WROI (92.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a

hot 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 ...

format. The station is licensed to

Rochester, Indiana Rochester is a city in, and the county seat of, Fulton County, Indiana, United States. The population was 6,218 at the 2010 census. History Rochester was laid out in 1835. The founder Alexander Chamberlain named it for his former hometown of R ...

, and is owned by Scott Huber and Johnny McCrory, through licensee 3 Towers Broadcasting Company, LLC.

History

WROI began broadcasting August 29, 1971. It was owned by Fidelity Broadcasting Co. and aired a middle of the road (MOR) format.History Cards for WROI
fcc.gov. Retrieved September 1, 2019. In 1983, the station was sold to Manitou Broadcasting for $240,000. In 1992, it was sold to Bair Communications for $250,000. The station aired an adult contemporary format in the 1990s and early 2000s.
The Broadcasting Yearbook 1990
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Broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting beg ...

, 1990. p. B-111. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2003-2004
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, 2003-2004. p. D-168. Retrieved September 2, 2019. It was branded "Lite 92.1". By 2005, WROI had adopted an

oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as ...

format.
Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2005
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, 2005. p. D-201. Retrieved September 2, 2019. It would later shift to a

classic hits Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 1980 ...

format.Deal Digest – July 25, 2019
, ''InsideRadio''. July 25, 2019. Retrieved September 2, 2019.Giant FM adds Rochester's WROI to its radio stations in Shelbyville and Greenfield
, ''Shelby County Post''. August 2019. Retrieved September 2, 2019. In 2019, it was announced that the station would be sold to 3 Towers Broadcasting for $533,000. 3 Towers Broadcasting took operation of the station on August 1, 2019, and it adopted a hot adult contemporary format branded "Giant FM".Giant FM
, WROI. Retrieved September 2, 2019. The sale was consummated on November 15, 2019.

References

External links

WROI's website
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