WOZZ

WOZZ (94.7 FM, "Rock 94.7") licensed to Mosinee, Wisconsin, is an Active Rock formatted station in the Wausau, Wisconsin, market. The station is owned and operated by Duke Wright's Midwest Communications and operates at an ERP of 50,000 watts. The station simulcasts on translator W275AC (102.9), licensed to Wausau.

Current on-air staff

History

The station originally went on the air as WEHM on August 15, 1991, though it changed its call sign to WOFM exactly one month later on September 15. The station has had a long history of oldies formats, including spending most of the 1990s as a standalone oldies station ("Oldies 94.7"). In the late 1990s-early 2000s, it began simulcasting with its sister station WIZD 99.9 FM under the name "The Oldies Station;" this was done to allow the entire Wausau-Stevens Point radio market to be linked with one oldies station. In 2004, WIZD and WOFM, adopted the "Cool FM" moniker while still retaining the oldies format.

WGEE (FM)

WGEE (93.5 FM) is "93.5 Duke FM," a classic country radio station owned and operated by Midwest Communications, licensed to New London, Wisconsin, and serving the Northeast Wisconsin area, including Appleton, Oshkosh, and Green Bay (the latter city aided by a repeater at 93.1 FM, W226BD). WGEE's main transmitter is located in Maine Township in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.

History

The station was opened in 1957 as WLIH, with its studios and transmitter just southeast of New London. The call letters played off a Wisconsin tourism slogan at the time, We Like It Here. Those call letters are now used by a station in Whitneyville, Pennsylvania. In 1981, the station was bought by the owners of the New London National Bank (now part of Citizens Bank, who changed the call letters to WNBK. Under both owners, the station carried music, local news and local high school sports. Those call letters are now used by a repeater station in Whitmire, South Carolina.

In 1991, Midwest Communications purchased the station, changing the call sign to WOZZ. Under those calls, the station started out with an adult contemporary format (using branding and imaging that alluded to The Wizard of Oz) before moving to a long-running classic rock format in the early 1990s ("93.5 WOZZ, The Classic Rock Station") that featured songs from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. WOZZ previously had studios in the former Fidelity Bank building in Appleton until 2008, when Midwest Communications moved all its Green Bay and Appleton-area stations under one roof in new facilities in Bellevue, Wisconsin, a Green Bay suburb; however, to this day the station maintains a control room and sales office in Appleton to meet Federal Communications Commission requirements.