station to occupy the FM frequency of 95.9 MHz and licensed to Point Pleasant, N.J. That station was started in the fall of 1968 by the late Adamant Brown of Rumson, N.J. The call letters stand for Adamant and Dorothy Brown (his wife). WADB (FM) featured a "beautiful music" format at its inception with very few deviations from that format until September 1996 when new owners changed the call letters to

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and adopted the so-called "active rock" format, which relies heavily on rock music featuring guitars. On September 3, 2010, WADB changed their format to oldies, simulcasting WOBM 1160 AM. Both stations continue to broadcast

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and play-by-play of high school sports. On May 19, 2014, WADB changed their format from oldies to news/talk. On January 3, 2017, WADB changed their format from news/talk to oldies, branded as "Beach Radio". On February 1, 2022, at 10 a.m., after playing " Thunder Road" by

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, WADB changed their format from oldies to country, branded as "Cat Country 96.7/104.1", with the first song being "

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FCC History Cards for WADB
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