WHAK-FM
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| City of license | Rogers City, Michigan |
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| Broadcast area | [1] |
| Branding | 99-9 The Wave |
| Slogan | Super Hits of Rock & Roll |
| Frequency | 99.9 MHz |
| First air date | circa 1994 |
| Format | Pop Classic Hits |
| ERP | 50,000 watts |
| HAAT | 145 meters |
| Class | C2 |
| Facility ID | 29289 |
| Former callsigns | WELG (2/1/94-4/1/97) |
| Affiliations | Classic Hits/Pop (Dial Global) |
| Owner | Edwards Communications |
WHAK-FM (99.9 FM, "The Wave") is a radio station licensed to Rogers City, Michigan. It serves the Alpena, Cheboygan and Mackinaw City areas. It broadcasts a classic hits music format featuring hits of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The station has a local weekday-morning show and airs Dial Global's Classic Hits/Pop format the remainder of the time. Programming is simulcast on WHAK-AM 960.
Prior to April 1999, the station broadcast a satellite-fed country format as "Eagle 100" (with the call sign WELG from 1994 to 1997). The move to the oldies format helped to fill a void in the Northeast Michigan radio scene left when 92.5 WAIR (now WFDX) switched from oldies to country music.
WHAK-FM is owned by Edwards Communications along with WHAK-AM 960, WHSB-FM 107.7 in Alpena, and WWTH-FM 100.7 in Oscoda.
AM 960 WHAK was a longtime full service adult contemporary/MOR station serving Rogers City and Presque Isle County. By 1999, the station was airing a mostly automated gold-based country format, still as a standalone. WHAK went off the air in November 2000 and returned almost a year later with talk programming, mainly from the Michigan Talk Radio Network, dubbing itself "Your Information Source in the North." This continued until the station became a simulcast of the new "Thunder Country" WWTH Oscoda in April 2005. In the summer of 2012, WHAK-AM was noted simulcasting WHAK-FM rather than WWTH.
The WHAK calls stand for the station's original owner, Harvey A. Klann. Klann is a lifelong resident of Rogers City and World War 2 veteran.
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External links[edit]
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WHAK
- Radio-Locator information on WHAK
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WHAK
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Coordinates: 45°23′53″N 83°55′19″W / 45.398°N 83.922°W
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