WFBE

WFBE
City Flint, Michigan
Broadcast area
Branding Nash FM 95-1
Slogan Flint's Hit Country
Frequency 95.1 MHz
First air date October 5, 1953
Format Country
Power 34,000 watts
HAAT 97 meters
Class B
Facility ID 21730
Transmitter coordinates 42°58′24″N 83°39′2″W / 42.97333°N 83.65056°W / 42.97333; -83.65056
Callsign meaning Flint Board of Education (former owners)
Owner Cumulus Media
(Radio License Holding CBC, LLC)
Sister stations WDZZ, WTRX, WWCK, WWCK-FM
Webcast Listen Live
Website nashfm951.com

WFBE (95.1 FM, "Nash FM 95-1") is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Flint, Michigan, it first began broadcasting in 1953. Its studios are located south of the Flint city limits in Mundy Township and its transmitter is south of Flint in Burton.

The station was owned by the Flint Board of Education whose studios were on the campus of Flint Central High School for many years.

The format was a public station which also consisted of news and education which also served the Flint Public Schools.

WFBE is sold

In 1997, The Flint Board of Education was in a serious budget shortfall and could no longer afford to maintain the station. With many callers upset of the possible sale of this public outlet, neverless, 95.1 was sold to Liggett Communications of Lansing. Unlike most non-commercial radio stations, WFBE operated on a commercial frequency.

The format was changed to the current format and "B-95" branding. Liggett would move the studios to Miller Road before being purchased by Rainbow Radio. Citadel Broadcasting would purchase B95 from Rainbow Radio in February 2000.

Originally located on Flint Board of Education property—first the Oak Grove Campus then Flint Central High School, the station vacated the high school when new transmitting facilities became operational in 2010 at the co-owned transmitting facilities of WTRX. The old broadcast tower was taken down on October of that year.

Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.[1] WFBE relocated to Cumulus' Taylor Drive studios in Mundy Township, Michigan on March 2012.

On February 3, 2014 WFBE along with 9 other Cumulus owned country music stations, made the switch to going under the Nash FM branding.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Cumulus now owns Citadel Broadcasting". Atlanta Business Journal. September 16, 2011. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
  2. ↑ cumulus-adds-11-more-nashfms


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