Several days before the initial sale with WOSU Public Media was announced, Fun With Radio, LLC registered the domain names and, which originally acted as redirectors to following the station rebranding to CD102.5 in 2012, the website was moved to the domain. In effect, this new WWCD licensed to Baltimore became the successor to the previous WWCD (101.1 FM) licensed to Grove City.įor some time, WWCD continued to use the anachronistic "CD101" brand over the air, online and in print, even though the terms of the sale with Ohio State University clearly dictated that WWCD must cease any and all on-air mentions of "101" or "101.1" when the deal closed. WCVZ's callsign was concurrently changed to WWCD Fun With Radio retained all of WWCD (101.1 FM)'s respective on- and off-air staff. WOSU Public Media's purchase of WWCD (101.1 FM) was consummated that December 14, with WOSU Public Media changing WWCD's callsign to WOSA and changing the station's format to classical music. Although generally reported and regarded as a "frequency shift", Fun With Radio took over programming and operations of WCVZ changed the station's format from country music to alternative rock as a direct simulcast of WWCD (101.1 FM) and rebranded the station as CD101 102.5. at the same time, Fun With Radio entered into a local marketing agreement with the WHIZ Media Group to take over programming on the 102.5 MHz frequency immediately, with a future option for purchase. On June 30, 2010, The Ohio State University's WOSU Public Media announced a $4.8 million purchase of WWCD (101.1 FM) from Fun With Radio, LLC. As a result of this move-in as "Highway 102," the station became one of four country music radio outlets in Columbus - WHOK-FM, WCOL-FM and WNKK being the other stations.įormer CD101 logo, continued to be utilized by WWCD after adopting the "CD101 102.5" brand What was now WCVZ effectively ended any connection to the Zanesville region and consequently entered the Columbus market.
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The "Highway 102" format continued on the 102.5 MHz frequency even after the station completed their relocation to Baltimore on October 1, 2008, and assumed the WCVZ call letters, while the 92.7 MHz frequency became WHIZ-FM. Both WCVZ and WHIZ-FM simulcast programming as "Z102 and 92.7" until December 7, 2008, when WCVZ assumed WHIZ-FM's identity as "Z92.7," and WHIZ-FM became "Highway 102," featuring an automated country music format. On October 17, 2008, the WHIZ Media Group purchased WCVZ (92.7 FM) in South Zanesville (from which those call letters stood for the Christian Voice of Zanesville) as the new frequency for WHIZ-FM.
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#WHIZ 92.7 RADIO LICENSE#
The WHIZ Media Group was granted authority to change WHIZ-FM's city of license from Zanesville to Baltimore, Ohio in the fall of 2005, and a construction permit to build a new transmitter site was granted in October 2008. Under the ownership of the Southeastern Ohio Broadcasting System, Inc.'s WHIZ Media Group, WHIZ-FM programmed an adult contemporary format long identified as "Z102". The 102.5 MHz frequency was originally licensed to Zanesville, Ohio and signed on as the original home to WHIZ-FM in 1961.
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Not to be confused with South Zanesville, Ohio radio station WHIZ-FM.