WFGR (Classic Hits 98.7) is an American FM radio station serving Grand Rapids, Michigan. It transmits from their facility in Alpine Township on 98.7 FM. WFGR is owned by Townsquare Media.
The WFGR signal can be heard as far north as Stanwood, Michigan, far east as Pewamo, Michigan, and as far south as Plainwell, Michigan. WFGR also broadcasts on a low-power signal (96.5 W243BA) based out of Big Rapids, Michigan; this translator is not co-owned.
WFGR was previously a classical music station throughout the 1990s, broadcasting the World Classical Network from WFCC-FM in Chatham, Massachusetts. It changed its format to oldies music as "Oldies 98.7" on October 11, 2004 when Grand Rapids' current oldies station at the time, WODJ, was displaced by rock station WKLQ.
When WFGR debuted its oldies format, it was satellite-fed using ABC Radio's "Oldies Radio" feed, but soon debuted a mostly-local lineup of DJs, playing music from the 1960s and early 1970s. On June 29, 2009, the station changed its name to Classic Hits "98.7 WFGR" and began to focus more on the 1970s and 1980s. The change left the Grand Rapids market without a local outlet for oldies in the traditional sense of the format, until Grand Valley State University stepped in to fill the void by flipping its WGVU-AM from NPR news and talk to "Real Oldies" a few months later.
One by one
We are blinded to forget
All the things that we wish we had said
Stare right into the darkness into which we ride
Far too late - for the fact that we're alive
And we're all falling down through the window of the world
No one cares no one's falling with us
Call for help in the void, but there's no one here to sell
You a place on the throne of your time
Stare right into the darkness into which we ride
Far too late - for the fact that we're alive
And we're all falling down through the window of the world
No one cares no one's falling with us
Call for help in the void, but there's no one to sell