WHBZ

WHBZ

City of license	Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin
Broadcast area	Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
Branding	106-5, The Buzz
Slogan	How Sheboygan Rocks
Frequency	106.5 MHz
First air date	circa 1970's
Format	Active Rock
Audience share	6.5 (Fa'07, R&R)
ERP	6,000 watts
HAAT	73.0 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	41614
Transmitter coordinates	43°43′16.00″N 87°44′3.00″W
Callsign meaning	WHBL, The BuzZ
Former callsigns	WWJR (1970's-2001)
Affiliations	Fox News Radio
Owner	Midwest Communications, Inc.
Sister stations	WHBL, WBFM, WXER
Website	WHBZ.fm

WHBZ (106.5 FM) is a Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin--licensed radio station based in Sheboygan that plays a Active Rock format. The station is currently owned by Midwest Communications and features the syndicated The Bob and Tom Show in the mornings, with some Fox News Radio updates and forecasts provided by WLUK-TV in Green Bay.

History

The station originally went on the air as WWJR in the 1970's on 97.9 as Sheboygan-licensed 98 FM, WWJR, and then moved to 93.7 in March 1993 (with updated JR 93.7 branding), playing a basic adult contemporary format which was mostly automated through most of those two decades, with occasional simulcasting with sister AM station WHBL under the local ownership of the Walton family. The station moved to a new frequency licensed to Sheboygan Falls at 106.5 on April 4, 1997 to make room for country station WBFM on 93.7, and had the year before took on an automated adult contemporary format, and was also the pre-WLKN home of Delilah. After Midwest's purchase of the three Walton stations in mid-2001 and a transitional Hot AC format from July 2001, the station changed their calls to WHBZ on December 29, 2001, and on the same day changed over to rock as The Buzz.

External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WHBZ
• Radio-Locator information on WHBZ
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WHBZ