WCFB is an Urban Adult Contemporary radio station that is licensed to Daytona Beach, Florida that serves the Greater Orlando area. Its signal can be heard as far west as Inverness and as far north as Gainesville. Coverage area unheard of most other area stations.
History [edit]
The station began in March 1947 as WNDB-FM and was owned by Daytona Beach News Journal. In 1978, the station became a soft adult contemporary as WWLV, "Love 94.5". The calls and format changed to WCFB country music, "B94.5", in 1992. In 1995, it was purchased by New City Communications, and changed formats to Rhythmic AC, later evolving to Urban Adult Contemporary as "Star 94.5". This makes WCFB the first urban radio station in years in Orlando to challenge longtime WJHM, which switched formats from rhythmic contemporary to urban contemporary by that time. When WJHM returned to Rhythmic Top 40 in 2011, WCFB once again became the defacto Urban outlet in Central Florida, even though it has always stayed in its own lane with its audience rather than try to compete fiercely for listeners.
WCFB was purchased by Cox Communications in 1997.
A tornado on February 2, 2007 knocked Star's signal off the air for a brief period, as it destroyed the transmitter site and a nearby building, near Paisley. The station returned to the air broadcasting from a temporary transmitter located at another Cox owned tower in Christmas for a short period of time before the station's temporary transmitter site moved to high power facilities at a tower in Orange City off of Miller Rd. The replacement tower in Paisley was finished in mid-November 2007. As of October 24, 2008 it appears that WCFB has moved back to the Paisley site.
Station Management [edit]
- Program Director Kevin Gardner
- Music Director Kevin Gardner
- News/Community Affairs Director Monica May
External links [edit]
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| Daily newspapers |
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| Weekly newspapers |
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| Cox Radio Division |
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| Television |
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| Cox Target Media |
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| Automotive |
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- 1 Cox Media Group has announced the sale of these stations to Summit Media.
- 2 Cox Media Group operates this station under an LMA with Bayshore Television, LLC.
- 3 This subchannel holds a secondary affiliation with Me-TV.
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- Annual revenue USD 12.0 billion (2005)
- Employees 77,000
- Stock symbol None, privately held
- Website coxenterprises.com
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Coordinates: 28°58′48″N 81°27′18″W / 28.980°N 81.455°W / 28.980; -81.455
