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WHBC-FM
WHBC-FM (94.1 FM) is a commercial FM radio station in Canton, Ohio, United States, broadcasting at 94.1 MHz with a Hot AC format. The station was established in 1948 as the sister station to WHBC, and it has been commonly owned with the AM station ever since.
The station back in the 1980s was Beautiful Music using reel to reel tapes. The station pushes about 50,000 watts of power, and can be heard as far north as Cleveland, OH and down south
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On September 26, 1967, the ownership was reorganized as WHBC, Inc., which changed its name to Beaverkettle Company on September 13, 1972. The Vodreys purchased WFIR in Roanoke, Virginia in 1969; they sold the station eight years later. In June 2000, the family-owned Beaverkettle Company sold WHBC and WHBC-FM to NextMedia for more than 42 million dollars.
ending 61 years of Vodrey family ownership of the stations.
For many years, WHBC was the only full-time AM station